My Magic Garden
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Most of my work is created in the medium of textiles, though I have resorted to the odd hand made book and other things. I have been keeping journals since I was 15 but as my textile practice has progressed these have grown to incorporate visual imagery, ideas about working and creating. I will attempt to put some of my thinking in this blog.
I also travel frequently- sometimes to far flung places, and most recently to Syria. I am finding my experiences of Damascus and Palmyra are creeping into my work - Syria is such a rich and wonderful place, the cradle of man and civilisation, of the first known script, of silk routes and trading caravanserai’s, of religions co-existing, of layers and layers of experience. I hope to tell you of some of my experiences.
And after travelling you always come home. Home for me is the little township of Gellibrand deep in the Otway Ranges of Victoria. The view from my workroom window ( I don’t call it a studio because it is the place I work and create) in the summer is a magic backlit view of trees. It is really a bit deceptive because just on the other side of the trees is the dirt road on which we live - but meanwhile I imagine myself journeying into the forest.
