I tried to bake my way out of it, but it was just too hard this year without Dad. He had the sweet tooth:) I’m sure that he would have enjoyed these creative gingerbread cookies.

I really enjoyed going along to my first life drawing session in nearly 28 years. It was fun. A lot of young artists and students, $1 beers and wine, a 3 hour session and professional models. I must find time to go back because I’m pretty rusty, but after 20 years I don’t think I did too badly.

Right now I am finishing off Prelude to Conception, which has been sitting there for months since it is my 'gateway' painting (like Viva Las Shiva was for Sedition and Judy Garland) . Karen Armstrong has inspired some sketches in questioning/editing the different artistic religious traditions of the world, and their images, or at least the monotheistic ones.

Late last year I was interviewed by Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt, a fellow Australian with a distinguished career in international human rights law for The Art of the Possible, the Cambridge University Journal of Politics

In the last 2 days I was told of the death of Jennifer Anderson (Miro) of The Nuns, from cancer at the end of December 2011 at the age of 54. I was so devastated, as with great gusto and positivity she threw herself into the idea of being a character in one of my paintings.