I was so thrilled to be one of four artists ( Sami Bayly, Gillian Benke, Jen Denzin and Jake Henzler) to be asked to be included in the Dog Days Exhibition at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery- MRAG. We were asked to respond to Troy Emery’s lusciously textured Park Creature. DOG PARK 30 April -12 […]
Late last year I was commissioned by NSW Government Health Infrastructure to create the artwork for the Paediatric areas of the New Maitland Hospital. I worked alongside the very talented Jaime Pritchard who, like me, was one of several artists invited to contribute to the Hospitals artwork. Jamie designed the beautiful trees that my images […]
This year the Adelaide Perry Gallery exhibited 44 finalist works in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize. Visitors were invited to vote for the People’s Choice Award. This year I was lucky enough to share the prize with fellow artist Kate De la Motte. My charcoal drawing ‘Water Under the Canberry Bridge 2020‘ reflects my strong […]
It’s been a long time between BLOGS. Lots of things have happened since then both personally and world wide. We are told that life will be “a new normal” so I guess we have to embrace it as best we can and ‘keep calm and carry on’ and find joy in the things we can […]
My Children’s book ‘You Can’t Catch Me’ is back from the printers! Thank you Who Printing for doing a fabulous job. I had sold ALL the copies from my first printing and DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND I decided to do a second print run. COPIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE for purchase either through my webpage or […]
IM JUMPING WITH JOY and I am thrilled to let you know that my Children’s book ‘You Can’t Catch Me’ will be back in July! I’ve sold ALL the copies from my first printing and DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND… and lots of inquires. I have decided to do a second print run. I should have […]
I just wanted to let you know the dates of my next solo exhibition. It’s called ‘The Garden Palette’ and will be held at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG – mrag.org.au) It will be quite different from my last exhibition….321 hand painted photos of flowers. The exhibition is on from 28July 2018 – 14 […]
After much nagging by my beautiful sister Sal,who is a Teacher Librarian, I entered my children book ‘You Can’t Catch Me’ into the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Prize. In 1946 the CBCA established annual book awards to promote children’s books of high literary and artistic quality. These awards are […]
As artists, we all have our list of art prizes that we aspire to be in…The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing was at the top of my list, so when I got selected this year I was beyond excited! The opening was a great night and I really enjoyed meeting the other artists and hearing […]
After a couple of hick-ups my book is finally here. It had its first outing at the Frensham school ‘Iris Fair’ at Mittagong and it was a fabulous day! Thank you to my two beautiful helpers…I could not have done it without you …Jess & Melinda. I sold lots of books and received a very […]
