OCTOBER ACRYLIC WORKSHOPS - 3 & 4, 10 & 11 October 2015

Hi everyone,

The October Workshops will focus on Acrylics, moulding pastes, flow mediums and other exciting innovative ideas for creating wonderful artworks.

We had so much fun at our last workshops, that it seemed a great way forward to get right back into all the mess again and start creating for Spring and Summer..... These mediums produce such amazing textures for seaside rocks, rock faces in the landscape and other subjects!

 

 

So once again, this popular workshop will be held over two consecutive weekends so you can do one day on each weekend , or two on the same weekend - you mix and match to suit yourself.

The first weekend will be in the studio where we will explore the mediums and how they end up being so interesting and intriguing......

The second weekend will be en plein aire (weather permitting) or in a secret location where we can gaze at the landscape.....

the October Acrylic Workshops

Dates:    Saturday and Sunday 3 and 4 October and
Saturday and Sunday 10 and 11 October.
  (You can also do one day of each weekend if helpful)

Times:     9.30 am for 10 am start to 3.30 pm for 4 pm packup.

Cost: $150 per 2 day weekend

There is a $25 additional cost if you need me to supply materials - paints, brushes

Cost does not include paper (for sale on the day) and canvas (which you will need to buy -
suggested sizes are 45 cm square or 45 cm x 60 cm rectangle.

"Diaries of a traveling artist" on show now!

Hi everyone

Well this month and into next (13 April), my artworks are showing at Fairview Artspace in Mudgee. These works have all been inspired by my various trips into and around Australia.

As I explore this colourful and exciting country, I find I just have to return to the studio and express myself in colour and form that reflects the feelings I have felt whilst out there..... yep, out there.... outback as we call it!'

To give you a small idea of some of the places I have seen, here's a couple of photos:

 

On 28th and 29th March, I will be out at Mudgee in the gallery. I'll show a series of slides of places I have been to give you an idea of what inspires me to paint the Australian outback.

For too long, we have all been led astray into believing that this is a dull, dry and dusty country worth nothing else than for raping and pillaging. Well, the Australia I know is far from being boring, flat and dull. It is a wild and wonderful country full of colours, energy and forms beyond anything we can imagine.... but you need to be able to find the places, take the time to let the magic happen.

Join me in Mudgee even if it's only to be inspired to get in your car and travel out into our wilderness!

The Echidna Garden

Nothing is quite as ZEN as a walk in a wild wood and coming across a lone echidna quietly going about his/her business..... well, at least this was my experience of seeing this amazingly beautiful creature wombling along in amongst mauve melaleucas and bacon and egg plants this last week.

 So here he is...... emerging from the bushes. He/She hasn't noticed me as I am upwind and staring stupendously!

 Yes, a little closer, OMG!

 

And now just a few feet away and he/she still hasn't seen me which is strange as I am beside myself with delight!

 

And this is the pretty melaleuca that is such a feature of this recent regrowth from welcome rains.

I just wanted to share this with you all! It was a lovely week on Jacquie's farm in the Shoalhaven Region. Have a wonderful life!