Mavis worked in art-related fields before ‘retirement’, largely in design, cartooning and illustration, but also in teaching art to both children and prison inmates. Not in the same place, of course. After studying art at UNSW, she spent nearly three months on a ‘world whirl’ to soak up art in Africa, Europe, North America and New Zealand. She has an eclectic range of expression and is adept at using many manual mediums; computer art is still on her ‘to do’ list. She likes the bush, most creatures (including people), her personal independance – and the occasional visit to a big city ‘to remind me why I love living in the country’. Working on the Adamadas Chronicles’ maps, diagrams and illustrations, she says, has ‘a sort of Avatar/Hobbit feel – with a dash of Gaudi, but anything can inspire an image idea – even a pot of parsley…
