CHANGEOVER

My doonas don't match - tonally that is. I have a watermelon set in red, green and white for spring. A mediterranean view in aquas and blues for summer. I turn towards somewhat darker colours for autumn but still with lots of reds and oranges and golds and then for winter, it's an Australian forest with scarlet flowering gums. Which is all very well but it means I have to change the art in my room over each season.

Now that we have hanging systems in most rooms, technically that should be an easy process but it was very handy that Hal the Hanging Man had to come back this week with the final set of attachements for the final room to be sorted and I could ask him to go up the ladder instead of me.

For the last three or four months, my walls have been covered in tones of aqua and blue including a pastel of Cottesloe Beach by Betty's beach friend Barbara, a poster of the 1982 production Women Beware Women, a lagoon photo I took in Fiji, an indigenous painting of the area near Shark Bay, an idylic acrylic island scene I bought years ago, a pool print that I bought at one of last year's Open Studios, and a laneway on a greek island.

Now, the walls include a poster of a 1974 production of The Merchant of Venus, two costume drawings by Gabriella Tylesova from the MTC production of Cyrano de Bergerac, a travel poster from Malaysia, and some of my autumnal photos from Japan, Seville and the Cook Islands.

It might seem like an effort to change over art every couple of months but the result is a range of stimulus that makes waking up (almost) a pleasure.

Summer tones

Winter tones