This is a picture of sold sketches and portraits exhibited from my bedsit. This was my last visual arts exhibition.

I met the Darlinghurst bohemian artists during frequent visits to the Piccolo Bar cafe.

They influenced me to such an extent I moved away from visual arts and into theatre and performance.

I was a visual arts teacher at the Northern NSW Tablelands close to where I had bought land.

This is a model of the design I created for our mudbrick  house.

A huge fire in 2010 nearly destroyed my house.

I sold to national parks who never looked after the house yet it still survived the next fire in 2018-9

It still stands in part because of the excellent craftsmanship of Stuart Myhall.

I became immersed in a world of gay and punk theatre culture from 1970-90.

I produced Land of the Warthogs in 1992 which I dedicated to the influence of all the original bohemian artists from Kings Cross.

I drew the storyboard for Land of the Warthogs before we could rehearse the performance for the making of the film as it was a requirement for making a film with the large number of participants.

During that time there were many workshops in theatre mask making and film that I attended and these were some of the costume ideas I had.

“Bohemian Kings Cross Swan Song” is a documentary about these artists some of whom have since died.

I finally found the right co-editor who understands that bohemian period of theatre and art in Kings Cross. The film was launched in 2023. See the trailer in the blog.

Paintings of my parents commissioned by my father.

I lived most of this time in the bush and created this portrait.

During this time I also created the mandala for the poem that featured as the first illustration in the second edition of my poetry book.

It was inspired by a book called “Women who run with the Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes