Hi and Bye, July

At our Blogging Workshop, one of the things that we were told is VERY important, is to frequently update your blog. Hmm. Last updated 29 June. If I wait until next Friday I could be a whole month behind! I've been to Darwin for a quick trip and as on past visits, I found it very inspirational. Darwin has many gallery's and art is everywhere. I purchased a painting by Northern Territorian artist Kit McNeil, which is a beautiful scene of the sea, waves and rocky shoreline with a MAGNIFICENT pool with reflection. Stunning. A very happy birthday present to myself. I've come home all enthusiastic for a new exhibition at Studio 123. Again, mostly flowers and again, mostly frangipani. I'm also getting alot of pleasure painting small canvas's and creating art whimsy. As Charlie said in Two and a Half Men, "..we can all stand a little whimsy!" I'm adding some older paintings and will upload my more recent paintings, after the exhibition which I'm hoping will be sometime in August. I would also like to exhibit pieces created by other Island artists. We have so many talented people here on Norfolk.

Art from outside the front door

I saw Elizabeth the other day and she said she'd found my blog! Heck. Haven't updated for....hmmm.... let me check. Oops. Almost two months. Wasnt't that Rule One of the Blogger Workshop. Frequent updates so that people stay interested. I will write one hundred lines of I will do better!

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!