Frangipanis and Magnolias

As you can see I'm still having my love affairs with frangipanis, but this time, instead of self framed canvas, I've framed it in a silver rope frame.

The magnolia is from a tree outside our beautiful St Barnabas Chapel, and the frame I've used is an ornate celtic frame, which suits the opulent beauty of the magnolia grandiflora.

Mother's Day and Roses

It's coming up to Mother's Day. How many of us think of roses at this time. Allow me to share two roses paintings with you.

This one is now owned by two gorgeous young men in Canada

Beautiful comment

I've asked a couple of people to check out my blog to see how it looks to the viewer. My very dear friend Alma has emailed a comment, which I simply must post.
"Such vibrant paintings - I am pleased to be the proud possessor of two!! There is a quotation "Nature I loved, And after Nature, Art". What a wonderful gift to be able to recreate nature through Art - whilst the flower withers and dies, your Art is everlasting!!" How beautiful is that, and aren't I blessed to have such a friend.

Blogger workshop

Having attended Mary and Christina Rose's workshop yesterday evening, I'm hoping to upgrade my blog to make it much more interesting to viewers. All I have to do now, is work out what on earth they were trying to teach me. Shouldn't take me more than a couple of months!

Frangipani's in gold frames

You might think that painting frangipanis over and over becomes automatic. This isn't the case. Like faces, each flower has a different vibration and to capture that individuality is the challenge that faces the artist. Most of my recent paintings have been on self framed canvas, so I've decided to try something different. I like it!

Yellow roses and Master Kathumi

There are several magnificent yellow rose bushes in the garden and I was moved one afternoon to paint them. The outcome was very large roses on a very large canvas painted with very large brushes. The energies of the Ascended Master, Lord Kathumi is very evident in this painting. It makes you smile, with very little effort.

Phillip Island and Frangipanis

As I said earlier, I can try very hard to move away from the beautiful flower of the frangipani tree, but I still return. Philip Island is all encompassing from my home on the clifftop of the southern end of the island. It doesn't matter where you look, Philip looms with her energies of ancient wisdom. Evidently my grandmother, who also lived at Flagstaff, was an artist and often painted the island. How can you not, when it's everywhere, you look! So. I've painted Philip and guess what? Yep. I've added frangipani!!!!!

Moving into yellow

Ha! ...and I've done it, all by my little self!
Sometimes, I find that it's the colours that drive the painting. This session was obviously a yellow time and the influence of the sunny colours of summer are very strong. I've uploaded the iris horizontally and as soon as I can find a mentor I'll try my best to turn it around, right side up!

and as I said, the next paintings were again, frangipanis. There are many beautiful flowers and wonderful views to paint on this island, but the flowering frangipani just seems to call me.

Other than frangipani's in Art

The Chinese say that we need three things for art: head, hands and heart. My head and hands can paint almost anything, but my heart will continually come back to frangipanis. Sometimes, it will allow a detour and I want to share some of these with you, because my next post will most likely be...... frangipanis......

More paintings.....

It's time to add more paintings of the wild and beautiful tropical flowers of Norfolk Island. Their vibrancy astounds the visitors who come to our island, and hopefully, my paintings will give you a taste of their glorious colours.