What a lovely tribute to my long time friend, Kathryn Hoover, who gave me "the gift", the notion of doing the original dress which was well received and has become a core statement in my artwork. And to and my father, whose tools I use daily and whose support I feel an...

I was born to a father who was military, farm boy, pragmatic to the core, but who had a good sense of humour and an earthy sense of spiritualism - not that he would have called it that. He loved to fawn over a vegetable garden, and milk the cow, and raise beef for th...

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even when they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."...