My students often ask me what colours they should buy when they are ready to invest in some professional quality watercolour paints. This is such a personal question and very much comes down to personal taste! I don’t believe there is a hard and fast number of paints or specific colours you should start with. I have spent 15 years honing my palette and continue to try new things and make adjustments. But, if I had to whittle down my palette to the absolute basics, I would choose these 7 colours.

I'm thrilled to be a part of Mum's the Word, a group exhibition on musings on motherhood. Perfectly timed with upcoming Mother's Day of course!

The show features a selection of emerging and established female artists from my local stomping ground Wadawurrung country / The Surf Coast. We were asked to create a work around the thoughts, feelings and connections that shape our experiences, the way we juggle motherhood, creativity and life.

I am usually pretty good at keeping my "news" section up to date with all my news!! I don't know how I forgot to post about this one, possibly in all the excitement it escaped my mind!

I entered two works in the Angair Nature Show Weekend in Anglesea - way back in September 2024. They were two pieces I adored that I created while on residency at Falls Creek, "Rebirth" and "The Fire Within" then finished back in the studio. I almost didn't enter them! I had some other pieces I wanted to get framed to enter but the timelines didn't align. Serendipity stepped in.

Well this is exciting! I've been selected as a finalist in the Palette Project, an art prize run by Gallery Alchemy - a beaut little gallery I've long admired in Milton, New South Wales. I'm truly chuffed that my work 'Rolling Down the Valley' was one of the 28 works selected.