I don’t know why it is that, so often in life, good news is followed by bad. Yin and yang, I suppose. Within a week of me telling you about the award I’d won with Sophie’s Sister, my beautiful Golden Retriever Lucy died unexpectedly with a very aggressive tumour growing alongside her heart. Those of you who have loved and lost a dog will know it’s an overwhelming sadness.
Keeping busy, however, I’ve been working towards the last weekend in October when I’ll be selling works directly from my studio. This open studio weekend will also be featuring some works in watercolour by Hornsby artist Grace Bates, as well as the exquisite Japanese-inspired fabric and paper art of Glenys Ferguson, from Yass. Glenys says:
Throughout my life I have always busied my fingers with crafts of some kind. A trip to Japan ten years ago confirmed my fascination and appreciation of the stories and craftsmanship displayed in the patterns and designs in all things Japanese. My love of fabric, needle and thread led to the natural extension of this passion to the art of fabric appliqué and to origami both in fabric and paper.
And of course the launch of Sophie’s Sister – yay! Further details can be found on my Coming Up page, but stay tuned as the venue is set to change.
At the moment, I have a few pieces in the Ku-ring-gai Art Society’s Spring Exhibition. This is on at The Gallery in the St Ives Shopping Village, and runs until Sunday 27 September.
And all going well, 2020 will see the realisation of the following:
ASMA (Tas) Annual Awards Online Exhibition, Small and Precious (Saturday 24 October – Sunday 8 November)
Open studio (Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October) in St Ives, Sydney. Email me for further details: manina@bigpond.com
The launch of Sophie’s Sister on the afternoon of Sunday 22 November, venue to be confirmed.
Until next month.