Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

The Apron Project 2019 - The theme is "Her Strength is Her Superpower"   I created a "Strong" apron for the project. It features a photo transfer from one of my original life drawings with free form machine stitching.   All the artists' aprons are donated to raise funds for the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women's Shelter  - crisis accommodation for women suffering the effects of domestic violence.  Please check out the auction website - there are truly amazing aprons created by some amazing artists. 

Art doll/photo : Rose Keemun by Wilma Simmons Quote by Han Suyin  I love this saying, by Han Suyin . It probably sums up her life as much as any of her writings. Han Suyin, 1916-2012 ( Elizabeth Comber ) physician and author, had a Chinese - Flemish background. She is best known for her  strongly autobiographical fiction with a bi cultural setting , a clash of  values, traditions and ideas.  Her novels were   A Many Splendoured Thing, My House has Two Doors , and The  Crippled Tree.  Younger  Han Suyin Xiangwei, her editor writes:  I n the 1970s and 1980s, Han Suyin was frequently mentioned in the news in China. At least one hundred million people were aware of who she was. Before I become the editor of her books, her name only meant to me as a political figure. Every person of my age knew she was the biographer of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. But the publication of 'A Many-Splendored Thing' presented a rather different personality...