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 […]
169. PAINTINGS AND OPPOSITES ATTRACT
PAINTINGS AND GICLEE PRINTS This painting Balloon Wedding is one of my favorite artworks and is available as a Giclee print these days. Often bought as a wedding present which brings me very neatly to the wedding we attended on the weekend and also to the topic of opposites attract. I love painting wedding scenes […]
156. ART & FREQUENT FLYER POINTS
ART, CIRCUS & TRAVEL I have always loved travelling; I think the bug bit me even before I was born. My grandmother ran away to sea at 15 and then she met my grandfather Anton and they both ran away with the circus. Here are the art blog about that 20. Antonis Tivoli & 21. […]
144 Mystery Island & Art
CRUISING AND ART Here is another installment about our recent cruise – if you have just joined me for the first time perhaps you would like to recap with these travel and art blogs “LEAVING SYDNEY HARBOR” and “CRUISING ON THE PACIFIC JEWEL” and “ART,LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE ISLE OF PINES” THE ART OF THE TOUR […]
125 Gallery M and Salt
ART GALLERY SHOW This was from an art exhibition opening at Gallery M here is South Australia called The Demise or Otherwise of South Australia’s Gulfs, curated by Save Our Gulf Coalition. Over ninety artists had been invited to take part and a number of them are high profile. The diversity is enormous and with […]
107 Girls Night Out in Art
THE ART OF HAVING A GOOD TIME Oh the 1980’s – I remember it well, those Girls nights out. Well some of it at least although I have to admit through a glass colored by gin and tonic or champagne. Those were the days when I could party all night, sleep for an hour and still attend […]
106 Outsider Art Festival
GICLEE PRINT Look out the Outsiders Art Festival which opens next week in Adelaide. This is an annual event organized by Stefan Maguran, who calls himself an underemployed artist and Project Manager. This Giclee print “Expose yourself to Art” is one of my pieces which is included in this show. The original artwork was done […]
81 ART & The Reef and the Swimming Pool
ART FROM SWEDEN Before we emigrated from Sweden to Australia my father promised my brother and me that when we get there we were allowed to have both a large swimming pool and a donkey! Well I guess the perception of what life would be like in sunny Australia when you sit and dream about […]
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 […]
70. Condo’s of Katherine, Ants & Art
ART AND LIFE As previously said I started painting when I was pregnant with my first baby and the very day my son Kai turned one years old we set off travelling by car to Katherine in the Northern Territory. We had his birthday party on the Sunday before and then said our goodbyes as my husband […]