Life Lines

me today with small painting – oil on canvas board
I had an unsettling call last night that put me into a tail spin.  It’s not long until the show, and wheels must be put into motion to advertise, and invite.
Eeek.
I’m still far too busy making the work, but it has been an interesting 24 hours, [...]

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Home is what WE make it

I am.  Hopelessly sentimental.
Hopelessly.
My much loved Grandmother has cleared out her home of the last 50ish years to move to a retirement village.  Somewhere smaller.  Somewhere safer to manoever as her body slows further down.
It’s all a bit of a wrench, and has me moody as well – knowing that the house where I visited, [...]

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Where it starts and ends

Each one perfect.  Joyfully given and received.  Turned over gleefully.  Examined, treasured, tossed in the box.

Each one looked for, hunted, discovered, caressed, thrown in the air, rolled on the floor, put to a thousand uses.  Tossed in the box, where they become…..

This.
Which is indescribable,  inpenetrable, ever growing.
From time to time I sort through – binning [...]

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Maggie

Maggie Alderson – in the Good Weekend (The Age).
I’ve been slavishly reading Maggie Alderson – for well over a decade – followed her in the magazines she has edited or written for, bought her books, and the Good Weekend – every weekend, just to have another little piece of insight.
I love her. Not just [...]

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Face

The sisterhood – oil on linen
Just finished this work last night. I’m actually really enjoying this late-night marathon painting thing, and finding it liberating in a strange way. Zara isn’t sleeping during the day at the moment (there have been just too many distractions), and I suspect that it is the end of [...]

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what’s in a name…

Detail of work in progress – oil on linen
I do feel, finally, that I’m settling into a happy place with my style, and my approach to painting the things in my head.
One of the things we all struggle with as artists is finding out style.  We twist and shake, and look, and absorb, flicking through [...]

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self-portrait wednesday

Self and Z in the mirrored triangle – Melbourne (children’s) Museum.
Time to paint.  Time – to paint, time to paint. So what do I do – cruise the internet.
It is one of those cruel ironies, that lack of practice makes a less practiced artist who is less able to go for it in the time [...]

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Devour

This book has travelled with me lately – down to Lorne, back home – to the sofa, table, backyard…..
It is the collected correspondence of two Australian artists – Sidney Nolan (my idol), and Alert Tucker – friends and rivals for their creative lifetimes.
It is completely fascinating to me on so many levels. It covers [...]

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The icing on the cake

Cakes made from this book – shared with a dear friend (and ooooh they were good).
School holidays are drawing to a close.  It has been blissful in lots of ways – hard to juggle in others.  We are feeling rested, excited about times to come, and looking forward to seeing some faces we havn’t seen [...]

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Your opinion……

I have entered a show, and need to pick three paintings to show in it.  They are all the same size, and have not had their titles painted on yet – so they are to an extent interchangable.
In entering the show, I needed to submit titles, and now I have 5 works to choose from [...]

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