Welcome to my Blog!
It all begins and ends with books.
Books were a haven for me as a child. Artists like Pauline Bates, Shirley Barber, Arthur Rackham and Brian Froud are illustrators who inspired my imagination to expand on the magical worlds of the books I loved.
In 2007 while studying painting at university I would create self-portraits to use as a reference base for my paintings, working towards the goal of becoming a children’s book illustrator.
During this time I fell in love with the art of photography, going on to work in local portrait studios photographing families and female boudoir sessions, while also exploring my own sense of identity through photographic self portraits.
I became a master photographer with the AIPP (Australian institute of professional photography) and an accredited member of ProPhotographyWA, with many local exhibitors and awards in my portfolio.
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Your blog is a captivating collection of snippets that altogether provide an insight into a world I personally had never really been aware of. Reading your blog entries changed my view of you as a creative and a person. Before I read all the things here, I was under impression you’re one of those girls who got her first digital camera, started playing with taking photos and eventually ending up realizing there is a lot of potential in photography, so you’d start taking photos to make money, which would open doors to various new opportunities you didn’t realize were there. As you can see, I already had quite a story about you in my head. Reading about you studying painting at a uni, and all those academic snippets about famous painters kinda rewrote a lot of that story. I even feel awful about how I never realized the whole enterprise with portraits had been a lot more serious. I admire your ability to build such a solid, meaningful body of work. It takes quite an aptitude and vision to build what you’ve built with perseverance and determination. I can’t help but be fascinated by that vision part in particular.