May 11th, 2025Art, Music, Words exhibition now showing, Daylesford

The exhibition Intersections: Art, Music, Words is currently on display at the Daylesford Regional  Visitor Information Centre from May 8 to June 19.  

Vanessa  Craven (daylesfordARTS), pictured, is an artist with many  strings to her bow.  She paints in acrylic, oils and mixed media, ink and pencil, is a nature  photographer and a talented musician who plays with her bands Lunar Dust and Lake Mist as well as solo.  

Vanessa is also a writer and poet. She won the Bendigo Sustainability Festival ‘Poe-Tree’ award 2025, and has two published books, a children’s book, Birds in my Tree: the Magic of Birds and the Joy of Singing and a poetry book, Under the Mop Top Tree.  

She has also published poems and short stories in five anthologies with the Moorabool Writers Craft including in 2023, Mists of Moorabool.  She has produced and recorded three music CDs Filtered Light, Forbidden  Dance and Homebrew.

Her music has won awards with the Australian Songwriting Association.  

Daylesford Regional Visitor Information Centre is open daily from 10am to 4pm  at 98 Vincent Street, Daylesford.

Image: Kyle Barnes