between car accidents and rushing sisters to the ER with kidney stones, it hasn't left much time for making pictures! thank goodness everyone is ok, and i have a back log of bunting madness! this is a new addiction i have discovered, and now am going flag crazy. thinking of setting up a wee online store to off load some - until then, i have been filling my apartment with gay little flags all around!
kent and i went on a sunshiney road trip around regional victoria, and stopped in bush fire ravaged
Marysville. since the catastrophic bush fires in february 2009, the town has been slowly rebuilding. i had never been there before, but what was once an apparently beautiful and quaint tourist strip, is now empty. aside from 2 cafes and a new supermarket, the rest is empty blocks of land and a comforting amount of construction sites. so devastating, yet an element of positivity hangs in the air.
the landscape is truly bizarre, and strangely beautiful. as all the trees are now mere scorched trunks, the regrowth is remarkable, and now the forest looks like some fantastical other-world. all the leaves are growing back like giant wooly coats, as if to protect what's left of the trees. it is so melancholy, but also so wonderful to see the new life emerging from this area. if you're wondering what to do with your day - go and take a drive, and support one of the local towns by going and having some lunch and doing some tourist shopping! (mmm - ham sandwiches!)
hey all! apologies in my extreme lack of posting - i am currently sitting in piles of boxes and crap, as kent and i are moving at the end of the month to go travelling (woohoo!) - what with getting married, christmas, working a LOT and moving, it is (sadly) leaving little time and space for making - aaaargh!!
just had my work featured on the blog tough titties, a blog dedicated to Australian female artists (what could be cooler?). You can check out the feature here.
this one was part of a commission to go with other mutant birds (see prairie dog and pussy wagtail!), after a client fell in love with babbit!
kent and i went on a sunshiney road trip around regional victoria, and stopped in bush fire ravaged Marysville. since the catastrophic bush fires in february 2009, the town has been slowly rebuilding. i had never been there before, but what was once an apparently beautiful and quaint tourist strip, is now empty. aside from 2 cafes and a new supermarket, the rest is empty blocks of land and a comforting amount of construction sites. so devastating, yet an element of positivity hangs in the air.
you would be pissed too, if someone put you in a ruff of such epic proportions. not to mention the little hat.
i can't really take any credit for this - a beautiful man in a beautiful photograph, looking like he is having beautiful thoughts.
aaah and the pencils and paper come out again. i always forget how much i enjoy drawing - and then i do some and it's like 'ooh! this is nice!' so here come some sketchy-good times - i hope that you enjoy, until my next cut and paste creation. xx
my studio is OUT OF CONTROL. I can barely find space to work with all the imploding books. 
it's all been a bit crazy lately, as you can probably tell by my desk... hopefully some more work soon though! until then, xx for now!
