Garry lived the first 13 years of his life on the family farm in the wheatbelt district of Narembeen. This childhood gave him a profound love of the great outdoors. As a child he filled jotter pads with drawings and by age 13 was convinced he wanted to be an artist. This ambition was interrupted by high school and early adulthood. However, between 1973-75 he completed a Diploma in Fine Art at Claremont Art School.

Following this, he made slow progress, juggling part time painting with family and work commitments. In 1990, the completion of Catsbells convinced him that he had something to contribute as an artist. It wasn’t until 1997 that he was able to become a full time painter. Since 1990 and Catsbells, Garry has created a body of work about the beauty of the natural world and the people who have sat for him.

Garry is grateful to the master artists composers and writers who have contributed to his inner life and taught him to let truth be the guide to how and what he paints. His style is a very individual form of pointillism that gives the works their unique look.

Garry has exhibited in three major exhibitions over the past 25 years as well as some mixed exhibitions. ‘Nikaela and Bear’ was the winning watercolour entry at Rockingham City Art Show. Each event was pleasingly received by gallery goers, and now his paintings can be found among art collectors and lovers of fine art.