Dragonfly practice video

Dragonfly practice video

Pretty much anyone who’s been to a Shiny Happy Paint Along knows I love my dragonflies. They add a little “somethin’ somethin'” to a flower painting and fill in simple backgrounds quite nicely. They add movement and detail and sometimes a bit...
Way out west with art

Way out west with art

Downlands College sent me and my colleague, photographer Catherine Mims, out to Charleville, Quilpie, Cunnamulla and Wyandra in late March, to run a series of collaborative group paintings with each community.   Every session started off in a similar way, but the...
A new mural

A new mural

A couple of weekends ago I got to paint a mural (at Kate’s Place childcare centre, Middle Ridge) and documented the process – after 10 hours of painting I swear these old bones were creaking, but oh, what a wonderful way to spend the...