Archive for the ‘Happenings’ Category
Book to play. Amelia Ellicott’s Garden hits the stage
Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer delight I felt at seeing my story Amelia Ellicott’s Garden become a play for children and adults alike with La Luna Youth Theatre in Townsville. I felt like Alice in Wonderland but instead of going down a rabbit hole I stepped inside the pages of my picture book and met all my...
Read moreThe reason I write
Fun and games at la Luna theatre with the cast and puppets for Amelia Ellicott’s garden. Next week I will be there for the first performance. Meanwhile I work in the gallery,paint, re-write The Garden Dwellers, paint, and take my grandchildren to the zoo. I have a good life.
Read moreMagic happens
I would never have dreamed that my picture book Amelia Ellicott’s Garden would one day be a play and with gorgeous puppets. I am in Townsville for the Savannah Writers Festival and to meet the wonderful people at La Luna Youth Arts responsible for the play. Maybe I’ll wake up and it will be a dream.
Read moreAmelia Ellicott’s Garden is to be adapted for the stage by La Luna Youth Arts
My picture book Amelia Ellicott’s Garden is going to be adapted for stage by La Luna Youth Arts in Townsville It’s quite exciting seeing this book transform into a play and I am keen to see how the story will translate onto the stage. Jonathon Brown from the La Luna Youth Arts has sent some promo material.
Read moreA spring in my step
I walk around Manning Lake with Mitzi and see how the recent rain has turned it into a paradise for ducks. The water spills over the path and between the paperbark trees and I count four sets of ducklings. I love this place because it reminds me how amazing nature can be. I look at the water and see hundreds...
Read moreAnother kind of language
I am painting for my dual exhibition in October called ‘Another kind of language’. After many years of writing it is so interesting to find myself painting. For me it is another kind of language, the marks go on the canvas and they tell a story. They tell of years walking in the Jarrah forest behind our property in Karagullen...
Read moreThe artist’s way
This week I juggle several balls in the air and try not to drop one. I am painting large canvases in preparation for an exhibition in October. The painting is always deeply satisfying but then I need to paint the edges and give each canvas a coat of varnish, attach wire for hanging, print labels, photograph etc. I am also...
Read moreThoughts on maintaining a creative life
Some days I paint and on others I write, take the dog for a walk or hang out with my grand-daughter Molly. When life speeds up and leaves no time for painting, writing , walking the dog or hanging out with Molly then I need to take a deep breath and re-arrange my day. A good day is when the...
Read moreThe influence of nature
The moral influence of nature upon every individual is that amount of truth which it illustrates to him. Who can estimate this? Who can guess how much firmness the sea-beaten rock has taught the fisherman? how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds, and...
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