Hi Beautiful people! Please celebrate with me! I just received a grant to be mentored by Sobrane Simcock, one of the best WA street artists I've seen. Together we will be delivering 3 murals in my town of Carnarvon this year. This opportunity is driven by my aspirations to move into street art as I see how it draws people in and lifts people up.  This is the power of art

What Could I have possibly learned from 3 years of Swanning Around the Country? With a little help from Leunig It’s true, much of my time over the last three years has been spent riding around with my feet on the dash, surfing on a weekday, visiting tourist attractions and having idle chit chat with all the wonderful, random people we have met along the way.  Life has felt pretty free.  A nice hiatus from the general responsibilities in life. So really,

I’ve been learning how to listen. To listen with my ears, my skin, my blood and my breath. Lately, when I wake up in the morning, instead of filling my head with all the demands for the day, I’ve taken a moment to just listen. There’s the traffic out in the street, the neighbours getting ready for work; sometimes there’s a bus or a garbage truck, and there’s the birds. I hadn’t really taken much notice of the birds before,

Two silent weeks in a Buddhist meditation centre, Sri Lanka. My husband and I decided it would be fun to learn and experience the techniques of  Vipassana meditation (also known as silent or insight meditation).  First of all, let me set the scene