Paula Xiberras
There is something magical about Megan Morton. Megan Morton’s father married a house whisperer and some of that nature may have rubbed off because she herself became one. It’s a difficult ability to explain but after chatting to Megan a little while ago I came some way to understanding the discipline.
Megan loves Tasmania calling it a place of’ ‘unreal things’ and she herself is an ‘air freak’ for the purity of our air.
In her visit to Tasmania she will be at the Battery Point Community Centre for her ‘school’ where she will educate us in style. Not only will Tasmanians be there but people from Perth, the Gold Coast are also flying down to take part in the school and experience some of Tasmania at the same time.
Megan says we live in a time of visual overload and there comes a time when we just need to have some quiet moments that help us tune again to the creative side of our brain. Megan’s school offers basket weaving classes that have even had brain surgeons seeking to get in touch with their creative selves.
She veers away from calling basket weaving ‘TAFE territory’ she says it can even be a confronting experience, when a person realises it is ‘just you,water and cane’, but the aim of the whole experience is to join hand and heart. It’s a process of seeing each step in the process.
Megan in her role of stylist and house whisperer develops beautiful houses incrementally and she is sensitive to the nature of the house, living herself, as she does in what she calls ‘a bipolar house’ with both a 3 year old and a 13 year old.
Often Megan says its what is taken away rather than what is added ,often about ‘editing’ rather than ‘adding’ that gives a room its uniqueness. Megan talks, as an example about a trip to Morocco in which garnered her an overwhelming number of souvenirs, she just couldn’t cope with. Instead Megan says its often a few special pieces that define a home. The proof is in the pudding with the husbands happy with the results of their wives workshops especially seeing the result and knowing the work that was put into achieving it.
You can see Megan and her travelling school supported by Fuller’s Bookshop at Battery Point Community Hall for a’ potluck instameet dinner’ on Thursday 15 August at 5pm.
You can also purchase Megan’s new book ‘I love my Room’ published by Thames and Hudson available now.
