Sound and Vision

When Music Blends Into Abstract Art

As a contemporary Australian artist, my creative process is built on intuition, experimentation, and an emotional response to sound. Every piece begins with listening.

Music opens a space where imagination takes over, allowing rhythm, texture, silence, and atmosphere to evolve into original mixed media abstract artworks.

Rather than illustrating music, I translate what I hear into a visual language, creating music inspired abstract art that captures feeling, movement, and hopefully the energy of the musicians.

The collection of my art in the video above showcases original contemporary abstract artworks inspired by extraordinary musicians including Nik Bärtsch, Wouter Veldhuis, John Cage, Andrew Garton, Brian Eno, Akira Rabelais, Hiroshi Ebina, Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Maiya Hershey, Innesti, together with an ever growing list of jazz musicians, experimental composers, and sound artists whose work continues to influence my creative journey to this day.

Working primarily with acrylic polymer, inks, photography, recycled paintings, collage, and carefully considered digital refinement, each artwork emerges through an intuitive conversation between sound and image.

Every piece is an original work of contemporary abstract expressionism, where music becomes the catalyst for discovery rather than something to be illustrated.

There's nothing quite as exciting as making the invisible, visible.

Experimentation remains at the heart of my practice, allowing every artwork to develop its own unique visual identity while celebrating the limitless connection between music and contemporary abstract art.

🔸🔹🔸 “Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound.” - Wassily Kandinsky

Artwork above was inspired by the musician Innesti titled “Disregarding Time” from the album “Folding, A Study”.