On my first research visit to the property, I looked up into an old red cedar. I stopped. I was stunned. Staghorns covered its thick, heavy branches. Rich green flourishes adorned them. Smothered [...]
The blind embossings in Hidden Relationships artwork series were always meant to be partly concealed. That was not a problem to solve. It was part of the meaning of the work.
An artist book inspired by a giant Blue Quandong The first time I saw her, I was walking along a track high on the hillside, looking down into the forest. I was still beneath her canopy, and [...]
There’s a moment when you stand inside the forest … and look up. Not out. Not ahead. Up. And everything shifts. canopy began with that shift in perspective.
There is beauty in all stages of life. And in death too. My most recent artist book, Mother, celebrates the ancient matriarch standing strong in the paddock behind my studio – albeit in [...]
Some artworks start with an idea. Some an image. This one started with words. My words. Meet Me in the Forest is an artist book built around a poem. A poem of love of place and lived experience.
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 [...]
silent relics – a family album is a quiet homage to the bunya pines (Araucaria bidwillii) of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, presented as a metaphorical “family album.” Through layered printmaking [...]
