Indeed! Clearly, studying during pelvic pain hell was worth it and not just for sanity's sake. Thank you Jeff Makin for your wonderful tuition (and your great selection of objects!). Artist's Journal and Palette has been selected as a finalist piece for the 2012 AME Bale Art Prize in the medium of oils and/or acrylics. 10" x 14", oil on canvas panel. Not for sale. Exhibition dates: 1-16 December 2012: Exhibition open to the [...]
The mail can be so nice sometimes. Another wonderful art surprise this week with notice that my Drying Cutlery will be a finalist piece in the Borough of Queenscliffe's 150th Anniversary Art Awards. There are three galleries displaying finalists and mine will be displayed at Tussock Upstairs. This piece came about when I was on a retreat (from the pain ritual) in Hepburn Springs. After my tutorials with Jeff Makin I wanted to [...]
I've heard people say artwork can take on a life of its own... well now I believe it. Not having been able to make new work for a few years now, somehow my arty life has managed to have fun for both of us. Now, with my Portrait prints of Lynn Savery having crept out of the studio for a recent group show at Steps gallery, and the few remaining Winter Light paintings [...]
Greek-Australian Cultural League of Melbourne Inc. The Greek-Australian Cultural League (Incorporated) is a non-profit organisation and has no religious or political affiliations. Its aims are the advancement, support and dissemination of the creative endeavours of Greek-Australian writers and artists whose work primarily reflects the confluence of the Greek and Australian cultures and contributes to the enrichment of Literature, the Visual Arts and the Performing Arts. This is such a spirited group, please join, [...]
$375. Lyno (in fur) at Cavallero. Acrylic paint on small artist’s palette. 2008
The press release below explains this show perfectly. I do have to add a huge thanks however to three dearest people, Theo, Lynn Savery and Michelle Caithness. I could not have produced these works without Theo’s support (and that still goes for most things I do today!). Darling Lyno the chance I got to paint and draw you is icing on the cake and that cake is our beautiful friendship, the world needs [...]
