230 Art And Trauma – Painting Out The Pain
Here is another blog written by freelance contributing writer , Helen Farnes hope you find it interesting. For many centuries now, we have cultivated a very persistent artistic stereotype. The idea of the tormented creative, driven by inner turmoil and the horrors within to create works of transcendent beauty and significance is one with which […]
THE ART OF TRAVELLING THE WORLD
PAINTING COMMISSIONS I am a bit lost for words actually as this is the biggest break in the blogging since I launched my artist website, so with nearly 2 months away from writing I feel slightly lost, lol. I have been back at the easel painting furiously for the last few weeks though as I […]
210 THE ART OF AL FRESCO DINING
CERAMIC AND MOSAIC SCULPTURE This wall based mosaic and ceramic sculpture hung at Adelaide Airport for many years before the new renovations it was one of 3 commissions that hung in the only cafe open at the airport. Of course it was lots of fun to make and hopefully cheered people up after a […]
186 PAINTING ANIMALS AND ONE DRINK TOO MANY
PAINTING ANIMALS As you can see by my art I am clearly an animal lover and have shared my life with many gorgeous creatures over the years. I always love painting them too. This acrylic on board artwork is from the vet’s waiting room and of course I had so much fun painting it too. […]
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 […]
46. Artistic Learner Drivers
ARTISTIC INSPIRATION This Artwork is called “Shop till you drop” but it should probably be named according to how we felt at the time lol but that would have to include some not so lady like words – you see if you look closely in the orange car on the left you will see us. […]
43. Art & Wedding Anniversary
ARTISTIC INSPIRATION It’s our wedding anniversary on Saturday, so don’t call us-we won’t be answering the phone, lol we will have other things on our minds! Here is a painting which may give you some idea, this is our actual bed, but I don’t know what all the cats are doing there! What was I […]
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 […]
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 […]
28. ART & Sometimes its just about the little noises you hear
WRITING ART BLOGS As I was writing a art blog about another painting where I depicted us losing our false teeth while we were madly dancing, I was reminded about what happened to a good friend; she unfortunately had to have all her teeth removed at an early age and was made a set of […]