Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am currently caring for my sick mother and so, while I have uploaded some past works my new work will likely be slow in coming.
While life is not exactly the way I planned it right now, I wouldn't choose to be anywhere else.
I have created this blog to remind me, in the meantime, of who I am and what it is that I 'do'.
I hope you enjoy my 'stuff' as much as I enjoy yours.
Have a lovely day!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Guarding My Heart
Not finished.......yet
Watercolour and guache
on paper
Copyright 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Acquiring Sanity.... the first in a series to come
Watercolour and gauche
on paper
Copyright 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Angel in the Clouds
Mixed media
on Arches 300 gsm paper
I don't think this is finished yet..... but sometimes you just need to leave things till they say what comes next So, that's where it's at...
Copyright 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
A Teardrop Away
Mixed Media
on paper
Copyright 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
This is a silly one
I was playing with purple and green
and stuff
But its all I've got for now.....
I am painting.......slowly
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Charcoal on paper
This was a quick 20 minute sketching exercise that never really got finished
I kept it because I liked parts of it and because the ladies just had such giant breasts! You never know when you will need to reference a giant breast or two or four
Don't actually know why I'm posting it :)
Lack of other material I guess.....sigh
am painting as fast as I can
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Marie's Dragonfly
Watercolour and guache
on paper
Copyright 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Jac's Angel
Watercolour and metallic pigment
on Arches 300 gsm paper
This is a painting I did for a friend who needed a little light in her life
Copyright 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Playing with light and form in the early days
Pastel and gesso
on paper
S'cuse the plastic
...must find time to do proper pics one day :)
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Charcoal
on paper
A 30 minute life drawing class exercise
I know, he looks.......ummmm...... like he's dead.
Still, kind of dramatic...
Copyright 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Cottage Painting
This one hangs in Rose Cottage
So do lots of my favourite people
Acrylic on canvas
Copyright 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Yep, we all know where the 'inspiration' for this one came from. Another mum painting
Watercolour and pastel on paper
Thursday, May 14, 2009
This was a 'copy' of one of Susan Seddon Boulet's artworks. I absolutely love that woman's art! I used water colour washes, chalk and oil pastel and acrylic here, she uses oil pastels I believe. Anyway, I did it for mum, because she loved the painting too and it was a fun experiment. But a COPY okay :) Not my original work. I think I've made that clear enough now, given all the copyright stuff going on lately!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
These two were heavily influenced by some works I found in a really old chinese watercolour book. I don't know what happened to the book, I think I loaned it to someone who never returned it, most annoying. So, unfortunately I can't tell you the name of the book or the artist.
These are watercolour and chalk pastel on paper and they hang in mum's house, not to be sold.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Iris'
Oil Pastel
on paper
These are mum's too.....
Copyright 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Ink
on paper
Another one of mum's :)
Copyright 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Hibiscus
Mixed Media
on paper
This is one I did for my mum years ago....it is quite large
The next few will be hers too.....s'cuse the glass reflection in the pic but I'm not taking it out of the frame :)
Copyright 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Spirit of the Eagle
Monday, May 4, 2009
This one was a custom order from a lady who wanted all her own 'symbology' on it.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Goddess Drum
(sorry about the shine)
I used to make drums and paint them
I may make them again one day, but I doubt it
The next few images shown here will be of some of these drums
They even sound great too!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Dragonfly
Lino cut print
Student Work
This one gave me blisters :)
Copyright 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Nude
Oil Pastel
on paper
This one was a little long in the body but I like it anyway, it was a fun 'play'
........and she was a long (not quite that long though ;) skinny girl.
Must get back to a life drawing class one of these days!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Mary and child
Mixed media
Copyright 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Still Life
Mixed media
on paper
Copyright 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Dragonfly Lithograph
Student Work
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Red Flower
Oil stick
on paper
This one was used as a raffle prize for a teacher of mine whose studio burned down. 20 years of work went up in smoke! It was devastating for her.
Copyright 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Untitled (and maybe unfinished?)
Watercolour and guache
on paper
Copyright 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Pears
Just some old pears I had hanging around....playing with ink and stuff :)
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
The Gathering
Mixed Media
on paper
Now living with ex husband as a birthday present :)
Copyright 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
These are some 'pieces' of still life drawings I did a couple of years ago. I wasn't happy with the drawings in their entirety but quite liked them cut down.
Chalk Pastel and Conte
on artboard
Copyright 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
This one lives in Perth with my father. I can't remember what I called it now :( It may have been "Spring"
Mixed Media
on paper
Copyright 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Butterfly Dreaming
Acrylic and Oil Stick
on canvas
Copyright 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Transformation
Mixed Media
on paper on canvas
SOLD
Copyright 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Dragons Breath
Watercolour and Metallic Pigment
on paper
SOLD
Copyright 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Breakthrough
Mixed media
on paper
Copyright 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Nude
Charcoal, Oil Stick and Shellac
on paper
Copyright 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
In the Centre
Mixed Media
on paper on canvas
SOLD
Copyright 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Pear with bum :)
Mixed Media
on paper
My drawing teachers used to tell me I needed to stay with one medium, I didn't agree :)
Copyright 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Mother and child
Charcoal and Conte
on paper
Copyright 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
A series of pen and ink works that are unfinished as yet and I probably should have taken them out of the plastic first:)
"Color in a Picture is like Enthusiasm in Life." ~van Gogh
Colour!
I love colour.
I love to play with colour and try not to take myself too seriously.
I work with matt acrylics, watercolour, gauche, inks and whatever else takes my fancy. I use artist quality paints and pigments and Arches 300 gsm paper usually. Sometimes I will stretch my paper directly onto a canvas or onto a frame as I work really wet to begin with and I've yet to find a gummed tape that stands up to it.
A bit eclectic really.
This blog has been created to showcase my artwork.
Feel free to contact me via the email link if you are interested in anything.