To combine my love of art and creativity with adventure and travel felt like nirvana.
My mixed media artworks and photography are a celebration of the complexity, beauty and fragility of our natural world and cultural mysticism as well as a journey to inner landscapes.
Bondi Dreaming
A highly detailed textile, fibre and machine embroidery artwork inspired by the famous “Bondi Festival of the Winds”. This textiles and fibre artwork was previously exhibited in my solo exhibition, “Transitory World.”
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Dimensions: professionally framed 1.7x1.16cm
Media: textile, machine embroidery, fibre, acrylic paint, gold leaf.
Date: 1990
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$3,000
Collectively all my artworks have been inspired by my extensive travel experiences and fascination with universal symbols that focus on unconscious processes as well as aesthetic qualities.
Mandala Ink Drawings
Influenced by the retro mandala ink drawings from Jose and Miriam Arguelles mandala book, I created this series of mandala ink drawings to represent the symbolism and energy of each of our seven main chakras. For added details I painted the original Sanskrit symbols in the centre of each mandala.
The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Mandala Paintings
I developed and evolved my following series of circular canvas chakra mandala paintings from my earlier ink drawings. Influenced by French artists Robert and Sonia Delaunay and their Orphism art movement I selected a vibrant and dynamic colour palette for each mandala painting by incorporating complementary opposites on the colour wheel.
Goddess and Animal Totem Collage Artworks
As a collage artist and a legacy from the Avant Garde Dadaist and Surrealist art movements from the early twentieth century my major influences were the collage artists Hannah Hoch and Kurt Schwitters.
This series of large mixed media collages featuring goddess drawings and animal totem imagery are quite a departure from any of my previous artworks.
In keeping with the vintage aspects of my hippie travel stories and bohemian world adventures in the 1970s and 80s I designed these artworks to include images of retro passport stamps and the distinctive red and blue edging from air mail aerogrammes we all wrote on.
Travel Assemblage Boxes
Inspired by the intricate creations of revered avant-garde assemblage box artist Joseph Cornell, I created this series of seven collage box artworks to evoke long ago travel memories of a moment frozen in time.
Art is our one true global language. It knows no nation. It favours no race and acknowledges no class. It speaks our need to reveal, heal and transform. It transcends our ordinary lives and lets us imagine what is possible.
Richard Kramler
Flyaway Zebra
Reflections on the shadow side of our lives as mothers, the healthy baby I delivered and the babies I lost. A haunting process to create this artwork but a cathartic experience. This drawing was previously exhibited in my solo exhibition, “Fetish.”
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Dimensions: professionally framed 93.5x66.2cm
Media: charcoal, graphite pencil, oil pastel.
Date: 2000
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$950
Rahama Baazar
Inspired by my travels throughout Egypt I created this artwork to represent the contrast between my love of ancient Egyptian history and hieroglyphics with the realities of modern-day Cairo and the impact of tourism. I have included a page from my travel journal written by the pool at the Oberoi hotel before I was politely asked to leave! I previously exhibited this mixed media artwork in my solo exhibitions, “Journey through a small planet” and “African Heart.”
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Dimensions: professionally framed 101x80cm
Media: collage, found objects, sand, acrylic paint.
Date: 1987
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$1,800
Travel Photography
My love of documentary travel photography began with a journey to Kathmandu, capturing black and white portraits and landscapes for my art college portfolio. Influenced by photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dianne Arbus, and Max Dupain, I worked with film and darkroom techniques like dodge and burn, sepia toning, and photograms.
Travelling with my Pentax and Nikon film cameras, photography became an extension of my painter’s eye—documenting vibrant moments across India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These selected images from the 70s and 80s reflect timeless stories, featured in my book The Naked Artist Journey.
Art Therapy
A transformational healing process towards self-awareness, re-alignment and wholeness
I focus on therapeutic art making for women’s personal development journeys with an emphasis on the creative process rather than just the end product using various art forms such as drawing, painting, sculpture, journaling, mixed and multimedia.
