Over the years, I have struggled to find my way in life. As a person with multiple disciplines, it’s hard to distinguish what path to take. As a naturally restless person, I can get distracted by multiple projects. However, once I put my mind on one project, I will see it to the end.
What you’ll find on this site is the variety of disciplines I possess and what I have been able to do with them. Please click on the tabs below for a quick introduction to each discipline.
You wouldn’t think LEGO would have much of an influence on a young writer. However, that’s exactly what inspired me to write my first story at the age of 12. My brother and sister were sitting on the living room floor, playing with a huge pile of LEGO in front of them. I looked up at their creation and saw a strange-looking house staring straight back at me. It was here that I had an idea for a rather silly story about a pair of twins time-travelling to the future.
My thirst for writing didn’t stop there. By the time I reached high school, I had written more short stories which have now been lost to the ages. Oddly enough, much of my writing was centred around time-travel. One story I remember was about a young girl who was accidentally whisked back to the Middle Ages and had to find her way back.
When I left high school, I had more ideas flowing through my head than I could put to paper. By the 2000s, I decided to write one of those ideas down which ended up being a three-part novel set in the near future. I have been writing creatively since 1990 and have spent the last two decades specialising in stage plays, screenplays and audio plays.
As a former disability nurse of 18 years (specialising in ventilator and tracheostomy nursing), I often use my intermediate medical knowledge to write plays in that field. I have also worked on several stage productions as a sound designer and technician, and am well versed in the directions of stage and sound when writing my plays.
Music has been in my blood for as long as I can remember. As with most children, my introduction to music was in kindergarten when I was given the opportunity to learn the recorder. This eventually led to my parents sending me to piano lessons at the age of 9.
By the time I was in my teens, music was well and truly part of my life. While my parents didn't play any instruments, there was always classical music playing in the house. At the age of 18, I began to take up an interest in composing and wrote the melody for my very first song, Bush Aussies (which you can find in my Theme Song Showcase).
When I left home, I eventually took up playing the flute and my thirst for composition became even more so when I found out my husband was also a song writer albeit in the metal genre. With the encouragement of my husband, I began to compose more complex pieces which you now hear on this site.
Art has always been part of my life. As a child, I was given lessons in watercolour painting. However, as I grew older, I began to take an interest in painting with acrylics instead. Of course, this meant learning new painting techniques which were quite different to watercolour painting.
As well as acrylic paintings, I also developed an interest in pencil drawings. I now work on photorealistic drawings (both in graphite and coloured-pencil) and have grown a deep passion for wildlife and pets. I have always been an animal lover and will do my upmost to present my portraits as realistically as possible.