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LATEST: ARTISTS & GENERALLY CREATIVE FOLKS
WHICH WERE SOME OF YOUR EARLIEST ART
INSPIRATIONS - DO YOU EVER REMEMBER A
“I JUST HAVE TO DO THAT” MOMENT?
Well, since I was a super dorky kid the really
early stuff was all about horses… like most
young girls I was absolutely nuts for horses so
I just used to paint and draw them obsessively.
The kind of stuff I do now happens on an
intuitive level… it’s a process where you sort of
input all the variables of what you want to paint
into your brain; size, materials, theme etc, and
then your subconscious kind of mulls through
it for a couple of days and then you wake up
at 2am with a ready-baked idea that seems to
have come out of the blue but which is actually
a product of your subconscious mind drawing
together all the blanks and joining the dots. It’s
classic “light-bulb” inspiration and so much of
my better stuff comes from that process.
SURFBOARDS - YOU MAKE THEM COOLER.
WHY SURFBOARDS IN PARTICULAR?
Surfboards were a complete accident, I
never thought as a kid that I’d be a surfboard
painter… I was hell bent on being an “equine
artist”. It was one of those lucky twists of fate
that learning to surf coincided with wanting to
get back into painting and surfboards turned
out to be that special X factor that gave me a
specific project to work on.
WALLS, YOU MAKE THEM PRETTIER. WHY?
It was a combination of Perth’s current obsession
with street art and my natural inclination for
bigger and tougher challenges. Walls are hard
work, but people will pay good money to pretty
up a wall and there’s something rad about
seeing the deranged fruits of your imagination
3 storeys high!
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SMORGASBOARDER | SUMMER 2016