This is how we came to be
My love for Bali began over 17years ago. Immediately upon the plane doors opening, the smell, it hit me and I loved it. It was an unusual feeling of being “home” at last. I have since met other “Bali regulars” who have experienced this same feeling. The following 3 years saw three more holidays to Bali with many strong friendships formed.
A Son was born and nine years went by. I realised Jed and I had never been overseas or even had a holiday together…Early 2004 we were off on our exciting Mum and Son adventure and mission to find my long lost Balinese friends who never left my thoughts, and to show Jed how to give back a little by taking all his old toys, clothes and games to an orphanage. The orphanage touched my heart so deeply, the huge smiles on the faces of those tiny children, PRICELESS. It is all they have to give to say thank you, they don’t even realise they have nothing and little hope of ever having the opportunities we Westerners take for granted. To choose one would be impossible, to find a way to help them all seemed the only way. I left that orphanage in tears knowing I had to do something. How could one single mum help these kids?
While scouring the countryside for my dear friends I came across the most incredibly talented clans of artists painting some amazingly peaceful scenes and spectacular abstract pieces. This is something I‘d not seen before, certainly not back in Oz. Six weeks later I was back in Bali buying my first range of art…..
h..Art of Bali was born….now I had a way to help those precious orphaned kids…
