Just a quick update on the girls doing 'The Big Ride' for The Big Issue. Anne and Jo completed a fundraising ride on May 23rd - you can find their blog about this event here. Here is a photo of the participants wearing their new jersey's with my Australian Floral Emblems design on them! Very... Continue Reading →
Kate Miller-Heidke - Caught in the Crowd - is a song about school bullying from the perspective of the onlooker. I have always thought it is important in addressing the issues involved in school bullying that it includes not only the victim and the perpetrator, but also the onlookers. By standing by and watching and... Continue Reading →
Early last week a weather forecaster talked about a 'weather incident' heading to South East Queensland and Northern NSW. Translated (with hindsight) this meant torrential rains, gale force winds, floods, trees down, roads washed away, electricity, phone and in some places water cut off. Fortunately where we live is not affected by flooding and we... Continue Reading →
It is wet windy and cold here at the moment with a 'weather event' looming - according to the weather forecasters. Nice weather for being inside drinking coffee, making winter comfort food and well procrastinating which seems to loom large for me in recent times. I have however managed to complete one set of colour... Continue Reading →
Having finally carved, printed and now coloured this linocut (after working on the original drawing over a year ago and the pre-sketch ideas are over 2 years old!) I finally have finished! I had hand painted the emu first as you can see but it felt a bit empty so added a graded wash of... Continue Reading →
For those with a sense of having seen this before - you have! Unfortunately the link wasn't working to Jo and Anne's website/blog about their fund raising efforts and events so I am re-posting the information - here is the working link now! The Big Ride for the Big Issue They have two events coming... Continue Reading →
Wildflowerings - Art Studio Diary 