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Save the date and join us on opening night!! Friday 24th February 6 pm - 8 pm at the Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre. All Welcome! My latest series 'Portal' will be on show for the first time at this exhibition, I'd love to see you on opening night! If you'd like a preview of this new collection - join my mailing list today. The series catalogue will go out to my subscribers on February 10th in my next edition of Studio News.

This diverse show draws upon the work of creatives from the Sunshine Coast and is a must see if you're a local! The opening event was a full house, with Trevor Purvis's immersive landscape exhibition 'Australian Sienna' opening as well. Painting, textiles, print, collage and mixed media are to be found throughout the show.

Should I be goal setting? It seems to be the time of year where talk abounds about goal setting for growth, diving into crisp shiny new planners, well-organised routines and planning for the year ahead........

I've been playing around with creating impressions from a site I'm referencing for my current project using collagraphs. The print process can be a little unpredictable..

Working with monochromatic colour, doesn't just mean using black and white - far from it! As I look back at my paintings over the years, I can see I've quite often favoured an essentially monochrome palette in many of my pieces, but I've usually added a touch of other colours. There's a subtlety and depth that can be achieved in using a restricted palette which for me, allows the shapes and lines to have a stronger visual conversation...

Here's a little play around with a sketch that wanted to be a landscape to begin with, which I wrestled with as you'll see. This threw up an interesting observation for me about how I work. Often the first thing I see is a horizon line or other landscape element and only once I've registered that can I move past it and into the abstract. Enjoy!