207 HAPPY HOLIDAYS & HAPPY ART & Carpe Diem
PAINTING HOLIDAYS Happy holidays and a happy 2014 to you all across the world. On this painting you can see my husband and I kicking back and relaxing on our farm seizing the day. Sitting under a tree having a picnic, sipping champagne, reading a good book all whilst being watched by the kangaroos and […]
54.Art & The Place of the Ground Frog (All Roads lead to Mallala, part 2)
ART & FROGS Unlike this painting, this little country town is actually rather quiet with only a population of 500 and according to Wikipedia the name is aboriginal for ‘madlola’ which means ‘place of the ground frog’. Not that I saw anymore frogs there than anywhere else, but maybe that’s how come I picked […]
52.Art & All Roads lead to Mallala
ART IN THE GRAVEYARD All roads lead to Mallala, is the name of this painting and when we first moved out to the country from the big “smoke” this is where we moved to, well nearly, 10 km from here, as you can see there is a lot that goes on in the country too […]
49. By the Seaside & Art
ART & FLOODS As it happens we should just have stayed at the farm, because four days after we moved to the seaside the seaside actually came to the farm would you believe! If you missed our house moving tales here is the art blogs on our adventures 40. Tree Change for a Sea […]
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 […]
11. “SMOKEY” The Chip eating sheep Art blog
PAINTED PICTURE OF THE COUNTRY As a lot of you know by now we live on a farm, although recently we have reduced said farm’s acreage substantially. However it is and has been a wonderful place to live and for our children to grow up on, and with so many tales to tell. The farm […]