Updated News and views from the studio....

 "Let the Jungle In" has been selected for
Yering Sculpture Exhibition and Awards, 2013
at Yering Station Winery 27 October - 8 December 2013
http://www.yering.com/winery-art

the work takes its name from Rudyard Kipling's
tale of the jungle's revenge on civilisation.  I have
kept to my first love of reclaimed needlework, but have
moved it from my usual wall relief-work and into the space 
of the studio/gallery.   

The work hangs from the ceiling on fishing line 
and swivel and so it turns hypnotically....
while the 'human heart' motif which was extracted from the front 
of the bamboo birdcage sits silently, watching, 
from the wall behind and beyond 

(this piece includes some exquisite embroideries
from as far afield as Mexico, Budapest and Vietnam)

below - the view from inside 
'looking to the stars'...

and a view of the 'nest'
showing the 'heart' cavity in the front...

me and my jungle..... almost finished this new work,

my first ever large scale 3d piece which I hope to 

enter in the Yering Sculpture Award 2013

(Yering Station is a beautiful winery in the 

Yarra Valley just out of Melbourne)

and this shot shows a snippet of the human heart motif

which has been extracted from the bamboo birdcage

and sits high on the wall.  The cage is suspended from

the ceiling and turns ever so slowly....excited

In other news...

I have opened a shop on Etsy to sell limited edition giclee (pigment) prints

of my Sanctuary birds, insects and flower.  You can find me at:

http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/SanctuaryPrints