Poppy MacLeanMy name is Poppy Maclean. I live and work in Canberra, the capital of Australia. My ‘career path’ is eccentric. Opal cutter, salesgirl, jillaroo*, kitchen hand, screen printer, pathology museum curator, nanny, bureaucrat, diplomat.
My formal training is in Art, Languages, History, Occupational Health & Safety Management and,lately, Psychology. My work is writing and editing the Connections series (url) and teaching cross-cultural communication skills to my foreign service colleagues and the Australian business community. Like most things, I fell into it by accident.
In Belgium in 1990, I met my first Bouvier des Flandres and it was love at first sight. Beautiful, rustic-looking, strong, clever, laid back and bombproof - who could imagine a dog with more?
In 1997, Percy adopted me. Today she is my muse. A shaggy sense of humour on four
skinny legs, a stumpy tail that wiggles "left right, left right", a grinning,
happy black face and brown eyes to melt the coldest heart. She is my constant friend, my
alarm clock, my personal trainer, my funny girl, my inspiration. |
The drawings are a record of this love-affair with Percy. She’s an expressive, humourous character - ideal for cartooning - whether flat-out snoozing on my bed or leaping, helter-skelter through the paddocks. They are whimisical drawings, light-hearted, bright, instant and, above all, fun. I hope you enjoy them. For the technically-minded, they are done on a power mac 71/66 using photoshop 4 and drawn left-handed with a mouse. (& yup, I am right-handed.)
*Jillaroo, a female Jackaroo - a farm hand - a cowgirl.