Category: Travel, Art & Photography
Cape Schanck
I love Mornington Peninsula, and Cape Schanck, its southernmost tip, is one of my favourite places for scenic walks.
Mountain artwork in progress 09/2025
I now finished the mountains in the foreground, and it’s been a fun and smooth sailing so far. This artwork is one of my more structured pieces, a bit like putting together a jigsaw puzzle with little room for experimentation. It’s a more rigid process perhaps, but I also find it quite soothing. As always, no matter how much leftover fabric I’ve got, I still need to make trips to the fabric stores for more shades!
New artwork
I’m finally starting a new fabric artwork after nearly five years, probably my longest break yet thanks to the lack of inspiration and motivation. Another more positive reason is that ever since the pandemic I feel like less of a homebody on the weekend, and prefer to spend much more time outdoors even in winter months. Still, I look forward to a big new project I can really sink my teeth into.
It’s meant to be a companion piece for the abstract sailboat artwork I did for my Mum a while back, with a similar style and palette of vibrant colours. I’m basing it on this mountain landscape pic I found:
Now that I traced it, the final version is supposed to look something like this, although as always I expect I’ll have to simplify it during the process:
Holiday in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka felt like an unfinished business after I had cancelled my trip a couple of years ago due to the economic crisis. I finally made it in 2025 and had an amazing time.
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show 2024
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show is held every year at the beautiful Carlton Gardens and Royal Exhibition Building. I never used to attend, until three years ago when just about every big event looked good in the aftermath of Covid lockdowns. Since then, it’s become a March favourite and every year, I look forward to the show gardens, floral displays, sculptures, gardening booths and people watching.
Holiday in Morocco
Morocco has always been a must-visit destination for me, and this year I finally got to go on a fast-paced and varied two-week organised trip full of natural and cultural riches.
Perth, the Pinnacles & Rottnest Island
I haven’t been to Western Australia in almost ten years, so I really enjoyed our whirlwind long weekend in and around Perth, visiting old and new places.
Top Ten Tuesday – Places of Worship Around the World I Visited
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is a Non-book Freebie! My list was inspired by the recent classical concert at Melbourne’s St Paul’s Cathedral, and is dedicated to the memorable cathedrals, churches, temples and mosques I visited on my travels. I decided to limit to one place per country, otherwise nearly half of my list would just be Italy.
Though I’m not a believer myself, I’ve always enjoyed religious buildings, for their historical and artistic value as well as their atmosphere of peace and reaching out to something greater beyond. I have fond memories of my grandmother taking me to a Russian Orthodox church when I was little, where I listened to the choir and looked at the beautiful frescoes of angels and saints.
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