My artwork is a mix of illustrations, gouache water colour and acrylic ink. I create many images of sharks as I have a passion for them, but also because they are such important animals in our marine ecosystems. Large sharks are apex predators and changes in their populations affect entire ecosystems. Worldwide populations are being decimated, 100,000,000 are killed each year for the shark fin industry, and this dramatic reduction has enormous negative impacts on our oceans. Whether you like sharks or not, we need them to keep our oceans healthy. The ocean provides over half the oxygen we breathe, so we need sharks to play their role in maintaining ecosystem health.

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Other favourite subjects include whales, dolphins, turtles, sea slugs, sea dragons and many other sea animals. We are lucky to see whales migrate along the east coast of Australia, with Humpbacks putting on great displays. They head north to warmer waters around April for the Winter months, and then head south to return to Antarctica between August and November.

At the other end of the size spectrum, I also create a variety of other small organisms that live in our rockpools or wash up on the beaches in my local area. The Glaucus atlanticus, a small blue sea slug, used in the Mango SEA logo is an example.

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My artwork is often of a single animal on its own. I like to represent an individual animal of a species, to focus on it without any others, because each species has a role in its environment and each individual makes up that species' population. Most animals do not survive on their own, most need others of its kind at some stage of their life, therefore, each individual makes up a group and each individual matters.