I made the paper with crea8

I will be exhibiting with my friends from crea8, Nic Hohn and Kym Breeze, on the weekend of 26-27 May at Highfields Cultural Centre. For more info go to our crea8 blog.

Hearts and Stars

I finished these two paintings during the week and they are now being exhibited for sale at the "Happy Souls" exhibition at Tannum Sands.

Take a seat ... home with you

This is one of the three chairs I've painted in time for our "crea8" show at The Chocolate Cottage at Highfields. Honestly, it took AGES to paint, and then seal with 2 coats of marine varnish. And if it doesn't sell I'll be happy to take it home to my place! It was fun to do furniture again though, and I'm keen to do some more for the new baby - maybe after it's born though - there's so much to do before then!

Bathroom Art

My husband renovated our bathroom in January and since then I've had this idea for a painting in my head. I painted wet in wet and added gold glazes and three different colours of drips and I'm delighted with how it worked out! I'm waiting to receive my first shipment of the wonderful GOLDEN paints and varnishes, and will then coat with a soft gel medium and a high gloss polymer varnish. I"m so happy that it's done! Today I tried 3 more flowers on smaller canvases which I will add drips and glazes to tomorrow - I hope I'm happy with them too!

Fairy with the right idea

This chocolate fairy was inspired by Laini Taylor - it has led me to do an assortment of other fairies. I think I may have to keep this one.

A better pic

Here is a better pic of the top panel of "We Emerge" that I included in my last blog. I think her expressive use of colour is amazing! As I mentioned before, the artist is Barbara Tyson.

I'm getting back on track

I've just returned from a wonderful 5 days visiting Melbourne and am inspired once again. I've made a long 'to do' list and am working through my orders and commissions as fast as I can so that I can get started on a whole bunch of other ideas I've got stored in my head and noted in a couple of places (just can't seem to stick to one notebook at the moment). Anyway, the cake was a DELICIOUS carrot cake that I had at the cafe at Manyung Gallery at Mt Eliza, about 30 mins south of Melbourne. Honestly, I don't think I've had a single piece of carrot cake since I realised the Weight Watchers points value of a slice in 1998. This one was superb though, with a thick layer of cream cheese icing and pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds and apricot squares on top. Divine. The painting I've uploaded is by the artist Barbara Tyson and I think it's wonderful too - she is a master of painting movement and form - and these 5 square pieces were coated in resin - something I plan to do again this weekend. You can see more of her work and my favourite artist, Janine Daddo's work at www.manyunggallery.com.au .