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UV sensitive FABRinks (fabric inks) are just the coolest way to paint and create designs onto anything... clothes, curtains, doona covers, shoes, hats, gloves, table cloths, one buyer even painted an old pram. As an artist, I've exhibited three times using these inks. The first exhibition - Lodestone Dreaming - was for the launch of the Australian expression of The Hunger Project. I sold 12/16 paintings and Lodestone fizzled.

Wittenoom, a very small town in the North West of Western Australia, (renowned for asbestos mining...... and the lawsuits that followed) was my insiration. Bordering on Karajini National Park, Wittenoon now doesn't exist on any Australian map, even tho' people still live there.

It was a beginning for me as an artist... the Australian outback showed me that colors are completely non-descriminatory... they break every rule of traditional paradigms. Pink does blend with green, orange and purple DO go together, thunderstorms do create LIVE sparks, and flowers grow where-ever they damn well please. So do mangoes by the way, one couple living there transformed the desert into a tropical paradise with monstrous fruits/vegetables and babies.

These inks are simply de-lightful to paint with, the consistency is smooth, they're waterbased, so diluted with water on silk they blend beautifully. The secret is in the pigment, which is inktensely strong due to their purpose - to screen print designs. Used with a paintbrush rather than a screen and squiggee, the ink transforms itself in to a stunning artistic medium - which also turns out to be quite an inexpensive way to experiment with painting.

Enough said ABOUT the fantabulous fabrINKS... let's go
S H O P P I N G !!!