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 write things in 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. It’s 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 need some help making sense of things.

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 strategy and storytelling studio called Good Form Media, where stories are shaped into impact campaigns. It turns out the same instincts apply (clarity, creatitivity, and imagination). 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 are why we do the things we do. Culture fascinates me, and not in a dusty old academic way, but in really fun cool girl way. Stories shape our cultural atmosphere. Some stories organise the human world, some help us endure it, and others, well, they remind us its not all that serious. We are here to be joyful, loving and alive. Those kind of stories are my favourite.