And the winner from this week’s blog on Glaskins Gallery is Anita. So end me your details – heleneyoung01@gmail.com – and I’ll send you a beautiful dipping sauce set, handpainted by Tanya Sarianti Ashworth! Cheers Helene
Tag: Australian Author
Thomas Storrie
Today I’m featuring another talented exhibitor at Glaskins Gallery. Please welcome Thomas Storrie. Like Tanya, Thomas found his artistic ability at a young age. At school he excelled at arts, graphics and most things to do with using his hands. He went on to complete a Diploma of Visual arts at Central Gippsland Institute of Continue reading
Tanya Sarianti Ashworth – Parallels of artists and writers
I’ve always wondered whether artists were any different to writers in their approach to their work so I thought I’d ask one. This week I’m welcoming to my blog Tanya Sarianti Ashworth, a North Queensland artist, whose paintings, ceramics and t-shirts have found homes all over the world. She’s now also available at Glaskins Gallery. Continue reading
Brisbane News 17th Feb
Phil Brown and I had a lovely chat at the Coaldrake Bookstore in the Emporium, Fortitude Valley. Read his article on-line at Brisbane News – you’ll find it on Page 12. The photographer, Justine Walpole, is an artist!
Home away from home
This month I’ve spent 16 nights out of 28 living out of a hotel room. Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I’m a homebody and that amount of time away sits heavily on me. My answer to the loneliness that can bite at unexpected moments is to create an alternative family where Continue reading
Toni Tapp Coutts – life in the Top End (and win a copy of Border Watch!)
I met Toni through the LongLines programme at Varuna. We spent a week living in Eleanor Dark’s house along with Meg Mooney, a poet from Alice Springs, Liana Christensen from Perth and David Wright from Tasmania by way of Africa. The week was facilitated and mentored by Peter Bishop – a living national treasure! It was a wonderful opportunity to talk Continue reading
Border Watch – The Celebration
Come and help me celebrate the launch of my debut novel ‘Border Watch’ – Hachette Australia, March 2010 www.heleneyoung.com When: 5th March 2010 at 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm Where: Glaskins Gallery 22 Trinity Beach Rd Trinity Beach http://www.glaskinsgallery.com.au RSVP: By 26th February to heleneyoung01@gmail.com
Queensland Writers Center – WQ
Author profile – February WQ PROFILE Hélène Young Hélène Young’s first published novel, Border Watch, will be published by Hachette Australia in March this year. With a job as a pilot, Hélène finds inspiration all around her. ‘I live in a tiny slice of paradise in Far North Queensland on a beach north of Cairns. Continue reading
Cairns City Life
Author profile – Cairns City Life
Sunrise, sunrise
I love being home….