May 13, 2012

If your in Hong Kong today eating dumplings, head over to the art fair and see new works By Brendan Huntley, represented by Tolarno Galleries.  

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May 10, 2012

Maurice Sendak RIP
1928 – 2012

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May 6, 2012

Sydney fashion label Rittenhouse got together with artist Lucas Grogan to make some clothes.  They had a party at Poepke to celebrate.  I am always a sucker for people painting anything on glass, it always comes up looking the goods and its nice to watch him paint out all the patterns

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May 1, 2012

We went to the hills of Northern NSW to paint a shed and ended up picking 43 wildly grown pumpkins out of the veggie patch..

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March 31, 2012

Just ordered a new book about the Quilters of Gee’s Bend!

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March 30, 2012

I will be down in St Kilda this weekend with a stall at Magnolia Square, we will have baby blankets, selected throws and some samples on offer all at market prices.  Come down and take a peep if your in the area.

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Recently I have been working with Michael Strownix, decorator extraordinaire.  Here is his latest installation for the Melbourne Flower Show that we worked on this week, called Hong Kong Garden.  Only a mere 12,000 carnations in pink, red and green were used in the making of this stand!

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March 28, 2012

Although the last 3 months have been one of the busiest working times of my life, I have nothing work based to post due to most of it being on a freelance and confidential basis!  In between these 50-60 hour weeks I have been lucky enough to see a few very special weddings, celebrate a few milestone birthdays, eat like a king, spend time with my nephew and occasionally visit the pool…

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January 12, 2012

Today I spent sometime in the library and stumbled across Handcrafted Modern by Leslie Williamson which I hadn’t see for a year or so.  This book is really great.  These shots are from the home of Irving Harper, but detail the paper sculptures he continually makes as a side outlet to his previous industrial design work.  Apparently there is a whole barn full of these handmade paper wonders….

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January 7, 2012

A little collection of woollen scarves that were knitted just before christmas for our friends in the northern hemisphere!  

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January 5, 2012

summer time floating = blue swimmer crabs = gigantic sand hills = tropical fish hunt = combi vans 

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Willem de Kooning and his wife Elaine taking a breather in their Hamptons studio 30 years ago, if your lucky enough to be in NYC today go catch the end of his retrospective at Moma..

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January 4, 2012

Some of the shots from the Big Blanket Bonanza christmas sale.  There are still some available through the Ganim Store, each blanket is throw size and can be put to work in your house, on the couch, at the park or even the beach!  Also made from Egyptian cotton!

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December 18, 2011

I’ll be down at Harvest Textiles today manning a table with non other than the super talent, Beci Orpin.  Sample colour ways and limited edition throw sized cotton blankets on sale!  Come take a look..

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December 11, 2011

The BIG BLANKET BONANZA is happening this week, with 25 throw blankets in varying colour ways to be available at the Ganim’s Store up until christmas.  Here is a sneak peek - more pictures coming in the next few days

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