Beautiful new photos of leptospermums and scribbly gums

From Lucy's photoshoot... Gorgeous photos by Shannon Garson

Swamp Cartography Brisbane exhibition

Event: Swamp Cartography: notes in sliver and clay.

Exhibition and sale of jewellery and porcelain artworks.

Venue: Richard Randall Art Studio, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha

Date: Saturday 17 September and Sunday 18 September 2011

Time: 10am – 4pm each day

The Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha provides a perfect venue to appreciate Rebecca Ward and Shannon Garson’s Swamp Cartography before it travels to future venues in Queensland and the ACT.

Swamp Cartography ceramic work wins award!

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!

Touring Exhibition Dates

Tour Dates

Brisbane

September 17^th and 18^th 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-24^th June 2012

Noosa Regional Gallery

Pelican St, Level 1 Riverside, Tewantin

Canberra

July- August 2012

Australian National Botanic Gardens,

Clunies Ross St. Acton ACT

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.

All ready for me to use in new jewels for Swamp Cartography at Brisbane Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens 17-18 September.

Slingshot Necklace

Sticks and stones
And cuttlefish bones

One of my new necklaces spinning off from Swamp Cartography.

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