Wallum Mapping – Diurnal Variation
Shannon won highly commended at the Noosa Travelling Scholarship awards with her stunning work Wallum Mapping – Diurnal Variation. News article here . Congratulations Shannon!
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Swamp Cartography ceramic work wins award!
Shannon won highly commended at the Noosa Travelling Scholarship awards with her stunning work Wallum Mapping – Diurnal Variation. News article here . Congratulations Shannon!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Touring Exhibition Dates
Tour Dates
Brisbane
September 17th and 18th 2011
9am-5pm
Richard Randall Studio,
Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane
Redcliffe
1 - 25 February 2012
Redcliffe City Art Gallery
470 - 476 Oxley Ave
Redcliffe
Noosa
10 May-24th June 2012
Noosa Regional Gallery
Pelican St, Level 1 Riverside, Tewantin
Canberra
July- August 2012
Australian National Botanic Gardens,
Clunies Ross St. Acton ACT
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Sun Infusion
Since the opening of Swamp Cartography at Gympie in February we have been busy sending work around the country. These sunset lit Wallum Glass Pendants are resist painted and diamond point engraved by Shannon Garson and depict delicate Leptospermum flowers and Forked Sundews on our subtle palette of recycled and new sandblasted glass. The colours change throughout the day and into the night as we laminated 2 different layers of colour and softened the edges in a kiln.We've now stocked Pomme in Victoria, Sturt in NSW and Artisan in QLD with the glass pieces and I've also sent out new cuttlefish cast and etched silver pieces to these places.
I stopped on the way back from an early morning airport drop-off at the beautiful Ewan Maddock dam at the bottom of the hill where I live and found a landscaped wallumy garden and system of lagoons. Unlike many dams in our area vegetation had been permitted to grow right to the very edge of the water and even beyond in a swampy lush edge that was difficult to define. While it has the misfortune to parallell the highway, this did not deter the whitetailed water rats that I saw frolicking in the reeds. After the rain there was an explosion of coral ferns
and the scribbly gums had just shed their scrolls of writings on the past season of inundations. 
The pouched coral fern was thick and scratchy and I was able to get some new photos for etching.
I stopped on the way back from an early morning airport drop-off at the beautiful Ewan Maddock dam at the bottom of the hill where I live and found a landscaped wallumy garden and system of lagoons. Unlike many dams in our area vegetation had been permitted to grow right to the very edge of the water and even beyond in a swampy lush edge that was difficult to define. While it has the misfortune to parallell the highway, this did not deter the whitetailed water rats that I saw frolicking in the reeds. After the rain there was an explosion of coral ferns
and the scribbly gums had just shed their scrolls of writings on the past season of inundations. 
The pouched coral fern was thick and scratchy and I was able to get some new photos for etching.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Slingshot Necklace
Sticks and stones
And cuttlefish bones
One of my new necklaces spinning off from Swamp Cartography.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Porcelain, Glass and an Old Barn- Gympie Road Trip
Last Saturday I drove the back way to Gympie for the opening of "Swamp Cartography".
I love driving through the golden afternoon light, the paddocks flying by, the girls in the back seat chattering about their day and taking mini naps.
We stopped to take photos of this beautiful barn. The crossroads were deserted, all we could hear was the wind in the grass and we were surrounded by the sweet, spicy smell of the afternoon sun on the fields.
For the exhibition we borrowed an old cedar table from a friend and set up a "collectors table" with all our tools and impressions laid out.
The "Swamp Bubbles" looked great in a gallery under real lights
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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