I’m not long home from a painting trip to New Zealand with John Lovett, an artist whose work I have admired for decades (in fact since 1991, when my mum gave me one of his paintings). No doubt I’ll talk more about that trip over coming months. But since my return I’ve had a couple of good bits of painting news. First, the painting I submitted in this year’s Biblio Art Prize, at Blarney Books & Art in Victoria’s Port Fairy, had sold. That’s Finn, above, and my thanks go to whoever liked him enough to take him home with them! He was inspired by Charlotte Wood’s book, ‘The Weekend’.
And yesterday I learned that I’ve made the finalists in the Artists of Mosman: 2088 exhibition, with a miniature I did from Central Park in New York. It’s a long time since I was there, but as always it’s wonderful revisiting these places, and the memories they hold, when I pull out my photo albums to create new paintings. I had painted this for the exhibition I held last year at the Village Kitchen in Kurrajong - ‘From Parkes to Paris’.
At the moment, my paintings are ready to go to the first of Ku-ring-gai Art Society’s 2023 exhibitions, which opens on Monday and runs for two weeks, and then there’ll be the delivery of the pieces I’m submitting in this year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show. But there’s plenty more. Read on …
On now, or coming soon:
‘Earth unframed’ at Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, ACT, to Sunday 26 March
Ku-ring-gai Art Society Autumn Exhibition at The Gallery, St Ives Shopping Village, NSW, from Monday 13 to Sunday 26 March
Artists of Mosman: 2088 at Mosman Art Gallery, 1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman, NSW, from Friday 17 March to Sunday 23 April
‘Embrace’ at Gallery Lane Cove, 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove, NSW, from Wednesday 5 to Saturday 29 April
Sydney Royal Easter Show, Homebush NSW, from Thursday 6 to Monday 17 April
Wingecarribee Prize for Landscape Art at the Bowral Art Gallery, 1 Short St, Bowral, NSW, from Saturday 8 to Sunday 23 April
Anderson Art Award at The Gallery, 81 Marine Drive, Tea Gardens, NSW, from Friday 14 to Sunday 30 April
‘The Cottage’, 10 Dangar Street, Brooklyn, NSW, Saturday 27 May to Sunday 2 July
Until next month.