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A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.

Warning: Gorilla on stage!

Tonight was the first night of  All-Star Gorilla, at the Fringe Bar, 7pm Sundays 5, 12 and 19 of May, … More

gorilla, gorilla mask, improv, improvisation

Beardie

Latest mask – one which probably should be posed with a bottle in a brown paper bag.

beard, instamorph, man, mask

Butterflies start to flutter by

My two-shrub settlement’s worth of Monarch caterpillars have started to emerge as wonderfully gaudy Monarch Butterflies. These late-season Monarchs will … More

butterflies, butterfly, monarch, scales, wing

Thrills & Swoon

Designing posters and flyers and sandwich boards for Thrills & Swoon was a fun assignment.  Billed as ‘Improvised Romance’, this May … More

improv, improvised, romance, swoon, thrills

Inky fingers = happy afternoon

Life drawing, 15 minutes, black and watered ink applied with a brush on watercolour paper, A3

brush, ink, life drawing, woman

In the Gardens

A local photography group organised an afternoon meetup in the Botanical Gardens with a model, so we could practice portraiture … More

botanic gardens, gardens

Miss Amanda Fish

I love the aesthetics of old photographs, the careful poses, the natural light, even the soft decay of an image. … More

photography, tin type, tintype, Victorian

Look Ma, no Photoshop!

This weekend I was a part of Chalkle‘s Space Camp; a night and a day devoted to all things space … More

light painting, night photography, space camp

Playing with lasers

Spent some time last night working out camera settings and such for an upcoming night photography workshop, using a couple … More

laser, light painting, photos

Happy monarchs-to-be

I’m enjoying the hungry little caterpillar scenario being played out on the swan plants (milkweed) in a pot at the … More

butterfly, caterpillar, Danaus plexippus, monarch

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  • Medieval playtime January 23, 2026
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  • October? Draw every day? Uh, sure, maybe! October 9, 2023
  • Come Hawk* June 17, 2023

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