About

 Marina has been a maker and designer her whole life, starting with strong early influences from 6 months of age at kindergarten at the Australian National University right up to her formal training in a Bachelor of Arts in Metalsmithing at Monash University Victoria, and well beyond with constant and ongoing self education in a multitude of methods and mediums. 
Calling the Otways and Surf Coast of Victoria her home of the heart, Marina is also renovating an 1890's cottage in the forest accompanied by her horse Treasure, a Saluki named Artemis, and a Tonkinese cat named DaisyMae. 
Core values are family, country and the natural world. Patterns in nature and patterns in self reflection are consistent in her work, as is her love of the wild within us, reflected in birds, horses, and the expression of our freedom of spirit. 

Marina has studied the natural behaviour of horses for over 20 years, and more recently over the past 6 years has been fortunate to work with Full Flight Birds of Prey Falconry centre in Miners Rest, Victoria where she is able to handle and study Australian raptors in great detail. When she isn't creating art, riding, or working on her house, she is out exploring the beautiful world in which we live, and hopes to put a little bit of it within everything she makes.

The master in the art of living
makes little distinction between
his work and his play,
his labour and his leisure,
his mind and his body,
his education and his recreation,
his love and his religion.
He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence
in whatever he does,
leaving others to decide
where he is working or playing.
To him (or her), he is always doing both.

 ~ Lawrence Pearsall Jacks (1932) ~