Opening night

Opening night of our yearly group show. Fun night great people, I was so busy chatting I even forgot to drink my wine.

 

Phthalo blue, I love you

Well since hear are the new paintings from the last few month. As you can see I am currently in love with Phthalo blues and greens. Hard to believe but I only started using Phthalo blue last year, now I don't know how i ever lived without it. The new works are all located on the borderlands of reality maybe a bit hallucinatory.

"Butterfly daze", watercolor, pencil and ink on Arches paper.

"Birth" acrylic on canvas.

 "Swamp" watercolor and pencil on Arches paper.

Lush

Many years ago in Melbourne I saw a stencil in a car park of a child in black and white vomiting drops/ blobs of colour. I remember that the contrast of the bright colours and the black and white really caught my attention and staid in my mind. So years later I credit that stencil with the inspiration of this painting.

Thank you unknown stenciler.

 

This painting actually has a lot of meaning and emotion for me, it was bourn out of the frustration of the Darwin build up (horrible hot humid time of the year).

 I find it quite a sexual painting, it represents desire and energy for life and love and everything seating within, frustrated by the deadening heat and isolation that is Darwin at this time of the year. It is about frustration but it is also about strength, of breaking free and being yourself. I started this in the build up last year and fittingly finished it in the build up this year.

 I'm rather pleased with it, I love her steady defiant expression.