The Bent Art Exhibition is held on the Kings birthday (which was called the Queens Birthday while she was alive) weekend and is an established annual event. How is it that Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of NSW have such an exhibition? How did this came about? The first Bent Art exhibition was 20 years ago. I know, I was… Read More »Bent Art is an annual institution
I was always hearing ‘check out Day Gallery at night, the windows are wonderful’. I now exhibit with Day Gallery. I was delighted to be told my latest paintings were ‘in the window’. Till after 18 July. And my paintings were placed in the large window. Truth is the larger diptych Landscape Expanse was too big for the other windows.… Read More »In the window at Day Gallery
I wrote a statement to myself in the studio. It said: Paint Just paint That’s all I need to do I wrote the statement after a major renovation demanding my time and after the travails of Covid19. I wanted to say to myself ‘you are finally back in the studio’. I had made the decision – to walk into the… Read More »Chuffed – I’m with Day Gallery
When my partner found out what I had called the paintings in my exhibition Little Big Work at The Art Vault Mildura her response was ‘You didn’t call them that!’ And I replied Yes I did. And I numbered them. I have come to realise that actually this way the viewer can see the journey I took as they view… Read More »You didn’t call it that! Yes I did and numbered them.
We are living in unique times. The normal parameters we were used to are shifting, we are now required to be flexible and shift with the changed parameters of life as a consequence of Covid19 to be able to grow and prosper in the new world order. And so I disappear into the studio and quietly in my corner and… Read More »If you put it out there, sometimes…..
Come to my exhibition in the comfort of your own home. It’s an ongoing exhibition. While Covid19 is with us I will continue to disappear into my own creative world in the studio and paint. And as a consequence the exhibition will grow. It is an on-going exhibition. Paintings will be displayed as they are created on the current exhibition… Read More »Is calling my current exhibition Covid19 OK?
There’s something wonderful in exploring a place already visited and explore that area more closely, to spend time and understand more of the nuances of the region. I have in the last few years discovered Tamworth NSW and the surrounding region. A cursory visit doesn’t do the area justice. Tamworth is west of Walcha, an hour from Little Kickerbell and… Read More »How we got to North by South West
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes”]This is a custom heading element.[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]A group of artists came together to work at Little Kickerbell on the Liverpool Plains. Many had been before to Little Kickerbell, some had not. Most knew each other, some had friendships spanning years some were newer acquaintances all taking the opportunity to share time away painting. On this particular art retreat at… Read More »Kickerbell Artists exhibition in Walcha at the Walcha Gallery of Art
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes”]This is a custom heading element.[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]I had a few hours on 14 June and decided to check out the MCA in Sydney. I hadn’t checked what was on and in essence stumbled on an exhibition that was part of the The National: New Australian Art happening in Sydney. I wasn’t bored any more I was filled with sunshine… Read More »Mangkaja Arts at The National: New Australian Art
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes”]This is a custom heading element.[/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]This weekend is the Queens birthday weekend in the Blue Mountains. There’s plenty of action around. There is the Bent Art exhibition opening night 6.30 – 9.30 at the Wentworth Falls School of Arts 217-219 Great Western Hwy, Wentworth Falls. In all the previous 14 years the opening has been a friendly warm… Read More »It’s all go on the Queens birthday weekend in the Blue Mountains
