From Our Family To Yours - Watercolour Sketch - 10x6 cm. Lots of brush mileage here. Fifty little abstract artworks created individually by hand for Christmas this year.

Pasa Doble: the Pride of Spain. A dance that is full of energy, strict and powerful.
This is my interpretation of " the dance of the master "
100 x 80 cm  Acrylics on canvas. SOLD

Life Drawing practice - graphite on paper 75x50cm.
Foreshortening is closely linked with perspective, although it usually comes into play when drawing the figure (or animals). The effect of foreshortening can be very difficult to achieve convincingly. You have to draw what you see, not what you think it should look like. 

Exeter Tablescape - 20 x 25 cms Acrylics on board. $60.00

 Tablescapes are a great way to show off your most cherished items or collections. Be it art, books, family heirlooms, or vacation souvenirs - tablescapes are just a pleasing arrangement of objects.  

Friday Art Group, drawing practice .....Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. Henri Matisse

The Australian landscape is seriously inspiring for an artist. 

Acrylics on stretched canvas 20x26 cm., can you guess where I may have referenced these 3 images from ? 

These paintings are being exhibited in the Annual Packsaddle Exhibition - A fundraiser for the New England Regional Art Museum 25 October - 10 November. SOLD

Painted especially as a gift on stretched canvas, and being inspired by the colours in a particular room of the house where it may hang, I thoroughly enjoyed painting this 25x30 cm contemporary image with our celebrating friends in mind.  
Every Girl Deserves a Pearl don't you think ? 

 Titled Vividly Wild  30x20cm on paper.
Love drawing with pastels !

Titled " We Do " and, with a suggestion of a wedding veil, this is representational of a current debate on equality. Another recent artwork completed at Friday art.
Approximately 40x50 cm on stretched canvas, I was inspired by Paul Delvaux's 1946 image "Two Girls " $350.00

In my studio with my Friday painting group where there are no rules on what and how you paint, I chose to work a previous acrylic painting with oils. On canvas board and about 10x8" the image took on a whole new look.  
Three Of A Kind  is now complete. Gifted

Not easy writing with paint and a paint brush, however, attendees Carla, David and Rachel were brilliant in embracing the "Brush Strokes Workshop" delivered last weekend from my home studio.
Carla Hackett from foxglovelettering.com is a Melbourne based graphic designer, David and Rachel from Silverwater Signs  http://www.silverwatersigns.com  are located in Sydney and also produce bespoke hand lettering. Well done guys, keep flourishing!

On The Street Where I Live - Detail - Pen and ink drawings on watercolour paper 

This art school project has been selected and won an award in the Hunters Hill Annual Art Exhibition which is on until May 19.  Congratulations to all my art school buddies who also were selected.

 http://huntershillarts.com/

The Cottage - Oil on Canvas - 10 x 10 cm  
Selected for the Hunters Hill Art Exhibition

When a lot of the houses around me are being knocked down and rebuilt I desperately wanted to capture the character of these little gems.This sweet cottage was painted with a good deal of passion, admiration and enthusiasm.

Let's hope it won't ever be knocked down ! $90.00

Brothers In Arms - Pastels on canson paper  

My father, "Slim", was in the army. In fact, he met my mother in the army and they married in their uniforms. Though he was away a lot in their early-married life, he and I were very close. Slim was a dedicated officer with several awards, including the MBE. 

Times of war are charged with emotion and endured with loyalty, and that sense of loyalty ran strong through our family. Brothers in Arms is a tribute to that loyalty shown both through mateship in celebration and the dog, as man's best friend, happy to see his master home again. I worked with the materials directly, with pastels and my fingers, to merge the tones and transmit the sense of touch that's so important in times of challenge and joy.

The spirit of Gallipoli didn't just stay with the soldiers, it lives on in those of us who loved them and welcomed them home. So, the woman represents those who contributed directly to the war efforts and the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters whose hearts were away with their loved ones.

Hand lettering is back! If you want your words out there, consider a lettering artist. Love the written word in all its forms. This piece I wrote on stretched canvas and hangs in our kitchen, some say the heart of a home. 

I love to dance, ballroom, rock n roll, whatever, I could dance the night away, and use to! Ballet is a beautiful physical expression of grace at a slow pace, I could feel the stretch painting "On Your Toes "- Acylics on canvas board - 20 x 30 cm

 The Shape of Things - Acrylics on stretched canvas - 40x50cm - $80 

 An arrangement of wooden dolls, a cardboard box, creative lighting, and "BINGO", shapes and shadows a plenty!!

Graceful Light  - 20 x 20 cm Acrylics on stretched canvas unframed - $50
This was my submission into the "Heart of Annandale" art exhibition recently. I used a watercolour technique and one brush size only to achieve a translucent look.

      Still Life - 50 x 60cm - Oils on Stretched canvas - $ 175

Having a Ball  - 1 x 1mtre x 76 cm + 3 x assorted smaller   Acrylics on canvas - $300
My love of colour and movement inspired this set of paintings.

For International Women's Day.....

“After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.” ― Ann Richard

One of a Pear  -  10 x 10 cm - Oil on canvas $100
There are 3 more small formatted paintings like this one, an orange, an apple and some strawberries. Maybe you would like to own a piece of fruit !

Glebe Vista  - NFS - This is a pen and wash sketch from a balcony in Keegan Ave. Glebe. What a delightful time I had working on this. Commissions taken.

 Love Is  -  4 x 25 x30 cm panels acrylic on canvas

Watercolour  12x25 cm Framed - Marine Magic  $150

What really goes on under the deep blue sea? 

                               Watercolour unframed 25 x 18 cm   Murphy  $95
This is a famous pose by Marie-Louis O’Murphy, mistress of King Louis XV. She was painted many times by Francois Boucher. 

         Watercolour 25 x 30 cm framed   Jardin de Lavande  $250

Contemporary Art and my aqua phase 

760 x 550 Acrylics on canvas