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 […]
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YOU CAN’T CATCH ME IS BACK IN JULY
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 […]
CHILDREN’S BOOK COUNCIL OF AUST – NOTABLES 2018
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 […]
SELECTED -2018 ADELAIDE PERRY PRIZE FOR DRAWING
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 […]
FINALIST – NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize
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 […]
Newcastle Club Foundation Art Prize 2016
To complete the year I was one of only 11 artists whose paintings were selected from over 80 entries, for the inaugural Newcastle Club Foundation Art prize. Our paintings were hung in the Newcastle Club and we were all treated to a spectacular dinner where the winner was announced our paintings were put up for […]
Frensham Fellowship Art Prize – November 2016
In November I entered one of my large charcoal drawings, ‘The Paterson River’, into the Frensham Fellowship Art Prize ( Old girls) and much to my total shock and delight I won! I always find it an odd feeling returning to school…it is so familiar yet it seems like a life time ago. I was […]
Kilgour Prize 2016 – For Figurative and Portrait Painting – August to November 2016
In August I received notification from the Newcastle Art Gallery that my painting ’Superheroes – a blank Canvas’ was selected for the 2016 Kilgour Prize for Figurative and Portraiture Painting. I was one of 35 finalists, selected from a field of more than 200 entries across Australia. I was so thrilled and excited! My painting […]