One of the 91 collage postcards I made in 2018 to document my travels. Maybe I’ll do it again as a mapping practice this year.
How can we use the motions of our body to create marks and can these marks become maps that lead us back into an active arts practice? I contemplate these ideas as I pack my bags (again) to travel to the UK this week. Walking and mapping will help me document my 10 months away.
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Osteomancy -The Bones Speak (detail) 2023 -(application reject)
It’s disappointing to reject artworks you know you have laboured over. Painful as it may be, we have to ‘kill our darlings’, the works that we have spent so long with, they no longer feel fresh. Instead, think of these as pilots, leading the way for the better works to follow.
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Beach sunrise on the rocks, Minjerribah, north Stradbroke Island.
I’m drawn to rocks for inspiration, especially the bedrock upon which we build the structures of our lives. Looking closer, it is the striations and seam lines, the tiny holes in the rocks that are the most interesting. The cracks where change is most evident, bringing elemental forces in play.
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Boats in Yamba marina
The call to adventure is strong in me as I succumb to weeks of restlessness, like the Sea Rat in The Wind in the Willows. Taking any kind of journey, creating movement of one kind or another, changes the energy, exhorting us to become wayfarers all.
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Two experimental collaged cards which led me into my Stitch in Time daily collages in 2010. I still like the red & black limited palette.
It takes courage to follow that path less taken when the ‘crazy restlessness’ of creative adventure takes hold. Rather than throwing out your early artworks as ‘ugly ducklings’ they can be viewed instead as creative ‘markers’, leading you on a journey of discovery.
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The birdbath in my front garden, a source of inspiration.
I’ve added a gratitude practice to my morning routine. It is an active, conscious practise giving thanks for who I am and what I have in my beautiful environment. Like my birdbath which has led me to a search for the water experiments of Dr. Masaru Emoto and sending out good thoughts into the world.
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New work 2023 - as yet untitled
When I struggle to make sense of the world or my purpose in it, I realise that life is a constantly evolving journey. When I combined the cyanotype images made during my artist residency in Iceland last year, with screenprinted cosmic portals, I felt time looping backwards and forwards through my artworks.
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Three of my Sunday Blog entries from August 2022
Many artists find it difficult to write. I find it comes quite easy as I’ve been writing in one form or another all of my life. As an artist I have found that writing my ‘morning pages’ each day as well as writing a weekly blogpost help me work through ideas and stay accountable to myself.
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That red dot moment - Spinifex & Kangaroo Grass SOLD
What’s the secret to selling art? Time and time again, I’ve found that my artworks that sell almost make themselves. They jump from the paper with joy and fizz with delight in their frames. Quite often the artworks I labour over for many hours and days are not the ones that sell.
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Advertising flyer about the Artist Talk for the Paper exhibition on Saturday 4th February at 11am QLD time at The Centre, Beaudesert, QLD..
Why do I love paper? I love it as a material to touch, smell, fold, stitch, crinkle, burn and print on. I love to thrust my hands in water and fibre and pull out a sheet of still wet paper. Its an alchemical process that never fails to inspire me.
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