yeh! the latest

I am very happy today- I am finally getting somehwere with my work.

these are some snippets of what I have been doing

abstract landscape type things.

I am so tired and it is hard to understand within my self why.

I have certainly been clocking up the hours[.... and hours and hours really] in the studio but it is doing something I am passionate about.

each piece is a challenge though.

I never have a clear image in my mind of what I want, rather a feeling that says go that way. then it feels like I am tippy toe-ing along on a tightrope, in the dark trying to find the path.

I try to keep focused on the place I am working on and ''listen' to where to go.

it doesn't sound hard does it but at the end of the day I am so exhausted I feel like I have been digging ditches all day and kind of wrung out inside.

Still at this moment with the 3 you have a glimpse of up on the pin board I feel rather happy.

and waiting to see where the next one will come from.....Thailand keeps intruding into my daydreams at the moment...

wonderful place, the buddahs were wonderful but the high humidity was hard for me to take- i am a desert type person- love the dry air....

Happy New Year may it be a wonderfully creative one!

and considering we all create our own reality it is up to each of us to keep tippy toe-ing in the dark and let it turn out as we want.

cheers!

A Sense of Place

I am lucky enough to have some of my work in the exhibition curated by the dynamic Dijanne Cevaal.
Dijanne has done a lot I think using textiles to extend a friendly hand from Australia to the Middle East in the past and she has just curated a new exhibition A Sense of Place http://www.soptravels.wordpress.com/ is the blogsite for the exhibtion.
it will travel to Syria and France and showcase some fine Austalian work [ yes-some of my work is in there , please don't think me bigheaded saying that- I am talking about the other people!]

the premier of the exhibition will be in Australia in Victoria look at the link above for details and enjoy

art galleries

I had a day in Sydney with some friends doing a gallery crawl. Wonderful!

the Goddess exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW is excellent, work on display in the Aboridinal gallery is so inspiring... that is one of my favourite spots for looking.

and then we walked across to the Museum of Contempoaray Art at Circular Quay to see the Paddy Bedford exhibition.

Really worth seeing, he uses paint with the same sensual uality i find in textiles.

you know looking at his work the creating of them would have been an enjoyable tactile experience, similarly to working in textile.the texture and feel of the piece ahs a lot to do with why you choose the medium.

his work is mimimalist, and so eloquent. the space created by ht eblack areas[ negative space] seemed to stretch on to infinity.

those works will be in my daydreams for a long while to come.

new work.

it s so good to be working again, it is all systems go

here are a few close ups for my Earthskins Series.

just a preview and most still need trimming so you have to use your imagination as to the finish....

colous seem a bit different on my lap top screen but you get the idea, the colours are rather bold....

I am looking at landscape

places I have been , the impression I have taken away with me.

mood, feeling, colours, textures of the place.

experienced details rather than a 'landscape' view.

act of faith

making art is such an act of faith sometimes.

I returned home exhausted

and nothing much was happening even though I have been looking forward to my studio.

so I have just kept at the things I need to do like going out there getting things in order, dying a bit of fabric, laying out a peice ....etc etc, etc... waiting to feel the enthusism start to bubble up.

it has been a dry old time, but I have commitments to sulfil to a gallery and myself so had to keep plugging away at it.

well 2 days ago I started to see the way again. I re-grasped my original idea, realised the piece I had managed is really a posiibility for the future and not part of this exhibition and what I was wanting for this body of work!

yeh! as I was laying out a pice 2 days ago I could feel it starting to flow- for me the process doen't have a lot of thought in it it more tapping into a feeling and following that invisible path.

first though I have to trust that invisible path is there. when I am on it it seems so real but when I am looking for it I feel like it must be just a figment of my imagination.

reading this it reades like a religious experince doesn't it which i find surprising as I don't see myself as religious at all [ spirtitaul rather.] but i suppose both are about conecting to something greater than yourself?

b unch of English flowers for you- magical colour and so delicate

working

I am so tired, all the traveling is catching up with me and there is so much to do.

My next exhibition is called "Earthshins" and is based upon places i have been and the impressions i have gathered. It was all working well in my head and heart as many of the places i have been are basically just landscapes. but my recent travels have taken me to some amazing big cities and there the earth is encrusted with the works of man.

above details of two city skins.....

how to marry the two topgether in my work and try and keep true to the idea "Earthskins" is proving a challenge!

i am getting there but finding with some i like the other side as much as the front- what to do with that feeling?

Earthskins will show atMaiden Alley Cinema Gallery
112 Maiden Alley
Paducah, KY 42001

March 10 to May 7, 2007.

opening will be on Saturday, April 27, 5-7 p.m. All welcome!

so much to do!

Boy I am home, there is so much to do!

The office work is almost all caught up…. If you can ever realistically say that.
I had felt comfortable being away for so long because I thought my 2youngest boys were happy spending time with their father…only to return home and find that had turned into a disaster…oh well a lesson for all of us- leopards don’t change their spots!

So instead of getting stuck into this exhibition I have been gasping to get started with I have a lot of juggling to do to sort things more appropriately for the boys for the next time I am away.

I do believe things always work out for the best and have seen so many times how delays and hiccups give time for better things to develop…I really do believe that but some days I REALLY have to say loudly breathe, BREATHE it will all work for the best.

That first good day in the studio is always hard to crack when I have been away for a little while and these extra distractions are giving me more fuel to dillydally….

First thing is to find my notes and re-dream my inspirations, look at scribbles as I traveled there is a lot of grist for the mill there and get out to the studio! It won’t come and drag me but is waiting patiently for me to arrive….

Read a great article in a news paper in Bangkok, talking about the spiritual in art- loved the description of working methods as they are many things I too feel are important in a piece….good to contemplate now to find a working space……


sometimes when you can't get started to just go to the studio and go through the motins helps...i have rearranged some things dyed some fabric, dried it and got it off the line....some things to try out are starting to filter through but concern for my boys and details of life in general are proving a bit of a distraction...i know it but still letting myself get sucked in....
back out there again or possibly an afternoon nap????

picture is of roof decorations in Bangkok- i want some just like that!