Category: Watercolour

Supreme Court Open Day 2025

I came along to this year’s Supreme Court Open Day and did live sketches of the Judges who gave talks and answered questions. It was a big turnout and I spoke to many folks who were curious about the work I do to document parts of criminal trials in Western Australia. There was a small […]

What Artists Wear : Book review

I love books about clothes and how and why we wear what we do. Charlie Porter’s collection of essays, What Artists Wear is a satisfying marriage of art history and fashion writing. It begins with sections on Louise Bourgeois and her friendship with Helmut Lang, Georgia O’Keefe (whose three-piece suit appears on the cover), and the […]

The Monster of Her Age

This month a young adult novel by Australian author Danielle Binks came out, with an image on the cover that I made. Danielle and her editor at Hachette worked with me throughout the process, and the brief had lots of detail about the main characters Ellie and Riya. We had to narrow down an image […]

Margaret River Readers And Writers Festival 2021

I attended this year’s MRRW Festival as a guest of my good friend Cass Lynch, who was interviewing and on a panel as part of the festival’s program. The whole weekend was a literary delight, circulating Wooditchup with authors, publishers and other booksellers as well as readers like me. I sketched Cass and Karen Wyld […]

Blueback process notes

The brief for my part in the Blueback film production was to make the pictures and scan in stages so that the actors could interact with the drawings and even work on them on camera. All images were made in three or four stages from start to finish.