When I was a child the neighbourhood kids and I would spend our free time riding bikes among the surrounding bushland. Although our...

Queenstown is surely one of the world’s prettiest cities but the beauty doesn’t stop at the city limits so I highly recommend a day trip...

There are no words powerful enough to describe what it’s like to wake up in one of earth’s most beautiful places, Milford Sound, so...

Mornings in Te Anau mean throwing open your curtains to panoramic views of a glassy lake and a strong desire to take a brief stroll or...

There’s little to stick around for in Invercargill (although had I known about Demolition World I might have considered a visit) so...

The best part about staying at Larnach Castle was waking up in a goddamn castle and for a very brief moment this morning the dense fog...

The benefit of staying in Oamaru, besides its steampunk fascination and its penguin playground, is that it’s quite near the Moeraki...

It’s not often you get excited about a drive but I was relishing the opportunity to travel the scenic Mount Cook Road once again as we...

Today was drizzly and foggy, and what perfect weather to take a four hour 10k hike? Rugged up in our best weatherproofs we walked Mount...

When I received an invitation to a wedding in New Zealand I thought to myself, why not? New Zealand has never been high on my bucket list...

Whenever I travel overseas I always muse about how little history Australia has compared to the rest of the world but that’s because I...

Wandering through a field completely alone yet surrounded by flowers as tall as a man who whisper in the breeze to the sky above, ablaze...

If I haven’t mentioned it before my favourite artist is Charles Blackman and, in particular, his Schoolgirls and Angels series. He...

For me every new year is a chance for reinvention so with 2017 on the horizon I have been going through a period of deep self...

Lately I’ve spent a lot of time staring at mountains and experiencing that feeling–you know the one–that is a mix of awe and wonder,...

Last spring I created the image, ‘Dance of the Jacarandas’ to celebrate the month when my city turns purple, so after a trip to Japan...

I got into creating art because I love it. I live for it. Because nothing else has ever made me happier. And so I rode the wave and...

There are some honeyeaters that flit about my house feeding on nectar. A few years ago one of them got trapped inside the house and after...

Recently the opportunity to do a newborn photo shoot literally fell into my lap – when my neighbour handed me this doll and suggested I...

When I was small we lived in a house that backed onto undeveloped land and so the neighbourhood kids and I would grab our bikes and head...