I began to study art seriously in 1991at the Epi-Centre School of Encouragement (Byron Bay, NSW, Australia) as it was called with artist/sculptor Roland Weight and painter Bernard Moore. For the first six months I worked with black ink and Chinese brush getting the feel of things. Then I broke into an explosion of colour with oil wash and contea line work. I studied drawing for three years.

The School of Encouragement was a very comical place. We worked mainly at night and slept by day; we baked bread and listened to classical music. Roland Weight, Bernard Moore and Burry Jerome (a Bungalung story teller) were creating a copy of the cisteen chapel, at the time on the walls of a huge refrigeration room that was once part of a meat works; that was once a whaling station.

I studied acting in Lismore (NSW, Australia) with famous English actor Deren Nesbit. I wanted to be a comedian, then I fancied becoming a Shakespearian actor. That all finished in 1994 and I began illustrating my children's story and studied painting with Roland Weight.

The first story was the The Dinosaur that Loved To Touch, that was a combination of oil washes and contea drawings mixed with acrylic paintings on paper.

Then I illustrated The Golden Grasshopper that was all acrylic on paper paintings. In 2002 I started on The Blue Hairy Boy story, I completed that story in 2006 and have continued on with my current project, The Legend Of Humopia. A concept for a computer game and film.

In 2004/05 I studied Graphic Design at the East Point Collage of Visual and Communicaton Arts (Kingscliff NSW, Australia).