Farewell Canberra

My fiancee Luke has been offered a great job based in Bangkok and I've decided to move Formosa and myself with him. It'll be a great opportunity to evolve Formosa from handmade by (exhausted) lil' ol me to fairtrade & handmade, hopefully by a co-op of women. There is much to learn about South East Asian textile traditions too, so I'm very excited ... watch this space!

A big ups must go to Megalo, Mt Majura, our Currawong sock tree, the Portrait Gallery, the birds in my backyard, Tilleys, Black Mountain, O'Connor Ridge, and the National Art Gallery each of which have been wonderful sources of inspiration and support to me these past 2.5 years. I will miss you all.

Visitors to my Garden ... well my powerlines mostly.

Some weeks ago Luke and I moved into a house a few blocks from Canberra's Mt Majura reserve. I still cannot get over the number and variety of feathered visitors we receive on a daily basis. I keep my camera ready in the kitchen, here are a few of my shots ...

Sulphur Crested Cuckatoo




















Currawong




















Silvereye




















Crested Pigeon




















Crimson Rosella

Deirdre from Third Bird

On Wednesday while printing at Megalo Print Studio I met the very gorgeous Deirdre from Third Bird when she kindly stepped in to help me do some printing. After being awarded the ANU School of Art's Emerging Artist's Support Scheme, Deirdre has been an artist in residence at Megalo for the last 3 months. That's the great thing about Megalo, you are always running into talented and interesting people.

Here we are printing the first layer of my 'Red-backed Wren with Wattle' design:
































Below: Third Bird designs.

kasia-aus Insects

There are so many wonderful photographers on Flickr and Canberra-based Katarina Christenson is one of them. She has a fantastic eye for finding beauty in the micro world, check out her series on Australian insects.