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 […]
227 ART CHOCOLATE and the NEW YEAR
ARTIST DREAMER As another year turns the corner I cannot help but be very thankful for the last one and wishing the New Year will also be kind to us all. The most important thing for me is of course the health and wellbeing of my family and friends but if I could I certainly […]
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 […]
ART & AGING and having no regrets
THE ART OF LOVE I often miss my grandparents and infact hardly a day goes by when I don’t think about them. In this painting I have painted myself and my husband as we may look in our old age. If you look on the paintings and photographs on the wall behind us, some of […]
174. St. PATRICK’S DAY & ART
COMMISSIONED PAINTING Several years ago I was commissioned to paint a St Patrick’s Day painting celebrating all things Irish by my US Art Gallery. That was something that up until then had not occurred to me and one of the reasons I generally enjoy doing commissions so much is because there is always a new […]
172. The ART of the Hair SCULPTURES
INSPIRED BY ARTIST SANDRO BOTTICELLI This painting was commissioned by my US art gallery a few years ago; the Director wanted me to paint a naive version of The Birth of Venus which was originally painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1486. My brief was just to paint the head but with various items hanging in […]
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. […]
145 Art Lovers & Artists Unite
FAVORITE ARTISTS Have you been wondering why your favorite artist, whether it is visual art, singer, band, writer, photographer or whatever page you have already LIKED is not showing up in your HOME page anymore. Well the reason is simple since facebook was listed on the stock exchange and did rather worse than expected they are now […]
142 ARTENSION LE MAGAZINE
LIFE AS AN ARTIST The life as an artist always has it’s ups and downs. Luckily I have been very blessed and mostly experience the former but had my fair share of downs too during the twenty something years I have been painting. This painting which was featured in ARTension magazine is called The Two […]
131 Kismet Kate the Artist
ARTIST FRIEND This story is about my dear friend and fellow artist Catherine Fitz-Gerald and for some reason the above musical has always come to mind when I think of her, so therefore it goes without saying that when Kate decided her next art exhibition was going to be centered around songs, that seemed like a natural […]