A month of judging, exhibitions, funding applications and art-world scrutiny leads to a more personal question: where does an artist fit, and does the work need to resolve anything at all?

A walk through the rainforest in search of purple becomes a reflection on ageing, anxiety, creativity and the lifelong urge to keep moving forward.

What does it mean to belong? Beginning on Tamborine Mountain and following the remarkable migration of the Eastern Curlew, this month's Studio Journal reflects on community, stewardship and the reciprocal relationship between people and the places that shape them.

While painting a panorama of Lake Argyle, I found myself thinking about rivers, memory and the stories that lie beneath the visible surface. This reflection explores landscape, engineering, history and the challenge of holding complexity within a single work.

Post Script to interview ‘Taking Steps, an artists journey with Parkinsons.

Hubris and things that press my buttons.

I wonder if humans of planet earth were a collection of an alien planet, what would be in that collection and what would it say about us?

This art life on the road- Musings on overcoming comfort zones, climbing mountains, grief trauma and healing.

19 weeks in on a 6 month road trip tracing Australia, we turn the corner of the Western Australia coast and begin to head east.

This month we travelled from the Kimberly to the Pilbara. Spinifex, red dirt, deep gorges- a land of great beauty as well as iron ore trains, massive ships coming in and out of ports, towns dependant and built on mining $, and complex infrastructure. This is extractive Australia.