Visual Storytelling

 A Weight Lifted, from my dream journal series transforms surreal imagery into powerful visual storytelling. A levitating weightlifter high above a detailed cityscape captures layers of metaphor—strength, resilience, and the pursuit of balance amid life’s complexity. Each image is rich with meaning, blending the industrial and the ethereal to reflect the tension between ambition and vulnerability.

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

Before I decided to create art and illustrations for kids books I was pretty obsessed with films and filmmaking ever since Pulp Fiction came out in 1994, since then I have written and directed several short films and shot and edited even more while at film school. I especially like the process of scriptwriting and have been accepted into several screenwriting development programs for our local South Australian Film Corporation.

However raising funds to make films and getting paid for your efforts was still mostly an expensive dream in the mid 90’s. That’s why in the late 90’s I started my own travelling mobile cinema business and earned a living screening other people films rather than making my own. Then I became a dad and my Road Movie Mobile Cinema business came to a standstill. Forcing me to reevaluate my creative endeavours and what I could possibly do for a living.

That’s when, after reading kids picture books every night, I had an idea that could incorporate my love of storytelling with illustrating which I had been doing quite a bit while illustrating storyboards for many of the short films that I had worked on. And combine all of this to create kids books.

So I’m very happy at the moment with my new found creative outlet. And who knows maybe some day down the track I might get a chance to turn some of my kids books back into movies… fingers crossed.