Artist's Palette

The Pleasure of Creating

Although I have lived in Queensland for most of my life, I was born in Wagga Wagga where my father was in the Air Force. As children, my brother and I both loved to draw and ‘colour in’. I remember my mother keeping the plain white butchers’ paper so that we could use it for drawing. She also kept the inside wrapping paper

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