The waiting Room - acrylic + wax on linen, 2007
I don’t really like going to the doctor, dentist, osteopath, whatever.  I need to be really suffering to do it.  So I try to distract myself while I’m hanging around by reading trash magazines, and making up stories in my head about the people who are [...]

I don’t know about you - but I’m completely obsessed with leopard-print. Lying in bed last night, considering how to tackle the next stage of my new painting, it occured to me that I do have a complete outfit - actually more than one that is leopard.  Not that I’d wear it all at once [...]

Next Week my son turns 6.  To celebrate we are having a ’secret agent’ party at our house for his school friends and a couple of cousins his age.  He is so incredibly excited.  I hope I can live up to his expectations.
We have asked the kids to turn up ‘in disguise’ - so hopefully [...]

The gorgeous owner of 775 art and craft in Red Hill did a studio visit with me this afternoon, and left with 8 works for her gallery.
It’s exciting to see someone appreciate my work, and choose, and take some away to show to others.  Lately, the work I’ve been selling has been to people I [...]

Do you ever have those conversations when someone asks you what you’ve been up to, and you say - ‘oh nothing’. To be truthful I’ve been up to so much lately I’ve been getting myself into trouble. My plethora may soon be reduced to a trickle, and isn’t that wonderful and terrifying!
One work [...]

Right then, Judy decided she didn’t want to know what went on in the neighbour’s garden.
My submission to Illustration Friday this week - theme ‘I spy’

I did promise myself that this would not be a blog about family.  That it would be about art - my place to be an artist and talk about that process, and all it involves for me.  And it is, but I’m finding it very hard to seperate the two.  One feeds the other, one [...]

 Detail of new painting
I have a new stress in my life.  Actually it’s just a little one, but it is becoming more verbal and impacting in strange and mysterious ways.
Yesterday as I tried to paint, there was a little voice - who was supposed to be going to sleep calling out;
‘Mummy, I ready to get [...]

Still Life + Bird
Here it is. I don’t know about it. I’m not sure if I do or don’t like it or if it was successful. I will do another few for the sake of the exercise, but I think perhaps next time I’ll deconstruct it in some way - have [...]

Here is a corner of my house
I committed to a challenge on Australian Art forum, which included doing some things I don’t normally do.  I decided to challenge myself with a still life (and I really loathe still lifes), and a landscape.  I actually love a good landscape, but can’t do them for nuts.  All [...]