I’m very excited about having one of my paintings chosen as a finalist for this years NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize. There where 380 paintings entered into the prize and only 45 chosen as finalists. The exhibition opens at NSW Parliament House on Tues 3 Oct – Fri 27 Oct 2017 If you would like to find […]
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Need a nice place to stay?
In the last post I talked about the workshop that I went to in Jervis Bay…well I just wanted to continue on from that Blog and let you know about were I stayed. Its sometimes tricky to make a decision about where to stay…so if you are heading down the coast from Sydney and you […]
Shades of White Oil Painting Workshop
I’ve just returned from a wonderful, but challenging oil painting workshop, with the very talented, Bowral based artist, Kim Shannon (kimshannon.com.au) We learnt all about painting ‘shades of white’ something that might sound easy but was ( I found at least) rather challenging. The workshop was organised by Alison Mackay (alisonmackay.net) of Alison’s Artworkshops at […]
My first Children’s Book – ‘You can’t Catch me’
One of the things that has been on my bucket list was to write and illustrate a children’s book. Early this year I enrolled in course – Designing a Children’s Book, at The Pumphouse School of Design in Newcastle (pumphouseschool.com.au) It was a fabulous course and I learnt all the ins and outs of how […]