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In my dad’s words, I am chuffed to have you visit, so thank you 🙂
Recovery Road and kombi vans – mixed media adding colour to our lives.
Video of the creation of a mixed media painting to show the difference between clinical recovery and personal recovery. Colour, inks, collage, inspiration.
Let sleeping dogs lie … sketching Sully the Australian Terrier
Celebrating our loyal Australian Terrier, Sully. Protector, guard, snuggler, companion. I sketched him as he slept – his usual occupation in his old age.
Sketchbook Skool – discovering “my peeps”
Sketchbook Skool is much more than an online art course – much as I love that. What it has created is a worldwide community of fellow sketchers – “my peeps”
Exhibition of art celebrating carers and self care – St Vincent’s Gallery, Melbourne
I feel very proud to have been invited to exhibit at the St Vincent’s Gallery in Melbourne.The exhibition runs from 8 September to 30 October 2014.
Sketching the ANZAC Day March, Melbourne 2014
Standing in Swanston Street, Melbourne as the ANZAC Day Parade passed. You couldn’t have anything more symbolic than a lighthorseman – so I painted him.
Painting still life – daisies and lilies
I came home to find these gorgeous flowers from my long suffering husband. I knew I wouldn’t keep them alive, so out came the paints to keep them forever.
Sketching food – apple and custard teacake
Drawing my daughter’s culinary masterpieces from the Australian Women’s Weekly Baking Collection – a delicious cinnamon dusted apple and custard teacake.
Sketching food – raspberry and cinnamon French macaroons
My teenage daughter is a fantastic baker, and she has challenged herself to work through every recipe in an Australian Women’s Weekly cookbook.
The art of lunch
Inspired by Danny Gregory’s “the Art of Breakfast”, my friend and I sat down to draw (and then devour) sausage rolls with a good dose of tomato sauce.
Sketching vines on the verandah
Taking time to stop and draw the simple things around me is what I consider my form of mindfulness. This is a drawing of vines under a shady verandah.