In 2000 I joined Box Hill Institute after graduating from Swinburne as a mature age student (at 42!) with an AGDA Award (Australian Graphic Design Award), my Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design and  Advanced Diploma in Interactive Multimedia.

I was an educator for 15 years at BHI and taught in Interior Decoration, Animation, Multimedia Art an Design and for my professional development I did a part-time three year course in Diploma of Textile Arts, and loved every minute of it.

But things were changing and a year before I turned 60 became redundant and took a package and headed off to see if I could become an artist. I gave myself 5 years and I haven’t looked back.

I love what I do now and look forward to so much more in my life….being able to express myself in a creative area has given me life and a purpose for who I am and what I am.

In 2014 I was selected for the Artists-in-Residency programme at St Vincent’s Hospital in Fitzroy Melbourne, this was a great opportunity for me to develop my art practice and meet other incredible artists.

I had my first solo exhibition in 2016, “The Story of St Vincent’s”  since then the collection of artworks have be involved in many STV events. The portrait of Ida O’Dwyer, (1880-1960), is photographed with all graduating students, other works were a part of Arts & Photo Exhibitions 2018, STV 125th Anniversary and was selected for the Open House Melbourne 2019, International Nurses Day & Tunnel of Love Expo displayed along the corridor to the ICU during COVID-19 through 2020.

In 2016 I donated three artworks that are now limited addition postcards given to staff and benefactors for services above and beyond. 

In 2019 St Vincent’s acquire the remaining pieces and is now part of their art collections.