HEART & HOME
Garden Dreams – A Photo Journal
At Bank House, the garden is slowly coming to life – a quiet, evolving conversation with the land. Guided by the rhythm of the seasons, we’re softe...
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Sketches traces the lines of place and creative living through thoughtful storytelling, insights and inspiration. It’s an invitation to slow down, take notice and find connection in the natural world.
HEART & HOME
The Quiet Magic of a Garden
Landscape designer and ceramicist Kylie Breaker invites us into her world of soulful gardens and slow design. Her course, A Garden Alchemy, is a ge...
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HEART & HOME
Quiet Local
As autumn gently fades, we’re soaking up the quiet beauty of village life – foggy mornings, local markets and creative gatherings that warm the sou...
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HEART & HOME
Of Mothers and Memory
Scent has a way of holding memory – quietly, invisibly. In this piece, we trace the subtle aromas of lemon myrtle, bush rose, and wild quince as th...
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HEART & HOME
Love like Stringybark
Out here, love weathers like stringybark– tough, quiet and unshaken by the seasons. This is a story of bush mothering, of grief held gently and of ...
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FOOD & DRINK
Flour & Stone Poached Quince
In our latest Sketches, Nadine Ingram shares her recipe for poached quince – the fragrant, slow-cooked fruit that anchors her new Bush Quince Cake....
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HEART & HOME
Home Away From Home: Green Hills House
High on a ridge in Blackbutt, Queensland, Green Hills House hums with the quiet murmur of lives once lived – dances on timber floors, homemade lemo...
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RITUALS & ROOMS
Rituals & Rooms: Welcoming Easter in the ’Blue Room’
Preparing a room for guests is more than mere arrangement; it is a thoughtful act of care and connection. In the Blue Room, each detail, from scent...
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HEART & HOME
Silver threads, golden bonds: Celebrating lifelong friendships
I first met my friend Emma in the vibrant early nineties in London, introduced by mutual friends. Instantly bonded by our shared passions for art, ...
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Loaves, fishes and the art of dropping in
Do you remember that old ad from the eighties – Campbell's Soup, I think it was? A big, happy mob turns up unannounced – at a lighthouse no less – ...
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HEART & HOME
Finding solace through art, scent & nature
This week marks a year since my love died, and I won’t lie – I have struggled. Struggled with the weight of his absence, with the countless little ...
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ARTISTS & MAKERS
An Artistic Sense | Gillian Hughes
Gillian Hughes doesn’t have to wander far from home to immerse herself in a depth of pristine natural beauty. The English-born artist lives and wor...
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HEART & HOME
A new chapter in scent and place
There’s a quiet magic in the way scent lingers in memory, how light moves across the land, how the seasons shape our days in ways both subtle and p...
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