Exhibition time

How time flies. I have been working away at another body of work. After nearly two years, it is all coming together and so it is time to share what I have learnt in an exhibition.

My overall theme and fascination continues to be “Detail in Nature” and this time the work is all about the intricacies of the leaf. Initially I spent a lot of time photographing, examining, and drawing leaves from many Australian native plants and then developed a series of prints, drawings and paintings based on my explorations.

There was a lot of cutting delicate shapes with tiny scissors and a lot of very sticky gluing of string and embroidery cotton onto canvases for the paintings as well as a lot of slow building up of lights and darks with a HB pencil for the drawings. Below are the last 2 of the very fiddly thread and oil on canvas paintings, finally finished.

I now know a lot more about the insides of leaves and am generally happy with the works I have created.

 

As the attached invitation indicates, the exhibition is once again at the Firestation in Armadale. It will run from Wednesday August 9^th to Saturday August 26^th with the Opening Celebration on Thursday August 10^th from 6 – 8 pm. Come along.