'If you only knew how entrancing, how strikingly beautiful the images in my head are, the ones I am unable to express.' Enter the mind bending world of M.C. Escher, astronomer, mathematician and woodworker. Mr Escher, as he liked to be called, was a Dutch artist best known for his... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the fifteenth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

I've just come back from six wonderful days in the bush. Sleeping in a tent, spending the whole day outside under the trees and gazing up at the magnificent stars at night. Sharing my adventure with a koala, wallaby, tree creeper, rufus wren and a mob of white wing chuffs... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the fourteenth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the thirteenth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

After being gripped by an eco-dyeing fervour for the last couple of years I found myself taking an unintentional and unplanned break from foraging and dyeing (you may have noticed I've been posting a lot more poems than craft lately). It seemed I had run out of things and reasons... Read more →

On West 46 and Broadway there's newly matyred Christians selling salvation whilst kitty-cornered across the road the devil sells damnation for only the price of your soul And it's kinda weird how there's always a crowd around Beelzebub's limo whilst people avoid the gazes of God's honest foot soldiers Flashback... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the twelfth week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →

On my recent trip to Canberra I managed to squeeze in a visit to the National Gallery of Australia to check out the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition, Love & Desire. I took my mum and my two girls to see these magnificent paintings from the 1800s. When I was in my 20s... Read more →

Here are the words and my poem for the eleventh week of the 2019 Poetry Challenge. Read more →