Hallo

As a kid I used to watch Halloween specials from America with envy.  How awesome – to dress up in costume, go out at night and collect sweets on the way.
We don’t do that here – and apart from the occasional nervous neighbour standing at the gate with a child doing the door knocking, it [...]

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confessional

When I started this blog, my intention was to chronicle good times and bad.  To record the difficulties that a mother pursuing the art life encountered along the way, and to perhaps provide solace to anyone journeying in the same direction in the knowledge that their trials are not unique.
I vowed to myself to be [...]

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swift

I’ve spent the last week in the city.
Whee.

A week working, riding trains and trams, and walking.  Watching people.  And being reminded again of the swiftness of time, of motion, of freedom and how easy it is to be anonymous in the sardine-crush of public transport.  How an ipod can make the contact of [...]

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fickle

I have been thinking a lot lately about how things grab us.  Fads, design crushes, fashion. Friendships.
It’s not that I am particularly fickle – quite the contrary actually.  I am drawn to classic, simple shapes and styles, ways of behaving and living, and much prefer solidity to following the general trends.

This past year I have [...]

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cerberus

I am the bloody monitor, oil on linen, 2009

The Cerberus is a revolutionary design 1860’s ironclad monitor, currently a breakwater off Black Rock, Melbourne, Victoria.

Pivotal Gallery in conjunction with Friends of the Cerberus is having an exhibition as part of an ongoing campaign to save this nationally and internationally important piece of Maritime [...]

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lace

Usually I’m up for anything, quite prepared to get my hands dirty and aware if the result is not working the resulting twists will provide an unexpected adventure with value of its own, so I have no explanation for my fear of lace.

A few months back I bought 3 balls of mohair that looked like [...]

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undone

There used to be quite a large white pointed roof there.
Just above fence height it was painted white – which made it lightly less conspicuous but it was there.  Large, not exactly overpowering but all you could see really when you looked out the kitchen window – which was a surprise to me as I [...]

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small

The reveal, oil on wood, 30cm x 30cm
Opening today Gallery 775’s small works group show.  I have 12 works in this, will be at the opening and can’t wait to see the works by the other artists involved.  All works are 30cm sq or under.
Link here.
The opening is from 2-4 at shop 1, 159 shoreham [...]

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