I will be at the Finders Keepers Markets tonight and tomorrow at CarriageWorks in Sydney! See the above flyer for details or visit the Finders Keepers website for more info.
I have lots of lovely new things with me, including Christmas Decorations, hand screenprinted wrapping paper and Tea Towels, Cards, Art Prints and more!

Hope to see you there!

At the beginning of the year I worked on a series of educational apps for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) and I am pleased to say that the first one has finally been launched! Yay! Old MacDonald is the first in a series of six apps for the iphone and ipad and it is aimed at helping children – including those who are deaf or hearing impaired – to develop their listening and language skills. Having never worked on an app before I was super excited when RIDBC approached me to illustrate them. It was such a fun project as I had not done a lot of animation before either so it was great to work in a different format. Aimed at little ones between 2 and 5, the app includes games like help Old MacDonald on the farm, create your own animal sounds and even has a karaoke section! Below are some screen shots from the app and you can see more of the illustrations in my portfolio.
Click here to download Old MacDonald for iphone and ipad.

Well it’s been a busy few weeks and there’s lots happening so I’ll need to update you all again later this week!
I can tell you however that I’ve been featured in Lifestyle Asia’s August issue.

I’m also really excited to announce that I will be teaming-up with the wonderful Perth poet Nandi Chinna as part of the Letholigica Press Art/Text/Clearinghouse collaboration project. The project aims to showcase new printed books highlighting the variety of ways artists and writers work together. Nandi’s poetry is so inspiring, I can’t wait to start working on the illustrations. I will post more info as the project develops but in the mean time check out the lethologica Press website to see our work and some of the other collaborators.

Here is one of my favorite poems by Nandi that we may include in our book:

I’ve been working on a bunch of commissions which I can’t share yet, so in the mean time here are a few watercolour sketches I have been playing around with.

Some recent spot illustrations for the June issue of the ‘Child’ magazines.

Check out the Christmas issue of Real living magazine, it features my Lion Face and Partridge prints! Big thanks to stylist Briar Stanley, who also has a lovely blog. Both prints are available in my etsy shoppe.

Last month I was thrilled to be involved in the exhibition Spare Parts at the Brisbane Powerhouse. Curated by the amazing and inspiring Priscilla Sutton, each artist was given a pre-loved prosthetic limb to use as their canvas. Above is my finished artwork on a beautiful old peg leg. I created it by hand cutting everything out of paper and applying it to the prosthetic. Good idea at the time but super time consuming! It was such a great exhibition as not only did it showcase such a diverse range of artwork by lots of talented artists (Mel Stringer, Beastman) but it was also a great way to create a positive and open conversation about prosthetics. Brisbane band The Good Ship bought my piece to use as a stage prop! To see more info on the exhibition check out the blog.