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When people ask artist Jeffrey Service where he gets his ideas from, the answer is simple... They come from the haphazard adventures of his everyday life – which in Jeffery’s case has taken him to many exotic and far-flung places: from New York to El Salvador and New Mexico, from Sweden to Morocco and across the Australian outback.

Jeffrey, born in Bundaberg, left Australia in 1969 chasing the Summer of Love to a hippie commune in California. He took up batik painting and sold five thousand of them during a 20-year-love affair with that art form. Several of his batiks hang in the U.S. Library of Congress, the King of Thailand bought one, and Elizabeth Taylor bought two.

These days, Jeffrey works in water colour on paper, and in smaller sizes than the large batiks he’s famous for, but everyday life continues to inspire his quirky vision. Over the years Jeffrey has exhibited and taught across the USA, Australia and most recently, the Tiwi Islands.

It’s impossible to look at a Jeffrey Service painting and not smile. And that, to him, is a sign of success.