Year: 2025

Just for a few days different members of papermakers will be celebrating paper in different ways. There will be demonstrations and works in progress as well as completed art works. It’s held at the Richard Randall Art Studio at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens from the 27th of May to the 1st of June between 10…

After a week of all things Greek, with a special emphasis on Olives, Oil and Trees this week has been quieter and more contemplative, a month when lives were lost, others born. This rose caught the morning sun as I read a message from my friend Gail Sadd. I had reached out to her after…

The first show I went to was in Switzerland with my dear friend Catherine Nelson Pollard. We browsed, chose pieces and placed our art in our shopping trolley and took it to the till. It still graces the walls of my house and I love it. The Affordable Art show started last year in Brisbane…

Aka the Oomari Falls -leaving the best to last ? The river in itself is a stunning waterway of Sandstone cliffs with streaks of the cyanobacteria which form the black lines on the stones. Rocks perched on top of one another, some precariously balanced. It may look very different in a few years if there…

As we set off to explore another island Cara stopped to show us the Stinky Cheese Tree aka Noni or Morinda Citrifolia. A bushy green tree with fruits that look a little like custard apples – but are far from that. She picked a ripe fruit and passed it around and those who were game…

We were picked up in a small four seater helicopter with no doors for good views ! We rose above the small island we were on and onto the mainland over huge expanses of rocky crags, river beds and creeks, eucalypt forests and grasslands going inland on the Mitchell River. The area is green and…

A cruise up the Yirinni River (Hunter River) this morning to see the mangroves – the apple mangrove which has a big trunk and the grey mangrove which is more like the ones we are used to, with their aerial roots. A tranquil cruise in the morning light with great reflections in the water. Bird…

Today we took the explorers to the site of the Historic Mermaid Boab Tree. This is where Phillip Parker King brought his boat the Mermaid off the sea to repair its leaks – without much success. Parker King was an intrepid explorer and circumnavigator of Australia all those years ago. While there he found the…

Today a visit to the Iron Islands, Koolan and Cockatoo Islands. Taking one look at the rocks here and you know they are full of haematite. Huge deposits and the mine in Koolan has been operating from 1951. It has exported 70 million tons of iron ore when BHP owned it and it continues to…