One sleep to go, and I’m a little bit nervous.
When preparing all the work it’s easy to imagine that when the day comes it will all be done, and the only thing remaining is to hang it and wait for the opening function.
When hanging it, one imagines that the only thing to do now is [...]

Daniel in action. 
Remember being a little kid and spinning around so much that you fell on your back with your legs in the air and just watched the sky going around?
That’s how I feel today.
Daniel and I hung the show for Momentum last night at Loco. It was a bit daunting to [...]

Circa 1986
Dancing, imbibing, flirting, discovering, laughing, and laughing, and laughing, building friendships, lives, hopes, memories.
It’s all-consuming, this living thing. Before you know it a year or two, or ten has passed, and you may feel sometimes that there’s not much to show for it, but it’s all there, written in your eyes and on [...]

I’m wondering, since I will be putting 10 litle works into the exhibition, and I am about to frame them……
Should there be glass or no glass.
The frames I use appeal to me because they are plain, simple and have a lovely compact solid feel about them.  Minimal but not too heavy.
Putting a sheet of glass [...]

7 Days until opening night.
4 sleeps until we hang the exhibition.
Even though the painting is over, there is still so much to do.  Title cards must be done, works must be collated and sorted, small frames must be purchased.  There are people I’ve been meaning to invite and I still havn’t done that either.  eeek!
Once [...]

I went to a catholic all-girls school.
When I was about 15, my art teacher suggested to my parents that I might enjoy attending life-drawing classes after school.  I had no idea this meant drawing naked people.
I suppose my parents knew what I was in for, but it was a source of most incredible embarassment to [...]

This morning Daniel and I drove to Mt Eliza to drop off works for the Mt Eliza Art Show.
It’s always a bit nerve-wracking delivering works, but it was good to see what had been dropped off earlier, and see new works arriving. It’s usually an interesting show, and there certainly seemed to be some [...]

This weekend went by in a blur.  Poor Zara was sick, and I think it was a mix of motherly feelings of helplessness and the resolve to not paint for a few days mixed with warmer weather that made it all happen.
I spent Saturday (plus a few nights) sewing for Zara for summer.
Spurred on by [...]

3/4 sleeve t-shirt with skull and crossbones appliqued on front.  Raw hems on sleeves, and at neck to roll and twist at will.
Warm weather and impending summer has got me moving on the wardrobe projexr.  It’s been applique-a-go-go here.  More to follow……

The fishwife, oil on linen
After the precision, carefully controlled chaos, and subtle layering of the past few weeks, I just had to let loose. When you focus on detail too long, it’s easy to get bound up , feel contricted and get performance anxiety with regards to handling paint… Let that go on too [...]