Denise is an Artist and Photographer who calls the Sunshine Coast home.
From pen on paper, to installation artwork, there are few art forms or techniques Denise has not explored, studied or experimented with. A passion for fine detail, intricate designs and labour intensive techniques, her works of art can take weeks and often months to complete.
While consulting to leading Architects and Designers in Sydney, Denise completed studies at the School of Colour & Design and exhibited her work. A holiday to Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef put the studies on hold and resulted in a permanent relocation. As a volunteer on research vessels Denise worked alongside journalists, writers and National Geographic photographers.
An eclectic working history in photography, design, Scuba diving, marketing and tourism, has provided endless material for creativity, both written and visual. An extensive photographic catalogue and a love of writing was a powerful combination for Denise and resulted in articles and photos being published in commercial brochures, dive journals, newspapers and magazines.
A SCUBA instructor with specialties in underwater photography and videography, Denise’s working life morphed into a fantastic adventure of travel, dive boats, underwater baby photography and diving for Care Flight.
Zoom forward several years, a wonderful husband and two energetic children later Denise launched into a three-year family holiday that would take them around Australia and the world.
Proof that you can have too much of a good thing, travel became an everyday grind and they started to look for a home with foundations. Searching the world for the perfect place to call home, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast was the unquestionable winner.
Denise has a desire to share with others the joy of being creative;
” I believe that everyone can create a wonderful piece of art worthy of framing”.
” Many of us are told from a young age ‘you can’t draw’, ‘you’re not artistic’ or that ‘art is just a hobby’. We are frozen by a crisp white page and hesitant to draw on it because we might destroy it”.
“As children we couldn’t wait to start the first page of a colouring-in or puzzle book, to add our creative self and enhance the pages, as adults we photocopy pages so we don’t wreck the book. An interesting digression”.
“I wrote Beyond Colouring-in to help dispel the myths we grow up with, to empower people to create their own pages to colour and artworks to frame”.