Healing Intentions, trusting my intuition, living beyond cognitive dissonance.

Gradually I began to understand this tapestry of my life as a gift, I realised that much could develop through this meeting place of ideas, patterns and norms. I thought perhaps it is enough to try and articulate it even just through Visual Art/Drawing.

Through seriously returning to Art after so many years of struggling to fulfil this most essential (for me) relationship. I’m gathering all the layers of the decades of my life as inspiration.

Trying to piece together the Jigsaw Puzzle of my experience as I further understand the dynamics that have shaped me over fifty years (I turned fifty recently! 🥳….🧁 ) in order to consider what I might focus upon now.

I’m interested in Art ( Contemporary and Traditional), Sacred Architecture, Mysticism, Religions, Creative/Alternative Education, Textiles, Illustration, Art Therapy, Trauma Healing, Addiction Therapies, Psychology, Women’s Health, Neurodiversity, Herbalism.

top – Samarambi – the dance ( cell), 2000

ink on watercolour paper

bottom – Untitled, 2000

ink, pen, gouache on watercolour paper

‘Memory Maps’

pen, ink, glass paint, collage on watercolour paper.

‘Solid’ exhibition, Launceston, Tasmania 2000

details from ‘Solid’ exhibition

Ink on watercolour paper

Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Launceston, Tasmania, 2000

tree trunks and root systems
(Journal work 2000)

ink, gouache and watercolour on watercolour paper

tree trunks and root systems
(Journal work 2000)

ink, gouache and watercolour on watercolour paper

detail from Unheimlichkeit, ‘to not be at home’ (Heidegger). I was not aware of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism when I made this work.

‘Unheimlich is the fundamental groundlessness of our existence, this profoundly felt sense of not-being-at-home, wherever one would be.’

Journal work, 2000

ink, watercolour and gouache on tissue paper and watercolour paper