My work reflects the deep connection I feel with the natural world. Growing up, I spent many hours gardening with my father, going for bushwalks, and spending time at the beach playing in the sand and water. All of this gave me an appreciation early in life of the natural world around me. At times in my life now, returning to nature has calmed and heightened my senses.

Throughout my life, nature has provided a haven in which to lose myself. My work not only celebrates the brilliance of nature, it also provides entry for my imagination to a world where I can reconfigure natural forms, both terrestrial and marine. This reinterpretation facilitates the creation of completely new DNA structures, a rare evolution of species from the beauty of the natural environment. While researching for this exhibition I visited many different gardens, art galleries, libraries and museums. I kept imagining how the portraits and human bodies featured in these historical masterpieces might look like morphed into my very own DNA organic forms and shapes. I began to consider how bodies draped in cloth could become something else, perhaps hanging or upside down. Taking the human form and re-interpreting those shapes into my own organic plant DNA, each painting holds a complete universe within its chromatic range. Although the research for this show came from many different sources, it is the link and range of hues between each universe that makes CHROMA a unique and synergistic celebration of form and colour. In CHROMA, colour celebrates nature, bringing joy and, just for a moment, the possibility that we may forget everything else that is going on in the world.