42. Art & All That Packing ..mmm Better have a Holiday
THE ART OF MOVING Now who was the idiot that thought that would be a good idea!!!! Fourteen days in Bali sounds nice, yea right! Mmm…might have been moi ! (well Bali was fantastic, it was the aftermath that sucked! Lol) You see the timing of this little holiday really sucks but it worked out […]
41. Art & Collecting Cackleberries and Thank you Balaklava
(continuing blog from Tree Change to Sea Change , see story below) ARTISTS INSPIRATIONS There are other things we will miss very much and appreciate about living in the country too. In this painting called “Collecting Cackleberries” we are of course collecting the eggs, the four of us and every one of our chooks had […]
40. Tree Change for a Sea Change & Art
ARTIST INSPIRATIONS This painting is one I painted early on in my career (which sold in America) which was inspired by our new life on the farm, and what a lovely time it has been too. Here we are unloading the truck with the dairy cows that we had on agistment each summer, they actually came on […]
39. Our Skyshow Art Inspiration
PAINTING INSPIRATION We first started going to the sky show when our son was about 10 months old in 1988 and that is the inspiration for this naive art painting. The Sky show was held as an annual event and started in the middle 80’s to celebrate Australia Day with an amazing fireworks display synchronized […]
38. Little Birdy Floyd painting
BIRD PAINTINGS In this painting “Spring at last” is a sweet little bird named Floyd, a cockatiel whom we shared our life’s with for several years after Bryan and I got married. You see, at that stage we lived in an apartment and the rules were no pets. Well I think a bird did not […]
37. The Golden Years of Modelling in Art
ART INSPIRATIONS This painting “Happy New Year at Regine’s” was inspired by my mad modelling days, and crazy mad they were too, but sooo much fun. As you can see from this artwork (which sold in Japan) we models know how to kick our heels up and we did! However I have to admit to […]
36. How it all began in Art
WHY I STARTED PAINTING Dancing asparagus I hear you say, mmm…well moi have always been a little bit crazy and that probably is and asset when you are an artist! Lol Anyway this painting was the first one that I actually painted, on canvas that is. MURAL ON THE NURSERY WALL You see I was […]
35. The First Adam and Steve Artwork
CERAMIC AND MOSAIC SCULPTURE This artwork is the first Adam and Steve (ceramic and mosaic 100cm x 150cm ) that I did and it was inspired by my cousin and his partner. I have since made another Adam and Steve wall based sculpture and there was a funny incident at the art gallery where that […]
33. Art & Dont worry be happy
HAPPINESS THROUGH ART Well that is easier said than done sometimes isn’t it? For me it is something that I understood with time and to make oneself happy may not always be through art necessarily but I do think it comes from making a decision and getting absorb and involved in something other than our […]
32. Art & What, a thalidomide budgie?
CAT & BIRD PAINTING This painting was one of several I painted on this theme of Cats and Birds for my gallery in Japan. Obviously I am an animal lover so it is not too much of a stretch to be inspired by them, and over the years we have shared our lives with many […]