Don't fence me in Print

Artist profile Jeffrey Service. Jeffrey started his painting career by accident when he arrived in a hippie commune in California in 1969 chasing The Summer Of Love. He was on his break-away overseas adventure from Oz and was hungry to experience everything life had to offer. Broke in Berkeley, he started selling his brightly coloured batik paintings to pay his way and this turned into a professional twenty-year obsession. He hitch-hiked from Iceland to Morocco and New York to Panama. He married on the Navaho Indian Reservation, and paddled down the Rio de la Passion in the Guatemalan jungle. He returned to Australia in 1973 and built a Balinese artist’s retreat at Tamborine. He now runs a dyeing business in Capalaba and paints in water colour, continuing his familiar brightly coloured style with the same wit and irony of his previous work.