Who is Gumnut?

Who is Gumnut?

Gumnut…

• Is a visual artist who is exploring all kinds of art, seeking inspiration and finding it in its multitudes.
• Is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and the occasional piece of rubbish.
• Is a sci-fi nut who was geeky enough to walk down the aisle to the theme from ‘Star Trek: First Contact’. I wore a silver wedding dress and got stuck in a rose bush half way to the altar.
• Is a photographer who doesn’t know one lens from another, but adores her fantastic auto and macro modes…and cruises with a dash of good composition to back her up.
• Is married to the most patient man in the world. I couldn’t ask for a more wonderful life partner or father of my children, despite his habit of leaving doors and drawers ajar all over the house.
• Moonlights as the Library Promotions Officer in a public library. My love of art meets my love of logic and order.
• Has the messiest desk on the planet.
• Is the mother of a two young girls, and is suitably randomly insane.
• Is an amateur genealogist who can trace her ancestry back to the 1700s (and in some cases, beyond).
• Is a hooker…in the crochet sense. I rarely work from a pattern and make things up as I go along. Consequently my forte is scarves and throw rugs.
• Was born, bred and baked in South Australia, a place of cool winters and bushfire summers.
• Has four universes in her head. All of which deserve a novel or two and a bunch of short stories.
• Is absent-minded. Too much happens in my brain and some of it leaks out my ears. Consequently my short term memory is unreliable. If you think I’ve forgotten something important, please poke me.
• Is an Australian native plant enthusiast and has an entire front garden to prove it.
• Is synaesthesiac. I think in colour.
• Is a survivor of nine years of fertility treatment that gave me my two beautiful daughters, despite nearly killing me in the process.
• Can cook, and used to do dinner parties for friends.
• Is a lousy housewife.
• Likes to stand in the rain, squelch in the mud, breathe in the wind, taste the salt spray, touch the breeze, and hear the roar of the ocean.
• Loves the coast and the atmosphere of the wind and waves.
• Has a wave phobia.
• Is a moderationist. Extremism in any sense accomplishes nothing. Balance is required.
• Is obsessive, with the attention span of a gnat.
• Writes poetry.
• Graduated from high school with her highest marks in Biology. The lowest were in Art, and I failed the subject.
• Is sensitive to everything, particularly noise. Alcohol and caffeine are particularly exciting.
• Is agnostic. I know just enough to know that I don’t know enough.

…is off the edge, but is learning to fly.