Beach Baby

One of Charlie's favourite things it to hang out at the beach with her best friend Ruby. Yesterday my sister and I took advantage of some finer weather  and took Charlie and Ruby to the dog beach. Some of my best photos are of Charlie at the beach. Here's a few snapshots from yesterday's outing.

I love that she always looks so happy when she's there

There's nothing like the sand between your toes and on your nose,

 something to explore,

somewhere to dig,

and a friend to share the fun with

Black and White

Time to share some of my black and white designs which have been an ongoing body of work over the last 15yrs. One of my fascinations is with pattern and my black and white designs were born out of a time when I did not have the physical space to be creative so they were developed in A5 & A6 visual journals. I have several journals full of them and over time I was able to upscale to canvases.   I hope one day to translate some of these designs to fabrics.


These are a few of the ones that made it to canvas in 2005.

  This one is titled "Beach Party" it was one of my entries for the 2005 Margaret River Rotary Art Exhibition

 untitled 1 2005

untitled 2 2005

untitled 3 2005

All of these designs have been drawn freehand and the concentration that each one takes can be very therapeutic.  "Beach Party" takes pride of place in my living room along side my other entry for the same exhibition. I hope to share that with you too some time soon

Charlie

One of my favourite subjects is my puppy Charlie....... nature's little wonder on four legs.

Charlie is 2 years old and a constant source of entertainment. Her favourite things are dinner, her ball, a running hose, cuddles and her best friend Ruby. She loves to ride in the car with her mum and she sleeps on my bed. I've not as yet been blessed with children so she is the centre of my world and what a perfect world it is with her in it.