Are you there deer?

Are you there deer? (102cm x 76cm), oil on linen, 2007
Another one finished, and hanging on the studio wall drying.
There’s only another functional week and a half left – possibly just one functional week before the show. I’m still plugging away gently but starting to need a slight reprieve from the paint.
I really need [...]

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self-portrait wednesday

My kids are growing up.
They are getting more capable, starting to do stuff for themselves. They are changing at different rates. My son still likes help getting dressed, my daughter still likes to be fed from time to time. Both still love to hold my hand – which is an honour and a [...]

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Mermaid

Mermaid (92cm x 61cm).  Oil on linen, 2007 
Good days painting yesterday.  Got a few finished off, including this one – which has been winking at me from the corner for over a week now.  I just needed a bit of quiet head-space to put the finishing touches on.  Often it’s that last little bit which [...]

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Done and dusted

Beautiful wedding.  We’re all married off now!
Amazing to look around a big family celebration like this one, and see the grown up kids of relatives that I was a grown-up birdesmaid at.  To see little ones going crazy on the dance floor.  To see older family friends, some aged, some seemingly exactly the same.  The [...]

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Happiness…

There’s a wedding today!
Happy day, celebration, love given and received, smiles.
It’s an emotional day.
My father was one of a family of 4. I was born, one month later, my cousin was born, and a few months later, the 3rd little baby appeared. Three girls, three cousins, three girls all the same age, the [...]

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I can’t get dressed

Untitled, Oil on linen.
I had a dream the other night that I was at my cousins wedding (on tomorrow). For some reason I thought it would be funny to wear a bridal outfit as well, and turned up in full regalia, only to have BIG second thoughts. I was about to rush home [...]

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Guilt….

This morning, as drank my coffee and looked around, planning the day’s activity – including quite a lot of washing, tidying, supermarket shopping, bed-making, and perhaps finishing a dress, I felt guilty.
Not long until the show, and I will be spending the day doing things, which are maintenance, and necessary, but don’t contribute to Momentum [...]

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self-portrait wednesday

This is me – today – with a photo of myself that would have been taken 20 years ago. That’s my mother as well, and I think she was probably my age when it was taken. Wow!
My cousin Georgina and I looked through some old photos on the weekend – preparing a special gift [...]

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Still Life with oranges

Still life with oranges, Oil on Linen.
Finished this piece yesterday, so my works for the Mt Eliza Show are all ready – 2 weeks before showing.  Almost unheard of, and quite a nice feeling!
I actually enjoyed doing this one – normally still life is sort of dead for me.  The exploration of shapes was kind [...]

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Are you there deer?

Are you there deer? oil on linen – work in progress.
Big day’s painting ahead of me, having realised over the weekend, that there are really only 2 more functional weeks to produce work in.  Drying, attaching hooks etc.  will happen in the last remaining week.  October is whizzing by.
My heart is in my mouth and [...]

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