Two of my pots with daphne

These are two of my favourite pots - made many years ago now. At least I kept a few!

My tiles as featured in Coles recipe cards

Four groups of my tiles feature in the current range of Coles recipe cards! They will appear one per week. 

Just arrived - Contemporary hand made glass jewellery by Marina and Susanna Sent

"Marina and Susanna Sent elaborate a family language in glass making, finding their own original expression in the traditional field of glass beads and jewels. The two sisters choose an exemplification of form strictly related to contemporary design in order to develop creative ideas in a synergic dialogue; each of them contribute to the definition of the project and to the production process with their individual sensibility and experience.

The poetic cascades of blown glass spheres become elegant necklaces, or glass fabrics bind together in warp and weft of inventive biomorphic pearls, and can transform in lamps refracting the light in fantastic prisms, or clear dresses created with playful irony, ambiguously impossible to wear, and therefore all the more fascinating and desirable.

The accurate investigation of the potentialities of technique and form in glass making leads Marina and Susanna Sent to attain elegant visual and sensorial combination with different materials, like wood and paper, in their search for new frontiers to express the beauty of form and the sensuality of the object." 

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Tiles en masse

This is a selection of colour ways and patterns currently on display at the gallery. You may also select any colour way of your choice from my colour palette. Each colour is numbered, so may be replicated any time.

Small round tiles

These small round tiles - 88mm diameter make attractive coasters.

Tables with tiles

Wrought iron tables with tiles, available in any colour way of your choice.

Lavender with bee

Bushland surrounding the gallery

Our amazing Californian Poppy - the last bloom for this season

Another image of Sascha - our friendly dog

Sascha - 'our friendly dog' with gallery visitors today

Another pic of Sascha with visitors to the gallery.

My work space from a visitor's perspective

These images were taken by a visitor to the gallery yesterday. Fascinating to see quite a different perspective of my work table.

Sascha - our 'friendly dog' with a young gallery visitor

Despite having 'friendly dog' signs around the car park, a few visitors to the gallery drive away without getting out of their cars. Despite my best efforts to stop her barking, Sascha does come racing down the drive barking loudly to greet each visitor, which is clearly disconcerting to some.

So, I'm going to post a few pics over the next few weeks showing how all she wants is to say "hello" and show the way in.

Bug Art

These double page spreads are from Robert Rosetzky's book 'Bug Art'. First published in 1995, '... it is dedicated to the little bugs who, whilst satisfying their voracious appetites, enhanced the simple beauty of leaves with their unwitting form of artistic expression'.

Ideas for your floor

One of several Afghani kilims currently in stock - predominantly in vibrant reds and oranges.

Hope to see you at the gallery soon

Well the holidays are over, kids are back at school and it's time for me to get back to painting tiles.
The summer has been kind so far, hopefully will remain so. Living in the midst of wondrous bushland is great for most of the year, but worrying during a hot summer.
Hope to see you at the gallery soon - so many beautifully hand-crafted items in stock as always!

Reds

Around the corner

Hand painted wooden Buddhas, face and turtle boxes as well as silk paintings, hand bound journals and jewellery boxes.

Unique?

Red and white

Mosaic tiles 57 X 57 mm

A few last minute gift ideas

Wall hangings by Sharron Shalekoff

Here's what Sharron says about her work: 
"The colour produced by my hand-­dyeing is the central inspiration behind my current work, along with a passion for the natural world and its preservation. The combination of fabric, colour and stitch together with a subject close to my heart has proved irresistible."