Not long now until ‘Shared Spaces’ opens at Be Brave Artspace in Avalon, and it’s super nice to be exhibiting with old friends and new. Nita, Vicki, Kate, Simone and I have put together our varied interpretations of the theme, and I’m so looking forward to seeing everything finished and together. I hope you’ll be able to come along to see it – details on my ‘Coming up’ page.
Following on almost immediately after that exhibition is another I’m involved in at the same venue – a much larger group exhibition that will run over the Christmas/New Year period. The fantastic thing about group shows is the variety of work you see – I would suggest it means you can kill two birds (or in this case many birds) with the one stone, but for this exhibition I’ve been working on a series of birds and so don’t want to suggest any harm comes to these creatures!
More immediately, it’s springtime! I love seeing all the new growth in the gardens, and since I last wrote I’ve seen some particularly beautiful gardens in both the Southern Highlands and the Blue Mountains. As I was leaving the Conservation Hut in Wentworth Falls (which, by the way, I love), I was able to buy a few waratahs from a roadside stall. Sunflowers are definitely my favourite, but I think these striking flowers come a very close second. I’ve never really done much painting of flowers – I love them, but don’t think they can be improved on in a painting (not by me, anyway); maybe I should try.
Speaking of spring, I have a few works hanging in Ku-ring-gai Art Society’s Spring Exhibition, so if you’re up at the St Ives Shopping Village, I hope you’ll take a stroll through the Gallery (14 to 27 October). And the City of Ryde Art Society is holding its annual art exhibition from 25 October to 2 November, at the Coxs Road Community Hall. I will have a couple of pieces hanging in that one, too.
Until next month.