Huxter reached out to me at the end of last year. The Melbourne based company produces a range of home products including wrapped soaps featuring Australian artists. They had a number of artists they worked with but had never worked with a watercolour artist before. I was quick to say yes!
A more recent hobby of mine is exploring the Surf Coast, particularly around the Anglesea to Moggs Creek area, for native orchids in spring.
We’ve talked about doing this for years so I’m so pleased it is finally happening! Join us at Ashmore Arts on December 10 for our inaugural Christmas Open Day.
I had the pleasure of being asked to judge the Torquay Lion's Club Peace Poster competition in October. It's an international competition where kids submit posters to a theme.
I thought I’d give you a little glimpse behind the scenes of my new series, Lost and Found, the process, the production, the flowers!
We have not had the pleasure of the annual Arts Trail weekend for the last couple of years! It’s an opportunity to explore the creative spaces of your local artists and makers. Ashmore Arts, including my little studio will be open for the weekend long event, rain, hail or shine (or rainbow!)
I have been quietly working away these last few months at one of the biggest and most significant projects of my life, a baby! I'm in fact due at any minute!
I was sadly unable to attend last night's opening event of Spring Creek: A Collective Response due to having to isolate, I was experiencing some serious FOMO (and cabin fever all at the same time)!
Spring Creek: A Collective Response is a showcase of one of our most precious resources, a cornerstone of the community and feature of our daily lives here on the Surf Coast.
My residency has sadly come to a close, I have had the most wonderful time! My nearly 3 weeks up here have seen every kind of weather condition just shy of snow, from blazing sunshine to complete white out. I've had an alpine experience to say the least!
Working in a sketch book is always something I'm trying to improve on. Typically I'm horrendous at keeping any kind of organised 'sketch book', any bit of scrap paper or note page at hand is it and they all fly around my studio loosely. I also have a penchant for the ol' butcher's paper and love to draw up and plan on large sheets. So basically, it's a mess and there's no organisation to it at all. I'm never able to find anything again either.
