Renewal
winter forest bathing in a subtropical rainforest
I sit writing this under one of my favourite trees in palm grove section of Tamborine National Park. .Nearby a creek flows, the occasional birdsong can be heard whipping through distant tree tops. Underfoot Lillypilly fruit and palm fronds brown, returning to the earth.
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seeing the forest for the trees
There have been times in my life when trees have saved me. A grandiose statement but in many ways true…..
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something bigger
Visual artist Sandrine Pelissier and art therapist Sophie Babeanu are calling on artists and doodlers from around the world for The Big Picture- photo Mike Wakefield
“The distinction between art and entertainment is that entertainment happens within what we already know. Whatever our response is – laughing, getting excited – underneath it all, entertainment says that the world is the way you think it is. Art, on the other hand, happens outside what we already know, so that inherent in the artistic experience is this amazing human capacity to expand our sense of the way the world is or might be. ”- Eric Booth
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studios
creative sanctuaries
That’s me in my first studio back in the early 90s. It was a triple lock up shed with a concrete floors and tin walls. To me and fellow artist Kate French it was heaven.
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creative flow
trying to find it
Its 3 am in the morning and thoughts of how to manage my working life and my creative life are jousting for position in a busy crowded brain. ( I say jousting not jostling deliberately). I consider myself fortunate. I have a working life that is in arts administration. I work with artists every day . I also work with structures that are far from creative constrained by budgets, rules and procedures.
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