For Week 14 of my self-guided weekly art project, and coinciding with the festive season, I decided to highlight one of the many norfolk pines (aka living Christmas trees) that form part of the view from my studio: Norfolk pines have a distinctive form with widely spaced branches and a symmetrical, triangular outline. A few […]
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Changing Sentinels
For the Twelve by Twelve BrownSageBlue Colourplay challenge, I made Copacabana Sentinels, a piece depicting the two tall Norfolk pines next to the Copacabana Surf Life Saving Club that are a local landmark: Fast forward four years (is it really that long?!), and the view from my studio is changing. One of the trees was struck […]
Part of the community
Usually I have to travel to see a quilt show but today the quilt show came to Copacabana. The weather was miserable but the new surf life saving club makes for a light, airy venue for a quilt show. I had a splendid position next to the window looking out over the wild surf in […]
Copacabana Celebrations
After more than 12 months of observing demoliton, earthworks and construction, Copacabana celebrated the opening of our new surf life saving club building this weekend. It is a splendid community facility and includes some interesting public art work. The Laundry King and I also make it onto a brick or two.
On the beach
Today is Australia Day, the 220th anniversary of the landing of Captain Arthur Phillip, commander of the First Fleet of eleven convict ships from Great Britain and the first governor of New South Wales, at Sydney Cove. Like many Australians, I hit the beach for a while: Eagle-eyed readers may remark that the designers of […]
Grand Designs
Being creatures of habit, Thursday evenings will usually find us watching Grand Designs, a Channel 4 (UK) production that screens our “our ABC” [national public broadcaster]. Each GD program tracks an unusual home building project and you can vicariously enjoy the trials and tribulations of a “build”. Typically the program is served with a small […]