‘Come on, let’s do this,’ says Mariana Mezic as we sit down for our interview at Valley of Yore cafe in Myponga. She’s just wandered down from upstairs, where she’s recently established her studio. She marvels at her luck in finding this space in the former Myponga cheese factory, finding her artistic home in a room filled not only with natural light but also in a building with the energy and creativity of good people and good things coming together.

Mariana Mezic: To the beat of her own drum