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  strips of scrap matboard collaged all over prior to cutting up. No plan, no preconceived idea - using up scrap ephemera and gelli print fragments. The revitalisation of the project here. 53 pieces cut ready to pull the little design together - each one assessed on its own. Title of the project :  FROM HERE TO THERE.

  Cant wait to see what happens with these.  I took my indoor plant - Fatsima Japonica - and planted it outside next to the creek.  She is very happy there, doubling up each year, and this is the first year i noticed these berries.  They were harvested and wrapped up in the eco dye cloth - surprises in the unbundling - maybe tomorrow !. Fatsima Japonica last Spring

I grabbed an armful of WHITE cloths, scraps and a blanket, soaked 3 separate buckets, 1 with onion skins, one with avocado pits and skins and a third with gum leaves from the forest.  I decided to commandeer my studio coffee urn (i will get a kettle!) and started heating up a brew.  (above:  a table runner - onion skins) Planning now to keep going with more white cloths but also to see /experiment with citric acid (as a bleacher) and copper sulphate to adjust colours ... fun!  loving the woven cloth and how the different textiles pick up the colour. that cloth to the right of the woven piece is a lovely rich colour. more lovely rich colour- waiting to see how it dries this was an overdye but nothing seemed to have happened so it will go into another pot today this piece started out well but its got a bit blotchy from the onion skins - will look at another process to adjust this one loving the beige colour in the blanket and the rich oranges (onion skin) although i di...

I was so excited to be a finalist in this exhibition. An update has been posted here on blackfisharts Art Gallery with a link to see the whole exhibition and this work in situ.  artist statement here.

i am excited to be planning a trip to visit my lovely daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren which has prompted me to look at the foundart series i created first in 2007 .... 10 years ago. The theory began like this - create small business card sized artworks before going on an overseas trip.  Put a label on the back inviting the founder of a small artwork to comment on a dedicated blog.  Each piece is 'lost' (placed) somewhere in the world for someone in the world to find. See the wonderful comments that came in from finders of the art from the foundart series in Switzerland, Junction Festival Launceston, Italy and other. 2026-7 Spain - NOW ...what to call this series .... any ideas ? A dedicated site for each card was created here where the finder can comment.   do check out the great comments - i have pulled them all together here. A history HERE of the original idea prior to creating the dedicated site above. WHAT AI said when asked if my foundart series is the ...

I have opened an online shop for small original artworks, limited edition prints and collage packs of monoprint elements, vintage papers, text etc. check it out . blackfisharts   has been refreshed - its got a cleaner feel to it and is less  confusing i think. did you know i write poetry ? you will find my poetry online - it is mostly my published pieces and is under construction, slowly.  Regent Park has also got a new look ... this is where i blog about an artist lifestyle in country Tasmania.  We live with cats, a dairy cow in retirement, ducks, turbo chooks, wallabies, possums, a tiger snake and other wildlife.  Surrounded by a forest of gum trees and wattles interspersed around paddocks and a hill to climb there is a creek that flows through the acreage, home to platypus, blackfish, a variety of so many birds and an eel.  our youtube channel covers everything and anything - find the playlists to watch studio works, country living in Tasmania, animal...

it was an interesting artist talk organised by curator Allison Campbell with local artists Michael Muruste, David Hawley and Jaclyn Poke.   Titled " Strange Faith "  t he exhibition space is filled with large abstract works of Michael and David with Jaclyn's work filling a section of the gallery.   Although subject matter of both abstract artists is not of concern, the Curatorial Statement, in part, speaks to the process that unites both. "Both approach painting as an act of discovery, allowing gesture, repetition and instinctive mark-making to become a language through which thought is made visible. Their works emerge not from fixed compositions, but through an unfolding dialogue between intuition, memory and material." The Curatorial Statement continues to describe their ways of working with two thoughts that caught my attention. "Together, they demonstrate that abstraction is not an escape from reality but another way of encountering it" and  "...

a few drawings (below) during my #getaway #artretreat at Winnaleah with Artable as per my previous post . I enjoy a walk through the landscape, taking photos, making small drawings and collecting a stone or shell to take back to the studio. It is in the studio where i am better able to access how it felt on that walk, the heat/cold, the sounds, the smells, wind waves, flora etc.   To access the memory as a whole as opposed to bit by bit on the walk, each sensory input building on the other.  drawings plein air, some paintings started outside and finished in the studio. Bay of Fires, The Blue Lake, a river on a farm property and beach walks.

i enjoy a #getaway now and again ... a break from the studio and daily household /garden activities, no cooking! (unless its a boiled egg). Just back from a week of #artretreat, as #getaway, with contemporary artist Tim Allen . Love his work and i found him to be most generous in working with each individual to achieve what they were aiming for, one-on-one - over 5 days.  This is my second time with Artable at Winnaleah in Tasmania.  Gillian , Steve and all the staff always do a fabulous job at making everyone feel comfortable and united providing great food, art discussion and comaraderie. This group of girls was particularly fabulous - so warm, kind, all inclusive with interesting, intelligent conversations.  i enjoyed it immensely.  a post here on the drawings and studio work  I was lucky enough to be next on the wait list so i got the "Barn" along with a lovely housemate for the week.  We felt so fortunate to 'get' the Barn which was lights, airy, w...

the studio needs a clean and tidy up as there are papers, prints, works in progress, paintings strewn across the space. monoprint - oil & acrylic on 250gsm fabriano  a few images below and a walkaround here  this one (above) is a bit stiff - the one below is more like it. loving this gel print grunge (below) in the comments below do let me know what you think or better yet, what are you doing in the studio?