Tag: Creativity

  • Textile art large and small at the F Project

    One of the things I love about my sister Robyn Burn’s exhibition Gentle Madness is that it showcases the way she can work on small delicate pieces like her Japanese inspired doily prints, then move to massive quilted works. Full marks to F Project’s Helen Bunyon who incorporated this aspect of Robyn’s work into the…

  • Turning mounts into art

    I took some photos of the various stages of a painting to illustrate an artist’s talk I did yesterday. Temprarily mounted on white sheets, I stuck them on plyboard offcuts, ‘painted’ at the end of painting sessions with leftover paint; it reduces the amount of paint that goes into the drain system. Before long I…

  • Counter Art

    Stopped by for a coffee at “A Little Shop of Soul” in Cooroy after a trip to the Butter Factory Arts Centre. It’s a hidden gem of a bookshop with a shady, plant-filled courtyard and a touch of magic.  Got talking to owner Zoe about the Expressions Exhibition. She had a beautiful leaf on the…

  • Abstract Photo

    Julie Hemsley, the photographer in the Marcus Beach Artisan Group did some fabulous publicity shots for me for our upcoming Expressions Exhibition. All will be revealled in good time but I discovered some wonderful abstract photos within the photos she took.

  • Hand made pottery

    This photo is for my fellow Marcus Beach Artisan, Michael Wootton, who is exhibiting his spiritual ceramic vessels at our upcoming ‘Expressions’ Exhibition. You would have loved this village Michael. Yandabo is one of nine villages in Myanmar that make these traditional pots using first a foot-driven wheel, then hand beating the pots into their…