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 | 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 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 | Jul 31, 2012 | Fun stuff, Galleries, News
Some great events coming up in Melbourne including the MIFF. Have a look and let me know what your thoughts are on this years contenders.