The Challenge of Botanical Art

    Botanical art is always something that has fascinated me.  To investigate more I went to see the ‘Capturing Flora’ exhibition at the Gallery of  Ballarat.  It’s the most comprehensive exhibition of Australia’s botanical art ever...
Painting Inks on Canvas Workshop

Painting Inks on Canvas Workshop

I had an opportunity this week to take part in an inks workshop demonstrating how to use inks on canvas.  This was an new experience – I’d only ever used inks on paper. It’s a lovely, washy, free flowing painting method.  First  the canvas (we used...

Drawing Lives on in Digital Drawing

    There is still hope for all of you drawers out there. This is a fantastic display of how drawing is still apart of the modern world in web development, its called digital drawing. Sketches are the raw model of the product, for a large majority of web and...
Marco Luccio – The Island

Marco Luccio – The Island

Marco Luccio is well known for his brilliant drypoint etchings – enormous, bold works, often of  iconic cityscapes and buildings.  His current show, however, is his inaugural painting exhibition. Called ‘The Island’, it is inspired by the rugged...
Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting

Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body 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...

Melbourne Art Foundation 2012 Lecture

  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...
Sara Paxton – Seaview Gallery Exhibition

Sara Paxton – Seaview Gallery 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...

Visit to Clayfire Gallery in Daylesford

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...

Sydney Art Expo 2012

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...

Sydney Art Expo Adventure

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...
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