Hi to any #Brisbanites out there in #bluesphere your second #affordableartfair is just around the corner & I have some new paintings winging their way... #aussielandscapepainting #aspiregallery

Adding the final touches to my frames - and taking photos….

Detail of a painting im working on for an upcoming show #affordableartfairau

Which color catches your eye more: a vibrant pink tree or a sunny yellow one? I'm feeling a bit uncertain today and would love your input! #australianlandscape #australiancoast #eastcoastaustralia

Work in Progress The larger version 18” x 20” nearly finished #australianlandscape #affordableartfairau

Work in progress Just a little one #affordableartfairau #australianartist #fineart #eucalyptus #australianlandscape

Can't argue with that #contemporaryartist #fineart #perks

Somehow this will come together, at the moment due to fuzzy brain its just chaos. #fineart #studiotour #worksinprogress

Odilon Redon, Green Death, c. 1905 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135846

OOoOOoh just did the same with Amazon - enjoying

What do I do when under the weather - bring out my sketchbooks pens and pencils. Its a back to basics thing.

**Speak Up, Brother** *Acrylic on paper (approximately A4 size)* I’m not much of a portrait painter, but I think I captured his eyes well. I created this a few years ago after my brother underwent surgery for bilateral hematomas. We’ll never know how that happened.

This painting has long since sold, quite a number of years ago in fact. Acrylic on 8x8” bd.

I ordered just a few oil sticks in different colours to try out. I usually work with acrylics and sometimes use dry media like graphite and charcoal. I plan to use the oil sticks as final layers over my acrylics. Any tips from #mixedmediaartists before I start?

Broken. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Be safe out there

Can you believe its almost February and I haven't even dived into #januarty yet? Time to change that! Speaking of new beginnings, l've got this piece that I started last year, and it's been quietly calling out to me from the studio. I think it's finally time to give it the attention it deserves!

It's a start abstract #australianlandscapepainting

Almost done! I prefer working on loose canvas because I like a hard substrate for scratching into the paint. Next move is to stretch it and I'll let it percolate around the studio a while. #australianlandscape

I think I prefer this to "Gulf of America"

Well here we are, what a tangle…

Pheweee Sydney that's a storm alright!

FINALLY, someone with actual clout said it!

One thing I am looking forward to today is getting back into my studio, I have deadlines, but I am procrastinating a tad this morning… what do I need, a ritual or a kick up the jacksie? #artistproblems

Bittersweet is the only way to describe yesterday, our wee foster puppies had their first meet and greets and of course, they were snapped up they are adorable. So we had to say goodbye right there and then.

My wee #fosterpuppies were adopted by two separate families today, wishing them long play filled lives with lots of treats and 💖🥹

A couple of great resource books added to my favorites. One is "Sight Lines," highlighting major women artists from New Zealand, including my former tutor Marilyn Webb—I've shared an unseen watercolor of hers in the second slide. Another favorite is the book on Joan Eardley's landscapes.

🚨 this week the coal industry launched a dirty campaign against the independents through an ‘astroturf’ group: ‘australians for progress’. using classic negative ad styling — complete with misinformation — billboards went up in monique ryan’s & allegra spender’s electorates.

If you haven’t heard the term “astroturf” before, it’s political slang for faking a “grassroots” movement or organisation. I am no teal but supremely fuck this. I hope Monique and Allegra crush the disinformation barons like ants. Solidarity. #auspol

Lap waggy moment #fosterpuppies

After saying goodbye to my beloved Mazzyover two years ago, I finally decided fostering would be a good fit. We contacted the Animal Welfare League and ended up caring for two adorable Chihuahua mixes: Corabelle (the blonde floof) and Clementine (the Tassie Devil)! #fosterdog

Took a couple days off Just spending time with these two cell mates #chihuahua foster pups

Meri Kirihimete

Merry Christmas Ramble on #artadventcalendar

Oh what a hectic morning, was up a 3.30am with the #fosterpuppies and then couldn’t get back to sleep, so just got up. Currently sitting down for a moment with a cuppa and bacon sarnie. Before I finish off baking #GF #fruitmincepies Which I have never attempted making before

Day 23 #artadventcalendar

Abstract watercolour from many years ago, an inner turmoil ablaze. #artadventcalendar

Babel (2023) Acrylic on canvas 100 x 100cm Private collection, NL #ArtAdventCalendar #AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #Liquitex #Ziggurat #Etemenanki

Men to women: “If you get raped it may be because you looked like a slut” Also men: “If you get raped it may be because you walked alone at night” Also men: “If you get raped it may be because you got drunk” Also men: “If you get raped it may be because you didn’t learn self-defence” Also Men …

#ArtAdventCalendar no.20 Another Dartmoor doodle. Wind blasted trees near Combstone Tor.. from about 5 years ago. Just before the lightning started!

Day 20 of the #ArtAdventCalendar is a small abstract watercolour. It's 4 x 4 inches. I went for colours that reflect the Cumbrian landscape, which are especially muted at this time of year. #abstractpainting #watercolour #watercolor #abstractwatercolour #abstractwatercolor

Day 21 #artadventcalendar Xmas just around the corner my oh my… This piece sold this year at the Melbourne Affordable Art Fair

#ArtAdventCalendar day 19: Sterling silver figurine inspired by the Mars helicopter #Ingenuity ✨ A test piece I made last year :) 🔭🐡🧪🎨

For day 17, here’s a collage I made a few years ago for a solo show called Off Kilter. Owlando Mixed media on board Sold #ArtAdventCalendar #owlart #artist #collage #artsky #whimsicalart #mixedmedia

Back in October last year I did this challenge, self-enforced 30 mini paintings in 30 days. The toughest part was doing reels, they take so damn long to edit and I’m not even that fussy. Anyway the majority of them sold and I think I gifted some. #artadventcalendar

"Until men engage earnestly and honestly with the pervasiveness of sexual assault and the aspects of the culture that celebrate and normalise it, not enough will change. The criminal justice system cannot change culture and consciousness; that happens elsewhere." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fifty-one of women's worst nightmares are going to prison. Countless other nightmares remain at large. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

And lets now see their faces and I hope the ones who went unidentified are scared shitless.

Merci Gisele Pelicot Your courage in the face of this trial is an inspiration. It is not for the victim to carry the shame! www.theneweuropean.co.uk/viva-gisele-...

A small work on paper- long since sold #artadventcalendar