Tag: Creativity

  • 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…

  • Painting Again

    Out of holiday mode and back to work. Preparing for a small exhibition in December.

  • Where’s the Moon

    Why post an out of focus iPhone photo of no photographic merit, taken through the windscreen, in the traffic in Canberra, of Saturday’s full moon? Once again, I’m parking an idea for an abstract painting and a new theme to explore visually.

  • Mt Buffalo Calls

    Walking at Mt Buffolo in Victoria’s alpine region today fired up my passion for mountain landscapes again. The white snow gums, massive boulders, flat marshy dells, multitude of leaf shapes and colours, so evocative, yet so difficult to grasp their quality. Last year I took photos of the white skeletons of trees with the intention…

  • Expanding Horizons

      The Marcus Beach Artisans met today to start planning our Exhibition called Horizons. It’s not until April 2018 but we are all hard at work. Lee’s signature beach paintings – one of which was highly commended in a recent Brisbane art show – will sit alongside other works that have water as their subject.  Kris is…

  • Collage holiday momento

    The photo in my post The things we do to trees was the inspiration for these collages. Embedded in the materials used, is the story of a journey. It began at the workshop at QAGOMA (Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art) with Brisbane artist John Honeywill. With the intention of doing collage on my recent trip,…