Author! Author! Stile Counsel with Carol Jenkins and Tani Ruckle

Yes, it's true, I actually exist.  Come along and be very amused. You can click through to book  here.

A Crooked Stile is OUT! Book Now

Yes, it is a new book! You can book for the launch event  at Mosman Library or get it directly from Puncher&Wattmann .

Scant Regard - From the Archives

Sweet peas and freesias, a vintage pillow sham, all things past their ostensible use by date but collectively and more closely examined show affinities in the curve of stem, embroidered and botanic, pleasing contrast between the fine grain of the cotton and the intensified violet of the sweet peas' crepe.

Blue Heroic and the Chariot or Let Me Get Off this thing

Madrid is full of heroic voluminous architecture and statues, this classical ensemble of three horses, a chariot and, not to be outdone by all that blue sky, a charioteer, who is surely not dressed for work even by Roman standards.  The more you looked, head craning upwards, the more you wonder, surely this un-reined position on top of the chariot is untenable? My knowledge of chariots, being limited to watching Ben Hur and Gladiator,and neither recently, suggests that even a bronze man should be inside the carriage? But maybe this is a classical allusion, a sly reference for this man’s disdain of marriage, as he won’t fit in the horse and carriage ensemble?

And that blurry 70’s snap shot effect?  Dirty lens.

What to Feed Green Unicorns

If green unicorns are found, they may be offered physalis, the intrigue of their paper cases and the piquancy of the berries, will suffice until horned corn can be had.

Crispr and the Mini Crabs

There is a sight more than a sleight of hand happening to turn tiny doll into a masked series of herself. Here distortion rules, the protagonist is caught mid pinch and drag, and that mini crab, opalescent decapod crustacean, is just that the thing for cut and splice.

This is, of course, from a series of collages.

Tearing Along - the Paper Chase

A corner torn off from a give away sheet of paper art from the excellent Minimalism: Space Time Object exhibition at the National  Gallery, suggested more could be done.  Tearing along without dotted lines, a horse of sorts, with a bovine aspect, made a run for it.

Happy Valentine's Day 2019 -Six Variations on Hearts of Darkness

 For twelve years, I've made Valentines to send out on the eponymous  Day. There have been made of snow, bread pudding, sticks, plastic toys, and really anything that felt inspiring.

This year I upcycled the black thermoset plastic splint that had cradled the dinner fork fracture of my write wrist. The two small heart boxes are lined with the x-ray, and what is a work without the means to make it, so in this set the heart-shaped biscuit cutter, employed as a mould, also gets a leading role.

The tiny cutlery? Set the Table Theory.

Remembrance of monastic things past

Here in a monastery in Danuphyu, an obscure river town on the Irrawaddy, the subsidence into gentle decay largely goes unremarked, the local villagers come to pay their respects to the senior monk, elbow, toe, little finger, knee and forehead touching the polished teak floor of the reception room, a gloriously proportioned room bare of most things except the elegant spiral of a mahogany staircase, the teak floor smooth under bare feet, and on the shelf, someone, in an act of causal intimacy, has left their blue toothbrush.

Fibonacci’s Begonias and The Comma Orchid

 Singapore’s Cloud Forest greenhouse in Gardens by the Bay has the drama and complexity of the Magic Flute, there are plants there in such luxuriant abundance, one million  they suggest and 19,000 species , so that snap happy doesn’t not begin to say.  Foregoing the exuberant riot of colour the spiral begonia here and the running white double comma of the orchid claim have the elegance of Fibonacci on their side.