News and Events

I have new courses: Drawing in Perspective (Tuesday evenings) and Watercolour (Thursday evenings) starting at Darwin Adult Short Courses next month. 

Please follow this link for more information and booking:

My 2025 Exhibition - Flower Visitors- ran at Darwin Visual Arts, Harbour View Plaza, from Friday 29th August until 20th September.  

About the Exhibition  

Some visitors are welcome guests, repaying their host perhaps with services. Others give nothing in return for hospitality. They take whatever they can get and may damage their host. So it is with flowers and animals.  

From my woodland block in Humpty Doo, I have spent many pleasant hours and days observing and recording the most conspicuous of these interactions. 

A range of Birds visiting different Eucalypts and Kurrajongs; butterflies, bees, wasps - some of them new to science - feasting on native roadside annuals; Bee-flies humming above Turkeybushes; Blue banded bees drinking from scented native Jasminum; a whole range of passers by and visitors to Native grape; cockatoos and parrots stripping seeds and those nocturnal visitors- moths, crickets, fruit bats, gliders. 

I hope that after seeing this exhibition you will view these creatures not as destructive, disease carrying nuisances but as pollinators, remarkably adapted beings, a vital part of our ecosystems and our lives

Thank you to everyone who has enrolled on my Tuesday evening Expressive Drawing course and my Thursday evening Watercolour Landscapes course... 

I am offering more courses next term: please see the DASC website:

It was exhibited at the Doubletree Hilton (the old Beaufort Hotel) on the Darwin Esplanade from Wednesday 18th September.  It is a 2m long Watercolour of the Adelaide River and some of it's fauna. A part of it is shown here. 

I dedicated to Mike. We explored this magnificent river together.

In April 2022, husband Mike Bowman and I put on a small joint exhibition at Darwin Visual Arts about Silver:  combining my drawings of the silvery Eucalyptus alba in pastel and Silverpoint, with Mike's rustic silver jewelry and tableware (which stole the show).