I have been an art teacher for 32 years, teaching secondary school art and wood technology. Recently I became an empty nester, well I flew the coup and left my adult children in our house in Victoria and moved to WA, and have gone back t o being creative. In my local town of Tom Price, I am the Senior High School Art Teacher and teach students in both 2 dimensional and 2 dimensional mediums such as, drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, soft sculpture, weaving, sculpture and graffiti art. Much of what I teach is seen i n my own art at one time or another. Having AuDHD, I cycle through the use of art mediums and themes to work with. At present I am hooked on mixed media; combing collage with painting, printmaking, metallic leaf gilding and over drawing. Thematically I move between Pilbara flora and fauna and blue asbestos issues. I also teach adult art classes after school, usually ceramics as this is something most folks cannot do at home. I also provide workshops for the local shire when needed and sell art at the local community markets. I have painted the Tom Price community Gardens shed with a large vegetable mural and recently finished graffiti spraying a car for some locals entering this year's Shitbox Rally. Since moving here and returning t o my art, I have begun entering local and not so local art awards. This year is my third year entering the Cossak Art Awards and my first year entering the Jury Art Prize. The local shire also has a local exhibition I have entered. 20 years ago, l had a solo exhibition of a series o f fertility artworks and currently 1 am working towards creating a body of paintings about the Pilbara.