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From the heart
Noosa author Julie Holland records the world and her imaginings in real time, jotting down thoughts and observations as they come to her, catching a moment or a creative spark in words or pictures before it fades. But Julie’s scratchings are not just private musings: the writer, artist and businesswoman has a history of converting …
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A deep dive into art
Some might say Eugene Rubuls was born an artist. Influenced from an early age by the beauty of the natural world around him, these surroundings became the base for Eugene’s artistic wonderland as his passion grew. “As a kid, I was forever drawing or playing around with art on any media I could get a …
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Going natural
Sheridan Austin may be a Sunshine Coast native, but it was on the other side of the world that she began her journey into what has become a lifelong passion for nutrition and wellness. At the age of 18, while working in a prestigious boarding school in Wales in the UK, Sheridan was struck by …
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Hope & new horizons
Charlotte Hillenbrand is a career high-flier: she worked as a lawyer, then pivoted to become an international pilot flying wide-bodied airplanes. She had a job and a life she loved. Then, in March 2020, the global pandemic grounded the world. Like almost every pilot, Charlotte’s career was abruptly put on what she thought was a …
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Beading a future
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Meet Scottish-born Karen Curwen, a mother who has re-invented herself out of necessity. When Karen and her husband David traded Glasgow’s wild and woolly weather for subtropical Brisbane 12 years ago, they couldn’t have imagined their escape to paradise would soon devolve into a nightmare. Their four-year-old …
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Soulful connection
It runs in his veins, this wild, wide blue ocean – and particularly the little stretch of the coast off Alexandra Headland. Damian Coulter, 54, is synonymous with surfing off the Bluff, his distinct, elegant style on a longboard as poetic as it is textbook. Surfing, the ocean and the coastal stretch are his love, …
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One with nature
It is quiet and it is still. There is no human interference – only the gentle breeze rustling through the leaves, and the soft melodies of the honeyeaters and butcher birds perched in the trees above. That is until you open your eyes and are jolted back to the here and now. The group of …
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Connecting cultures
A 12,000-KILOMETRE journey half-way around the world to a foreign country led Candela Sande to discover what her homeland had to offer. Candela was studying tourism at university in Argentina when, during a winter escape to Costa Rica in 2015, she met a traveller on his way to work in the ski fields of Canada …
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Force of nature
You could say Amanda Brooks is inspired by nature, but that would be far too simplistic. Her artwork isn’t just pretty paintings of birds and flowers, animals and landscapes. Absolutely not. It is layer on layer of colourful hues that have the ability to brighten your day and bring a smile to your face. Her …
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Passion for print
Inquisitive magpies look down on me from their perch on a wooden shelf in artist Kim Herringe’s light-filled north Maleny studio. These magpies look so lifelike their personalities virtually take flight from the paper they’re printed on. But they’re captured in ink by a process known as linoleum reduction printing. It’s a precise process using …
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