ICE 2010

Time to get lost in all the paper again... it is International Collage Exchange time and this year I've finished mine early, making sure I don't miss it for another year..

You know the debris left over in travel bags when you've unpacked at home, those bits and pieces of pretty paper and memoires and cuttings from interesting art magazines, brochures collected on gallery hopping runs... too pretty to throw away so it lives in your travel bag. This series is called 'travel bag debris' and I added a pretty note on everyone so that it can be sent to that someone you had to leave behind :-) (oh and the fibre is from knitting done while travelling, love to keep the hands busy when not taking pictures)


Each one is 10" x 7" - thanks for looking..e^)

african sun

Hot hot African sunset, some relief from the relentless sun in sight - but oh so beautiful the colours...

this is now available on auction through Trade Me for this week. Thanks for taking a look, I will be back with a regular "painting a week" soon ..e^)

sold

superimposed

I had my mind made up about painting a good honest abstract - but first I had to do the 'stract' without the 'ab'. A while ago we travelled through to Taupo from Auckland, through beautiful bountiful green land, hills and valleys, rich growth and the odd herd of cows or sheep. This resulted in this painting that I call 'lambscape' - 350 x 450 x 35mm in acrylic.

Then on a loose piece of canvas I worked on abstracting my lambscape and after a number of stages the painting ended up looking like this:


Next I went ahead and ripped the canvas to pieces, yes I did, remarkably easy too - canvas is a joy to rip - and placed the pieces on the original representational painting. Note that I had to have it on the horizontal, like the land, to be able to do this. Now we literally have realism supporting the abstracting of the lambscape.


Now for me to be able to hang this on the wall, the strips will have to be collaged down, so I started playing with placement, and this is it. The end...e^)

the joke

380 x 760 x 35mm - oils and acrylics on stretched canvas. Experimenting with combinations of acrylics and oils, working into them and combining them to see what will happen.. Jokes are like that too - people react differently to them, so you can never tell what the reaction will be, fascinating to watch the faces! And very telling the things that make different people laugh... This is available here on auction for a week, thanks for looking ..e^)

peace poppy

One of a number of new paintings available through Hot Ginger Gallery - this one is 760 x 380 x 35mm, acrylics on stretched canvas ..e^)