the resi at the Coal Loader has been packed full and workshops are happening from all directions ... so good to have a little bush break near my #coalloaderstudio

the garden is glorious in winter

It's wonderful to be a part of this line up... 
Carmel Wallace, Catherine Bailey, Colleen Hughson

    Portland Art Centre Victoria 
    2 March - 27 March

a prelude to the Virtual Arboretum Portland on 28 March

The Virtual Arboretum Portland was made possible by the Australian Governments regional arts program, the Regional Arts Fund, which gives all Australians, wherever they live, better access to opportunities to practise and experience the arts. The Regional Arts Fund is administered in Victoria by Regional Arts Victoria. 

 going bananas all day in pyjamas 

you are my sunshine.... thank you Henny Penny for the one winter sunflower amongst the madly self seeded tomato plants.

it's all on... cleaning and sorting by night and art making by day with some gardening  - maintenance maintenance - and bird watching of course.

some more pics at Lukes'. soon on my way back to Hill End for the Open Studio Day

From a beautiful dinner held at English Lane to the detail of Tony Albert's Pay Attention at Dubbo Regional Gallery and a painting found at Hill End's Post office, are a few images from my last trip away. 

Coming up this Sunday is Hill End Artists Open Studio Day
details here

at my place while Luke S was away at his residency in China....

 

spring and winter blooms all at once... that is Sydney. I am back from my glorious time-out to find the most agreeable news of selling and winning results!!! Hip Hip hoorah to me! 

detail of winning miniature work at the ASMA exhibition

some completed bits for a miniature work ... the deadlines are lined up like soldiers this year. I just said No to a wonderful life/ art opportunity just to practice the No and to stop with the over plating! 

Soon for a little rest....

The Blue Trees

"takes an urban landscape with which you are familiar and changes it for a brief period of time so that it becomes something unfamiliar. We are creatures who like certainty, and we become disconcerted when our environment changes. Yet, we have altered and destroyed much of the global environment. With this destruction, we have caused the extinction of countless species.

The primordial forests of the world are disappearing at an alarming rate. It is easy to restore the trees we have coloured blue back to their natural state. However, without some serious efforts, the old species will disappear. They do not have the option of restoration." 

Konstantin Dimopoulos

HOT PIE Portland inkjet print, stab-stich book now in the Manly Library Collection

At home now after picking up my 3 "free" plants from Council's Carnival... and staying home. Yay - I need a rest day as my own carnival will start again on monday....

Syd's Centrepoint to the moon 

all hail ye Hill End folk!

best pic as busy brushtails gave me their end views

Noel McKenna (my most fave Sydney artist) would appreciate my crooked shot of the latest in his The piano of my brother show at Darren Knight Gallery 

From night to day for a walk with the gorgeously engaging Gail, the pin up girl for this parked cockpit. This heart with cheese eaten by another in line and I left with no buys - yay!

first and only one this spring, she opens up centre stage

potting about the garden as warm days have tempted me away from the studio. must get the vegie seedlings in

Sarah Nolan  ALWAYS THERE

Jacquie Drinkall - sky burial (details)

Hidden in Rookwood Cemetery is a sculptural response to the big realm of death and remembrance. Rookwood, the largest and culturally profuse cemetery in Oz, links everyone here in Syds/NSW. My gorgeous friend Gail and I had a perfect sunny Sunday viewing the art, weeds, history and one of my loves... trees. The best works for me were by Sarah Nolan and Jacquie Drinkall.