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. 

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....