I know I’m not the only one in disbelief that it’s mid-May already. It seems that no sooner do the summer holidays come to an end here in Sydney than it’s almost the end of the financial year (and therefore tax time) again!
The Easter Show has been and gone, and I couldn’t have been happier when I learned that all five of the paintings I’d submitted had been sold. One of these was a miniature I’d called ‘Visiting Brumbies’ (pictured above). The brumbies in it – mother and child I assumed – were at our campsite with others from their mob on a trip to Central Australia. I know they’re controversial creatures, but there was something quite magnificent about seeing them so close, as curious about us as we were about them. My thanks to the person who bought this little one, and those who bought the other four.
Group show ‘Tender’ is currently on for just a few more days at the White Rhino Artspace in St Leonards, and my own show ‘Local Gems’ is also now showing at Marie-France in West Pymble. As well, I’m putting the final touches on my submissions for the National Awards Exhibition of the Australian Society of Miniature Art (ASMA), the Lane Cove Art Society’s artXtra! exhibition, ‘Art in the Mountains’ (CASS), and the Ku-ring-gai Art Society’s Annual Awards Exhibition. It really does feel like everything is happening again after the past couple of disrupted years.
Most of my painting time at the moment, however, is being spent on the collection of works I’m putting together for my show at The Village Kitchen later in the year. While I’m still a little undecided on what this collection might ultimately consist of, I’m working with the title ‘From Parkes to Paris’, so my brushes and I are travelling east, departing from the Central West of NSW, up and off the coast of Queensland, across to Hawaii, through mainland USA and perhaps Canada, and then landing in the French capital. It’s proving to be a fun journey, one I’m taking from the comfort of my studio and therefore avoiding all the dramas that so often go hand-in-hand with air travel (particularly post-Covid time in airports)!
Details of exhibitions mentioned above, and more:
‘Local Gems’ at Marie-France, Philip Mall, Kendall Street, West Pymble, NSW, until Tuesday 31 May
‘Tender’ at White Rhino Artspace, 61 Atchison Street (Level 1), St Leonards, NSW, until Saturday 14 May
Incognito Art Show, exact dates and venue to be confirmed, but will be mid-June
Lane Cove Art Society’s ‘artXtra!’, at Gallery Lane Cove (upper level), 164 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove, NSW, Thursday 16 June - Saturday 2 July
ASMA Annual Awards Exhibition at the Ewart Gallery in Willoughby Arts Centre, 33 Laurel Street, Willoughby, NSW, Saturday 18 June – Sunday 3 July
CASS ‘Art in the Mountains’ at Gallery One88, 188 Katoomba Street, Katoomba, NSW, Thursday 7 July – Monday 25 July
KAS Awards Exhibition, The Gallery, St Ives Shopping Village, NSW, Monday 18 – Sunday 31 July
Solo show at The Village Kitchen, 83 Old Bells Line of Road, Kurrajong, NSW, Friday 23 September – Friday 28 October
Until next month.