The print swap

I can’t say I’ve never done a print swap before, but this was a first for me – a print swap where 15 artists did one print in an edition of 15 so we all got 15 different prints. I’d been a bit wary of print swaps, but as this involved the Maleny Printmakers, a…

Coping with Covid isolation

What a strange world we now live in. When I wrote my last post Covid-19 was something new. It is now some months later so I am looking back on how it has affected my arts practice – and life in general. At first, being oldies, we very much stayed at home. With a ‘life…

Stitching the time away

I’m not the only one – there are plenty of us (mainly women) who are whiling away some time in this period of isolation from COVID-19 and doing some art stitching under the guidance of http://www.TextileArtist.org.com. The site is run by Sue Stone and her two sons, Sam and Joe, but they have rounded up…

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton. Normally I would remove the WordPress default post, but seeing about 20 years of my life had revolved around boats and the sea, and that I had circumnavigated the globe in our 40 foot cutter, Burramys, with my…