As I stand still

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Load your brush
Make your mark
Enjoy your colours
Remain fearless

— Ruth le Cheminant

Musings

As I stand still

January 19, 2021

You didn’t call it that! Yes I did and numbered them.

November 28, 2020

When life is crazy staying still can be amazing

October 6, 2020

If you put it out there, sometimes…..

August 7, 2020

There I was so smug to think it was finished

July 24, 2020

Is calling my current exhibition Covid19 OK?

July 18, 2020

I call it ‘going down the rabbit hole’

July 9, 2020

All I wanted was to tidy a few things up

July 2, 2020

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Decided to enter #collectorsedition @bluemountains

Decided to enter #collectorsedition @bluemountainsculturalcentre to raise funds for acquisitions at the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery. The A5 board is 14cm x 21cm. Small. So continuing the theme I had at @theartvault #exhibition this is another #littlebigwork The Collectors Edition #7 is on at the Blue Mountains City Art Gallery 13-28 March 2021. #painting #acryliconboard #paletteknifepainting #textures #contemporaryart #artwork #feelinggenerous you can buy a #ruthlecheminant #original #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush and much more @ruthlecheminant

#pink #flannelflowers #pinkflannelflowers in the #

#pink #flannelflowers #pinkflannelflowers in the #bluemountains are just magical. Pink flannel flowers only appear after catastrophic bushfires as they did up here after the 1957 #bushfires. And now they have bloomed again. A rare event. Over sixty years later. And only in certain parts of the landscape. There are swathes off delicate pink amongst the regrowth. I can’t express how it gladdens my heart to see them, the simply joy and delight. The fires were devastating and had a huge impact on the Blue Mountains community. It seems as if the pink flannel flowers are the flush of joy the earth is signalling after the nourishment of rain and comfort of the world this year is returning to a better balance after the past trauma of the #fires #uppermountains #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts

The Gardens of Stone a work by Anne Graham on at @

The Gardens of Stone a work by Anne Graham on at @penrithregionalgallery Worth a visit to check out. And as Anne quotes Charles Darwin ‘Nature which is a power incessantly ready for action and is immeasurably superior to man’s feeble efforts as the works of nature are to those of Art’. #art #artexhibition #penrithregionalgallery #blankets #thegardensofstone #bluemountains #aboriginal #charlesdarwin #reliefsculpture #layers #colours #valleys #artwork #artinspiration #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts

@blacktownarts to see the #blacktownartprize and y

@blacktownarts to see the #blacktownartprize and yes I’m in it. Large #abstract in soft #colours #pink the #exhibition is closing soon. #contemporaryart and great to see. #art #artwork #paintings #paintingsforsale #blacktown #leokellyblacktownartscentre #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts

Watching The clouds go scudding by In the blue su

Watching
The clouds go scudding by
In the blue summer, slightly windy sky

#sky #bluesky #gumtrees #australianbush #wentworthfalls #bluemountains #sundaymeditation #watchingthecloudsgoby #bluegreen #treetops #artinspiration #artiseverywhere #art #inspiration #meditation #frommyseat #frontyard #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts

#mtblackheath #paraglidinglaunchpad #allisurvey #s

#mtblackheath #paraglidinglaunchpad #allisurvey #sunnyday in #blackheath looking out over the #kanimblavalley #bluemountains #artinspiration #art #possibilities #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts

I stand still Breath in the air Gaze around the ar

I stand still
Breath in the air
Gaze around the area
Where there is rainforest
On the valley floor
At the edge of the escarpment
And smell
The damp earth after the rain
See
The myriad browns of the mulch underfoot
The bright green of the mosses and ferns
Feel the drops of water as they fall
From the glistening wet leaves
And love the staccato vertical forest of tree trunks
Standing proudly all around me
Where
Up to the canopy
The filtered light
Reveals the innumerable greens
That delight me

#megalongvalley #bluemountains #aftertherain #green #browns #rainforest #escarpment #artinspiration #landscape #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts @ruthlecheminant or try theloadedbrush.com.au

It’s been raining, raining, raining Heavy rain T

It’s been raining, raining, raining
Heavy rain
Then light misty rain
The sort of rain that can soak you to the bone
Today, it didn’t rain
It looked like rain
So I got out in the van
And travelled along the Mt Hay Road
Into the National Park
And found a fire trail
That’s now blocked to vehicles
And as I followed the trail up and I rounded the bend
The dip in the road that previously would be churned mud
Was now a pond
With the joyous sound of life - so take a look with the sound on

#mthay #bluemountains #flatrock #firetrail #walkingtrail #lookout #australianbush #soundsofthebush #pondlife #pond #ruthlecheminant #australianartist #artinspiration #artresearch #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush @ruthlecheminant or try theloadedbrush.com.au

Presenting #studiocat Leo And 2020 It seemed a yea

Presenting
#studiocat Leo
And
2020
It seemed a year that implored us to take opportunity where we could and reframe our situation so we were able to deal with the changes the year gave us.
2021
Will be
What it will be
After the year we’ve had
The best thing to say:
Be kind
Gentle and generous
To yourself
And to others
Live for possibilities
And the joy you find in the moment
And to remember
It’s what you do
With what you’ve got
That gives you the joys of life

#ruthlecheminant #newyearseve #newyear2021 #newbeginnings #bestwishes for #2021 from the #bluemountains #bluemountansnsw #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush #russianblue #russianbluecat #rescuecat #art #creativitymatters #begenerous #bekind #lookafteryourself and others 😍😘💕

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