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 […]
180 ART AND THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
ART GALLERY KNUD GROTHE Some days you are just so glad to be alive and overwhelmed by the random kindness act of strangers that you are totally lost for words. I had one of those days yesterday and it revolves around a Danish man Knud Grothe who owns and runs one of the finest galleries […]
178 WISEGUY, ART & ANIMATIONS
TRAVEL AND ART BLOG In this weeks travel and art blog I thought I would share with you an article written by Andrew Fenton for the SA Weekend Magazine which comes out with The Advertiser every Saturday. His column is called “Wiseguy” and that suits him to a T, as he always has a wiseguys […]
159. ART & Rose colored glasses
OTHER ART & TRAVEL BLOGS So here we are still in Gothenburg staying with Leif, Lena and Emma and if you wanna recap here are the art blogs leading up to this point in time. 156. ART & FREQUENT FLYER POINTS and 157. Art & Never judge a book by it’s cover This is the […]
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 […]
92 Art & walk across my swimming pool
RELIGION AND ART Is the title of this acrylic on board painting of Jesus doing just that! As I have said before I really enjoy painting religious motives but am not a follower of any particular religion. I guess you can say that I am hedging my bets as I wear a Cross and a […]
57. Art & Signing the Contract
ART CONTRACT I had been painting for about 5 years when my gallery in Melbourne called me to let me know that a scout for a Japanese gallery had been in to see them and were very interested in showing my artwork in Nagoya. This painting depicts my Qantas flight over to Nagoya in Japan […]
39. Our Skyshow Art Inspiration
PAINTING INSPIRATION We first started going to the sky show when our son was about 10 months old in 1988 and that is the inspiration for this naive art painting. The Sky show was held as an annual event and started in the middle 80’s to celebrate Australia Day with an amazing fireworks display synchronized […]
23. Don’t let your arthritis get in the way & ART
PAINTING ON THE COVER OF THE ADELAIDE REVIEW I was thrilled when I found out that my painting Don’t let Your Arthritis get in the way was going to be on the cover of the Adelaide Review it was printed in conjunction of an art exhibition at the time. Quite amazing to me that one […]