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 Well that took me back - updating my sites I came across the one i created 18 years ago.  The site is called FOUNDart series. The idea and thoughts as it evolved into different travel experiences. and it goes like this.  the first post titled 'the idea - 2007 Foundart Switzerland'  and says : i am travelling to Switzerland in August to spend a month with my daughter and her partner who live there and my initial idea of 'doing' art clicked finally this weekend ... i had been thinking for a while i would like to make a 'found art' series where i take small bits of art that look like finished pieces - small as in business card size - and have my website details on the back that tells the story of the 'found art' series and then to leave one at places along the way on my trip to switzerland and other places - so create and take 30 pieces and 'lose' one a day telling the story on the website. Perhaps even contact from the founder telling me of thei...

Early Summer i went on a #getaway to Boat Harbour - spent 3 days there soaking up the sun, isolation and beach.  A nice visit from V and lunch at the restaurant was a highlight.  I treat all my #getaways as a 'residency' and go on long walks, photography and do drawings, writing and reading. the drawings en plein air shown in the earlier blog post led to these two little books. fine art photography of my time at Boat Harbour can be found  here a short video of a beach walk at Boat Harbour #Tasmania

  Dedicated to #13 ..so, New Year reflections - 13 days of looking back on 13 projects over the last year Day 11 - artist books. I create books using photography, abstraction, altered books, books holding creative exercises, ICM, chemigrams and more on various projects. i also hold occasional (winter) workshops on creating artist books.

Dedicated to #13 ..so, New Year reflections - 13 days of looking back on 13 projects over the last year Day 8 - photography

This was my second trip to Boat Harbour , an idyllic spot to regenerate and fill up my cup again. It is also a time to mark yet another birthday and take the opportunity to go on another #getaway for a few days. Vince came to visit which is unsual as he needs to be dragged away from home and his business.  We spent a lovely day of beach walks, lunch right on the beachfront and the afternoon was spent watching US elections for Trump take the Whitehouse for a second term. lunch at  Seekers Bar & Cafe   beautiful ocean, quaint book exchange & drawings en plein air For art photographs of my time at BOat Harbour go to fyneimages note to self: explore  further afield ,still close by, next time.

Very happy to have my images published in Free Expressions No.82 - February 2024. Free Expressions is a publication of members' work of the Contemporary Group within the Australian Photographic Society. I met Anne, an artist working in the photographic realm, many years ago at a local photographic club and years later we met up again via the facebook group. About four years ago she introduced me to The Denison 5 minutes out of Bicheno , Tasmania and stay at accommodation right on Denison Beach . We have visited together a few times and stay here for 3 nights choosing summer and winter over the years. This has culminated in a joint submission to Free Expressions tackling two perspectives of this wonderful place. My challenge was not to have the same images as Anne as we do have similar perspectives in going for the micro and inevitably, potentially would have similar imagery. So with this in mind we never saw each others contribution to the magazine until the article came out !...

 a summertime time out.  so nice. Although i live 2 minutes from a beach I occastionally head out to Hawley Beach, a 20 minute drive from home, for a bit of time out and a beach walk. mesmerising and breezy

On a return trip home from Western Australia recently I was stuck at Melbourne Airport for over 6 hours due to delays that impacted all flights throughout the day. Arriving at 4am it was a long day. Apart from coffees and exhorbitantly priced snacks I went hunting through the eye of my camera. A mix of my canon G5x and my Pixel2 phone.

 so proud to be a finalist again in this exhibition - always nice to see your work hanging with your peers  the winning piece by Robyn Harman is the one on the wall to the left 

Heading out to see the exhibition and will take an overnighter so i can explore the beaches and take time out. Always enjoy the opportunity for a #getaway, albeit a short one but will take my time driving up (and back) to fill out the two days. The artwork of mine that made the finalist list is called 'An Impossible Telling' ... images below of my piece and when it was framed, prior to delivery.  CONGRATULATIONS to Robyn Harman for taking out this years Bay of Fires Art Prize.

  As a finalist this year, I am planning to head off to the Bay of Fires Art Awards to see the exhibition while its on from 9 to 12 June. I am planning to 'fill my cup' on an overnight short #getaway. This is a 3.5 hour drive from home with various stops along the way making it a long, interesting, enjoyable day. St Helens , on the East Coast of Tasmania is a beautiful area to explore I find getaways to be 'filling my cup' - replenishing mental, emotional and physical energies. On a #getaway one doesn't need to 'stop' ... its a way of doing, thinking, being on a different level but there is a break from daily cooking, washing up, hanging out laundry and other everyday things. I liken it, on a metaphorical level, to Kintsugi , The Japanese Art of Repairing Ceramics using Gold. #getaways are gold to me.  

  Inspired by these artists, Hockney and Warhol I have been playing with images i have taken on my #getaways. These are on the road, in Hobart and Coles Beach Devonport. Photographs are pulled into pixelmator pro and the hues of the actual image taken is 'muted' somewhat and then sent to my ipad where highly saturated colours are layered over aspects of the image. David Hockney , well into his 80s, plays with an ipad doing daily drawings. I like the saturated flat colours that he and Andy Warhol use which sparked my 'what if' regarding my photographic images. I have been painting over black and white photography for a few years now so it didn't seem a biggie to do so with the ipad. I will post these painted photo prints and ipad drawings of pears, life drawing, landscapes etc in future posts.

  a couple of hours walk along the foreshore in Devonport. Muted with colour enhancements. The bird was added later :) .... Pulled together from my photos

  A typical beach walk with no-one around and the light catching shadows rippling across the edges. Plover at #Penguin Beach.