Thanks Cathy!

Fullers Bookstore in Hobart.

Perfect!!

Yes, that bag!!
Thank you Catherine for sharing your story about connections, timing, and the magic of the universe! It’s a fabulous one! (By the way, I’d love to know the name of the bookstore as I’ll be in Hobart early April!)

Thanks Vivian! And the story continues….

Hah hah – well spotted Nicolette! And yes…fate indeed.

It is Stephan, the long legs, the shoes.. and of course: fate. It’s a marvellous story and I am glad you shared it, thanks to your Mum.

I have several connection stories that really make my heart sing. This is the first one …
Five years ago I was at a painting retreat in Tasmania with Artable and Richard McKinley (you’re in for a treat with Gillian and Steve, Gail!). We travelled to the Bay of Fires for a painting day and I started painting the fabulous granite rocks while there which I finished later at home.
Two years later in January I had retired and joined a new art collective with a little gallery where my work is exhibited and sold. ‘Secluded Beach’ was part of my first collection there. In March of that year I returned to Tasmania to stay with a friend I’d met on retreat and on my last day we visited a fabulous bookstore in Hobart and had lunch there.
A week later a couple came into our gallery where I was volunteering and fell in love with ‘Secluded Beach’. We chatted about my trips to Tasmania and when they had decided they needed to have my painting the gentleman handed me his card. They were the owners of the bookstore where I’d had lunch the week before!