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.

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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...

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...

'Elvira and the Pilliga Mouse' has been published and printed and we merely await its arrival!

Counting down the days...

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/

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/

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...