
As it was Valentine’s Day yesterday – maybe I should have been drawing roses and maybe I was? Maybe I should go back and work into these drawings more? 
…and here is another from yesterday’s session (pastel on cartridge) 30 min + a bit of fiddling
and nearly forgot – opening tonight at Rosebed Street Gallery for anyone here on the Sunny Coast 🙂
This caryatid has been finished for awhile but just not photographed – still several un-fired and I want to complete another 5 before my show.
This portrait of David (my partner) has only recently returned from North Queensland. It was a finalist in last years Xstrata / Perc Tucker portrait prize and was one of 15 pieces selected to tour to Mt. Isa.


This box was found with the tape attached saying ‘BANG’ and with pirates signs on back – obviously a well treasured child’s secret stash box – or perhaps even an old school case or ‘port’ as we say here in Queensland. My father was a postmaster on Bribie Island in the late 50’s/early 60’s and there were three girls. The silk transfer prints in the background of the box are stamps I made of me standing outside the old Bribie Post Office. This sculpture is currently on exhibition at Rosebed Street Gallery.
Yesterday I took some old pieces of work out to Rosebed Street Gallery – the piece below is from 2008. Vintage buttons, vintage silks from kimono , acrylic, gesso and wax. The base is newspaper sheets folded into thick bands and then woven together, trapping a moment in time, half truths, lies and nonsense.
