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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PAINTINGS, Monorails & Sydney Centrepoint Tower
PAINTING FOR ART EXHIBITIONS So here I sit in my studio painting an artwork for a upcoming overseas art exhibition, the theme of this one is Sydney and it’s skyline which of course makes me think of this painting below that I painted many years ago after we had been to Sydney for a holiday. […]
191 AUSTRALIA GOT TALENT & Sydney Opera House
TALENTED ARTISTS It never ceases to amaze me how many talented people there are everywhere and in this painting I am celebrating that fact along with the birthday of Sydney’s Opera house although “she” has had many more birthdays since this artwork was painted. Last weekend we went back to Balaklava the country town that […]
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 […]
179 ART AND CHAINED TO THE RAIL WAY TRACK
PAINTING IN THE STUDIO Oh boy what strange 6 weeks I have just had!! Life happens to you whilst you are busy doing other things as John Lennon said. Normally I sit in my art studio with an amazing view, the house perched up high like an eagles nest, high above a train track and […]
177 ART EXHIBITIONS IN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK & SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
NAIVE ART FESTIVAL IN POLAND I am frantically painting away in my studio trying to meet the deadline for the Naive Festival in Poland. Normally I can pretty much concentrate on my work but lately life, the universe and everything has gotten in the way. Oh and I will write a blog and tell you […]
171. ART and the ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME DOCUMENTARY
ART AND TELEVISION I hope you sat glued to your televisions on Saturday at 4.30pm on Channel 7, to watch the Coast to Coast for Kids – Land & Sea Challenge. Just don’t blink or you will miss the star in my life my hubby! Lol You see hubby was part of the support crew […]
168. ART and KEEPING FIT
THE ART OF KEEPING FIT I have just joined a gym today, finally after 20 or so years since last time. Oh and before you get the wrong idea – I have still been keeping fit during that time. You see we had been living on a farm in the country with the closest gym […]