Some dates for the calendar: Workshops & public appearances: Saturday June 3 Workshop at Maryborough Relish Festival Theme: Making paper from edibles The paper-making vats will be filled with by-products from creating delicious treats for the Relish Festival: See what you can make with offcuts, peelings and a few petals! Hands-on papermaking with a tasty twist! Sunday June 25 Studio […]
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What a wonderful night Friday night’s opening was at Gakaters Artspace Maryborough! Lots of friends were there to celebrate three great openings of works with a message! Thanks to all the friends and supporters of the Mary River, especially the Sisters of Mary, and my dear Toastmaster friends Audrey, Helen and Sheryl. Thanks Audrey Plate for your eloquent opening speech! […]
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Two works accepted by CQU’s magazine, Idiom, one poem and one prose piece! Feeling thrilled! Look out for Issue 23.
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Hi everyone, the opening to my show, Mysteries of the Burning Bush, will be held at 6pm on Friday March 3 2017. It is at Gatakers Artspace 311 Kent St Maryborough. It is a triple opening, so you can also see works by two of my friends, Joolie Gibbs and Lynda Black, highly talented and accomplished artists. Hope you can […]
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My work has been delivered to my next exhibition venue, Gatakers Artspace at 311 Kent Street, Maryborough where it will be installed this week. The opening night is this coming Friday, March 3 at 6pm. My friend and fellow toastmaster, Audrey Plate has agreed to do the opening speech. The exhibition, entitled Mysteries of the Burning Bush, deals with the […]
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Artist’s packs of 4 assorted botanical papers (a4 sheets) with feature sheet including gum leaves or other botancials $15 per pack plus postage. Order from this webpage.
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Years ago, after a period of exposure to the culture of Japan, I wrote a story set in ancient Japan. I had visited the climbing kilns at the pottery village of Mashiko in Japan in 1994, on a kind of pilgrimage to the home village of Shoji Hamada, a potter I admired very much in my own pottery days. Later […]
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Here is Arthur from Gayndah Art Gallery wearing my “Bunya Cloak of Office” a garment featuring two wool felt panels. Would you like to learn the technique of making wool felt? After interest has been expressed in the felted works in “The Legendary Bunya Tree” exhibition, I have offered to run a half day workshop at Gayndah Art Gallery on […]
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I am spending these school holidays working on pieces for the exhibition “The Legendary Bunya Tree” opening at Gayndah Art Gallery on Saturday October 29 at 6pm. The exhibition is a joint show with my friend and fellow Bunya enthusiast, Maurice Mickelo from Wondai, a former Bunya Mountains Murri ranger. Maurice will be showing paintings and carved Emu eggs. My […]
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Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee administrator Deb Seal has responded enthusiastically to the suggestion from friend Joolie Gibbs that we create a colouring book of the endangered species of the Mary River. I hope I can use some of my earlier studies of the Mary River Turtle and other iconic species to develop some pages. I have seen some of […]
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