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Rowena

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About Me

As an illustrator and writer I am interested in integrating words and pictures and making imaginary worlds with both. I have a B.A. in Visual Arts from the UNSW, Sydney and have worked for over 20 years variously as an artist, freelance illustrator, cartoonist and art tutor.I have lived on bread and cheese in every country in western Europe, fallen in flooded streams in New Zealand, been ski touring in Australia and Norway and have only been lost in a blizzard once. Highlights of my career range from being a professional fairy to website marketing consultation.I love making music, including singing and playing recorder, French horn, tenor horn and guitar.I have recorded segments for ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph, entertained locally with music and blarney and conducted workshops for school children in writing and illustration.»-(¯..v..¯)-» Design your MySpace with MyLook «-(¯..v..¯)-«

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Edward Scissorhands, the ballet

Last weekend we went to the Sydney Opera House to see the ballet of Edward Scissorhands. Of course I had seen the film both years ago and fairly recently. I quite like ballet in an ambivalent sort of...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:46:00 GMT

Travelling through NSW in folk songs

Come with me on a holiday from Cooma to Queensland via folk songs. I know lots of them& We cross the Numeralla River not far out of Cooma so we'll start singing with The Numeralla Shore, which has a d...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:17:00 GMT

Going to the Childrens Book Council conference this week

In Melbourne from Friday 2nd May until Sunday 4th May. I'll be the one with the RED COAT Come and say hello and get a chance to see my work in real life Rowena
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:17:00 GMT

Bush dance (part 2)

Band = 19 people: 2 banjos 2 flutes/piccolo 1 recorder 5 guitars 1 piano 1 lagerphone 2 drums 2 mouth organs 1 caller 2 violins dancers = luckily more than 19 people It was a hoot (I’ll post ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:58:00 GMT

The Ballad of the Silver Ring

The Ballad of the Silver Ring A piece of really bad doggerel to commemorate a small loss (NB: this one confirms all my worst prejudices about bad verse, but I can’t complain because I wrote it) ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:42:00 GMT

Bush dance preview

Big plans for the bush dance this Saturday (5th April 2008) to raise money for Judith to replace all that stuff that was destroyed when her car was burnt out by vandals in that scary city, Canberra. W...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:49:00 GMT

More on "The Incredible Shrinking Elephant"

Early last Saturday we went to the zoo. I really wanted to see the new elephant, but we couldn’t see her anywhereThis is the opening sentence to my story The Incredible Shrinking Elephant. The p...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:14:00 GMT

Watching The Red Paintings last year in Canberra

Eleanor, her friend Amy and I went to a concert in Canberra, particularly to hear (and see) The Red Paintings. One attraction was that during the performances they make paintings. The picture above (m...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Smokers in Art and the Unconscious World of the Nose

  1.       A man lighting a cigarette, glimpsed as I drove past& for that split second his head was in a cloud of smoke that veiled him like mist around the summit o...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:19:00 GMT

Cactus Flowers

I like cactuses. I have a small garden of indestructible plants, with a few cacti (that's called having a bet both ways, grammatically) and succulents. They suit my lack of gardening skills. A co...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:50:00 GMT