Brimbank

Edge of Urge Junkie leggings

Own illustrations.

This is my beautiful sister Nadine and her funny dog Shadow -- and I promise I'm not going to start making this whole blog about Shadow, he's just had a good run in the photo stakes lately.

Any positive changes in the Melbourne weather have got to be celebrated by trying to soak up as much sun as possible... I'm hoping these beautiful days are going to be more consistent from now on...

On the road...

The second installment from Spell amd the Gypsy Collective's Spring Summer 12/13
Photography: Johnny Abegg
Model: Matilda Price @ Priscillas
Art direction: Isabella and Lizzy of Spell
Hair and make up: Luciana Rose

So it's that Arizona Trading Post shirt and that printed dress... that are going on the long list of things I'm buying myself for Christmas. Then me and my baby are going to pack up the car, drive the coast road from Melbourne to Eden, blast some southern rock and drink some whiskey. 

Swift and a huntress

"...he reached to hold what cannot be held, what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh. What blood and bone are made of but can themselves not make on any altar nor by any wound of war. What we may well believe has power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world surely if wind can, if rain can. But which cannot be held never be held and is no flower but is swift and a huntress and the wind itself is in terror of it and the world cannot lose it."
- The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy

Second Priestess

The Second Priestess is still one of my all time favourite pieces I've created -- I took a trip to the US between starting and finishing her, so it's truly lucky that I finished her at all. She's the 'second' in that there are a first and third rattling around in my archives somewhere. This piece was also probably the most labour-intensive work I've done, and holds a lot of significance in terms of my personal symbolism and the motifs that reappear throughout my work. 

So, my homeless-person-casual outfit notwithstanding, these posters are available here.

Loose ends...

Bits and pieces from my sketchbook, from projects I've been working on, of pieces and ideas that will never be finished nor see the light of day...

All the pretty horses

Op shop Akubra hat; Something Else shirt; Dr Denim jeans; concho belt via Ebay; Thunderbird necklace via Ebay; market/pawnshop rings.

Own illustration.

A new favourite shirt... It fits so perfectly into my wardrobe (consistent with dressing like a sartorial interpretation of a Cormac McCarthy novel) and just fits perfectly. 

And an old favourite puppy... He didn't want his photo taken at all.

Pagan sparks

Laced with Romance // Winter Lookbook

Photographer: Davis Ayer

Model: Lauryn Holmquist

Stylist: Stephanie Fellabaum + Summer Lawson

Hair and make-up: Sara Cummings

Jewellery: Rima Hyena / Vintage

Pants: John Renaud

via born to be wild

We can always do with a little extra magic.

Now selling...

It's taken me about forever to get up to speed on this, but I've just set up my online store here. I'm pretty excited and totally new at the whole thing, so bear with me. The above is the first print to go, she's one of my favourites... available here.