The Nature of my Art

The Nature of my Art is combination of photographs and art of the author, interspersed with her reflections on the importance of mangroves in Western Gippsland (Victoria, Australia). She first noticed them on Sth Gippsland Highway and was intrigued enough by their habit that she soon also found a few still growing near Foster.Lessons and insights for life and her connections with the Universe attracted her enough over two years that she listened to her innermost feelings and unbidden thoughts and continued painting with pastels. Once a pattern of growing65&awareness had arisen, a pile of work had grown, and written records mounted up to an unavoidable invitation, " exhibit us. Ask advice from another artist who has exhibited. Find out what it might involve. Tell anyone who will listen about the roles of the lungs and kidneys of these plants that live in tidal saltwater."The feel of exhibiting through high and low emotion was almost paralysing. When she pursued showing pastel works at a mangrove and saltmarsh network conference, she discovered she was part of enthusiastic international company championing mangroves!