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winston knows coloring in and clay workshop in Katowice. 4 jpeg

229 HOW ART THERAPY CAN HELP YOUR CHILD

Here is another blog written by freelance contributing writer , Helen Farnes hope you find it interesting. Is your child being bullied at school? Childhood bullying is unfortunately a widespread problem and faced by many of today’s youth.  According to the Australian Covert Bullying Prevalence Study, 27% of students from year’s four to nine were […]

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ceramic and mosaic wall based sculpture by artist Marie Jonsson-Harrison, featuring singers around a piano

226 ART AND IT’S COMING UP CHRISTMAS AGAIN

CHRISTMAS AGAIN It doesn’t take long for the year to roll around and before you know it is Christmas again!  This year as we often do we are going to see the spectacle Carols by Candle light in Elder Park, Adelaide.  It always inspires the creative process and I am sure many artists feel the same […]

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sculptures

224 LIBRARY ‘ONE CARD’ with artwork in ceramic and mosaic

ONE CARD FOR THE LIBRARY I was really thrilled to be asked if the image of one of my Public Sculptures could be used on the new “One Card” system (interconnecting library card for borrowers).  The SA public library “one card” network is connecting the systems of more than 130 public libraries across South Australia […]

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Still life, naive painting of flamingos,artist marie jonsson harrison, detail

222 PAINTING STILL LIFE ARTWORKS

Looking At Examples of Beautiful and Modern Still Life Paintings Still life painting is an old type of art that was here even before the development of modern day technological systems such as photography. This is an art that involves drawing an image as it appears in life. It involves several hours of sitting because […]

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photo of artist and model marie jonsson harrison and hillivi harrison, burnside village, mothers day fashion parades

221 The ART of Modelling for Mothers Day

ARTnBED This photo was taken for ARTnBED and features my painting “The True Colors of Hindley Street” which was chosen for the launch of the ARTnBED in New York.  It also features us – mother and daughter together modelling and that was lots of fun to do.  It is something my daughter Hillivi and I […]

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contemporary naive painting of the rolling stones logo and cats

216 The ART of The Rolling Stones

NAIVE ART EXHIBITION This week was going to be the one where we finally got to see the Rolling Stones live! Ever since I remember I have loved the Stones, the bad boys of “sex, drugs and rocking roll”.  Well that is before they finally grew up a couple of years ago and decided to […]

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photo of Triki En El Mundo the Cookie Monster in Venice

214 Triki En El Mundo, Cookie Monster for ART & CULTURE

ART AND CULTURE Funny thing about Facebook you find both old and new friends from around the world, some are only acquaintances whilst other come to mean much more than that over time. ACRYLIC PAINTINGS Here is one of my acrylic on board paintings from the Zoo series of naive art (most of those sold […]

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wall based sculpture made from 100's of aluminium discs covering a fish shape made from hebel and wood with artist marie jonsson harrison

213 ADELAIDE THE CITY OF ART FESTIVALS

ART FESTIVALS For an artist Adelaide in South Australia is a wonderful place to live, it is a buzzing metropolis for the arts with various festivals and exhibitions and excitement.   We just manage to get over Christmas and then it starts again with the Adelaide Fringe which is the largest annual arts festival in the […]

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201 The OUTSIDER Art Exhibition

THE OUTSIDER EXHIBITION Each year before the Christmas season starts outsider artist Stefan Maguran as project manager organizes an outsider festival, it is and always has been a love affair of Stefan and his wife to which they have had to make sacrifices along the way to keep it going.  They believe it has been very […]

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196 HIGHLIGHT HOLLYWOOD AND THE ART AWARDS

HOLLYWOOD AND THE ART AWARDS I just love being an artist, you never know from one day to another what may come your way.  This week I just found out that I had won first prize in 2 categories at the American Art Awards in LA.  The first award was for Naive Art where I […]

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