tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post4538333387330828107..comments2023-10-12T00:50:48.202+10:00Comments on + sophie munns : visual eclectica + : exhibition opening weekend of April 17 and 18Sophie Munnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-53393456002891561092010-05-28T00:02:14.282+10:002010-05-28T00:02:14.282+10:00Its never too late Robyn...especially when comment...Its never too late Robyn...especially when comments come to emails first so you can actually know they are being left!<br />Tonight I am painting again on this theme - getting ready to participate in a show with 9 others in a couple of weeks. I have spent the day pouring through the most brilliant book on Queensland Rainforest fruits... drawing seeds, capsules and cross-sections...thinking, musing... immersed...<br />so to have you find this work is a lovely thing and your appreciation settles me into that sense there are viewers who respond - warmly - and share the joy of creating with each other...! Its late and Im about to head to bed... so to come sit and the computer and find your message come all the way from South Africa... it makes for a happy note to end the day!<br />thank you!<br />SSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-8025559516873662552010-05-27T22:44:17.600+10:002010-05-27T22:44:17.600+10:00I'm a bit late to congratulate you, but wow! A...I'm a bit late to congratulate you, but wow! An amazing body of rich, gorgeous work!ArtPropelledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853722164314994360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-47592792903477475072010-05-03T17:38:59.078+10:002010-05-03T17:38:59.078+10:00Lovely to hear form you Sanne and thank you for th...Lovely to hear form you Sanne and thank you for the great comments...<br />best,<br />SSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-54966273639894282012010-05-01T20:32:06.602+10:002010-05-01T20:32:06.602+10:00Wonderful Sophie! i really love your layered and e...Wonderful Sophie! i really love your layered and energizing work!Sannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636602849838657196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-606069290281802842010-04-29T01:24:12.424+10:002010-04-29T01:24:12.424+10:00Hi Janis,
lovely to hear from you and see you are ...Hi Janis,<br />lovely to hear from you and see you are back online after a bit of a wait!<br />Glad to have you visit - albeit virtually...It was a delightful experience up there and I will go back on this weekend as it still has 2 weeks to go!<br />Your comments are treasured Janis... having come to know something of your approach to life and art ... and the value you place on the authentic and the particularity of things... intimate, sometimes simple and always universal ... where our work may seemingly diverge in form, style and direction the essential impulse is not disimilar...at all.<br />Its humbling to read your comments...thank you Janis!<br />S xoSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-18631250554849107792010-04-29T00:49:26.501+10:002010-04-29T00:49:26.501+10:00Thank you for taking so many photos and bringing u...Thank you for taking so many photos and bringing us virtually to the gallery. Looks like a success! Sophie, I really love your work, I love your spirit, and you are an amazing artist... xo, j.Janishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561772857286838969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-62478083488391378152010-04-26T09:50:18.969+10:002010-04-26T09:50:18.969+10:00Thank you Em,
Yes.. red dots indeed... It was a go...Thank you Em,<br />Yes.. red dots indeed... It was a good opening. Strong interest and some purchases to boot! Very pleased as I am not known to people 2 hours north of here and its only the early stage of the residency in terms of getting the story out.<br />I am in a group show in June with 9 others so when I was running around pre-show trying to do promo and reading the promo schedule for the group show - knowing that will be shared between 10 people - I was thinking...OK...Im doing fine here on my own! Its all relative.<br />And it was actually a smart thing to have a viewing over 2 days... people came at staggered times and the conversations were so much easier to have this way. People are curious and they like to have a walk through and chat - I find this more alive than communicating through a white sheet of paper and theres the benefit of another's way of seeing to go off on new tangents!<br />Would have loved your company - nice part of the world for you to walk through nearby rainforests, national parks and such ...a little too far.... sigh!<br />Big thanks for lovely comments Em!Sophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-54650360399898523692010-04-26T05:21:40.572+10:002010-04-26T05:21:40.572+10:00what a beautiful show! how i wish i could have bee...what a beautiful show! how i wish i could have been there! i saw a red dot - does that mean something was purchased? it looks like it went well for you!!!! how wonderful!emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00635860972948661626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-80519249995655976912010-04-23T17:39:15.143+10:002010-04-23T17:39:15.143+10:00Hi Lesley,
Lovely to have you visit! I am just b...Hi Lesley, <br /> Lovely to have you visit! I am just back from popping in at your lovely blog where I learned you love bees, poetry and post-its. I am joking about the last bit... I saw the vimeo and it was a classic!<br />The garden images are wonderful and I am looking forward to seeing more... The use of poetry was so delightful ... your recent post made me wistful for some imaginary life in the english countryside that I certainly have romantised. On the other hand watching Midsomer Murders as I have been known to do - we who view that show in Australia - think its safer to live in London than an English country village!<br />Thank you for your lovely comments about the work - it is good to register what others are seeing when looking for the first time. There's a deliberate attempt to go for some primal essence being seeds.... Were I dealing with plants then I'd be deciding things like should they be painted in a gardens, a vase or container... in situ or whatever. With the desire to evoke the the latent potency of even the tiniest seed then a different range of ideas come into consideration.<br />bye for now Lesley!<br />SophieSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-34481731765062983062010-04-23T16:36:42.679+10:002010-04-23T16:36:42.679+10:00Sophie,
I found your work and your blog via Gloria...Sophie,<br />I found your work and your blog via Gloria Freshley's blog and I just love it. I am so taken with the graphic quality of it along with your fabulous use of colour and pattern. Seeds! What a tremendous source of inspiration although you have access to a few more exotic ones than where I live in the UK. I shall be a regular visitor form here on in and can't wait to see what you do next ! LesleyLAC EMP 2020https://www.blogger.com/profile/01999825212820503519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-5697634993082950252010-04-22T09:55:39.691+10:002010-04-22T09:55:39.691+10:00Thank you Annamaria / Caramela!
I loved discoverin...Thank you Annamaria / Caramela!<br />I loved discovering your work and the atmosphere of your blog - so thank you for your appreciative visit to my little cosmos if words and images!<br />I shall be back your way!<br />SSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-1243347323213275722010-04-22T03:30:06.825+10:002010-04-22T03:30:06.825+10:00What a wonderful blog- full of amazing images and ...What a wonderful blog- full of amazing images and soooo much food for thought! Thank you so much for sharing all this-<br />Annamaria :)annamaria potamitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10940831135518204457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-61476541771556009322010-04-21T12:03:49.210+10:002010-04-21T12:03:49.210+10:00Mlle Paradis,
Your'e a treasure!
getting a bit...Mlle Paradis,<br />Your'e a treasure!<br />getting a bit more rest but also catching up on documentation at the moment... clearing the desk so to speak!<br />Like you, if things take you away then you come home and clear the deck, nest a bit! Its good to have the slow time!<br />cyber hug back to you!!<br />SSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-64843057391417533072010-04-21T11:20:23.200+10:002010-04-21T11:20:23.200+10:00Maryanne - how kind of you to say!
Its was almost ...Maryanne - how kind of you to say!<br />Its was almost a surprise to me to see what I had been working on in total... tiny studio... no real chance to step back from the work. Too little time for lots of musing.... and a challenge to make something of my experiences at the Seed Lab. I have just completed a post on that at the other blog....the source of much inspiration in a way.<br />Its been delightful to engage with others on the work and on themes stemming from the show.<br />Warm thanks <br />SSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-83913172786551362792010-04-21T06:42:33.433+10:002010-04-21T06:42:33.433+10:00Uh oh! Hope you got that last comment Sophie. I ...Uh oh! Hope you got that last comment Sophie. I have no short term memory and sometimes I click the wrong button in the wrong direction!<br /><br />In any case I'll say it again, got your email and I'll be back!Mlle Paradishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611437048393628633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-38615339664161975092010-04-21T06:39:13.652+10:002010-04-21T06:39:13.652+10:00Sophie - got your email and will respond to it soo...Sophie - got your email and will respond to it soon. Since I was doing family stuff last week, all the chores and day to day stuff got neglected. So just popping in.<br /><br />Hope you're resting up. I do think that precisely what you're doing is so key. It's all about the work and eventually, the rest follows. But the path is never even or obvious. Tradeoff: oh delicious discovery!<br /><br />Big cyberhug!Mlle Paradishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611437048393628633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-80019583612613709562010-04-21T05:13:01.869+10:002010-04-21T05:13:01.869+10:00I too have returned several times, clicking, enlar...I too have returned several times, clicking, enlarging and taking in these beauties. I will return again...congratulations on what must have been and what must continue to be a spectacular show!Blue Sky Dreaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12405128176114875597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-58360033917996239972010-04-20T23:35:55.535+10:002010-04-20T23:35:55.535+10:00Dear red-handed,
thankyou for bringing a new angle...Dear red-handed,<br />thankyou for bringing a new angle to think on to my attention. I'm with the idea though...have often liked to work on something that can take one away for hours!<br />By the way - flicked over to your blog....will be back as I was intrigued - instantly!<br />thanks for finding your way south to leave this comment!<br />SophieSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-4622447448827900982010-04-20T23:27:44.750+10:002010-04-20T23:27:44.750+10:00Always amazed by maze-like patterns.Always amazed by maze-like patterns.red-handedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484549762594608774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-72925137917467316762010-04-20T18:48:47.977+10:002010-04-20T18:48:47.977+10:00Dear Egmont,
you are charming! Keeping late night...Dear Egmont,<br /><br />you are charming! Keeping late nights and busy as ever no doubt. You are lovely to squeeze in the few words which are such a compliment.<br /><br />I should have liked to have walked through the works and talked with you ...instead your kind wishes travel well and are heart warming indeed!<br />Thank you friend!<br />SophieSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-51551567076244978582010-04-20T18:37:08.662+10:002010-04-20T18:37:08.662+10:00Dear Sophie,
The hour is late and I am very tired...Dear Sophie,<br /><br />The hour is late and I am very tired, but I did want you to know that I stood up and applauded.<br /><br />I am very, VERY proud of you and I wish I could have been there in person.<br /><br />A return visit is promised . . .<br /><br />Your friend,<br />EgmontFour Seasons in a Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515078635782464939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-18879783018338477092010-04-20T11:04:56.481+10:002010-04-20T11:04:56.481+10:00Hello MP,
lovely to have a visit from you!
YES pal...Hello MP,<br />lovely to have a visit from you!<br />YES paleness!! I need different moods and I've sometimes loved choosing to hang a work that is very faint and subtle for that very reason.<br />After a break from the studio I sometimes return with fresh eyes and find I need a new colour sensibility to explore - as if untangling some fixation in the brain to allow new thoughts to come into play. Sometimes a certain artist's work will lead me to an equisite palette so utterly refreshing and unexpected it feels like you have found gold. Mary Fedden's work has a singularly distinctive palette - I liked your post on her work the other day MP... the fact of including colours one does not expect together. <br /><br />Your comment about the tactile thing in the work for the show... swishing your hands around... was great! And your comment about pools and layers... there is a fluidity that lives in the work... more obvious in some. A deep fascination for notions of the infinite that fluid substances can refer to but exists in all things at a molecular level. Some of those pale ones hint at that... seeds are part of the seeming endlessness of existance... although they are vulnerable and do become extinct ... and we are faced with that right now. Ruminations on how I might paint such things I hope will lead to more work dealing with that.<br /><br />and yes...a little slow time is a very good thing. My task to pick up the promotion thing recently and make some inroads was the challenge that comes from not being known in the location where the work was being shown and also really its the first formal step into exhibiting in this region since having left the place where I'd built up all those layers of connection two years ago, waiting out recovery from disruptions of a medical nature, and so effectively starting as if from scratch. Anyone who has relocated in later years knows you are not just taking on the typical challenges of change that when young are highly desirable at times. As much as this has been a fabulous relocation, close to family and not so far from where I grew up, one's connections built over time and layers of shared experience are cut adrift and you do need to rebuild any individual initiatives you have going from scratch.<br /><br />That may not translate easily when people have no context for the way you work and there can be a very awkward unfamiliarity to overcome. You and I MP enjoy the stimulation of the new. Not everyone chooses to encounter the new or unknown with curiosity or acceptance. So linking through common interest becomes the life line - and finding those who are adaptive mariners themselves aids one's journey! <br />always a pleasure Mlle paradis!<br />S x<br />ps and yes - a great idea from La Dolce VitaSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-8873978429244160362010-04-20T09:41:28.692+10:002010-04-20T09:41:28.692+10:00Hi Sophie!!!!! Loved!!!!!!!! I think it's so...Hi Sophie!!!!! Loved!!!!!!!! I think it's so interesting that some of the first ones you show have gone quite pale and white. If one spends alot of time in some corners of the blogosphere, it inclines one to that delicious pale atmosphere. And I'm quite as susceptible as anyone. I do still love your color work too especially the floating forms on top of the pools and layers of other images. They're very tactile too. Feel like I could swish my hands around in the paintings and pick things out and grab ahold. Very nice! Love the big seed pods piece. So glad you had such a nice time despite it being tiring. <br /><br />Well so, put your feet up for a little bit - i suspect you won't be sitting still for long. And I'll be back to see WHAT'S NEXT! Toodles! <br /><br />p.s. love Dolce Vita's idea for accordion seed book...hmmmmmMlle Paradishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611437048393628633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-80682841008827932662010-04-20T08:49:01.263+10:002010-04-20T08:49:01.263+10:00Hi Ralf,
thank you for visiting and leaving such a...Hi Ralf,<br />thank you for visiting and leaving such a warm and also interesting comment.<br /> I have been very much enjoying observing your wonderful art practice through your picture diary... the diary format allows for the viewer to get a sense of your artistic and aesthetic concerns despite lack of knowledge of the german language.<br />So I really appreciate that you offered something pertinent for me to muse on.<br />SophieSophie Munnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02797068983613314554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3778349612469580118.post-26038906889654968912010-04-20T04:36:31.234+10:002010-04-20T04:36:31.234+10:00Hi Sophie,
Congratulations to the wonderful exhibi...Hi Sophie,<br />Congratulations to the wonderful exhibition.<br />I wish you much success and I'm sure you'll have it.<br />Really great independent and unique images. best, ralfr.bohnenkamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14275903239885118123noreply@blogger.com