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What makes you happy? It could be any number of things....a coffee and catch up with friends; a family celebration; an ice-cream on a sunny day or a swim in the ocean. These things can all create feelings of intense contentment in the moment, a joy and happiness that surpasses anything else. But they can also be fleeting and not necessarily easily replicated to the extent that they bring you the same quantity or quality of joy time after time; they're subject to possible vari

What do you give an artist for Christmas? There's something that's top of my list this year...... No, it's not paint, or new pencils or brushes or even workshop experiences or a special gallery visit (though I'd love to be gifted a quick trip to Sydney to see the Magritte exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.....) But in reality, it's none of those things.

I've tried juggling more than once.... I can definitely say, it's not on my list of successful achievements! But set aside, for a moment, the image of a court jester's outfit and the three pointed hat with bells on the end and the pixie shoes with the curled up toes.

With Noosa Open Studios 2024 underway, I thought I'd take advantage of the beautiful weather (and the fact that my studio space is reasonably tidy) and do a short video tour, to share this years exhibition of work and my studio surrounds, for anyone not able to make it in person. You'll see latest pieces from my new Wayfinder Series, which are now up in the Gallery section of my website and available works are listed in my Shop.

What if the sky was in the middle? It sounds pretty nonsensical....the real world wouldn't work literally, if the sky was sandwiched between two lumps of earth. But working with abstraction, anything is possible right? Hear me out.... The idea of taking a subject, dismantling it, fragmenting it and then reconstructing it in an entirely different way, isn't new.

Connections are everything....but where do we find them? I've had cause to think a lot about 'connections' in the past few weeks, and in a variety of different contexts. It's a phrase that's been bouncing around the studio as I work away on 3 big paintings, each in different colour palettes, with the knowledge that they'll hang side by side being a pressing concern in the making of the work. I somehow need to 'connect' them all and I can't rely on colour to help me do this