Today's inspiration...

 I've been visiting my Mother who has been very ill in

hospital in regional Victoria and have returned home

needing something to lift my spirits and so, have turned

to things that inspire me, including (above) recent cuttings

on my studio table, along with a new acquisition, Maria

Sibylla Merian's "New Book of Flowers" first published in

1680 and reprinted as this tiny book in 2003,

Prestel Verlag, Munich, Berlin, London, NY, 

A detail of my son Rory's Year 11 drawing (I think it's a self-portrait

but he may not agree). Yet to be inked in and watercoloured...

Colin's last job in the city before his contract ended -

he project managed this 'tower' called Zen, just

near the Victoria Market in Thierry Street 

Nautalis Shells - Glass art designed by 4-5 year old children

under the guidance of Suzana Zaper, at the University of Melbourne's

Early Learning Centre(ELC) where I work,

and made by Philip Stokes,a wonderful and very generous

 glass artist/ownerof Philip Stokes Studio Glass in Richmond
http://philip-stokes-studio-glass.myshopify.com/

A beautiful collage, ("A Bird fixing it's Feathers")
 by a student from Templestowe Primary School,
made during "The Sanctuary Project",
co-ordinated by Christine Healey,
Education Programs at
Heide Museum of Modern Art 
www.heide.com.au