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LIFE Art and holidays
Sunday, September 01, 2024
BIRD Exhibition Nov 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Japan 2024
Sunday, March 10, 2024
2024 Exhibition Paint Like a Master
March 2024 Kilcoy art Gallery kilcoyart.org.au
In 2023 Cameron and I joined the Kilcoy Art Society as a way to meet people in the wider community. Since then I have exhibited in two exhibitions. 4 small oil paintings in the first, and a low relief wall sculpture using paper clay, acrylic, gold leaf and resin in the Paint Like A Master exhibition.
To represent his passion and vitality I used impasto and color. Thick layers of Paper clay with Bright Acrylics & Gold Leaf . To symbolize the restraints placed on him by his contemporaries and society - I have Imprisoned the work behind a layer of hard resin.
PROCESS Paper clay - is it dries hard without the use of a kiln. Build up layers - using a slurry of paper clay, water and PVA glue. Joined at the back with Chux, and slurry. To repeat shapes I produced molds using PINKY SIL or Plaster. I sealed the finished work with gesso, painted it with acrylics and sealed it with resin.
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Exhibition PNG 1982 - 1988
This information has been transferred from another Blog-post called SLEE, so that all my earlier art works are here, together.
There are many enjoyable aspects about living here in PNG. One is the people and other's are the landscape and bright colors. However, I am aware that the vibrancy and clarity found here in the tropics, can appear unbelievably bright.
In our shop - trade store - where we sell anything from fish hooks, lengths of material, underpants, and bicycles to tinned fish and out-board motors, there is a broad representation of all these colors, shapes, and languages. I often find myself rearranging the shelves, be it physically or mentally, so that the juxtaposition of patterns and colors, is pleasing. Firstly I need to work out the composition. I always find it is best to do a few drawing.
For this exhibition I have completed a body of work where I have included some of the people who work for us, and I have used the shelves and counters, and their contents, to make what I hope are pleasing compositions. (Thank you to June who suggested I use masking tape to keep my lines straight and Heather who showed me how to make stencils.)
Lately I have been enjoying doing the preliminary works in pastels, and I am pleased with how these look, and will explore pastels some more.
Painting, oil on canvas 18 inches x 18 inches.
Coffee shop Exhibition Rabaul 1988
Well life is full of unexpected happenings. Cameron has been accepted to fill a position as General Manager on a plantation just outside of Rabaul. We will have a holiday in Australia and move to East New Britain when we return.
I have such mixed emotions. Firstly I will miss many of the people we have come to think of as friends and I will miss the environment, and coastal waters.
I guess there are many advantages. Our son will be able to attend pre-school and mix with more children his age. And I will be closer to shopping, health clinics, and a creative artistic community.
I Have been busy trying to complete a body of work for the Kieta exhibition. Am finding doing work with a young person underfoot is not as easy as it was pre-child, however I am lucky that I have help to maintain the house, garden and to keep an eye on our son, and entertain him while I work.
Oil on canvas, again in square format. A variety of subjects in 9 paintings.
I have aimed to show the atmosphere. The feeling of spending time in the tropics. The buildings, the landscapes, the clarity of skies and water, and the ability to travel by sea. That feeling of lengthy days by the water - in solitude or shared with friends. I have taken quirky attributes from various buildings and added them to others so that no one place is a true replica . . . however, anyone who has travelled extensively along the length of Bougainville from Buka to Kieta will surely recognize certain aspects.
Some are taken looking down, as the subject was viewed while we were flying in a helicopter or small plane.
Kieta Social Club Christmas Exhibition 1986
Am unsure how popular my topic will be? However, I love books and reading and whenever we have travelled from Madehas plantation, or Banu to adjoining plantations, they all appear similarly blessed with huge bookshelves full of books and oddities. Love the pottery, masks, paintings and photographs that are positioned in amongst the books. Admire the way the light penetrates the rooms. The use of lamps lit by electricity or use of tilly lamps. The comfortable seating, low carved or cane coffee tables, and the use of wood that offers a unique smell and a feeling of timelessness.
Yes! I love these 'libraries.'
These paintings are an amalgamation and mish-mash of the various places we have visited. Not one painting is a true representation of one library. The tall architectural structure was seen inside a building at only one plantation - but it was enthralling. Have taken the liberty of using it in all these works.
We have Dalmatian dogs and a huge orange cat and I have taken the liberty of including them in these paintings.
From idea to completion, these were worked on over a three year period. (lots of masking tape and using a ruler!)
Paintings 24 inches x 24 inches Oil on canvas
In these four paintings, I have included some of the people that have worked for us, be it here on Teopasino, Banu or Madehas plantation's. I have included our much loved Blue-heeler dog, Bruno and our Dalmatian dogs, Sasha and muttle. Once again these paintings are not a true representation of any one place, but an amalgamation of people, buildings, clothing, food and scenery that I have admired. I have tried to portray a feeling of place rather than an exact replication.
Oil on canvas 24 inches x 24 inches.
Another reason to complete a small series of works, with an opportunity to exhibit.
Am doing some oil on canvas studies. 16 inches x 16 inches. Most of the work represents time spent on various plantations. These plantations are usually established along the coast line. Tennis, bowls and afternoon drinks are a huge delight.
Because most of the audience will be people on holidays or expatriates visiting, I have decided to send a selection rather than keep to one theme.
Some of the works have been from previous exhibitions, or paintings started, completed or thought about in previous years.
In some of them, I have taken remembered images from our travels along the coast line and our visits to various cocoa and copra plantations along the Bougainville coast line, from Buka to Kieta.
Again, I have taken the liberty of including familiar images: our pet pig Grunt and our dogs, along with people we know, or have known. And I have aimed to relay a feeling of place rather than a true photographic image.
I also feel a need to state that I would not manage to produce these works if I did not have people in our employ that helped clean the house, cook, maintain the garden and help look after our son, Arron. I am deeply grateful for their help which allows me to complete the art.
Once again I have chosen to keep to a square-ish, small-ish format.
Oil on canvas Most are approx 24 inches x 24 inches.
Rabaul Yacht Club exhibition 1984
Always exciting to have a reason to produce a new body of work and have a reason to travel to Rabaul.
There are no restrictions on size, medium, and they do not need to be framed.
I have chosen to do some drawings, and oils on canvas. 24 inches x 24 inches