How the garden grows

Finally rain & my, how the garden grows we have garlic, shallots, variety of lettuces, herbs, rocket & volunteer tomatoes growing... Now I need to work out timing.. To keep up the flow of produce & keeping soils healthy!  Not a bad life here along the Clarence River... I'd like a couple of chooks next. 

Weekend workshops along the Clarence

Come to a Weekend Workshop!!

Where- Seelands 

Along the Clarence River

When- 

Collagraphs 23/24th November

Etching 30nov/1December

Cost- $175 includes basic materials for workshop, delicious homemade lunches & morning/ afternoon tea!! 

Times- 11-5pm so people can travel

9-3pm so people can travel home

For info ring Rochelle 0421019205 

Purple everywhere in Grafton

Purple purple dropping flowers it's the end of the Jacaranda Festival at Grafton...

Reminiscence of Freo, where in my last week that same purple coloured the town in dresses & streamers celebrating the purple uniform of the Freemantle Dockers who played in the grand finale! Sadly lost like our Wallaby's against England! 

Cold & wet there... Hot & dry here!

Finalist Hawkesbury Art Prize

It is very exciting to be one of 40 finalists in the Hawkesbury Art Prize with my work 'Thinking'. It's about...

A small tributary off the mighty Clarence River meanders inland to an unknown & secret place, where lit by dappled sunlight perches a painted kingfisher & a female form,  pondering the meaning of life, the body, art & nature.

Her collaged form draws attention to the materiality of the body & our perceptions of reality.  She pokes fun at my desire to represent the lived moment, as her reconstituted form interrupts the 'real' of photographic scenery. 

Instead she muses on the beauty & intensity of light & it's warmth on her skin & her connection if only briefly, with the beauty of the kingfisher & nature's glen....

Purple Madness!!

Go Freo!! AFL big game special here & all of Freo in purple 

Hoping for win!! I stand out as all I have are my purple underpants!!

Lining up very early for Grand final!!

Fun & bikes @ Rottnest Island

What a day!! Finally got out into some sunshine! Gales subsided & I made a ferry dash over to beautiful Rottnest Island... Saw my first Quokkas very cute & luv to check out your bags!

& this one even loved a pat & scratch behind his ears!! Hoping for some of my lunch no doubt!! But after long 3hr bike ride no go... I needed strength for next 2 hr bike ride.. 

Been loving the bike that's part of residency Freo has lots of bike tracks & fairly flat.. I think I will return to East a lot fitter!

My studio is in here!!

My studio is in this amazing though troubled historical old building! It was built for the 'insane' this constituted anyone who was considered annoying by the rulers of the day 19thc. Natural place to set up artists!! 

No stress here can research make art & this weekend opening of the Freemantle Print Prize! Looking forward to seeing who & what got in this year!

Adventures in Freo

My beautiful apartment in heart of Freemantle, WA has flooded!! Down in the cellar/ laundry of the old Moore's building... I took lots of photos because in a very uncanny way my next body of work is titled 'Flooding the House'. 

Slightly displaced & out of place with Freo displaying a contingent of doctors rather than one gale force wind called The Doctor , I am heading back up to the previous named Freemantle Lunatic Asylum where my studio is based. 

Fremantle for residency!

At Fremantle, WA & loving the new environs & what it has to offer! 

I have a 1844 pad& renovated for comfy stay! A studio & a bike for getting around lots of bike tracks along foreshore!

Fun Collagraph Workshop

I just had a lovely weekend teaching with several talented women how to make collagraphs at my Play with Texture & Collage & Print Workshop along the banks of the mighty Clarence River.  The weather held out and the sun shined and the river and birdlife gave the workshop added joy!!



Trish using fabrics, beautiful gum leaves from her property and glues.



Mary and Trish discussing the different effects with various materials.

  

Suzie is a textile artist who revelled in the textures of snake skin and fabric for her collagraphs.





Evey works with glass and took to print like a dream!



The greedy banker

Animation still here in background of banker & sticky money floating thru the flooding suburb!! Prints of houses of stocks& domestic female collage running over the rooftops... You get the idea?!

She's Hunting House

It's finally done- a 2 min animation & prints installed at Branch3D a real drive by show!!! 26 Ross Street Forest Lodge. Check it out its on till 18th May..

collage fun looking at the myths of sirens and water nymphs.... all this rain starting to get to me!!

some fun with animation too-

Post flood

After the high drama of my first flood @ south grafton... Water levels beyond historical records, the river is down & weeds growing well....