"I am a curious person who enjoys exploring ideas and creative things. Life should be more about experimentation and being happy to change as you grow."

I am a writer, illustrator, facilitator and experimenter - it still freaks me out to own some of those titles.

Short history, I am a 50 year-old woman living in the Huon Valley in Tasmania, Australia - a place I tree-changed to with my partner, Derek, in 2010. While I was already taking greater control of my life in the six years leading up to the move, I still didn't know what I wanted from my life, or how I wanted to contribute to the world.

That frustration led to My Year of TED - a year-long experiment trying on ideas (you'll find all about that here). From that process, I gained an understanding of what I wanted, confidence in my abilities and the courage to start pursuing options.

Sure, I still struggle with limiting mindsets and the habits of a lifetime - including perfectionism, people pleasing and being overly-judgemental (mainly to myself). But I've also quit paid employment (started my own business - dinkylune, an anagram of my name), spoke at TEDxHobart and self-published three books (including Do Share Inspire: The Year I Changed My Life Through TED Talks).

And now... well, I continue to learn and grow through the lessons and my desire to keep pushing outside my comfort zone. I've learned so many universal truths of life, and more become evident every day. These are shared through my blog, free resources to subscribers (seriously sign up below), courses I develop and deliver and whenever I get the opportunity to talk to groups of people.

I’ve also shifted into allowing myself to be more creative and use those skills as a large part of my job - or what I give the world.

If you want to:

  • gain greater control of your life

  • improve your confidence and courage around decision making

  • learn practical tips in making significant career changes

  • discover how to work out what you want for your life

  • find better life balance

  • discover how embracing an experimental mindset can change your life.

Then welcome to my world! It's a fun place, where you are not required to meet anyone's expectations - not even your own 🙂

The only rule is don't get comfortable - that's when the fun stops.

"I love trying to make the world a more visually interesting place to be and am passionate about sharing my experiences to help expand other people’s understanding."

I help organisations communicate with themselves, their clients and other stakeholders. This is through scribing, illustration, facilitation and writing.

I’ve developed a rather unique set of skills through a varied career through not-for-profit, private enterprise, military service and government work - plus the My Year of TED thing.

I’ve been facilitating and training in some form or other for almost 20 years; in 2017, I added graphic scribing and visual facilitation into that skillset. This is alongside almost 10 years of creating infographics and other visual communication tools to help organisations communicate effectively.

I have a passion for simplifying complex or complicated things to make them easier for people to understand. My speciality is finding the key points that will help people connect and understand content - summarising your message; finding the metaphor they can connect to; capturing it in a simple and engaging way. Simple also means quick and flexible - my digital work is vectorised, which means you can print it any size the printer will allow.

Previous Clients

My focus has been growing my business in Tasmania, but I’m now venturing out to other areas - the pandemic's online collaboration focus did have a benefit. As you can see on my portfolio page, I’ve done a variety of illustrations in the last four years:

  • Capturing forums and workshops for Tasmanian Forestry, Department of Health, Community Corrections, TasWater, MONA and WorkSafe Tasmania - to name a few clients.

  • Drawing strategic workshops for organisations like Hobart City Mission, Salvation Army, Tasmanian Southern Councils Association, Safe at Home and Huon Valley Council.

  • Capturing keynotes for events like TasCOSS Conference, Youth Mental Health Forum and Tasmanian Youth Conference.

  • Capturing two full day workshops with community for Dept of Education’s Connected Beginnings.

  • Drawing strategic communication tools for The Circus Studio, RSL Tasmania, Pointer Remote, free2b girls.

  • Capturing workshop content for Citizen Science Community of Practice and creating an explainer for them.

  • Developing a suite of explainer videos and handouts for the Tasmanian Community Fund.

Alongside this work, I have developed illustrations and lettering for private clients and my own products.

How does this all work?

Creating this work is pretty easy and pain-free for you. We’ll have a conversation about what you want the illustration to do for you and then go into the information gathering phase. Of course, if it’s capturing content in a workshop, meeting or conference then your job is pretty much done there - well, other than making sure I have a wall at a live event to draw on.

If we’re doing a business illustration, explainer video or other illustrative work, I will talk to you for a while and ask you for some documents that might help. From there, I’ll come up with some concept sketches for how it might be laid out. You’ll get 2-3 of them, with a basic idea of the content. I’ll talk you through them and we’ll come to an agreement about the way ahead.

For static illustrations, I’ll draw the draft and send it through for feedback. Again, we’ll talk through it and I’ll take the changes back to make in the final drawing.

For explainer videos, I’ll storyboard the video based on the layout we decided. I can help you develop a script to accompany this, or you can provide one yourself. Once the storyboards are approved, I’ll go into developing the video - you will still get a chance to review and ask for minor changes.

Remember, I like to make the world easier for people, so I try to keep that focus in my own processes too.

So, if you’re having an event you would like captured (live or online) or you have something you would like to communicate in a more engaging and approachable way, click on the Work With Me button and send through a query. I would love to talk with you about your needs and how I can help you out.