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Collage collaboration for Oct Exhibition.

A lot of fun working with painted and printed papers made by others then assembled by me.

Last day art exhibition at East Melbourne arts festival.

Will be in attendance after 1.30pm tomorrow at Holy Trinity Cnr Clarendon and Hotham Sts East Melbourne. Event is open 11-5. My collage and paintings and Michael Meszaros sculpture plus the beautiful venue . Come and have a look before we pack up.

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19 Aug 2017

Alphington Open Studios this weekend

I would like you to know that the Alphington Open Studio weekend will be on this weekend Saturday 26th – Sunday 27th November 11am – 6pm.

I have been enriched by the AOS as I have met so many interesting people that has led to so many different experiences for me and for them also I hope. I have been invited to do workshops for people of all ages, commissions, group exhibitions with people I would never have met before, I made some beautiful friends (you know who you are) and I am constantly inspired by my lucky encounters with all of you.

I am posting the AOS leaflet, also see Facebooks Alphington Open Studios and website Alphington Studios for more pics of other artists works etc.

Here are some pics of my recent work which include still life painting in acrylic, collage/mixed media works that are surreal and yet happy and a new venture I have taken into wood carving. I’m pretty proud of my efforts in carving from a block of wood things such as spoons and little animals. I have used huon pine, golden poplar, and some bits of trees with no name. For those of you that liked and bought my greeting cards I will once again have available digitally printed cards with this current selection of artwork on them.

Hope the weather is fine but as you know most of us are inside or are least well prepared for rain hail or shine.

Bye for now, hope to see you this weekend and bring your friends and or family for an enjoyable stroll or drive through Alphington, you need to see the gorgeous gardens but more importantly the wonderful artwork that we have worked on over the last twelve months that will be available for sale.

Still life abstracted painting.

These are two small acrylic paintings on board. I am trying a couple of different techniques. Some abstract and some real.

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27 Aug 2016

Still life painting with boronia flowers and apples.

I think almost finished. Sorry not such a great quality photo and it is clipped a bit.

This is a photo of one of the set ups that I rejected.

This one has the apples still looking like tomatos.

For my still-life work I underpaint, I use a limited palette of colours and my materials are oil pencil (sparing) and acrylic paint.

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28 Sep 2015

New still life paintings from my sick bed.

I managed to get through winter without a cold but first week of spring and I am sick. Oh well could be worse. I am really happy as I have produced three still life paintings that I am very happy with during this period.

Oscar my cat wouldn’t move away from tv screen, I have lost my voice so couldn’t yell at him so we managed just like this.

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9 Sep 2015

Exhibition ‘Seven’ is on now and guess what, I sold SEVEN.

I struggled with the title as I have said in the past. I kept it very simple, seven small to medium sized works and seven mini responses to the larger works. Guess how many sold – yep, SEVEN.

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31 Aug 2015

Works on Paper exhibition entry open soon and here is a detail from my entry.

Here is a detail from one of three pieces I will be entering into a works on paper exhibition. I am using acrylic paint for backgrounds and several collage cutouts. The man is hand drawn and painted with inspiration from Bruegel the Elder. All three pieces are quite small and all are hybrid characters.

My exhibition has started but the opening is on Saturday at 2.00pm. If in Melbourne please come by.

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27 Aug 2015

My still-life paintings are being exhibited very soon.

Finally it’s here, the Out of the box group of artists that I have exhibited with for over 13 years are having their 2015 exhibition titled SEVEN.

I have posted a few pictures over the past few months plus another one here today. If you wish to discuss you can contact me or the gallery for further information or other images.

I have seven acrylic paintings/oil pencil works on board plus seven tiny 12.5 x 12.5cm works that are details or responses to the larger works. All the work is still-life layered acrylic paintings using a limited palette. The works have been scratched, sprayed, sanded to reveal underpainted colours. I have had Morandi on my mind in the making of this body of work.

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21 Aug 2015

Final preparations for gallery exhibition in Collingwood.

Our exhibition is called ‘SEVEN’.

I researched lots of different ideas and came up with not very much at all to inspire me with the title.

I decided to turn my attention to still life work which has been very rewarding for me. I hope you like the pic I am posting. I have made seven still-life works and seven small responses/details that will hang separately. If you are looking for a long articulate explanation, again, I have nothing.

I can tell you that I have used a limited colour palette of ultramarine blue, cadmium red, cadmium yellow and titanium white acrylic paint as well as an oil pencil. There is the tiniest amount of venetion red and alizarin crimson used as well. If you are looking – no not seven colours.

Chrysanthemum with coffee cups, Acrylic Paint / Oil Pencil

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17 Aug 2015