website is LIVE! no.1

5th grade

gold angel

Dear blog readers, my first blog on my brand new website. Firstly, I would like to thank EVERY SINGLE ONE OF ALL MY FAMILY AND MY FRIENDS (you do know who you are, because your reading this) for the amazing support and love in my whole existence and I am privileged to have you all in my

life-long tasha world.

I would also like to say a big thank you to SQUARESPACE for an amazing platform to build a website. For me to make this, well it is a bit legendary, since I am not a technical guru. Secondly, I would like to shout out to Jenny Mustard from the UK and Shaye Elliott (The Elliot Homestead) from USA for inspiring me to use SQUARESPACE, all their repetitive advertising on their youtube worked, it went into my brain, and well here it is! Both of these influencers I discovered in lockdown last year, 2020. Another inspiration on the food side of things while I am talking about other internet fabulousness is Sadia Badiei (Pick up Limes) from the Netherlands. I encourage you to check these ladies out if you haven’t already. They are fun!

So now I have gotten all the hooray’s and thank you’s done, lets get to the business of why ART ? Oh my, now where do I start? So…. I have always loved drawing and creating, first being the wonderful colouring books of my childhood which led to my primary school art then to high school. I remember making this copper angel in 5th grade, it was a pressed out angel with a popsicle stick, if you went to school during the late 1970’s in Sydney, you probably made one. In my teens I spent hours in my room listening to Madonna, Thomson Twins, U2 and Wa Wa Nee and drawing. At high school I remember all of my art teachers with great admiration; Ms Barnes, Ms Harrison and Ms Catchpole. I would love to let them know that after all this time I have followed in their footsteps. All were very influential in my life, even more than they knew, my growing teenage mind I guess.

In my family there have been women artists through the generations, as far as I know my great grandmother, nanna booth, (whom I did know as a young child) painted, not that any survived , but it was said that she dabbled. Two women who have had an artistically great influence of my whole life, was my nanna and my mum. Norma Theresa who was a persistent creative; she sewed, macrame, painted birds, flowers and landscapes and was always making things. My mother is also a creative writer, interior designer, a milliner, made dolls, and is incredibly skilled at the needle and thread, she made many a dress for me as a young girl which I did delight. Watching them create as I grew up had a substantial influence on my creative spirit. My great Aunty Iris was also a milliner and a knitter, she had a little portrait of Miss Willoughby by George Romney in her entry hall and she always said it reminded her of me. And now my sister has taken to abstract painting. So I would say the women of my family must have some special art gene or bent or gleaning, or some such thing.

I suppose I have pondered for a while now that I wanted to put all my art out to the universe to share the journey that I have been on for these past 30 years. I have plenty to share, so why not share it all??? There is a plethora of work, this is the beginning- I aim to put it all forth as the time marches along. If it is stacked in a draw, will it be there when I’m gone? May as well put it online and share… So as you can see in the gallery section, I have lived in many places, I feel that where one resides and how you are placed mentally has a marked effect on the way your art is explored and manifested. I have experienced many things, but as a constant there has always been the creating, has to be done, and so it is. And haven’t I loved it all, the making, the process, the creating, the sucking the marrow out of life when it boils down to it.

The friends I have made on my life’s journey, I thank you again, for being kind and being YOU and enabling me, to be me. And now as Sydney is in a unfavourable way with this terrible virus, I have had some time to make this website between zooming, marking and the endless household boring jobs that must be done to keep the swings and roundabouts turning, some good coming from these tumultuous times. And here I am now, still going, still creating and hopefully inspiring others to create their own fabulousness, whatever it may be!

Thank you for reading my blog, its a funny thing writing to the whole world.