Career Highlights

2025* Selected into IAPS-Juried Website- 46th Open Division.
* 2nd Place – Animal/Wildlife category AND Top 15 Winner of the 4th Annual “Artists to Watch” – Artists Network, USA International Competition.
* People’s Choice – QWASI Boonah Exhibition “Wildlife That Wows”.
* Honourable Mention, Established Category – Dakota Pastels 2nd Quarter, USA, International Competition.
* Outstanding Pastel – Bold Brush, June 2025, International Online Competition.
* Finalist – Darcy Doyle Art Award – Figurative.
* Finalist – Brisbane Rotary Art Prize.
* People’s Choice – Pastel Society of Australia- Annual Awards.
* 4th Place – Animal & Wildlife category of the 27th Annual Pastel 100 Competition – Artists Network, USA International Competition.
* Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize.
* Winner – TURSA Acquisitive Prize North Coast National Show (Lismore).
* First Place – Domestic Animals & Wildlife Section – Tursa Art Prize.
* First Place – Country Life Section – Tursa Art Prize.
* People’s Choice – Tursa Art Prize.
* Finalist Top 75 – Richeson 75 International Animal, Birds & Wildlife Exhibition.
* Finalist & Highly Recommended People’s Choice – WAMA Art Prize.
* Honourable Mention, Established Category – Dakota Pastels 4th Quarter, USA, International Competition.
2024* Finalist– Plein Air Salon – November 2024 – Best Animals & Birds
* Winner – Frank Mills Award (tied) Ocean Shores Art Expo
* Winner – “Printmaking, Drawing & Pastel Section” Ocean Shores Art Expo
* Winner –Pastel Society of Australia – Bi-Annual Set Subject “Tones”
* People’s Choice – Queensland Wildlife Artists Society
* Winner – Works on Paper – Coraki Art Prize
* Grand Champion – TURSA North Coast National Show (Lismore)
* First Place – Domestic Animals & Wildlife Section – Tursa Art Prize
* First Place – Landscape Section – Tursa Art Prize
* Honourable Mention – 26th Artists Network Annual Pastel 100 Competition Online International Competition, “Animal & Wildlife”
* Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize
* Finalist – Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
* Winner – Plein Air Salon – January 2024 Best Animals & Birds
* Finalist – Richeson 75 International Animal, Birds & Wildlife Exhibition
* Finalist – Southeastern Pastel Society “Luminosity”, International Online Competition, USA
2023* Winner Casino RSM Acquisition Prize – Bentley Art Prize.
* Runner-Up Best in Show – Queensland Wildlife Artists Society
* People’s Choice – Tursa Art Prize
* First Place – Domestic Animals & Wildlife Section – Tursa Art Prize
* First Place – Portraiture Section – Tursa Art Prize
* Honourable Mention – Animal & Wildlife category PLUS One of Five Artists “To Watch” – 25th Annual Pastel 100 Competition – Artists Network, International Competition.
2022* Honourable Mention – Pastel Guild of Europe 2022, “Dust Off”.
* People’s Choice – Lower Clarence Arts & Crafts Association.
2021* Finalist – WAMA Art Prize (Where Art Meets Nature).
* Highly Commended – Pastel Society of Australia Annual Awards.
2020* People’s Choice – Pastel Society of Australia Annual Awards.
2019* 1st Place – Pastel/Drawing Section & overall People’s Choice – Ocean Shores Art Comp.
* Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize.
* Finalist – Dean Cogle Portrait Prize.
2018* People’s Choice – BACCI Spring Exhibition.
* People’s Choice – Pastel Society of Australia Annual Awards.
2017* Finalist – Holmes Acquisitive Art Prize for Excellence in Realistic Birdlife Art Prize.
* Solo Exhibition “Avian Criminals and Other Fine Feathered Friends” – Northern Rivers Community Gallery, Ballina.
* Exhibition “Micro Heroes” – Art Aspects Gallery, Lismore & Nimbin Gallery.