photons in/through my hands

I haven't been in to the studio this week, so I don't have any pictures to share but I'll share some thoughts from the week.
I have been thinking a lot about light... I've caught myself looking at reflections and thinking about photons and how they are magic, some will pass through and some will bounce back but you could never say which ones will do what. All you can really do is measure the probability and I like that.
Today I held a flashing bike light in my hand and sealed my fist, I watched how the red light made my hand glow and again though about those magic little photons, with their tricky particle/wave duality and I thought it was pretty cool that some bounced back against my hand and others passed right through it...

A little note for a big thank you

I just wanted to thank everyone who came to the opening last night, your support and kind words meant a lot. It was great to have so many people there with me to celebrate this show, 'cos I see it as kind of an important show for me...
It will be the last show I have for a while because I really feel the need to settle down in the studio and focus on the body of work that's been in my heart since I was at art school, a body of work that I haven't been ready to embark on until now.
This show marks the end of a phase in my practice, which I have enjoyed, but I'm ready to move on from.
 I wont be showing over the next 12 months or so, I'll be experimenting in the studio, but I will endeavor to post updates on the blog about where it's all going, so stay tuned.
So again, a big thanks for your support of this show, it was  a great send off in to the wide unknowns of where my practice is going now.

Opening night tomorrow!

The show opens tomorrow night, and I must say, I'm getting pretty excited!
Installation went very well and Megan was full of fantastic ideas for how to hang the show.
I'm quite pleased with it and can't wait for everyone to see what we came up with... and to see my first acrylic paintings in my last show for a time.

See you on opening night, but if you can't make it the show runs until March 3rd
x

The invites are at the printers!

Hasn't Megan done the most wonderful job with the invite! So very cute!

The show is coming together nicely, only a few works to finish and those empty gallery nightmares will cease.

So, the amazing little invites will be out in the world next week, which means not many sleeps until the show. So I had better get painting!

For Want of a Better Bird

Fascinated Sparrow. 2011.                                            Pearls Are a Birds' Best Friend. 2011. 

 Acrylic on clear primed Linen. 18 x 12.5cm.                     Acrylic on clear primed Linen. 18 x 12.5cm.

Hand Held Gallery

Opens Thursday Feb. 9th, 6-8 pm

The works in this show are formed by the idea that freedom is hindered by desire and looks at affluence, beauty and mortality from a slightly more sardonic angle.

These are my first acrylic paintings, I've discovered Golden Acrylics...

And there's no turning back!

This (very cute) little show will be my last exhibition for a little while.

I've applied to do my Masters (fingers crossed for me) so I'll be getting back to the studio, getting back to the research and most importantly...

Getting back to that experimental, mixed media, installation based work that has somehow disappeared from my practice in recent years.

But stay tuned to the blog and I'll keep you posted on the strange and wonderful things I discover working  a studio without deadlines!

See you at the show

x

The Wonderful Creative Things Fair

The last fair was a lot of fun, so many printed things to peruse...

And now we get the chance to do it all again at 

The Wonderful Creative Things Fair!

I'm running with my space nerd tangent and my theme for the fair will be Space Junk!

I'm mixing media, sanding, priming, sanding, priming, sanding, priming and mixing ever more media to bring you my own wonderful creative things... wearable drawings and collage!

Yes. Space Junk Jewellery. Could anyone be as excited about this as I am?

You'll have to come along to find out!

11am-4pm Sunday 27th November

The St Heliers Street Store + Gallery

The Abbotsford Convent

1 St Heliers Street Abbotsford

In Suspense

I know it's been a very long time between posts, but let me assure you, this is worth waiting for...

Come along to a lovely little group show at Hand Held on Thursday night (it's my birthday week so you can't say no!)