In some areas on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, it is not uncommon to spot kangaroos in the wild. Early in the morning and late evenings, a group of ten or more eastern grey kangaroos are often spotted in a large open area, close to our home that used to be an active sugar cane field, when we first moved to the area, around twenty years ago. I can still hear the crackle and smell the burning sugar cane at harvest time. It is no longer a “working sugar cane field” (unfortunately) but still a large tract of vacant land. On a nearby golf course, kangaroos often congregate. On more than one occasion, over the past year, an adventurous (or lost)...

This horse mosaic on sandstone is an outdoor garden decoration for my daughter’s garden. The mosaic depicts “Zinc”, a horse that Lauren, owned many years ago on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. I guess you could call it, a “pet portrait mosaic”.  I came across a sandstone “stepping stone” in a local landscape supply yard and thought it would be the perfect shape for the mosaic of “Zinc” the horse. I love the natural patterns and colour tones that appear in cut sandstone slabs. Sandstone is well suited to outdoor placement, able to withstand the harsh elements of sun, wind, rain, changing temperatures. Firstly, Using a photo as a reference, I sketched Zinc onto heavy gauge paper then cut out a...