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Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Mixed media Artist, SoulCollage® Facilitator
Location Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Introduction Retired paediatric nurse & environmental educator. Currently a SoulCollageĀ® facilitator & mixed media artist, and enjoying having the time to immerse myself in all the arts, especially collage, poetry and music.
Interests Family, friends, grandmothering, art, assemblage, collage, SoulCollage®, altered art, mixed media, ethnic art, folk art, outsider art, street art, digital art, art therapy, Hundertwasser, Joseph Cornell, Katarina Dak, Dale Copeland, Klimt, Wolf Vostell, Anselm Keifer, Europe, Berlin, Prague, Salzburg, Italy, New Mexico, Santa Fe, philosophical conversations, people who are true to themselves and follow their hearts, humour, children, music, opera, sacred choral music, singing in choirs, poetry, Sufi poets, & other, spiritual poets, especially, Rumi, Hafiz, Mary Oliver, the sacred, the mystical, books, esp, art books, poetry books, children's books, bookshops, esp. independent ones with comfy couches and coffee, Spirituality, synchronicity, Nature, trees, rainforest, the beach, native wildlife, scrub turkeys fossicking in my garden, possums scampering over my tin roof at night, travel, coffee, antique shops, markets, thrift shops, junkyards, rusty stuff, religious icons, shrines, cricket, lamingtons, Vegemite, pavlova, my own roast lamb dinners, arthouse films, dance, contemporary dance, mythology, collecting inspiring quotes, the sound of rain on my tin roof....
Favorite Music Classical, Choral, Opera, World, Folk, Soul, Blues, just about anything, really, except hillbilly heavy metal or gangsta rap.
Favorite Books Belonging (Toko-Pa Turner), Anam Cara, (John O'Donohue), Anatomy of the Spirit, (Carolyn Myss), 10 Poems to Open Your Heart, and others in the series by, Roger Housden, art books, books which are visually beautiful, poetry books, esp. anything by, Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Mary Oliver, other spiritual poets, The God of Small Things, (Arundhati Roy), I Heard God Laughing, Women in Praise of the Sacred, The Essential Rumi, Rilke, Kabir, Love Poems from God, Art Objects, (Jeanette Winterson), The Artist's Way, (Julia Cameron), My Brother Jack, (George Johnston), The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation, (Kabir Helminski), Women Called to the Path of Rumi, Women of Sufism, Women of Wisdom, Women Who Run with the Wolves.......