This is me

Lee‑Ann

Mercer

with my

grandmother

Kewpie

Sky’s story began with my grandmother. She taught me about spiders, rain dances, and how to make ginger beer. Those lessons became the heart of Sky’s rainy day surprise and the beginnings of Sky’s World — a place for story, imagination, and making.

I’m still working on the ginger beer.

A young girl wearing a white floral blouse, blue jeans, and a large straw hat, and an older woman wearing a striped short-sleeve shirt and a dark skirt, smiling outdoors with a house and trees in the background.

Our Story

  Then

A mixed-media illustration featuring a colorful bird, likely a tui, perched on a textured orange background, with a cluster of blue flowers and green leaves above it.
A collage of paper cutouts featuring a pink cat with a blue bow, various colorful flowers, and other decorative elements.
Photograph of a smiling woman wearing glasses and a plaid blazer, with animated characters surrounding her, including a man in a hat and plaid shirt, a girl in a blue floral dress, an elderly woman reaching out, and a pink creature with a blue bow.

Now 

Our Story

SKY’S WORLD‍ ‍

For many years I worked across film, television, theatre, and fashion, building a career around storytelling, design, and creative world‑building.

Today, those experiences shape Sky’s World and my debut picture book, Sky’s rainy day surprise. They also inform the development of the Read‑Aloud & MeWe Power Dress Workshop — a story‑led, hands‑on curriculum experience that begins with a shared read‑aloud and creates opportunities for literacy, oral language, mathematics, visual arts, participation, contribution, and collective creation.

Like my collage artwork, Sky’s World is built in layers, where story, imagination, participation, and many different contributions come together to create something meaningful.

Colorful hand-drawn sign that says 'Welcome to Be Bright' with a yellow background, black outlined letters, and small flying bees in the green grass background.