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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Xmas gift 🎁 something I would admire and walk p

Xmas gift 🎁 something I would admire and walk past. Feeling rather art indulged! Thank you @bennyhuda #fabercastell #colouredpencils #artxmas gift 🎁 #ruthlecheminant #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush

Painting is visual communication. It asks the view

Painting is visual communication. It asks the viewer to travel into the painting surface and have a look around. Take the eye from place to place and enjoy what is seen to continue the visual trip presented. The fascination of how to keep the eye engaged. How to delight the senses in one area of the canvas and ask the eyes to travel further, further across up and down and be curious about the detail and stand back to see the whole and how the painting comes together. And emotionally involved in the painting.

The emotional involvement of the viewer starts during the creation of the work by the artist. There is a literal conduit form the emotional state of the artist into the mark they make from the brain, via the arm to the brush (or charcoal, pencil etc) to the canvas. There is a very direct connection of artist to work. If you go to a gallery that has a group exhibition you will see in front of you not just the work of individual artists but also the characters and personalities of those individual artists as well.

So you see me. I am revealed on the canvas. I reveal myself to you with this image of my work. You see me in the use of gesture and mark making. The use of colour and its tonal qualities. The weight and placement within the frame of the work. It is my visual conversation with you as the viewer. I hope you enjoy our conversation.

#acrylic and #charcoal #painting on canvas that is 60cm x 122cm. By #ruthlecheminant or #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush who lives in the #bluemountains and is a #contemporaryartist or #abstractartist #abstractart #contemporaryart #colours #mtsmade

Happy Abscondment Day. Abscondment Day the 16 De

Happy Abscondment Day.

Abscondment Day the 16 December commemorating the day 2 years ago when Scott Morrison left Australia for a holiday in Hawaii by wearing a Hawaiian shirt, a lai or holding a hose.

Slowly slowly returning to full throttle in the #s

Slowly slowly returning to full throttle in the #studio after the total disruption to my creative trajectory by the renovation and Covid19 reduced social activity. This has given rise to my mental ability to relax into a meditative stupor. Which is quite wonderful. Gradually coming out of it. Winding up so to speak with a more reflective abstract approach. And I note landscape can also be viewed in the abstract, it’s all a matter of how you interpret it.
Here is a new one.
I like layers. The hidden revealed. This work is 100x90cm #acrylic and China pencil on canvas
#painting #bluemountainsartist #abstractpainting #layers #colourartist #contemporaryartist #contemporarypainting #ruthlecheminant #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush

In 2020 during lockdown I went into the studio and

In 2020 during lockdown I went into the studio and painted my heart out. I called the completed paintings my Covid19 series. I wanted to know “can you paint a big painting on a small canvas?”. I believe so … but you have to really let go and whisper to yourself as you paint ‘the devil can take the hindmost’.
The resulting paintings are my ‘big little works’ and they joyously have led me further along my creative path.
I then worked on larger canvases… but a major house renovation stalled me. The studio was impacted during this period of time. I project managed the process with the builder. The studio was used for storage, access of tradesmen and then finally reconfigured. Any creativity I had went into the build!
On completion it took some organisation to sort the studio out but I’m loving it now. And I’m finally continuing the stalled journey. I’m back in the studio and here …. Drumroll… is the latest in the ongoing series.
No real title yet beyond part of the #Covid19 #series it is:
Acrylic on canvas 60cm x 122cm

#painting #artoftheday #ruthlecheminant #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush #abstractart #colour #australianart #bluemountainsartist and a big thank you to @theartvault for exhibiting ‘Little Big Works’ you’re all awesome 💕❤️

It’s taken a bit of time but I’m back in the s

It’s taken a bit of time but I’m back in the studio painting.
I haven’t painted for over 8 months. We renovated. Amalgamated two rooms together & fix the en-suite to make a spacious bedroom, a simple idea that created a huge diversion in my life. Access to the studio from the house was closed in the process and part of the studio reconfigured. The contents of the rooms landed in the studio and garage to be stored. We lived in a moving whirlpool of renovating chaos as half the house was impacted. After things gradually returned to normal I was able to reconsider the studio and how I would use it. Result - it’s wonderful. We even put sound insulation in the joining wall when the gyprock was put up so consequently now the music in the studio can be loud! I thought I’d lost my painting mojo it had been so long. I think the break was ok. And as I’m curious to look back on the process of a painting here’s the painting that says 💥 to me - I’m back.
Canvas 110cm x 122cm
Music by Kerryn Fields - Rascal

#contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #bluemountainsartist #wentworthfalls #ruthlecheminant #ruthbluemts #ruthloadedbrush #painter who works in #acrylicpaint and loves her #studio

In these times of #lockdown I’m enjoying the qui

In these times of #lockdown I’m enjoying the quiet pleasures of life. Our #chooks are a great source of delight. Takes work to look after them properly but they give more than enough back. They are quite old but still laying one or two eggs a day. They can always be found together. They are a great cohesive flock. They follow me when I’m in the garden, come when I call and are responsive to sounds and routines. And at times I feel we have conversations, particularly in the evening, when they come in with scratch, to the secure inner run at night. #backyardchooks in #wentworthfalls #bluemountains #lockdownlife #garden #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts #quietlife

An evening walk at #wentworthfallslake It was quie

An evening walk at #wentworthfallslake It was quiet with sky and lake reflections. Gave me pause to appreciate what we have in #wentworthfalls during #lockdown. The #lake seems more ours and we’re loving it. #ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts #bluemountains #relections #skywater #lateafternoon #inspiration #artinspiration #art #landscape

In #lockdown at #wentworthfalls #bluemountains enj

In #lockdown at #wentworthfalls #bluemountains enjoying sitting in the sun. I decided to let the chooks out into the garden but one chook decided to have a chat as she strolls up the driveway. And I join in 😳

#ruthlecheminant #ruthloadedbrush #ruthbluemts #brownchook #sunnyday #garden #driveway #conversationwithachook #takecare

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