acknowledgments

Many thanks to Kay Parkin, Annie Constable, Peter Rechenberg and Sue-anne McCarthy, Luke and Rachel, Liz and Norm and the Jones family from Amherst winery, Rose Hardress, Helen Green, friends and family for encouragement and support, Ralph Durr, the volunteers and staff at Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Central Goldfields Shire Council, Maryborough Advertiser, Ballarat Courier, Monika Roleff and the Art of Elegance Fair blog, collectors and supporters especially Chris Meddows-Taylor, all of the enthusiastic collectors who came… and thank you to my tirelessly wonderful husband who milled and rebated timber with a broken leg, rewrote my words, edited my stories, gave me poetic inspiration and has always supported and encouraged me - without such I may not ever have exhibited my work.