miss mArita

before leaving darwin
i swapped my washing machine
for the above painting by
my friend and artist, MARITA ALBERS...

she is an elusive internet character (i hope you are reading this M!)
but paints wicked stuff.
Marita is well loved in Darwin art scenes and nearly
all my friends have a painting of hers on the wall...
i like it cos all her chicks have black eyes
and bright colours

this lady above i love her
she is mythical
and wrapped in a blanket of tears

i say yes for elusive characters.
with black eyes.
thanks for the wine
and when do you get married?

blessed family

i am lucky and blessed to have a truly inspirational family!

my uncle,
Stephen Killick
has a recent show/collaboration
at the
Glasshouse in Port Macquarie

there's a beaut interview to read also.

these guys have inspired my life
so gratefull!

on the path...

i  humbly share with you these pictures
last weekend i spent the whole weekend
walking in the forest
wrapped in the blanket of trees, rainforest and sunlight

i stumbled upon, what is for me, THE centre of my experience
right now
unfolding stories scribed on the seams of this ancient eucalypt
she stands tall
and witness to generations of change

in this there is something....

ildiko

my friend Dallas from Raft Artspace
put me onto the work of Ildiko Kovacs.

there is a restrospective of her work
Down the Line, 
currently on show @ the Hazelhurst art gallery, Sydney.
I think its nearly worth a trip down the coast for. 

thanks ildiko.

11.5.11

ok.
today my eldest daughter turns 11! happy birthday to her
and happy 11 years of parenting to me...

It is world environment day and i had a butcher bird visit me for breakfast...
and just watched a spider paralyse a bee...eek.

still trying to understand this world and the ever present
constant of finding truth within everything and nothing
have a new studio to play in...

it looks different now broke my back sliced my hands
mowing slashing cleaning and blah
but hard work pays off
and i can watch the trees change colour
everyday

this is my fifth studio in no less than a year
no wonder i am tired
anyway
onwards and upwards
my grandma says

i just put some drawings up
check them out if you want
go here

questions to you....

these are questions i am asking myself
and thought i would put them to any one in blog land out there....

I am asking...
What is your inspiration?
What is at the core of your practice?

Is it the twinge on a leaf?
Is it the swathe of emotions spinning evermore?
Is it dense layers of history engraved on an city walls...

What place does nature hold for you as an artist?

Just wondering about it all in this weird digital age...
how relevant is the timeless, the hand made, the real?

Understandably a ridiculously huge/vast question....

hmmm....
i offer flowers as thanks for your thoughts or none as well...

Lismore strikes back

lately Lismore reveals itself
in old architecture,
bridges
and brick walls...

i keep thinking about
the human obsession for
paint
on public surfaces

lismore vs darwin

DARWIN

LISMORE

at Emma's house

the LOST city....

went to Darwin for recent exhibition with my friends
Emma Stocker and Colin Holt....
it was called The LOST City
you can check out some stuff in the link over there ------->

After being chewed up and spat out by Darwin
earlier this year
I returned feeling this journey may be the end
and completion of that time...

I arrived to a heavy blanket
complex, dense and layered
but
balmy, alive and endless
an edgy battleground of love and hate
simultaneous homesickness for the town that has been home
and loathing at the same time to get me out of there

funny...
all things considered, it is an amazing place
the show was great, drank to much red wine
met a Philippino shaman
sat in an over-sized government air conditioner (aka the CHAN building)
talked about art
made new drawings and studies of scungy Darwin surfaces
and sunsets
as always...

i am nostalgic...and yet, do not miss it...
so there...

here's some snaps...