Is Daylesford the new Guggenheim?

Miriam Porter's "Cockatoo Munching"

Art is in the Autumn Air. Big time! Daylesford must be the only spa town in the world where there are as many artists as masseuses.  You can’t walk two metres here without (metaphorically) bumping into art. It’s in galleries, streetscape, gardens, restaurants, homes, even in the Tea! I’m waiting for the day that paint brushes are handed out with every cappuccino. Nature also seems determined to curate its way into the Autumn Art Show. Walking down my precariously cobbled garden path at sunrise this morning, the colour and composition of the sprawling Hobbit-village-in-Mushrooms could easily have been a model out of Peter Jackson’s Weta studios.  I half expected Martin Freeman to pop out. Nature then decided to shift from Hollywood set to Fashion Week; with an ankle-deep catwalk of red and gold autumn leaves wrapping around Daylesford Lake, twinkling with the intermittent flashes of dappled sunlight. Accompanied by nature’s version of Joan Rivers; 23 geese, 7 cockatoos and 14 rosellas. The ducks kept to themselves....Read more...