Kitsugi

New ‘Dream Drawing’ I’ve been working on today.

This work was based on the mixed-media piece I created a few days ago (Swan Dreaming) and inspired by Kintsugi (the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery with gold) and the Jungian concept of Shadow Work. Acrylic paint, ink and wash, graphite pencil on water colour paper.

Rainbows

I sat down last night and started drawing rainbows and dolls with Rob.

It felt so incredibly liberating just playing with colour and art materials like a child. Red and yellow and pink and green... purple and orange... and blue. I started with chalk pastels, then added water and pencil, moved on to watercolours, dipped into acrylic and added a touch of gold Jo Sonja folk art paint. I have visions of making hundreds of these and sending them out everywhere in the snail mail or covering a wall in a gallery with them maybe...

A revolution of rainbows.

Magic and Madness!

Well, this is my weekend so far....

Oh Mother! Look at the Mountain. 2013.

Paper, wood, tape, thread and paint.

Above work: an ode to David Suzuki and his Elder’s vision.

Lots of introspection, magic and madness! Mary Poppins, Dr Parnassus and Sweeney Todd all came to visit, Ari’s been building an entire world on some engineering program with roadways, bridges, buildings, farms, vehicles'.

Images from my sketchbook, ca. 2012- 2015, for ‘The Other’ exhibition concept.

Professor Zipling has been amazing us with his mastery of the ten-by-ten Rubik’s cube and I have been revisiting previous concepts for installations, large and small - paper theatres and dioramas, pantomimes and exhibitions.

Rainbow Dance - a film by Len Lye, 1936

We’ve all been telling each other stories beside the fire, cooking good food and listening to sweet tunes. Feeling inspired by all these rainbows and the beautiful landscape abounding in the Northern grasslands.

Dreamscapes... filled with ancient secrets and rituals and birdsong.

Big love to you all. I hope you are travelling well and making magic.

Dreamscape

This was yesterday's artwork. It's called 'Dreamscape'. I started it in January….

I think I've moved beyond the sheer plague of panic now and am putting one foot in front of the other and finding motivation to 'seize the day' and the opportunity to turn inward. As Jung said: "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart - who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens."

First work in a new 2020 series called The Book of Shadows.

Spring at the Seaside

This was my favourite haunt as an adolescent girl…

The path along the cliffs between my home and the beach... my own private fairyland. The landscape always reminded me so much of Arthur Rackham's fairy illustrations. So wild and magical.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Whilst in town yesterday I stopped to admire a painting….

And the artist insisted that I take it, saying he felt it had been waiting for its owner - that it had been waiting for me. I felt that way too often when I was a pavement artist. We chatted some - about dreamscapes and landscapes and the life of the artist - it wasn't until I returned home, that I realised how this dreamscape looked somewhat like the view of our garden from the next door paddock.

That red streak could even be our scoria driveway.

I had a beautiful dream the other night.

I dreamt that I rose and still sleeping, went walking across to this very spot.

Above my head the Aurora Australis shone their magical rays - lighting up the night and singing a song of hope against the darkness & between myself and a friend on the other side of the garden. Like my little night bird singing to its mate, I suppose. You can see the southern lights there in Johnny Ox's painting.

They're shining just behind the clouds.

What a magical Midsummer Night indeed.