228 This week on SOCIAL MEDIA in Art
SOCIAL MEDIA This has been a busy week in the art studio as usual, still I try to post at least one post every day on social media to keep my profile up and also to have fun and interact with my lovely friends both from real life and new made in cyberspace! If you […]
195 ART & What makes your blood boil
CERAMIC AND MOSAIC SCULPTURE Today I am going to share with you an article from the Sydney Morning Herald by Andrew Woodhouse, the column in question is called Heckler where readers are invited to send 400 words on what makes their blood boil. I found this article to be very funny and poignant in this […]
167. THE ART OF LETTING GO
ART AND TRAVEL BLOG Todays travel and art blog continues on from 166. Rondellhund, Roundabout dogs Sculptures as we finished a great smorgasbord spread in the Rondellhund factory. So if you should want to catch up on the travel and art blogs leading up to this point in our recent Europe trip here are the […]
163. ART & NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
THE ART OF TIME So another year is just about to have passed us by and a new one is on it’s way. How did it all happen so fast, where did the year go? There never seem to be enough days of the week or hours in a day does it? So much to […]
162. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IN RELIGION & ART
FIFTY SHADES OF PAINTING GREY CATS So why this title; “Fifty shades of grey in Religion & Art”? Perhaps something to do with the painting of the cats and all the shades of grey they come in. Well not exactly but as it is Christmas I thought this painting was a good fit even though […]
158. Fifty Shades of Grey in Art
ART & SEX Like millions of women across the globe I have been reading Fifty shades of Grey and just finished the first book in the trilogy (Fifty shades of Darker and Fifty shades of Freed). I had actually had the book in my possession for about 3 months without reading it. The reason was […]
155 The Art of Packing Light
PUBLIC SCULPTURES & SUITCASES The art of packing light is obviously not something that I have mastered and with all the travelling that I have done for work firstly as a model and then as an artist and just for pleasure that’s a real shame. I always find that I need whatever it was that […]
128 Sculpture and Women
PUBLIC SCULPTURE These 2 images are from the” Centenary of Federation Gateway” sculpture which I was commissioned to design and make by the Wakefield Regional Council and took some 18 months to complete. The whole town came on board and helped and we had art workshops both in schools and other locations. These panels stand […]
121 Volunteers our Backbone – Public Sculpture
PUBLIC SCULPTURE As promised here is a bit more about The Centenary of Federation Gateway sculpture, this time I want to tell you about the wonderful community spirit that helped to make this project possible. You may want to recap to Stories of the Wall, to see main structure of this sculpture, although images of […]
109 Stories behind the Wall – Public Sculpture
PUBLIC SCULPTURE These images are from “The Centenary of Federation Gateway” sculpture which was commissioned by the Wakefield Regional Council and took some 18 months to complete. It started as a seed planted by Dale Gathercole and grew into an amazing community project. Prior to this I had been awarded a mentor-ship grant jointly by the Australia […]