Biography

Veronica has worked professionally as an artist for over 30 years .
In 2010 The National Museum in Canberra acquired her182 court drawings completed for the Chamberlain trial in Darwin Supreme Court in 1983.
She trained at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne initially as a printmaker. Her interest in painting and drawing developed as a need to escape process and be involved in immediacy of execution. Working with large scale works on paper and mark making with inks and paint allowed her to express a more lyrical line and be more spontaneous in her observations of the landscapes, botanicals and still life arrangements which inform her art practice.

She has been the recipient of major awards in the Glover prize and a finalist many times in national art awards- The Mosman Art Prize, The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, the John Leslie Award for landscape and the National Emerging Art Prize

Colour has always been an important ingredient in her drawings and paintings.
Born in tropical North Queensland the vibrancy of bold strong colour infected her deeply. A decade lived in Darwin reinforced this and developed a love of Australian flora- its exotic complexity and intricate gnarliness.
Her studio in coastal Tathra on the south coast of NSW is surrounded by National Parks, coastal bush and stretches of beaches and rocky headlands. All of this landscape informs her art practice, as do wild seas and tumultuous skies. She has been particularly inspired by the big sky landscapes of Tasmania’s King Island and has been painting the seas and skies of this landscape for some years as artist in residence.
Her current series of still life paintings explores the idea of the tablescape as a landscape of shared memory and delicious joys.

Her work is represented in public institutions in Australia.
The National Museum Canberra.
NT University Collection, Darwin