Wednesday 7 August 2013

changed address

I have changed the address of this blog since its first inception, so comments on older posts will not  appear. However, the idealogies that prompted me to begin writing posts has remained the same. Trawling other blogs about art, psychology, youth issues and education have given me many hours of musing.

gel medium transfers

It was perhaps Robert Rauschenberg to whom we can bow in thanks for this clever little technique. Is the ink significant? Images on canvas are particularly versatile. How do they go on tiles? I have tried several types, the inkjet images included and found little difference. How I love the slightly less-than-perfect results of some. Please post some samples.

Monday 5 August 2013

today in memory of my mother....

make time, make dinner, make friends, make career choices, make-up, makeout, make good, makeover, make art, make music, be self-made and remember

 

Monday 29 July 2013

where is the creative hunger?

The very important issues of providing a well-rounded education to rural populations is close to my heart. It is inevitable that small communities may never have a chance to recognise or experience some of the ongoing opportunities of their city counterparts, but as technology and communications reach heights unimagined in the past, we can only hope to push the boundaries here in the bush. I believe that developing creativity is a vital ingredient in educating our youth. I have a deep conviction that there is a power in making art, music and literary texts that can turn back the tide of depression and delinquency plaguing our culture. Kids need a rich internal dialogue to keep out the boogeyman.Suicide is an issue in rural Australia. Too much external suctioning of the joy that should be inherent in our young people robs them of their creative life. In my classroom, I observe the amazing healing properties of using colour and form every day. So why is this not a priority in many homes? Do adults think they should stop being driven by the urge to craft stuff? Is filling a supermarket trolley the new flower arranging or embroidery? Is buying more clothes than we need a replacement for the tactile satisfaction gleaned from painting, drawing, sewing, knitting and spinning wool?

Portraits are friends......

Portraiture...always a way for an artist to 'talk' to oneself when the urge for deep conversation occurs.
Portraits are friends who can speak volumes or just be quietly present...

Monday 22 July 2013

Chewing from the dailyplateofcrazy.com

I have been thoroughly immersed in The Daily Plate of Crazy a few times lately and find it full of wonderful discussion. I reminded myself how technology has changed the way we feed our emotional need to reference ourselves as I was reading posts. The anecdotal, the anonymous and the familiar are absorbed during pensive scrolling. Is it a way of being a loner and a voice central to a conversation?