Designs

The designs below can be printed on silk chiffon, silk charmeuse, cotton voile, a mid weight cotton, cotton drill, and linen. Colours will vary slightly according to the print batch and will be more intense on silk than some of the cottons. The designs are printed to the width of the fabric (between 102 to 140cm) unless otherwise specified. 

As the prices of fabric vary, contact me to discuss your requirements. Allow 2-4 weeks for special orders. I look forward to hearing from you!

Snowflake 1

Queen Anne’s Lace in stages of openness and closedness on chestnut brown cotton. The green specimens have begun to die, oh so beautifully.

FabForchid

Yellow Cymbidium Orchids in a blue glass vase and a sprig of  green that resembles frogs legs make this arrangement said by my pal Carey to remind her of a Beatles Album Cover-hence the name.

DragonEyes

The Dragon Tree (dracaena draco), a sub tropical plant native to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira and Western Morocco, lives very happily in SE Queensland and northern NSW. After 10 to 15 years it starts to produce flower spikes with panicles of greenish white, fragrant flowers. The spike is enormous so I broke the panicles down in order to photograph them against black satin.

Pop 1

Clusters of Poinciana on a painted background.

PunkMoth

Fishtail oxalis or Oxalis latifolia is a perennial herb originating in parts of Central and South America. Another plant that loves it here in northern NSW where it is apparently considered a major invasive weed. It was in fact when I was weeding it out of the garden that I became enamoured of its shape which I likened to a Moth, hence the name I gave this piece. The leaves are almost as delicate as a moth wing but there is something punk about some of the shapes. Our chooks love it so they do their bit to manage the population.

Wattle & Mauve on White

These wattle sprigs are, I think, a mix of  Cootamundra wattle (Acacia baileyana) and Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha). The wee splashes of mauve are Rosemary flowers (Salvia rosmarinus). A delicious smelling arrangement on white silk. 

Queen on Green

Daucus or Queen Anne’s Lace is part of the celery and carrot family and a native of the Nile River Valley. Here she is scattered on green linen which scrunched into some exquisite shapes!

MelaLeuca 3

The Melaleuca Leucadendra that graces our driveway has flowered twice in quick succession; once in response to the drought and then in response to the rains. The second time there were also new leaves and a sense of sheer joy as it tossed it’s weeping branches in the easterlies swinging the bees and lorikeets as they tried to feed.

OrchonSilSol

I haven’t been able to identify this wee orchid that came from a friend’s garden in Kingscliff NSW. I placed it on grey satin but then solarised the image which has rendered it the most dramatic image in the collection, I think!

CoriFoxCub

The gorgeous herb Coriandrum sativum delights at all stages of life. I love the delicate patterns in this piece. Can you spot the fox cub?

BlackCockieBreakfast

The Coastal Banksia (Banksia Integrifolia) is a delicate sip for the birds with long bills but a bumptious banquet for the parrot families. These precisely sliced spikes of banksia were strewn around our courtyard and just had to be repurposed after the giant yellow-tailed black cockatoos passed through the ‘hood.

PinksonSilver

Camelias, Fuscias, tiny Orchids and Hoya nestled in grey satin. All of these beauties live in a wonderland of a garden in Kingscliff. I used to pretend fuscias were ballerinas when I was a youngster.

GrassLavenderBlue

A generous dollop of the gorgeous Rose Natal grass seeds with Lavender and Spotted Gum blossom in the centre; edged with more lavender and Rhodes Grass at the compass points. Then a scattering of Spotted Gum blossom bits. If this were a flag, I’d love to live in that country!

‘Seaside 1’ After a storm at Kingscliff, NSW these gifts presented themselves. My first arrangement of seaside gifts; slippery, gleaming and so compliant! Some weird and wonderful shapes appeared as I repeated the pattern.

‘Seaside 2’ A rearrangement of the gifts of the sea.

Liken Lichen

I have always been fascinated by the textures and colours of lichen and assumed them to be parasites because of where they grow but they’re not! They are a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an alga or a cyanobacterium and when they grow on plants, they do not live as parasites, but instead use the plant's surface as a substrate. This explains how they can survive on rocks. Lichens do not have roots that absorb water and nutrients as plants do, but like plants, they produce their own nutrition by photosynthesis. This design is a repeat of a section I found growing on a tree in Pottsville NSW and has samples of foliose and crustose forms.