October 22, 2019
'The Elephantini Marriage' has received a First Prize in the Open Section of both Frost Over Barraba 2019 and the Inverell Art Prize 2019. A wonderful experience to receive this recognition. Thank you to all involved.
January 4, 2019
Saturday, five days into the new year.
Australia is hot. The heat parches the air and the earth. Plants wither and wilt, dying beneath Sol's scorching gaze.
Farmers and graziers bend to their toil, the sweat seared from their skin and the hope seared from their souls.
Wil...
December 19, 2018
2019 approaches.
I look up from my drawing board and see a future full of creative opportunities and possibilities.
First up, the House of Illustration's BIC 2019. Slated for illustrators to try their hand at re-imagining: 'Howl's Moving Castle' by Diana Wynn Jones. Here...
January 20, 2018
Rembrandt - First Viewing at the Art Gallery of NSW by Graeme Compton
October 11, 2017
2017 started out busy and remained that way.
I had fun working with author Cassidy Jackson-Carroll for the first time, to produce 'Flavio the Flamingo', a story about a flamingo in search of his pink. In fact, we enjoyed creating this book so much, we are already collab...
November 11, 2016
'Elvira and the Pilliga Mouse' has been published and printed and we merely await its arrival!
Counting down the days...
December 29, 2015
Finally. I have taken the morning to tidy up and the drawing board is tabula rasa. Hanging the projects around the wall, I see that my year of sketches has been busy. Culling leaves 15 major projects in the fantasy/surrealist vein, which I am keen to explore to create...
November 19, 2015
The advance copy 'Further Adventures of a One-Eyed Chook - Return of the Fox' has arrived on my doorstep! On Friday December 11th Pat and I will hold a book launch and Sheila will once again take flight! Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/artgracom/
October 23, 2015
Jon Wilford of The Sublime e-zine recently asked me a few brilliant questions. If you would like to know more about what motivates me as an artist, follow the link: http://www.thesublimezine.com/
October 23, 2015
In my years as a piano teacher I have heard all of the usual excuses for not having practised the piano, as well as a couple of unusual reasons. In the early 2000s, I developed a cartoon to share with my students called '1001 Absolutely Plausible Reasons for Not Having...
