The Palmetum in Townsville has a lush and exuberant collection of tropical palms. Greens proliferate, with an odd surprising flash of yellow and red. The trunks are paths for the palms to convey food and water to the canopy. It is cool and peaceful, an escape from tropical heat.

The Pathways series
I work with a group of Canberra textile artists called tACTile. The others are - Dianne Firth, Helen Gray, Beth Miller and Beth and Trevor Reid (click here to visit the tACTile website).
We have put together a large body of work - fifteen two metre square quilts and a large collaborative piece of 280 twenty centimetre quilts in an exhibition called Pathways.
The exhibition opens at the Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville in early February and will travel in Australia for a year.
In its most literal sense a pathway is a way of moving through landscape. Walking to take photographs through Australia's forests and beaches, the paths offered constant choices and decisions to be made. Pathways offer access but diverge, converge, and diverge again. Taking one track means leaving another for another time. They are for me, a metaphor for moving through life. What is offered in my images are snapshots taken en route.