The Surf Coast Arts Trail is back for 2025! This will be my 9th year doing the trail and it is one of my favourite weekends of the year. It's such a lovely way to connect with my students and collectors as well as the local creative community.

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.

First of all, how is is March already?! To say it's been a busy (dare I say hectic?!) start to the year is an understatement. I had a gradual return to work from mat leave at the end of last year, I eased back in with a few odd hours here and there - mostly painting for my solo show at Lon Retreat.

'Finding My Way' is a new body of work, 20 watercolour and crayon paintings on paper and panel that I created during my residency at Lon Retreat. I couldn't be more excited to finally share these pieces with you, they've been a long time in the making.

Loz from LJM Photography snuck into my studio recently and captured me at work. I thought I’d share some of the photos along with a bit of the story behind them.