Happy Mother's Day 2013

The opening of my show at Gould Galleries last

Saturday was fabulous, with close to 100

people turning up to help us celebrate.  All that

hard work mounting and having the pieces framed

has been worth it....none of my birds or insects

will be coming home with me after the show - which is

both wonderful and sad at the same time, but they

have found new homes and have begun a new journey.

And this is where my journey as an artist began,

on the knee of my beautiful and creative mother,

who taught me to sew and knit my own clothes

and, along with my Dad taught me to value working

with my hands to create something new

and, because none of my birds are coming home to live

with us, I just have to make one more, don't I... and so,

I am attempting to reinterpret another First Fleet artist's

King parrot - this time it's a male specimen painted by 

John Hunter (left), who was copying the other wonderful

First Fleet artist, George Raper (right), both c1780s.