Running a creative business can be deeply rewarding, but it also brings unique challenges … navigating websites, marketing, pricing your work, managing admin and simply finding the [...]

If you’ve been printing with commercial gelli plates for a while, or you’re just starting out, you’ve probably wondered how to clean and store them properly. After 13-14 years of [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we, as creative people, carry so much more than the work we create. We juggle inspiration, time, money, materials, doubt, dreams and (often quietly [...]

What a weekend! I’m always surprised, flattered and encouraged by how many people take the time to visit my studio during Open Studios Sunshine Coast 2025. This year (and my 5th in the Open [...]

Birds can pull me out of whatever I’m doing. The encroaching cries of the yellow-tailed black cockatoos. The chorus of a family choir of magpies. The riotous cackle of a kookaburra. All of this [...]

“Narratives” returns to The Little Red Cottage in Maleny from 2 – 11 May 2025, bringing fifteen book artists together for another celebration of storytelling in handmade form.

Did you know that over 45% of all emails sent globally are classified as spam (Statista and Securelist, 2023)? And while spam filters are great at keeping out the junk, they’re sometimes too [...]

I have a deep affection for cyanotype – that beautiful blue, alternative photographic process that has become an integral part of my creative work. Invented in 1842 by Sir John Herschel [...]

Open Studios Sunshine Coast is just around the corner, and I’m excited to open my studio doors again! From Friday 16 May to Sunday 18 May, you’re invited to step inside my creative space in the [...]

I have loved books for as long as I can remember. Reading them, holding them, looking at them and making them. I have admired bookplates (also known as ex libris labels) for many years. I love [...]