Hi, I’m Matisse.
Yup, just like the artist. Last name, Walkden-Brown.

WHO AM I?
I am a writer, notetaker, and storymaker by habit and personality, I am a kid who grew up in a backpackers resort in Fiji, but mostly a kid who never really grew up at all. I watch a lot of television. I draw things of my notebook. I make up some stories. Some of them I share.

I’m also a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, a very ex-model, and a terrible cook.

WHAT DO I DO?
I write a weekly dispatch called Field Notes of a Silly Girl. Its a collection of messy notes for anyone trying to find magic while cooking Maggi noodles. I like to think of myself as a foreign correspondent for aliens who might have landed here, and thought it a bit underwhelming.

I run Little Mountains, a local creative club for kids, and kids at heart, devoted to making things with our hands and play.

And sometimes, in a more structured corner of the world, I run a communications studio called Good Form Media, where stories are shaped into impact campaigns. It turns out the same instincts apply (clarity, imagination, and asking the right questions). We even made a super cool software to simplify all things impact strategy, so we can get back to the fun stuff. It’s called Formmity.

WHY DO I DO IT?
Because I am interested in humans and how we live. Culture fascinates me, and not in a dusty old academic way, but in the everyday sense. How we move through supermarkets. How children whisper. How certain songs feel like portals. Stories shape the atmosphere we all breathe. Some stories organise the human world, some help us endure it, and others, well, they make it feel vibrantly alive, with the collective beat of our hearts. I love those kind.