Evolving Horizons exhibition at Space2B

This is my image on the invitation to our group exhibition Evolving Horizons at the art gallery at Space2B in St Kilda.

The title is Fading Light, Lingering Shadows.  It is mixed media on board. 50 x 50 cm

The exhibition  is open from 8th April to 9th May, 

the opening, where you can meet the other 3 artists is on Friday 11th April at 5,30pm

at 144 Chapel St St Kilda

Check out the Space2B website: we are very privileged to be part of this social enterprise community.

Three of us

Titled "Three of Us", this painting in mixed media on canvas (90cm x 60cm) will be displayed at the Melbourne International Flower Show from 26th to 20th March at the Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne.

Melbourne Collage Meets

 My first visit to the Melbourne Collage Meets group that was established by Anne Warren.

Over coffee in a Cafe we chatted and created. What fun!

The brief was 4cm x 4cm, and here are my tiny works.

It was a very enjoyable meetup, and I look forward to more interesting chats and sharing of ideas and techniques. 

Mixed media

Working on a 30x24 inch canvas with mixed media. Clearly spring is in the air.

More studies for the Tidal theme

These are small studies A4 also in preparation for the collagraph or dry point that I have in mind. I have used mixed media for the layering.

Australian Art Show

5pm - 9The Australain Art Show is on again in Melbourne this weekend - Friday 5pm- 9pm then Sat 10 - 5pm and Sunday 10-4pm
Entry is free.
More information here
http://australianartshow.com.au/Melbourne

These are some of the works I have entered - they are all small works  as hey are part of the 69 Smith St Galllery stand. Mostly mised media

Back in the studio at last

Mixed media: acrylic, oil on canvas. 20 cm x 20 cm

Mew Mediums Workshop with Marco Luccio

On Saturday I went to a class run by Marco Luccio. His classes are always interesting because he himself works in a range of media. While he is well known for his printmaking, Marco is always interested in experimenting with new and mixed media.

For this class we played with a variety of materials -the intention was not to complete a beautiful end product, but to push the materials and get a feel for them.

We started with a warm up - sketching (using a black waterproof pen)  a page from a Lloyd Rees journal and then using a new product - Schmincke Watercolours which incorporate honey.  Marco also had some Schmincke watercolours that were non water based. The paper we were given was hot pressed Velin Arches - not my usual preference, but I found the honey based watercolours to be very vibrant and they flowed onto the paper beautifully. The Schmincke watercolours are very richly pigmented so they are quite sumptuous.

Exercise 1- Hot pressed Velin Arches and Schmincke watercolours with waterproof ink pen

Exercise 2 -  R&F Oil sticks on universally primed Belle Arte gesso board. I applied them and then wiped the surface back. Also incorporated hard oil pastel and crayon. Lots if fun

Exercise 3- Oil sticks on canvas paper 

Exercise 4 Oil stick on rag paper

Exercise that went throughout the session - we were all given a gesso board so smooth! Drew in pencil and then used the honey based watercolours, and various other mediums, Aero colour applied with pens etc. It was such an odd surface to be using watercolour on!

The great thing about the workshop was the fact that Marco had such an array of items available, and the theme of the day was experimentation. There were other materials that we played with - water based oil pastels and so forth.

For the first time I used pure pigment mixed with medium. 

Being in a class with other people also was interesting because we could compare results.

Some keen printmakers made monotypes with their oil on board experiments, then worked back into the monotypes.

All in all a stimulating day indeed.

Works for Linden Postcard Show 2013

I spent some time in the studio creating these three pieces for the Linden Postcard  Show.

Information is here

The show opens on Feb 2nd and runs until March 23rd.

Reflection 1 - mixed media 25 x 20 cm

Reflection 2 - oil on canvas  25 x 20 cm

Reflection 3 - mixed media  25 x 20 cm

The Wasteland series

I have been working on a series of paintings incorporating mixed media. The inspiration has been T.S. Eliot's poem The Wasteland.

Six smallish canvases arranged in a grid.

I have been inspired by Anselm Kiefer and Tapies.

I am very pleased with these as I have been working on them for a few weeks and their evolution has been exciting.

The last fingers of leaf clutch and sink into the wet bank

What are the roots that clutch, what branches gro

Out of this stony rubbish?

 In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing

The wind crosses the brown land, unheard

Here is no water, but only rock

Ringed by the flat horizon only

what is the city over the mountain, 

cracks and reforms in bursts on the violet air 

Linden Postcard Show 2012

Each year Linden gallery has a postcard show. I have exhibited in this show since 2008.
Here are my entries for 2012.
All are mixed media. All approximately 25 cm x 20 cm.
As the name of the show suggests, there is a size limit on the works - they must be less than 30 cm x 30 cm.

Fairfield Primary School Art Show

I have just finished 2 works that I will take around this afternoon to Fairfield Primary School for their art show. The show is on this Saturday and Sunday and is a fund raiser for the school.

These 2 works are called Horizon 1 and Horizon 2. The first is oil on canvas and the second is mixed media. They have taken me far longer to do than I anticipated but the end result is pleasing I think.

Th second work is a variation on works I have done before so was relatively straightforward, but the landscape was a labour and a half.

ESP Gallery Sydney

I am sending 6 small works to the ESP gallery in Marrackville.
The 69 Smith St group has arranged a group show there - it is called Dialogue -  another good reason for being a member of an Artist Run Initiative!
I have been working all hours to get them finished
20cm x25cm Mixed media.

Printmaking - small works

At last I think I am making progress with my printmaking assignment.
I have been stuck at a point not knowing how to combine images to incorporate mixed media into the printmaking process. Today I created some small prints that seem to resolve this issue.
These are works in progress - ... at last. Progress.