This Wagga quilt, 168cm x 126cm, is a response to the continuing destruction of our native flora. The Australian ‘Wagga’ is, as is this quilt, made from sample blocks and left-overs from manufactured garments, in this artwork, using recycled wool material. The ‘make do and mend’ philosophy underpins all my art work. The layers are ‘tied’ …
Winter Garden 2010 136cm x 72cm. I look at my garden and see the different colours and textures of the earth, compost and fallen leaves strewn everywhere with the wind. Occaionally, there is a flash of colour from winter flowerings. The pods of the Illawarra Flame Tree hang dejectedly from the branches. Its leaves fall all …
National Wool Exhibition, 2010, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia. Read More »
This quilt was influenced by the rock opals mined in Cooper Pedy, South Australia. It is one of a series of three art works.
In the Bobbin Head National Park, north of Sydney, NSW Australia, there is this very old Sydney Red Gum growing right on the edge of a sandstone cliff. It sheds its bark every year and all these wonderful shapes and colours appear. Down below the Hawkesbury River flows.