Artist, Educator & Writer

We are nearly done for 2021. Yay. I don't think I'm alone in thinking that 2021 was a pretty crappy year. It started, much like any other...

Like most of you, the last couple of years has knocked me for six a bit. Things have changed in our world and will never be the same...

In the week that incorporates RUOK day and suicide prevention day, how are you doing? Yesterday, I filled in a Lifeline survey which was...

In a time when people's mental health is suffering, people are feeling negative, lost and isolated, it is great to see some people...

Green: Green is a colour of nature, and is the colour that humans can see more variations of than any other. Because it is associated...

Colour Psychology Colour psychology is an important consideration in art and design, both for you and your audience. The psychology of...

Colour Context and Colour Combinations Although certain colours have specific qualities, these may change according to their context. In...

This time we are looking at warm and cool colours. These are terms that are often used by interior designers to describe the 'feel' of...

For the next few weeks, I am going to cover a bit of colour theory and ways of using colour in your art and environments. Colour theory...

The basis of my doctoral project is that art (in my case, visual art) enables the development of creative and critical thought, which...

So, I don't know anyone who is sad that we have now booted 2020 out the back door and down the back stairs. It has, for most people, been...

I have always drawn, painted and made things. It is my way of interacting with and dealing with what the world throws at me. It is how I...

One of the world's best thinkers and advocate for arts education, Sir Ken Robinson passed away yesterday after a short battle with...

One of the reasons that art is put forward as a good thing is that it enhances the ability to think creatively. Often, though, art and...

It seems like there are two kinds of posts that mostly come up on my Facebook feed: the depressing ones about the tragi-comedic antics of...

I am reminded of a Friends episode...the one where Monica discovers that contrary to what she thought, she was actually really really bad...

How sad is the world at the moment? As if Covid 19 wasn't enough, now there are riots and violence happening around the United States....

The whole debate about whether schools should remain open during Covid-19 has highlighted some of the issues in education that...

So, as the Corvid-19 crisis unfolds, the government has promised to help people who have no leave allowance to cater for the potential 14...

Okay, so I am cranky now. This afternoon I went to do the usual fortnightly grocery shop, and the doomsday preppers had gone nuts and...