Another lovely morning with 2 beautiful models. Our gorgeous Djuana who loves to dress up and Emma about to give birth. I began with pastel, then pens, some gouache and back to pastels, the medium I am most familiar with.

Every fortnight on a Friday it’s my day working at the Iluka Emporium. I love rearranging my space to include new artworks and making it look as lovely as I can. Somehow I have to combine my figure paintings and drawings with  my pique Assiette mosaics, my sailing memoirs and artwork from our voyages and…

I recently spent 9 days in my favourite seaside town of Iluka NSW. Along with my friend Bronwyn who also loves to paint and draw from life we rode bicycles with our art gear to Bluff Beach and the Clarence River where our men were fishing. I used black ink and gouache paint on water…

Since I’ve become a member of this creative co-operative I have had a permanent space to display my pique assiette mosaics, drawings, paintings, my 2 books, prints and cards. It’s currently school holidays and lots of people are coming through to enjoy the artwork and collectibles in the Iluka Emporium. Today I sold ‘Memories’ a…

Facebook comes up with memories each day that make me smile. Our last anchorage on board our yacht Lati before we sold her was in Poros, an island in the Aegean. I was fascinated by the mountain range that looked like a reclining woman when standing on the waterfront. Inspired I made 2 small drawings…

Whimsical and a bit of fun. I had collected a few Cupid collectibles and had been thinking of creating this mirror for a while. The base is a heavy old dressing table mirror and the white cupids on the left I broke from candle sticks. Gold jewellery, broken Westminster plates and pearls all came together…

I have very fond memories of our last anchorage on board Lati in Poros, Greece in 2014. From our cockpit we could see a beautiful old building of red bricks ‘Villa Galini’ which I found out was used by artists and playwrights many years ago. Marc Chagall was one who painted from under its eaves.…

My 7 year old granddaughter is visiting and loves my art studio. When she saw the new space I created for a model she insisted I draw her portrait. She was dressed in a mermaid costume at the time. She seemed to like it. “Now I will draw you Nanny!” Both works are pastel on…

Today on a wet drizzly day I facilitated our first Life Drawing group in Cawongla. An enjoyable session indeed. Our model couldn’t come at the last minute but no matter I posed in my red bra and leggings followed by one of the other women. She found it quite liberating to be at the opposite…

How it was….How it is now…. I first painted ‘Twins’ 10 years ago. Using acrylic and pastel on canvas I began painting from a model. Once the model left I decided to paint another one of her so there were now 2 women side by side. When I showed her the painting the following week…