Tag: Artwork

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Creative Social Media Postcards: A Visual Journey

    Creative Social Media Postcards: A Visual Journey

     I straddle the chasm between old pre-digital forms of communication and current forms of communication. A unique perspective arises from having a lived experience with more than one reference point. For me it calls forth creative responses.  Right now I’m working on a series of social media postcards. They will combine photos and images that…

  • Transforming Trauma into Artistic Expression

    Transforming Trauma into Artistic Expression

    I first lifted this canvas onto the easel with the intention of doing an abstract painting. In the process of laying down the paint, as the shapes formed, the intent changed. The Gaza war had begun. I was pre-occupied with the secondary trauma experienced by those around me. As the nightly horrors of the war…

  • Art brings closure

    Art brings closure

    To die: to sleep;No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Hamlet In memory of two brave souls at rest now.

  • Decorative Artwork for a Balinese Villa

    Decorative Artwork for a Balinese Villa

    Decorative artworks enhance the interior at Pure Magnetic Villas. Painted with acrylics in a vibrant palette they speak to the Balinese tropical ambiance. The bright flower-like shapes dance against the dark backdrop.