“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in orde...

FIONA DEMPSTER - CALLIGRAPHIC AND BOOK ARTIST

Fiona-Dempster: Love and Harmony

I was fortunate on Friday to have Helen Irving from the Buderim Calligraphy group drive up to spend some time with me (and with Helen V fro...

Towards the end of the week and over the weekend, I made myself sit down and DO something with the layout and body of work that is to beco...

Library of Lost Words Words that have become extinct were written in walnut ink and the pages buried in the garden. Resurrected, they were dried and placed in rusty tins creating a library that honours the past.

This time of year is good for stopping a bit, reflecting a bit, pondering bit. Looking back and looking forward. As part of my regular pr...

FIONA DEMPSTER - CALLIGRAPHIC AND BOOK ARTIST

Here I sit, Sunday evening, glass of wine in hand, weary but reflecting on a fabulous weekend workshop I was fortunate to attend. My good...

I find the end of the year offers the opportunity and the time to stop and think about the year just past, what has happened, how we made i...

I was fortunate on Friday to have Helen Irving from the Buderim Calligraphy group drive up to spend some time with me (and with Helen V fro...

Paper Ponderings

Most of my major artistic commitments are over for the year, with a few exceptions. I have to deliver three books to the Al-Mutannabi StSt...

Walter Rast (mixed media on canvas). See website here Many of us are drawn to objects marked by the passage of time and this fascinati...

Conversations Beginning with the same set of small prints, we each made our own book. This book tells the story of conversations I have with special people in my life, as the prints ‘talk’ to each other as well. Original photography by

Library of Lost Words Words that have become extinct were written in walnut ink and the pages buried in the garden. Resurrected, they were dried and placed in rusty tins creating a library that honours the past.