New cards at Blue Island Press

I am delighted to be working with Blue Island Press on a series of fine art cards, notecards and calendars.  Toby and Montessa have an eye for layout and imagery that brought to life images of mine that made me look at them in a whole different light.

Yesterday, a set of samples arrived in the post.  The quality of the printing and paper, the delicacy of the colours and absolutely lovely story on the back of each card has taken my artwork to a whole new level.

Thank you so much Blue Island Press!

Have a look at their website here.

Have a lovely weekend Frooters!

Gabby Malpas in the Australian Art Review

...aaaaaand it's published.  This is the November/December 2012 edition.

The cover image is called 'Poppies and teapot', and was a finalist in the 2011: National Trust Still life Art Prize.

Here is a link to download the article as a one page PDF file.

Have a fabulous weekend all!

Hillandale Gardens and Nursery

Another plug for a very good friend: Sarah Ryan of Hillandale Gardens and Nursery, Yetholme, NSW

Sarah's beautiful garden is open to the public this weekend: Saturday and Sunday 27/28 October.  The garden is at Eusdale Road, Yetholme.


Sarah will have an abundance of hard-to-find plants: seedlings, cuttings, root systems and established plants will be for sale plus the largest selection of our seed packet designs to date.

This is a well-known and must attend event in the local gardeners' calendars and bus loads go from Sydney it is so popular.

I will be going to get inspired and of course plunder the garden for Spring flowers - I feel a 'rhododendron series' coming on...

Sarah's website is here.

Her facebook page is here.

Sew Make Create Opening

This is Melissa Tan and her husband on the Sew Make Create studio, store and workshop opening day, in Chippendale, Sydney at the beginning of August.

They are now running a series of creative workshops: crochet, sewing, card making and jewellery.  I am offering watercolour workshops for beginners.

Any takers?

Gabby Malpas article in Lifestyle Asia 200

My interview with Mingyue Zhou, from Lifestyle Asia was published in January 2012 and was glorious!

For those of you who missed the publication, the article can be downloaded from here in PDF format (NB: the article is in Chinese):

Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4.

I have uploaded my original, raw text and images, in english - here

Mango Frooty images featured

Well how about that!

My work is featured in an online magazine from Argentina: http://issuu.com/pluzultra/docs/issue17/63

Thank you Jeronimo Laborde!