by Sara | Oct 18, 2012 | Fun stuff, News, Painting
Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas using a Hyper-Realistic Acrylic technique. Meade applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting! This is...
by Sara | Oct 8, 2012 | News
Jonathan Watkins, director of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham shares his views on the future of art. He also touches on how the world is free to critical thinking and what that means to art. The lecture takes place on July 30th in Fed Square. Please leave a comment...
by Sara | Oct 7, 2012 | Exhibition
The newest upcoming exhibition that Sara Paxton will be taking part in during November. The exhibition is to be held at Seaview Gallery 3rd – 15th November. This is a fantastic gallery that has previously help a number of my exhibitions, so if you are around...
by Sara | Oct 7, 2012 | Galleries, News
It was time for another visit to Clayfire Gallery in Daylesford. It’s a gallery that regularly stocks my paintings so we loaded up the car with some new ones and headed north. It sanctuary of good food and coffee. Due to the adverse climatic conditions soup...
by Sara | Sep 22, 2012 | Exhibition
We’ve finally made it to the Sydney Art Expo 2012. It’s been a hectic few days, but after a 10 hour drive from Geelong and a chaotically long day setting up the stand, we were happy to celebrate with a glass of champagne at opening night. It was a great...
by Sara | Sep 19, 2012 | Exhibition
Finally we are off to Sydney for the Sydney Art Expo. It’s taken months of preparation with much product development. As well as the extensive range of paintings, I’ve been working on printmaking pieces, as well as experimenting with digital images of...
by Sara | Sep 8, 2012 | Fun stuff, Technique
I have recently come across a fantastic site that has some really interesting content. Ranging from art to design, this site has a bit of everything for everyone. I highly recommend that everyone has a quick look through this inspirational art site, although be very...
by Sara | Sep 3, 2012 | Articles, Exhibition, Galleries, News
I was lucky enough to go to a talk given by the artist Joseph L Griffiths. He was talking to a group of art student and was happy enough to give up an hour and a half of his time just to chat and answer questions. His work is amazing (currently showing at Boom...
by Sara | Aug 14, 2012 | Exhibition, Fun stuff, News
A visit to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair last weekend confirmed my thoughts that art fairs are alive and well in these tough times. The event (which was not inexpensive to get into so no riff raff) attracted 27,000 visitors and sales of $8 million (although this...
by Sara | Aug 3, 2012 | Fun stuff
Broadsheet is a fabulous Melbourne (and Sydney) based website covering a whole range of stuff from food, drink, nightlife, fashion, and more interestingly, art and entertainment. At the moment the mega Melbourne Art Fair (which I will visit this weekend and report...