July will be a month for total immersion in the therapeutic and somatic qualities of colour and clay. Join me for another totem workshop or an Open Studio.

June promises to be a month for germinating new ideas and new workshops. Check out Landscape Platters & Plates for setting your winter table with some painterly tableware.

After spending Easter in the studio, many new sculptures have magically come to life..

Sometimes, as an artist, it feels like you are being pulled in a lot of different directions - there are so many different opportunities to explore…

Many thanks to Karin from  the Winmark Gallery and Sculpture Park who hosted my first Hunter Valley workshop for the year.

Not sure where January went but I do know it started with a bevy of workshops and wonderful groups of people coming to the Bakehouse and the Blue Mountains…

I’m a week home from my art residency at Driving Creek Pottery New Zealand, it’s New Year’s Eve and a good time to reflect on the year just passed.

What a great end to the Bakehouse Studio year with a big party and exhibition last Friday and Saturday. Thanks to everyone who came and joined in the Christmas cheer and supported our community of Bakehouse Studio artists

Thanks to Sara, Deb, Sally, Vicki, Cally, Annelise, Tatiana and Eliza for participating in the market and many thanks to Sally for hand making our Bakehouse Studio aprons.

I was overwhelmed by the strength of communities at both of these amazing events, from uber rural to uber urban contexts, both so beautiful in their own very special ways!

It was wonderful to welcome Tatiana Botkine - a young Swiss travelling scholarship recipient from the CEPV school near Geneva who will work with me till the end of October.

Whenever I think I’d like to go somewhere warm, I just can’t bear to leave this fabulous space - full of clay, half-baked projects and wonderful Bakehouse patrons.

I love seeing what people create and seeing how they go on from our workshops to bigger, more ambitious projects afterwards.

I’ve had the very good fortune to have visited Newcastle twice during the month of May. The first time to install my 5 - totem Goddess Garden at Fort Scratchley in the Sculptures at Scratchley Exhibition, and the second time to pack it up and deliver the work to its new owners in Merewether…

One of my favourite places that never ceases to fire my imagination is Clay Gulgong - a unique clay festival set in the historical gold mining town of Gulgong.

As the weather cools down a bit, the Bakehouse Studio has been hotting up with lots of new work-in-progress for exhibitions in May and beyond.

Research work-in-progress on wood fungi for Eco Echo exhibition opening in March

A fabulous group of creatives attended the first Totems Workshop of 2024.