12th National CBCA Conference Sydney

First stop, Walker Books Australia in Newtown to talk about illustrations for ‘Bird to Bird’, an upcoming picture book. Loving the work of Wayne Harris.Welcome Reception at Customs House, we walked all over Sydney, then climbed stairs to watch Friday night...

Life is a mosaic, and then you dance

 Can you spot the bird? I spent the weekend (well the days of) here at the home of Deborah Halpern, fabulous sculptor and ceramicist, and leader of our two day workshop on mosaics. I was familiar with some of her work before I knew her name. This is her (and our)...

Culturally speaking …

… it’s been a big week. Last night we were in the audience for ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, a show I’d not seen, although it was much talked about at the time. I’m not sure why, but perhaps it was because I was so taken with the film...

Sweet and Sour

My dad is currently on a restricted diet which precludes many of the foods he loves. My contribution to yesterday’s lunch was fruit, preferably some that he could eat. But when I spoke to him to clarify, he’d just stocked up on what he could eat, so there...

Grey Sky Blues aka The Sea Works its Magic

  the beach today is greygrey skygrey seagrey glass and empty empty emptyrain spits at usjust a littlethe seat is wet wet wetin spit spotsbut the sea, the endless seapulls us along the seawalllook closelythe reef is there, just under the grey glassthe sky is there,...

Out and About

We took off today, into the sunshine of a perfect autumn day. I’d had a thought that there might be colour if we went to the right places. And there was. There was so much colour.Glorious, glorious colour.Not sure how to describe this, but for two bob (or even...