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Easter gardening and papermaking

With the Playing with Pulp workshop fast approaching, I have been concentrating on utilising the Hollander beater that I have on loan for a month from my papermakers group. As it is Easter and a wonderful gardening season with rain and lush growth, I have been busy setting aside some plants  for papermaking in keeping with my theme of using […]
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Kombucha Show in Bundaberg

I have been offered an exhibition at Bundaberg Regional Gallery in The Vault in July-August 2019. The theme is the need for bioplastics to reduce the terrible load of petro-plastics we are unleashing on the planet every day. I make bioplastic film using the pellicle from the cultured drink, Kombucha. I have approached Dr Peter Musk at The Edge, an […]
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New events and changes

Papermaking news The papermaking workshop scheduled for Saturday April 7 will be going ahead, with 4 places still available, however the venue has changed and it will now be held at my studio. The studio is set amongst my permaculture garden and participants will be able to see many of the plants which I use to make my botanical papers. […]
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Bunya Bounty

As many of my sustainably-minded friends know, I am a great advocate for our native foods. Currently in South-east Queensland, it is the season for Bunya nuts. These are large cones, weighing up to 10kg which fall from tall, dome-crowned forest giants, Aracauria bidwilii. Each cone contains many seeds, which all fit around a soft cone in the centre. When […]
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Workshops, talks and events for 2018

Dates Details Saturday April 7 2018 $50 per participant Half day workshop papermaking with botanical fibres (10 am – 1.30pm) Introducing multiple couching techniques Venue: Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre May 6 Garden Expo Gympie Hempsel Building, Gympie Showground   Talk, taste and demonstration: “Paper From Permaculture: Using fibres from edible plants in papermaking” Saturday June 2 Relish Festival Maryborough […]
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Back in OZ

Hi to all my readers. Some of you may have known that I was overseas for the past 10 weeks. It is SO wonderful to be home and hear the birds singing, drink my own rainwater and pick herbs and veges from the garden. I love Europe but can’t bear to be away from Australia for so long. On the […]
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Workshop dates for 2018

I have had some requests to do workshops in paper-making and wool felting in 2018 so I have come up with a framework of dates. Please get in touch if you would like to book in for any of these dates.         Workshop numbers: We need a minimum of 6 to proceed, maximum of 15 places. (TBC […]
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work accepted for Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize

This year I decided to enter the Noosa Regional Gallery’s annual Drawing prize which commemorates local artist and identity Lyn McCrea who passed away several years back. Lyn was a friend of the Sisters of Mary, one of the groups which agitated to protect the Mary River during the flawed Traveston dam proposal. She was also a keen collector and […]
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Work shortlisted for Lyn McCrea Drawing Prize

This year I decided to enter the Noosa Regional Gallery’s annual Drawing prize which commemorates local artist and identity Lyn McCrea who passed away several years back. Lyn was a friend of the Sisters of Mary, one of the groups which agitated to protect the Mary River during the flawed Traveston dam proposal. She was also a keen collector and […]
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