FJBOURNE

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on canvas. There are places in Australia, unpolluted by the lights of civilisation, where the inky night sky blazes with starlight over the burnt-orange soil and wildflowers.

Description: Prints from my original pastel illustration on paper. I love watching chickens in their posse, pecking and scratching in grass and soil and fluffing their feathers. For this chook, I used pastels from Toulouse, in a moody blue spectrum.

Description: Prints from my original pastel drawing on paper. It is abstract, but I can imagine a chook face with beak and eye, “checking you out” sideways, as they do...or perhaps a pouty baby bird face? What do you see?

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on canvas. This vibrant painting with its cheery sunflower yellow background and swirling foreground colours is an abstract embodiment of happiness, relaxation and of the freedom to “just be”.

Description: Prints from my original pastel illustration on paper. I used some beautiful creamy pastels in a moody blue-grey spectrum for this duck. The pastels were given to me by a loved one, from Toulouse, France, and were cherished whilst they lasted!

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on canvas, parts I&II. This sunny abstract with its bursting red and blue stellate marks suggests tropical blooms.

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting (flow/pour style) on board. I’ve only tried this technique twice for fun and whilst messy, it was fascinating to see how the colours mixed and moved, in the end looking like quite a rough green sea.

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on canvas, parts I&II. This sunny abstract with its bursting red and blue stellate marks suggests tropical blooms.

Description: Prints from my original pastel drawing on paper. It is abstract, but it reminds me of tangled octopus tentacles with lots of suckers facing up out of the page…but could also be a coiled mess of thick rope from a boat, on the sea floor. What do you see?

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on canvas. Abstract and whirling with colour and movement, this reminds me a little of looking through a kaleidoscope. My childhood best friend had a kaleidoscope and I thought it magical.

Description: Prints from my original pastel drawing on paper. It is abstract, but is suggestive of chain links, rope, or perhaps a part of a broken fishing net. Grey and blue tones impart a beachy, coastal feel.

Description: Prints derived from my original pastel drawing on paper. This drawing has a personal meaning for me. If you are, or someone you know is experiencing difficult feelings in pregnancy/postnatal period, please reach out for help.

Description: Prints from my original oil pastel illustration on paper. I was fortunate enough to play with marionettes as a child. They were exquisitely crafted and painted puppets, which I probably never fully appreciated or deserved.

Description: Prints from my original pastel drawing on paper. In a previous life, I was a farmer, whilst having a day job. It was hard (surprise!), and it deepened my appreciation for farmers who feed and clothe us.

Description: Prints from my original pastel drawing on paper. What do you make of this abstract? I see water spiralling downward, or a deep cavern.

Description: Prints from my triptych of original acrylic paintings on canvas (I-III). Abstract, energetic and in-your-face, these works were created with an unrestrained hand, and remind me a little of street art.

Description: Prints from my triptych of original acrylic paintings on canvas (I-III). Abstract, energetic and in-your-face, these works were created with an unrestrained hand, and remind me a little of street art.

Description: Prints from my triptych of original acrylic paintings on canvas (I-III). Abstract, energetic and in-your-face, these works were created with an unrestrained hand, and remind me a little of street art.

Description: Prints from my original charcoal illustration on paper. Can you imagine this kitty’s tail swishing angrily with that expression on their face?

Description: Prints from my original pencil drawing on paper. This reminds me of a cat’s quiet presence, moving silently through the sunlight and shadows, almost invisible.

Description: Prints from my original oil pastel illustration on paper. Spotty dog was drawn after we adopted a rescue dalmatian and he became a colourful part of our family. Have you ever seen a dalmatian’s cheesy grin?

Description: Self-acceptance. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde and Henry David Thoreau all had a few pithy, affirming and galvanising words on this. Go your own way and let your colours blaze.

Description: Prints from my original charcoal illustration on paper. Have you ever wondered why we find baby animals so adorable?

Description: Prints from my original oil pastel drawing on paper. Are you a pear shape? An apple? Prickly like a pineapple? Skinny like spaghetti? Or are you just You-Shaped? I love the quote “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” (whether Oscar Wilde said it or not!)

Description: Prints from my original pencil doodle on paper. This poor kitty looks like they need a catnap (and maybe a hug, but with cats, you never can be certain..)

Description: Prints from my original acrylic paintings on paper (I-IV). Our sad stick girl has an attentive friend in her black Cat. Sometimes it feels Cat is her only friend in the world.

Description: Prints from my original abstract charcoal drawing on paper. Disparate once-useful objects litter the ground, suggesting a defunct factory, some other industrial site or perhaps an inventor's discarded project .

Description: Prints from my original oil pastel illustration on paper. Hunched over with pain, this figure is inwardly-focused and melancholic.

Description: Prints from my original charcoal drawing on paper. Abstract but inspired by fingerprints and isobars (lines on weather maps connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure). My family’s agricultural background meant many a revered silence for the evening weather on TV.

Description: Prints from my original watercolour painting on paper. Ghostlike, muted blue reflects irrationally never-quite-believing in a long-awaited pregnancy, until proved by birth.

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on paper. This one is named after a beautiful feline I once lived with. Have you ever known a black cat? Are you superstitious?

Description: Prints from my original acrylic painting on board. With abstract elements, this reclining figure is bathed in the tropical hues of sunset.

Description: Prints from my original charcoal illustration on paper. This cheeky chimp doesn’t have a care in the world, as their striped wind-sock like hat flutters behind their bicycle in the breeze.

Description: Prints from my original acrylic abstract painting on board. When I was a medical student, I found eye examination by fundoscopy tricky. This is an abstract (sick looking) retina crossed with a beach’s tideline. You’re welcome.

Description: Prints from my original oil pastel drawing on paper. Inspired by a collage I made many moons ago for highschool art in a subject entitled ‘Man and nature’. The sprinting figure and colours embody a sense of freedom.

Description: Prints from my acrylic abstract painting on board. Sometimes the path to our goal is not always a straight line.