ART BIOGRAPHY

Roger is motivated by the mystery and intensity of being, engaging with landscape and the natural world through mainly water-based media on paper or canvas. He is concerned with the disjunction between Western techno-society and nature, which begs to be addressed, and likes to paint plein air. His art ranges from realist, expressionist, to abstract and may include collage elements.

He has been a finalist in the Brisbane Contemporary Art Awards in 2017, 2018, 2019; in Sunshine Coast Council’s Local Artist Local Content Prize; and in the Corangamarah Art Prize. He is represented in several private collections. He has shown his work at The Maroochy Library Artspace (solo exhibition), Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, The Cooroy Butter Factory Artspace, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Hall, Kawana Community Centre, Old Ambo Artspace (Nambour), Red Rock Regional Gallery (Cororooke, Victoria) and in an online exhibition of 9 works with the Contemporary Art Awards, Brisbane (see link above).

Roger has a professional background in Science and Sociology and has undertaken art courses with Megan Shelton and Sonja Georgeson, beginning in 2010. He was born in Scotland in 1943, lived in Kent UK as a boy and came to Adelaide in 1954. He now resides at Beerwah on the Sunshine Coast on the edge of the Glass House Mountains, Queensland.