Saturday, December 26, 2015

Christmas Day at Blue Rock Dam

 Christmas Day was hot and after our family got together for lunch those of us left went to Blue Rock Dam for a swim. 

After a picnic tea we went for a walk along the walking track to Willow Grove and here is something we saw. A small Tiger Snake. We walked around it, giving a wide berth. They are beautiful though.

Friday, December 25, 2015

Friday, December 18, 2015

Friday, December 11, 2015

A Melbourne Interlude

I'm not long back from a 'clergy spouse conference' in Melbourne. I went and stayed with our son so that I could have some time to look at art, talk, search out a few art materials, and think, ponder and meditate. I did all these things. This is what I drew on the train back to his place one day while I was avoiding reading the novel I'm reading because of impending violence. As usual once beginning the drawing I was drawn in. Creation wants to out. I found it surprisingly dislocating being away from home by myself at this time. I felt an affinity with Greta Garbo's later response to the world. Now I'm back in the familiar and feeling more 'normal' , but wondering.

The End of the Carnival

Athena and the Youth Group sold fairy floss at the local Mardi Gras. I came at the end to help pack up.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Hydrangea that is just lovely


In Yarragon at St Marks along the south side of the hall are hydrangeas. I think they came unpruned through the winter. I poked my head around the corner and was amazed by the loveliness I saw.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

A Gum Flowering in White

We were out walking and alongside the road was this gum with these lovely white flowers. It also has a lovely white bark. One of the little pleasures of wandering.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

On a late evening walk

Pine trees planted years ago after the land was cleared and farmers then wanted some shelter for their livestock.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Monday, October 19, 2015

Cards of Ennui


I was feeling a bit of ennui so I went to the studio just tried to make something.

Monday, October 12, 2015

Friday, September 25, 2015

Something Lovely

We went for a walk in Edward Hunter Reserve and there were lots of flowers out.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Stuff Today

 A little more on Agnetha. I feel a bit unmoored, but something will happen.
Ahiai beginning.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Shoes on Carpet

At my Aunt's 80 I looked down at my feet and was reminded of Paris Floors instagram.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Ahinoam starting

Ahinoam, egg tempera on gessoed core flute board. Should I ti it up or leave it alone? I ask myself.

Friday, July 31, 2015

A New App




I bought a new app for my phone called ShakeItPhoto. There is something that strikes a chord for me in the polaroid aesthetic. I remember when the SX70 came out in the 70's and reading about it and wanting it. Many years later at art school a friend bought a SX70 at a 'junk' shop and a few of us bought film and enjoyed making photos with it. At another time I went to the photography department for a workshop on Polaroid transfers (using Polaroid film to transfer images onto paper). Now I can make my own and even shake the phone to 'encourage' the images development.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

At Tullycavan

 I was out with the mattock for a walk and weed chip when I was surprised by the strength and elongation of my shadow in the winter sun.

 Another moment of being struck by the light and also a sense of monumentality in the power pole.

A Silver Wattle poleaxed by age and mistletoe. They don't really help their cause by sending out branches that have so much gravity to defy.

Since I last posted. Some things

  Some work in various mediums. Mostly watercolour, but also pencil and tempera.