I managed two printing sessions in my studio over the summer holidays, before my youngest daughter got sick and everything in life came to a grinding halt for 6 weeks. In my first session I used my repeat lino block to emboss into some absolutely beautiful cotton rag paper that I had purchased from my…Continue Reading Summer Printing Sessions
Using the Gel Plate I’ve had a lot of fun and success over the last few weeks meticulously building my paintings and designs up on my different sized gel plates, waiting with baited breath, not really knowing what they will look like until that moment 26 hours later when the acrylic paint is all set….Continue Reading Image Transfer Success
“Watching Her Dream” has been safely delivered to the Wangaree Community Centre Lancelin for the DADAA 2024 Community Art Exhibition. For two weeks the work will be on display to the public. This has been a big step for me; my first exhibition since leaving Tafe in 2022. It would have been nice to have…Continue Reading DADAA 2024 Community Art Exhibition
A game changer has arrived in my studio! The timing was completely wrong (I won’t bore you with the details) but it became crucial for me to source a printing press of my own, sooner rather than much later, as I’d originally planned. Thanks to generous friends (and money lenders who break knees) I’ve been…Continue Reading Introducing Liezel!
For my Visual Storytelling Assignment I had the opportunity to work again with my totem the eagle. For sketch reference I looked back to some of the earlier work of Pear and Ink who you can find on Instagram. It’s such a shame that she does not seem to be practicing art any more. She…Continue Reading Watching Her Dream
I am a product of my 80’s childhood. My contribution to the environment has always been to use plastic instead of paper. We were told we were killing the trees! So much so that it was a process I had to work through when I first started burning litho paper, for my pyrography, during my…Continue Reading Artist Statement
