Work in Progress from the Tree Sentinels series
It’s a sobering experience knowing that a decision made during the depths of winter when light failed to reach the washing line, has meant that a tree has been condemned to die. While the arborist is at work, I paint bodies of trees inside sentinel figures, hoping to alleviate the onset of unexpected grief that has come with the death of a tree.
Read MoreMy BIG blog project of documenting my art and travel adventures for the past eight years is finished. Now that they are all archived and published as both books and PDFs, I can finally declare this project DONE! The books and PDFs are available to purchase from my BLURB store.
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When I don’t think I’ve done too much art or travel yet find out that every month was filled with a trip somewhere in Australia and my artmaking continued to take me to places north and south of home. Cyanotype image making became my focus as well as a return to creating artist books. It has certainly been a year art & travel which encapsulates this Year in Review 2025.
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Natural Arch waterfall, QLD
Stones, trees and falling water; a winning combination. An interlude in Springbrook National Park had me pondering on the sensory experience of immersion in nature. It took an effort to get there, a road less travelled moment that rewarded me with peace. A balm for the soul.
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Swarm 2025 mixed media collage on postcard
I’ve been considering my love/hate relationship with social media. Is this constant connection to my phone and its tendrils of addiction, a seduction? Am I in danger of becoming lost in space? This new artwork has become a presentient, a reminder to be vigilant with myself. To love the idea of a ‘hive’ connection yet be wary of the consequences.
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Tirana, Albania. One of the postcards from my 2018 #91days project
Fifty years ago Albania’s paranoid dictator, Enver Hoxha had hundreds of thousands of bunkers built throughout his country. Two of these have been transformed into Bunk’Art museums where art gives voice to the unspeakable so that healing can happen. I think of the term ‘bunker down’ when I imagine creating space and time to dream the future forward as a catalyst for change.
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At Hill End Analogue Photograph Festival in front of my argyrotype images made in Scotland.
I never knew that eight years of creating blogposts would be a long term project with an approaching end date. My compulsion to archive my blogposts into hardback books signals my project is nearing completion to make way for new directions in my artmaking. The project has come full circle, what began as online documentation is ending the same way.
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What The Sea Saw 2025 lumen photogram, seaweed, promite, seeds
What the eye sees might be a little different from what a high resolution scanner picks up. Experimenting with photograms on lumen prints means the images are ‘fixed’ through the lens of the digital scanner. While analogue photographic processes are used to create the print, the final image captures what the eye cannot discern. Perhaps it is what the sea sees.
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Recent blogpost images and 2022 June blogpost pics about my trip to Greenland and Iceland
Looking back to where I was three years ago has shown my how much travel I crammed into 2022. Its like reliving my childhood slide nights as I compile a year of blogposts into my Year of Sundays 2022 blogpost book. I get to relive all those memories and keep them to reread at my leisure, analogue book style.
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Eye of the Beholder (detail)
Introducing light into my landscapes has helped sustain me when the world appears to be mired in darkness and destruction. Working with tree images is grounding; their roots deep in the ground, leaves dancing in the light. They inspire me to bring a lightness of being into my creative offerings..
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