soul full

Soul full, oil on linen, 51 x 102
She was skipping.  Well not actually skipping. she was hurling the rope around with the biggest grin on her face.  Thrashing it backwards and forwards.  Hitting the ground with the length of skipping rope.
The joy.  The rapture.  For both of us.

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capture

Twelve seconds of bliss, oil on linen, 77cm x 120cm

The quiet conversation, oil on linen, 61cm x 61cm
I have been so quiet lately.  No blogging about family, or thoughts.  My head is full, spilling over.  Working night and day and having a ball, but almost ready to go out for a long, long lunch.  In [...]

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Purls of wisdom

Purls of wisdom, 92cm x 92 cm, oil on linen,
I like knitting.  And it’s ironic that so close to the show (when I really need to be relaxing) the closest I can get to it is by painting it.  Is that sad?  Kind of.  But funny too.
Knitting for me, is a form of meditation.  [...]

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Tea Party

61cm x 52cm, oil on linen
The second in the Alice series heading to Canterbury.
I’m loving painting this series.  Nice to do something so literal and illustrative for a change.

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down-cast

you are not who you will be. 33cm x 33cm, oil on board
My husband asked me the other day, why I paint legs, feet and shoes endlessly.
There are a million reasons, including the way they often give away a person in terms of body language, in the type of shoe chosen, how it is maintained, [...]

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Too small

The first of the ‘Alice’ paintings(yet to be titled), destined for Canterbury. 90ish cm square, oil on linen.

Thanks for all your kind words and suggestions re headaches.  It is starting to ease off after almost a week now.  If it was anyone else complaining I would say ‘offf to the doctor’, but I know it’s [...]

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reading into it

me today – posing for a reference photo.
My studio is overflowing.  My head is overflowing, my life is overflowing.
There have been a few of these.

The box that held all their dreams. oil on linen 62x 90cm, 2009
And a few works that are taking significantly longer on an Alice in Wonderland theme for the upcoming Canterbury [...]

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pear-shaped

I knit.

though it’s been a while since I’ve talked about it.

I made this garment – in my own very modified way.  And if you are curious and have a ravelry membership you can find out more about it here.

and if you don’t knit you probably havn’t read this far anyway.

But if you do. [...]

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release

They say that Melbourne is the only city where you can experience four seasons in one day.
Or so it used to be.

I spoke to someone the other day who had flown into our fair city after being away for years and was shocked by the devastation that fire and drought has wrought on what is [...]

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Indigo

Indigo playground, oil on linen, 91cm x 46cm
I  love indigo.  It borders on obsession, so this shadow painting was a lot of fun for me.  Mixing a close match (my secret), and blending with white as required.
This is a blockier painting that most have been recently, but the edges where the inky blue meet the [...]

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