With One Brush is a dazzlingly kaleidoscopic book. Although it ranges from lyricism to dramatic monologues, from humour to domestic tragedies and pleas for world peace, there is an artful rightness about the placement of poems and their progression from the beginning to the end. Like the paintings that inspire many of the poems, the writing is vivid and sensual. The voice is original and daring, riskily lateral and inventive. An impressively wide-ranging knowledge and respect for the visual arts informs the poems, linking the different art forms in a way that is rare in Australian poetry. With its genuinely different voice and ambitious embracing of the possibilities of language, life and art, this is a fresh, compelling first book.
– Jean Kent

With One Brush consistently achieves a sophisticated transmutation of the visual into the vividly imagined. As a collection, its breadth and depth are matched only by its accessibility. – Rob Riel

There is more than a keen artist’s eye at work in these poems. The leaps of connection beyond the canvas investigate life at that place where perception, intuition and empathy collide. The result for the reader is a deeper understanding of art, certainly, but mostly a deeper understanding of humanity.
– Judy Johnson