I have decided to put my wildflower cards on sale for Christmas. I have now sold out of the older cards but am putting the set of 6 cards above on sale for $5 a set. For larger images click here. Orders can be made from my website found here.

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One of my designs – Paperbark – was recently used on the cover for a new CD by musicians Christine Draeger, Lamorna Nightingale and Jocelyn Edey-Fazzone. It is called Eat Chocolate and Cry – Australian Flute Music 199-2009 featuring Australian contemporary composers.  As part of the HSC Music course students must study this content and so this CD is designed a a resource as well as for highlighting contemporary composers and musicians.

The CD was launched at the Australian Music Centre in The Rocks Sydney at the end of September – more information about the cd can be found here.

Apart from all of that I do like the concept of listening to beautiful music, eating chocolate and crying!!

Just a quick update on the girls doing ‘The Big Ride’ for The Big Issue. Anne and Jo completed a fundraising ride on May 23rd – you can find their blog about this event here. Here is a photo of the participants wearing their new jersey’s with my Australian Floral Emblems design on them! Very impressive!

On 31st May, Anne – who is also a singer – held a fundraising gig – and here she is in the new jersey! My jerseys should arrive in the post this coming week – can’t wait to see them. Also great to see the amount raised by Jo and Anne to buy new equipment for The Big Issue office in Melbourne has almost reached their goal of $10,000 – great work!

For those with a sense of having seen this before – you have! Unfortunately the link wasn’t working to Jo and Anne’s website/blog about their fund raising efforts and events so I am re-posting the information – here is the working link now! The Big Ride for the Big Issue

They have two events coming up – one a fund raising ride from Melbourne to Yea on the 23rd May – there is additional information on how people may support this event and the fund raising on the bottom of the poster (click posters to enlarge). The second event is a jazz fund raising gig on 31st May in Fitzroy.

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A little while back I was approached by Jo Southwell to use one of my designs on cycling jerseys which would be worn for The Big Ride that she and Anne Hayres are participating in that is a series of fundraising cycling events culminating in a ride from London to Paris in July. They are doing this to raise funds and awareness of The Big Issue magazine whose program supports the homeless and whose motto is “A hand up not a handout”

I gave them permission to use my Australian Floral Emblems design on the left.

The cycling jersey designs have been completed and are now in production! I am very pleased to be able to support this important work.

I think the design of the jerseys is great and have been really impressed with the results. Athough I must admit my cycling – well bike riding really – consists of occasionally meandering around quiet back roads in my small town thinking about life on sunny days!

I think this is a great thing to support and would encourage others to also support The Big Ride and The Big Issue – they do some wonderful work and support of many people who need a helping hand. For more information about the jerseys you can contact me here.

Another blogger - Charlie Ward has been talking about his participation in this event as well.

Jo Southwell has kindly supplied me with some additional information about the ride and what they have achieved so far so I am adding this below.

What is The Big Ride for The Big Issue?

The Big Ride is a fundraising event to raise money for The Big Issue. The Big Issue assists homeless people achieve their goals and reconnect with the community. The Big Issue supports people by giving them a hand up – not a hand out – by supporting them to sell street papers and also supports homeless soccer and other ventures. We have chosen to join the adventure of cycling from London to Paris in July 2009 in this organised fundraising cycling challenge. Our challenge is to make a change to our own lives and to the lives of hundreds of Big Issue vendors! We will cycle 60-90 miles (that’s 100-140km!) a day, finishing the day before the Tour de France finishes on the Champs-Elysees.

Who is doing The Big Ride?

Jo Southwell and Anne Hayres, both keen cyclists, with a social conscience.

Why do it?

We are doing The Big Ride to promote the many benefits of cycling and to assist the great efforts of The Big Issue in assisting Melbourne’s homeless people achieve their goals.

More about our Fundraising

Our personal contributions are our airfares, registration costs, bicycles and gear, local expenses in London and Paris and our time and energy in organising the plethora of fundraising events. We need your help to raise $10,000- as of end of April, we have raised $8734, from a few music events, a sausage sizzle, a cycling trivia night, auctions of donated goods, a hot cross bun drive, and sales of our own cycling jersey. Schwob’s Bakery, Degani Bakery, The Cloth Shop, Ventou, and artist Lynette Weir, have all provided invaluable sponsorship support, as have many other local Melbourne businesses, friends and family. The majority of money (75%) from our fund raising efforts will go directly to The Big Issue in Australia, to upgrade their computers and colour printer for their core business- The Big Issue magazine. The remaining 25% goes to The Big Issue UK to cover their costs associated with organising The Big Ride, such as accommodation and food. Many thanks for your help in our venture to support homeless people to help themselves, and reconnect with their communities.

I have finally completed 4 new linocut designs. They are part of my Design Art Series and are designs using Australian Wildflowers. The last two are directly inspired and taken from own native garden.

The first is Scarlet Banksia – Banksia coccinea

This design is based on the Native Mistletoe – a parasitic native but pretty flowers and weeping nature.

Some strawflowers straight from my garden!

And the gorgeous Native Rhododendron…from my garden…

Sometimes when I print a design I decide to change something about it or add something to the design after I have done the initial proof prints. This is the case with the recent Banksia coccinea design. You can see the linocut block on top of the proof print which I have handoloure – painted with watercolours.

This initial rough proof print seemed ok but when I printed a couple of extras that I thought I might need as watercolour proofs I found that the carving of some of the stamen within the banksias was simply not deep enough and they quickly filled with ink leaving progressively thinner lines.

This closeup shows where I have come back to the linocut block and recarved sections making the lines a bit deeper and less prone to filling with ink. If you look closely you will see some carved sections have the ink stain and others look ‘cleaner’ – these are the recarved stamens.

I’ll see if this time when I print it I am happy with the results!

I am just on the end of carving this linocut design based on strawflowers – everlasting daisies from my garden.

I am quite pleased with the actual design and carving – just need to see how it prints now!

Well I have been carving some designs over the last 2 weeks.

I had earlier completed the Banksia coccinea and Native Mistletoe and as the Native rhododendron was on the carving board I decided to finish that.

As part of this series I have also completed the Gum Blossoms and have almost finished the Everlasting Daisies (strawflowers). So some progress being made.

I am hoping to print over the weekend as I have several things I need to get printed along with these new designs but have been caught up with family things and a rather irritated (and I must add irritating!!) RSI shoulder/neck/arm.

Just a quick post about my work featuring in the latest Homespun yearbook (dare I say ‘also available at your local newsagent’) which has a focus in this issue on Australian Flora and Fauna. as you can see they featured some of my ‘design art’ images and a Tawny Frogmouth.