About me....

About me...

I am an artist... 

finally I can say that without snorting and feeling like a complete ego maniac

or thinking that people will snigger and say I am deluded  

I am finally, in my glorious middle age, able to declare what I have always been

 a shout it from the hilltop, proud to do a job that I love, give it a capital letter baby

 Artist.

    I used to be an art teacher and have degrees and diplomas coming out of my ears

I even have a Masters degree majoring in Creativity Theory 

and I use none of them

they are just pretty bits of paper on the wall

not that I would give them back

I worked hard for them and I am the sum of my experiences and all that

just not a teacher anymore

I am from Wynnum which is a bay side suburb in Queensland

 and live not far from the house I grew up in 

though we took a rather long road to find ourselves back here

I lived on the Sunshine Coast  for a couple of years 

when I started work as an art teacher after I finished college

and after getting married we travelled extensively through Asia and here at home for 5 years, and lived In Florida for four years before we settled back where we started

never would have picked that it would turn out this way

but it has been lots of fun

  I love to paint and draw what is around me

 I used to go in for all the art school rubbish 

that involved many gut wrenching hours worrying about 

image development and exploration of themes 

but one day I let go of all that and started looking around me to find inspiration, 

and from that moment on my creative life finally made sense 

turns out I am happiest exploring my world 

and not worrying or thinking about it too much

 I am hopeless, and I mean hopeless, at any sort of wilde woman, inner goddess type thing

 I really like that other people can delve inside 

and get in touch with things like that, and I have tried, 

but I suspect that my Inner Goddess and Divine Muse 

spend most nights out on the town together trashing me and picking up boys, 

and spend their days sleeping off hangovers of monumental proportions 

consequently they are better left to their own devices

I happily accept my shallow pool ness 

and while I am sure I have depths that could be plumbed

having too much fun doing just what I am doing to bother

  I love my studio

it is tucked at the back of the house and overlooks the pool

and garden and is simply my favourite place in the house

it is close enough to the action that I don't miss the fun of family life

but I can also hide from the madness

which seems to be the default setting for my beloveds

Talking about beloveds

I love to use Micron pens, 

Watercolours, Golden Acrylics, 

hot pressed watercolour paper or any smooth paper

but my most valued tool, the thing I can't create without is

buckets and buckets of tea

 it runs through my veins, invades my work, 

and helps fix anything that is wrong in my world...

    And last but not least I love the blogger world 

through blogging I have found this magnificent group of people

 who understand, inspire, and support me in the most heart warming ways

 they laugh with me, not at me

okay sometimes they laugh at me!  

but they also share their lives and creativity with me, 

they encourage me and understand what I love to do, 

and they even buy my work which is insanely humbling and exciting

 every single time it happens...