Kookimoon Design

11/06/2026

One to add to the collection ‘Where the birds keep secrets’.
These pieces are slow made.
From drawing the concept, wedging the clay, rolling the clay to just the right thickness, shaping it, visualising it’s final outcome, drawing onto the clay, layering 3 coats of underglaze, then carving the image into the clay at the right stage (called leather hard), then loading into the kiln for its first fire and pray to the kiln that it doesn’t warp or crack, then rinse and clean the piece before adding three coats of clear high gloss glaze and then to its final firing stage and open the kiln (after about 12 hours…if you’re patient) and then and only then will you you know after all that time if you’ve completed your project. So I’m currently half way there ☺️

09/06/2026

This year’s collection draws inspiration from nature, birds, hidden places, and the things we often sense but can’t quite put into words.

Whether you’re a fellow maker, a collector, curious about the creative process, or simply looking for a beautiful way to spend part of your weekend, I’d love to welcome you.

Come and wander through the studio, see where the work is made, ask questions, and experience the collection up close.

📍 Kookimoon Design Studio
📅 25 & 26 July
⏰ 10:00am – 4:00pm

I look forward to sharing this space, these stories, and this collection with you.

08/06/2026

Where the Birds Keep Secrets

There are women…
who grow feathers beneath their skin.

Women who speak
in smoke…
in salt…
in half buried things.

Women who know the names of birds
better than they know themselves.

They keep nests in their ribcages.
Collect bones like wildflowers.
Leave fingerprints in wet clay…
and call it healing.

The birds come to them at dusk.
Sharp-eyed.
Ancient.
Little keepers of ruin and rebirth.

And they whisper
hide nothing soft.
hide nothing furious.

So the women
unbutton themselves from silence.
Wear grief like velvet.
Wear rage like gold teeth.
Wear longing like red earth beneath their nails.

Somewhere…
between woman and wing…
they become untameable.
Not pretty enough to be contained.
Not delicate enough to be dismissed.
Not made to be understood.
Only felt.

Like thunder in the belly.
Like dirt beneath bare feet.
Like the low hum of knowing before a storm arrives.

And this…
this is where the birds keep secrets.

Behind the eyes of women who have stopped apologising for the wilderness inside them.

23/05/2026

I’m loving the story telling behind these pieces, feels really grounding to carve something meaningful.
Here’s another snippet of the poem I’m writing for this collection.

Like thunder in the belly.
Like dirt beneath bare feet.
Like the low hum of knowing
before a storm arrives.

And this…

this is where the birds keep secrets.

22/05/2026

There are pieces that teach you technique and there are pieces that quietly unravel something deeper inside you.

This one became both.

Lately I’ve been pushing myself further with sgraffito,slowing down, carving with more intention, learning how much emotion can live inside a single line. Every scratch into the clay feels like revealing something that was already waiting beneath the surface.

This woman arrived slowly.
Half hidden. Half becoming.
A bird obscuring her sight, yet somehow allowing her to see more clearly.

For me, this piece speaks about womanhood in all its wild contradictions,softness and rage, grief and instinct, tenderness and power. The parts of ourselves we conceal to surviveand the parts still aching to take flight.

I wrote these words while creating her:

“There are women who grow feathers beneath their skin…
women who speak in smoke, in salt, in half buried things…” Working on this poem over the next couple of pieces.

This work means more to me than I can properly explain. It feels like a threshold piece, one where my technique and my voice as an artist are beginning to meet each other.

Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to truly see the work.

Sgraffito black & white handmade ceramic plate

13/05/2026

There’s something quietly beautiful about the miniature gallery works of Luca Chiaravalle.


I bought one of his pieces at the in Brisbane and was immediately drawn to the way his work invites you to slow down and look closer. Tiny in scale, yet somehow filled with atmosphere, memory and presence.

I love artists who understand that small things can still hold enormous emotional weight. His miniature spaces feel like little worlds suspended in time , intimate, thoughtful and beautifully observed.

Very grateful this tiny gallery came home with me.

A huge shout out to for totally supporting my purchase, to for inviting me to come along and to .hopeart for getting us there, so nice to spend a day with three very talented creative women who know how to have a good laugh and I think we may have also solved most of the worlds problems in a day!

13/05/2026

I needed a butter keeper so I decided to make one, took me ages to try and figure out how to make one so I decided to find a template. Thanks to for providing an awesome template which also came with a video tutorial, this helped a lot!

15/12/2025

A new collection of vases and trinket trays. I’ll be dropping these off to Banksia Espresso and they will be available from tomorrow. Get in quick, as this will be my last drop for the year.
A big thank you 🙏 to all of you who have purchased my ceramics and supported local small businesses it really does mean the world.
Wishing you all a happy festive season!
Everything I want for myself
I want for everyone around me
I hope we all make it
And I hope we all find the things that make us happy 😊

15/12/2025

A new collection of mugs and plates. I’ll be dropping these off to Banksia Espresso and they will be available from tomorrow. Get in quick, as this will be my last drop for the year.
A big thank you 🙏 to all of you who have purchased my ceramics and supported local small businesses it really does mean the world.
Wishing you all a happy festive season!
Everything I want for myself
I want for everyone around me
I hope we all make it
And I hope we all find the things that make us happy 😊

02/11/2025