Category: my journal

Talent galore

[left] Valli, Jenny, Suzie, Sarah, Host Marie, Ursula and Lynley What a talent pool of artists this festival state of ours has spawned. When naïve artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison held a girlie lunch for a group of fellow female artists, they were invited to bring samples of their works which revealed amazing diversity in medium and [...]

Friday January 13th, 2012 in celebs & culture, my journal | No Comments »

Are We Any Different? by Cheryl Bridgart

Popular textile artist Cheryl Bridgart is delighted at the success of her present exhibition, Are We Any Different?  at the Adelaide Zoo’s exhibition space. As always, Cheryl presents her artworks with great style and the Zoo is the idea space for her mix of paintings and embroidery which depict the relationship between animals and humans [...]

Thursday January 12th, 2012 in celebs & culture, my journal | 1 Comment »

On Interior Style:

  A new home is like a blank canvas waiting for the first brush of the artist’s stroke – it’s a unique opportunity to express one’s personal interior style. I have never been minimalist – a nice way of saying I have always lived with clutter and Olivier has been the same, so creating a [...]

Monday January 9th, 2012 in absolutely french, my journal | No Comments »

Home Grown Glory

Anyone who has visited French artist Monet’s garden in Giverny will know its beauty and why the great master considered his garden his greatest creative art and painted it so much. Our new garden is also a living work of art and is beginning to flower to create a soft delicate space. The gerberas, lilium, [...]

Tuesday January 3rd, 2012 in my journal | No Comments »

November Heralds Dramatic News

Three months absent from my website signifies some dramatic events in our lives.  That short space of time, though, has ensured that things for husband Olivier and myself are going to be vastly different from how we imagined our retirement life together would be. There’s a good reason for the adage that moving is as [...]

Sunday January 1st, 2012 in my journal | No Comments »

On Interior Style

On Style: A new home is like a blank canvas waiting for the first brush of the artist’s stroke – it’s a unique opportunity to express one’s personal interior style. I have never been minimalist – a nice way of saying I have always lived with clutter and Olivier has been the same, so creating [...]

Sunday January 1st, 2012 in my journal | No Comments »