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Workshop - 2 sketchbooks 2 forms 2 styles

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  W O R K S H O P   1  Sunday 14 September 10-4pm small groups preferred  held in the artist's studio, Turners Beach Tasmania  In the workshop you create two books - an A4 size accordion sketchbook with pockets & hard covers - bonus paper weaving embellishment PLUS  a scrap landscape sketchbook with lightweight hard covers BOOKBOARD ACCORDION FOLD SKETCHBOOK   This A4 sketchbook containing 62 pages is created using bookboard for the pages in accordion/concertina format that creates valleys to take 6 signatures and    we create 3 pockets as part of the structure, PLUS, from the scrap cuttings you create a paper weaving element on the cover.       video of the book here      second book - SCRAP LANDSCAPE SKETCHBOOK This highly practical size sketchbook is created from the cut off's from creating book one (above).    This book contains 22 pages in a long landscape format and is covered using ...

updating website (blogger)

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i have said this before.  In trying to simplify it gets a little complicated  In creating a 'website' I have, in 2025, transitioned back to blogger as i am finding various website providers far too expensive and promises made remain unfulfilled as well as charging extra for basic pre-requisites.  Blackfisharts Art Gallery hosts any works for sale, finished works and exhibitions I have been in.  All in the process of being created and/or updated.   Studio work about My Art & Others is just as the title says. Regent Park Tasmania is about lifestyle - of an artist and those she lives with, its about discovering #countryliving since moving to this place 3 years ago and exploration of a sense of place and our place within it. I work across media, including painting (oils, watermedia, pastel), book making, collage, assemblage, slow stitching, photography and writing. Emerald13 is my pseudo for poetry - having written short form for many many years with ov...

A print from the Cradle Mountain (blue trees) Project Residency

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This print came out of a residency and ultimately an exhibition at Cradle Mountain. Titled:  MAPPING TIME (the road to Cradle) click the image for details .  I was fortunate enough to be accepted for 2 residencies at  Cradle Mountain  which was such a wonderful experience.  Each residency was 4 and 6 weeks duration during 2017 and 2019 culminating in an exhibition in 2020 at the Cradle Mountain Hotel Gallery.  Blog articles on the residencies and solo exhibition, culminating from the gum trees on the road to Cradle. This is a limited edition of 13 prints -  details &  purchase here

The nature of Gum Trees

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On many drives up to, and during 2 residencies at Cradle Mountain   it was the gum tree that became my focus and ultimately a solo exhibition.... I love these shapes and noticed the impermanence of some of the trees as i travelled the road back and forth from Devonport, over an 18 month period. see some of the exhibition artworks here. explore limited edition prints here

prepping ideas for upcoming workshop

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 its been a winter of making books books books - a few are works in progress and some are working through workshop ideas .... workshop coming up soon