Deirdre Moran

visual artists
Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

Deirdre Moran Beauty at Low Tide, Pastel, 42 x 60 cm

Since her retirement to Coochiemudlo, Deirdre Moran has been ‘driven’ as an artist — passionately engaged with painting and landscapes. 

Rendered with meticulous attention to detail and technique, Deirdre’s landscape works invite us to reconnect our memories and emotional responses to place. Often inspired by island landscapes, seascapes and skies, she is captivated by the ever-changing light and colour that illuminates each scape. Revelling in the immediacy of her dry pastel medium for placing and building layers of clean and vivid colour, Deirdre finds herself increasingly drawn to deep engagement with the abstract play of colour inside each representational image, forming works of great subtlety. 

Curlew Gallery and Ross Street Gallery: open 10am – 2pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

https://sitecontent.com.au
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