Category: Art

  • Reimagining Art: Digital Meets Traditional Techniques

    Reimagining Art: Digital Meets Traditional Techniques

    This project aims to redefine an artwork by merging digital techniques with traditional methods. The work in progress shows how colour, in particular blue, can create different meanings and moods. I illuminate the creative thought process using concept ideas from my art journal. Two disparate themes emerge, alienation and live music.

  • The Journey of Serpent Artwork

    The Journey of Serpent Artwork

     I had two prints of the photo I took in the Kimberleys of the serpent. The image was for a specific artwork. Ordering the second photo was a “just in case something went wrong” addition. After completing the first work, I grabbed an off-cut piece of canvas, glued the extra photo down and blocked in…

  • Letting Go: Creative Techniques for Artistic Transformation

    Letting Go: Creative Techniques for Artistic Transformation

    A few years ago, I whited out  a complete artwork.  The painting wasn’t working.   I scratched back into the wet white  paint. The effect that emerged pleasantly surprised me so, instead of disposing of the canvas, I kept the “new work”.  More recently I’ve been consciously whiting out old paintings, not because I don’t…

  • Exploring Richard Moffat’s Nest III Sculpture

    Exploring Richard Moffat’s Nest III Sculpture

    It is creative vision combined with technical skill that gives rise to a work of art.  True artists know the potential and the limitations of their materials.  In the hands of sculptor Richard Moffat, found metal objects and pieces of abandoned farm machinery undergo  an alchemical transformation. When we look at Nest III we see…

  • Social Media Postcards

    Social Media Postcards

    From Cooing to Tweeting. How things change. Next is X. AcknowledgementsPostcard 1The Carrier Pigeon (1835)After Daniel Maclise RA (1806 – 1870)Engraving attributed to William Henry EgletonFrom Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (ed.),Heath’s Book of Beauty, London, 1835 Postcard 2Outline of girl from Pexels photo-mizunokozuki-13431657; Postcard photo by Jude Tulloch