June Cummings is an artist and journalist who works from a home studio on a small lake with a distant view to mountains, under a canopy of old paper bark trees. Feral domestic ducks visit, water birds from pelicans to cormorants, seagulls and a variety of honey eating native birds fly in and out.

I ‘draw’ on this tranquil environment with its ever-changing light literally, producing prints and drawings in a variety of media, ceramics and sculpture.

It is in striking contrast to the high-rise Gold Coast metropolis just a few blocks down the highway and urbanised 10 minute walk to the surf beach.

I would describe myself as an abstract expressionist, while retaining a figurative lyricism in my work. Colour is foremost and I use clay as a canvas as well as the more traditional print and drawing absorbent materials.

I work in series so that my ceramics currently include a very painterly Primitive Pots series based on a trip to China, a Woman series of small vessels, and ceramic sculptures Women 6: Tribute to Joy Hester. My current project is a series of large figures called Village People and smaller works – Feral Friends and Kitchen Table – study in black and white.