this section relates to the journeys involved with creating a new and substantial directions to develop
like all artistic development there is a time to smell the daisies, to dream, to chat with others and then to play
Working on the collaborative and very large installation type mural for our community has given me the wonderful opportunity to work with a colleague from my TAFE NSW days
I have always struggle to find where i belong in the painting world. However recently, after a few days with Aboriginal artist Eddy Harris, our discussions, his working with our primary school students and his wisdom about my work I feel that I have found where I should be going with my artwork
I was nearly there but the refinement and the strength is ready to be explored further
June 30 2015
like all artistic development there is a time to smell the daisies, to dream, to chat with others and then to play
Working on the collaborative and very large installation type mural for our community has given me the wonderful opportunity to work with a colleague from my TAFE NSW days
I have always struggle to find where i belong in the painting world. However recently, after a few days with Aboriginal artist Eddy Harris, our discussions, his working with our primary school students and his wisdom about my work I feel that I have found where I should be going with my artwork
I was nearly there but the refinement and the strength is ready to be explored further
June 30 2015
Like all good inventions the answer was staring me in the face and had been visited on many occasions in passing from one focus to another in my artwork.
As my wise and observant daughter pointed out I play with paint to find direction in my printmaking.
throughout all my work there has been certain marks that I make instinctively and I also layered instinctively in my batiks and in my printmaking...layers are part of the process of creating the final works
So it is back to basics and exploration of layers and instinctive mark makings.
As my wise and observant daughter pointed out I play with paint to find direction in my printmaking.
throughout all my work there has been certain marks that I make instinctively and I also layered instinctively in my batiks and in my printmaking...layers are part of the process of creating the final works
So it is back to basics and exploration of layers and instinctive mark makings.
the paintings above are only small 300x300mm and done in gouache on canvas
Summer Blossoms.....Winter Blossoms.....Summer Breeze
they have been broken into landscape divisions of one third for the sky and two thirds for the earth
I did them for an Exhibition at GIGS Gallery in Wodonga as part of there Analogous Exhibition in August... and the first two sold on opening night!!!
Summer Blossoms.....Winter Blossoms.....Summer Breeze
they have been broken into landscape divisions of one third for the sky and two thirds for the earth
I did them for an Exhibition at GIGS Gallery in Wodonga as part of there Analogous Exhibition in August... and the first two sold on opening night!!!
this newly gained confidence and the discovery of Vipond artists paints I ventured onto larger canvases and explore the different sizes and number of circles within the divisions for sky and earth. Keeping with the same number of layers. The results are below. The canvases are 600x600mm. 23/8/15
I revisited the format that was used to create a small painting on glass and used this as the starting point for a large painting on canvas.
But because the scratching back that is so effective is not able to be done on acrylic with the same effect I had to develop another approach to creating layers that created the same sort of depth illusion.
Below is the small painting on the reverse side of glass (23 x 31cm) on the left and the large painting on canvas on the right. (1mtr x1mtr)
But because the scratching back that is so effective is not able to be done on acrylic with the same effect I had to develop another approach to creating layers that created the same sort of depth illusion.
Below is the small painting on the reverse side of glass (23 x 31cm) on the left and the large painting on canvas on the right. (1mtr x1mtr)
From here I looked at sections of my wrapping paper that was based on Wattle and rediscovered the 'short hand' that I had instinctively used to represent the wattle blossom A4 size detail ( on left). and used these as the inspiration of the next two large paintings on right.(1mtr x 1mtr)
