My life has always been linked to the beach and to the sea like many Australians. These have always been central to my artistic practice. People at the beach are removed of pretentions and near naked, expose themselves in ways that reveal the playful, graceful and natural within us.

Alexandria Bay is a beautiful and slightly remote beach in the Noosa National Park. This work is inspired from a memory of a day, a woman and the sea.

‘Venus of Alexandria Bay’

That day,

The yin and yang

Of sea and sky breathed together

Exhaling lilac, blue and turquoise

Onto the sand of Alexandria Bay

And its peaceful, empty arc of heat.

The gentle waves of memory

Return to me reset with meaning.

That day when we swam, we were

Just creatures of that beautiful sea.

Beauty was everywhere and close.

Such women made the man,

Within life’s current, quietly.

Now from life’s distance, 

Warm flesh becomes cold metal

The blue sea - frozen in memory.