Wow what a crazy year! It's been such a busy few weeks with Christmas and getting ready for the last market and last exhibition of the year. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported all the local artists and designers at the Aspire Gallery's inaugural Christmas market in Paddington. It was great to be able to share my kids designs as well...

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Twinkle Twinkle Through November if you head to Brisbane's Ashgrove Library you can see a selection of my children's illustrations. (In fact it's been there already for a couple of weeks. It just happens someone pulled out of last months slot.) The Ashgrove Library seemed like a nice spot to show off my kids artwork which I started last year. I began going...

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Cool Cat Flapper Cat Cat's Pyjamas You are purrfect I've been asked a few times about creating some cat illustrations - so here they are. Been keeping me busy for weeks, and there are more to come. Available from creative-monsoon.com ...

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This month you can find more of my work at the Aspire Gallery in Brisbane's Paddington as part of Delicate Emotive. A group exhibition where the emphasis of the work is emotion and delicateness.  'Reflective Rose' (above) 9x11" original digital mixed media on board. 'Daisy Chain' 8x8" original digital mixed media on board 'Crushed blue rose' 8x8" original digital mixed media on board The works...

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Make For Good is coming back.  Last year you might remember I participated in the ‪#‎makeforgood‬ campaign with etsy and Plan International Australia. This year it will be running again and the theme is "Create Brighter Futures" so who better to add to the campaign than my futures so bright koala! Last year more than $30,000 was raised fro Plan International to support...

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Tapu Te Ranga Gallery pic via Facebook Wow this brings back a few memories! My very first home and my old gallery Art Space Island Bay in Wellington, New Zealand is back as a gallery again! So great to see. My old home has had a few different incarnations since I sold it in 2005 - an antique store and fashion boutique. Island Bay...

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'Night - misty lake' digital mixed media print 'Day' digital mixed media print June has been a very busy month settling back in after our trip to NZ. This month I finished off two new pieces created for a Brisbane group exhibition, Foot Square at the Aspire Gallery in Paddington, and won the voters choice award! This months I put together two new...

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Super excited to announce that you can now find creative monsoon on hard to find! All of our 11x14" and 10x8" nursery prints with FREE shipping in Australia. Hard to find has scoured Australia – and the wider world – for unique, exceptional products from independent craftspeople and manufacturers and creative monsoon is so pleased to be part of it. Visit our store...

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This month I'll be taking part in the SNAP16 exhibition at the Aspire Gallery with my latest piece 'synthetic scene' The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the work of photographers often shunned by many in the artworld for not being true artist. Anybody who vists SNAP16, a new Paddington exhibition can see that’s a lie.SNAP16 is a collection of  photographers of...

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Happy valentine's day everyone. kangaroo kisses from creative monsoon  xxx ...

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Happy Australia Day! Thought I should share an update on a little project I started last year, a collection of Aussie birds and animal illustrations for the nursery or a kids bedroom. To start with I do loads of quick sketches looking a photos to help determine what are the key shapes and positionings I want to go with. Add some colour with...

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Going through my old journals and CDs today (kids, CDs are these silver round things we used to store stuff) I found the start of a very cool looking piece I did in 2004, a digital collage using Japanese obi fabric and my own hand drawn chrysanthemums. I decided to revive it and turn it into a little floral kaleidoscope, wash of colour,...

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new work: digital mixed media collage print inspired by my time spent living in New Zealand, some of my favourite things - the tui bird, mountains, lakes and amazing night sky.  over 30 different layers of texture and images have been put together to create this mountain and lake landscape.  the mountain range was made up of recycled security envelope lining, then layers of...

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