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Author Archives: mariejon

80 Cashed up and Arty Farty

ART & FRIENDS Isn’t it interesting how friendships are, how people come and go in your life?   Some are there all the way others appear and disappear only to reappear again. Just like I imagine these cats do in my painting “Cats in Case” in a Louis Vuitton bag (which is also available as a limited edition Giclee Print) If […]

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79 ART & You and Me and Bunny makes Three

ART & EASTER Happy Easter to everyone and I hope you are all having the loveliest of times wherever you are and whatever you are doing. This acrylic painting “You and me and Bunny makes three” was one I painted many years ago when I first started out as an artist.  I have always been […]

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78 A Cup of Tea and a Lie Down & Art

GREENHILL ART GALLERY This acrylic painting on canvas called “Teaotalers Club”, is one of two paintings that I have just finished and delivered to Greenhill Galleries here in Adelaide. TEA POT ART SHOW The show was called “The great Teapot Show” and the brief to participating artists said the aim was to create a varied […]

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77 Book stack water feature Sculpture

PUBLIC SCULPTURE This water feature sculpture is one I was commissioned to do for the Balaklava Library (mid-north in South Australia), a few years ago.   I had of course lots of fun designing this sculpture and as I love both the water and books, so it was no stretch.   It is made from hebel and handmade […]

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76 Renewing our Vows in Vegas & Art

ART IN LAS VEGAS As part of our trip to the US we were going to Las Vegas and having always heard about the Little White Wedding Chapel  and the celebrities who got married there which include Britney Spears, Demi Moore & Bruce Willis, Joan Collins, Michael Jordon, The Who, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Patty […]

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75 Story about Pooh & Art

ART & DOGS Now you think this is a story about dogs don’t you? – the kind when you are out walking and the dog does his business and you being a good citizen and all, you’ve bent down and scooped it up in a little plastic bag eh?  Well you couldn’t be more wrong……. So this […]

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74.Pop-Eye II & Art

ART & THE POP-EYE This painting is of Popeye which is an iconic Adelaide institution, it is privately owned and the first ferry was launched in 1935 and took you between Elder Park and Adelaide Zoo.  The first two boats in service carried 20 passengers each and the three next Popeyes made seated up to […]

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73 The Art of Snack attack at hungry jacks

THE ART OF FAST FOOD Isn’t it a drag that we can’t just eat whatever we want and not put on weight! This ceramic and mosaic artwork “Snax attack at Hungry Jack’s” was a delight to make.  I do love food, although for the most part I do eat healthy, I too dream about all […]

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72. Mae West “Come up and see me some time” & Art

WOMENS LIBERATION & ART Funny isn’t it how life is, you go along and suddenly you have an epiphany, well in my case I just realized that perhaps I have been influenced by someone far away from my own upbringing in Sweden and later on in Australia. Mae West – how strange this realization is, […]

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71.Post Cards at the Bay Art Competition

PAINTINGS IN ART COMPETITIONS I have just returned home after delivering my new entry an artwork into this year’s “On, Under and By the Sea” Postcards Exhibition at the Bay, Glenelg, which will be held during the Adelaide Fringe in the 175th anniversary year since European settlement in South Australia.  The title to this art […]

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