Children in Venilale, Timor Leste
I believe that all change starts with one person. When we become happier within ourselves, more creative, more grateful for our lives, we are able to share this joy and happiness with others. So the ripples spread and we might touch one person, in turn they touch another and so change spreads, one person at a time.
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New years Eve sky over Vincentia before it turned completely black at 3pm
Lives lost, houses destroyed it has been a week of extreme temperatures and catastrophic fires in Australia. Driving through smoke in Nowra, our car covered in sooty ash, we escaped the bushfires in southern NSW. We were lucky but thousands were not. There is no escape from climate change.
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What an amazing transformation year. Travel, exhibitions, learning to trust in myself and take daring steps. These are the hallmarks of a year that has changed my life and given me a clear vision for 2020.
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Spot Fires (detail) - work in progress
So this is (nearly) Christmas)and everywhere we look there is chaos and disaster. How to hang onto hope in the these tumultuous times? Make art like there’s no tomorrow.
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Dancing Shoes (2010) - one of 365 collages which formed my first major solo exhibition A Stitch in Time
My grandmother said think of all the things you’ve achieved, not what you lack. It’s a great sentiment to kickoff my decade review. What has happened in the past 10 years - a new identity for one thing…
Read MoreDo we need to put water and trees in an art gallery to appreciate them? Maybe we do so we can value our precious, fast disappearing resources and protect them.
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Backstage opening night of my play If There Be Dragons with Alex (still in makeup)
How do you turn your dreams into reality? Imagination! When you imagine something and then action it, you manifest your dreams. Imagination is the language of the soul, according to Albert Einstein. When I come up with crazy wild ideas, it’s usually because I have read some story in a book which has fired up my imagination. Like my play If There Be Dragons from 1998.
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Wearing my new red dress on my first ever photo shoot
It’s a real statement to wear red. I’ve never bought or owned a red dress until this week when I wanted to celebrate launching my online course Creative Calendars. It defies the unspoken but strongly held belief that ‘good girls’ don’t wear red.
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New work - What the Sea Leaves (detail)
There is no escaping climate change. It is affecting us all, evident this week in Australia where we are burning up from bushfires in unprecedented numbers and ferocity. Making artwork about climate change has become my passion.
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Time for making a new calendar with all my Iceland postcards.
Time has slipped me by and I find its time already to start thinking about next year and the calendars I have turned into a traditional Christmas present. I think about how I spent time this year, and what art I made. Then I make one calendar for myself then have multiple copies to give away. When thinking about time, its a real time saver for me.
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