Australian Country Homes

THE HANDMADE TABLE

As Shannon Garson recalls her teenage years growing up in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, she couldn’t wait to get out of town. The big wide world beckoned and her hometown of Maleny didn’t see her heels for dust as soon as she graduated high school.

“I went to art college in Brisbane and then travelled and worked overseas for a few years,” she recalls. “I’d been lucky enough to work for Brisbane ceramicist

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