Q: what's somewhat architectural, capable of ballet-like moves, comes in wonderful colours and is translucent to boot?

A: a wobbling dessert otherwise known as a jelly.

who are these masters of the wobble you ask?

The text from the Guardian's Word of Mouth Blog post on master jelly makers Bompas and Parr is a delight... perfect reading for a friday evening after a long week! There's nothing like whimsy to shift one's mood. I just have to quote bits from the post... 

Jelly clinic: how to deliver a quiver

Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, the country's foremost jelly experts, are on hand today to introduce you to the magic and mystery of making jelly from scratch.

Jump straight in and post questions below, or read up on theiruniversal jelly principle, including a step-by-step guide and gelatine conversion chart first in preparation to unleash yourself on the world of jelly. When you're ready to go, try these recipes for a zingy lemonade jelly and stupendously striped clementine jellies

...Jelly is the ultimate party food, an animal-based dessert that predates Christ and was eaten by Henry VIII for both the first and second course of his 1521 Garter Banquet. Slap a jelly on your dinner table and guests will be hypnotized by its lewd wobbling and your kitchen prowess.The origins of jelly are shrouded in mystery, though one thing is clear - if you boil any collagen-rich meat and let the stock cool then you'll have a jelly. It would have tasted meaty even when sweet jellies became fashionable for the rich in the 16th century.

Yes, jellying today is ridiculously simple. But you must respect the jelly. Use the wrong ingredient or misjudge the gel strength and you'll be left with a sticky puddle. There's always the lurking danger of a jelly disaster.

sex on the beach jelly

well thats a little more respectable!

the new look london

ok...any idea"

the clever duo! 

These last few pics were from a great site...  a must see called www.london-ers.com and of course you MUST visit the one and only jelly mongers!!!

I wonder if they met at art school?

Hope you enjoyed this lighter post... thought a change of tempo was in order. Have a good weekend all!

Put this in your diary all you S.E.Queenslanders!

india flint 

botanical alchemist  : author of ECO COLOUR

with

marianne hall + roz hawker

for one night only 

exhibition in conjunction with a

sold out 5 day bio regional dyeing workshop
at Bunya in Brisbane led by India 

 Saturday 18 September    5pm – 8 pm

 frocks , wraps and fabric lengths, works on paper and sterling silver pieces

 rsvp not required

e: rozhawker09 at gmail dot com   
   

You can read much more here at India Flint's website

and at her blog

not all those who wander are lost...

where you will discover why this is such a wonderful opportunity 

to go and meet this renown artist and see her work 

along with that of 2 others who are collaborating on this occasion.

Such a shame this workshop has sold out.... ages ago I might add...

you could twist her arm to come back to this part of the globe... perhaps!

Im leaving you with this last image from India's blog...  your mission , should you choose to accept, is to wander over and see what the significance is of this  image!                                                  

its a "lets see what's been filed away" day

The good thing about losing things is when you find them again.... when you can find them again...if you can fin them again! Some things today are still lost but some good finds ...  and tonight going through my emails...looking at what I saved to look at later... here's a few of those things - a bit random... but what the heck...

 Instillations by Judy Ledgerwood

Visit the gallery site where the artist was recently showing work to read more on this artist.

From OWI images of an intriguing hotel...  HOTEL AP in Luxembourg:

Photos Sarah Blee

Also from OWI

The house of DROOG founder Rebnny Ramaker: photos Muller Fien 

- do I like all these shelves and the thought of all those books! 

OWI

ARDLP : photos by De Baerdemaeker Kat

from Spain ... this is her home in Paris.

From OWI...

called MADE IN INDIA photos by Ocelli Laura.

The owner of this Apartment is a fashion designer who 

moved from New Delhi to New York 22 years ago.

OK...thats a bit of colour for the day!

The moral of the story: a good search for lost items is never wasted time...you always find some treasure you have forgotten about.

OH... talking colour and out there...click here!!! From But does it Float!!!

Botanica Exhibition opens this week

Talented artist from this part of the world Nicola Moss is exhibiting artworks from the 'Family Tree' series developed during her year as Artist-in-Residence at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coo-tha in 2009. Read Nicola's blog to find more information about the opening this thursday night, 3rd of December and viewing times up until Dec 6th. Also on her blog you can read about her newly printed book 'Layers of Life' which promises to be a wonderful document of her times spent at the Gardens this year. In September I posted on a guided tour a few artist friends did with Nicola in the gardens here. It will be excellent to see the culmination of her exciting year of Botanical discovery and delight in this exhibition....Nicola's website  is also well worth a visit.

holiday with Matisse

open window 1921

the bank 1907

interior with a girl 1905- 06

seville still life 1911

interior with aubergine 1911-12

tulips and oysters

interior with aubergines 1911

This morning I was trawling holiday possibilities on islands off the coast of Qld, daydreaming really...
Later on I found myself drawn to this image above 'Interior with Aubergines' on The Blue Lantern Blog for its sheer joyfulness. Wanting to see more of this actual work I googled it and found a series of images here at Olga's Gallery that really appealed so I posted them above. What a wonderful reverie...the open window looking onto the Bay...I would love to visit here this summer and spend time reading books on that lounge, eating oysters, aubergines, walking along that bank, drinking tea in those interiors and looking in on Matisse painting every so often.

an affinity for green

Sharon Horvath is featured today on the excellent two coats of paint blog. I will not expand here on the artist or her work as the above blog does that so well. I will just say it was a great find and I was very pleased to read about this artist and view other works.

On a completely different note: personal studio reflections

Below I have posted a work I painted in my Newcastle studio some 4 - 5 years ago - at the time I was rather careless with the work - even though it is painted on a good hard surface in oil paints 2 corners are a little the worse for wear. The truth is I rather despised the painting till recently when it started to make sense to me. This is not the first time some work I have really been put off by and developed a bit of a loathing for becomes much later a work I see quite differently.

'Untitled'  35 x 45 cm, acrylic on canvas 

Below is a 40 x 40 cm acrylic on canvas work titled 'navigating the complex' which was painted in 2004 around the same time as the one above. Simultaneously I was working on very much freer organic shapes and the elliptical form which evolved over time into a more complex abstracted seedpod form. 

This work below has a curious tendency to appear larger than its 40 x 40 cm size. Paradoxically I worked on this canvas for an extensive period of time - despite its size - adjusting colour and composition till it just arrived at what suddenly felt right. 2 years work exploring similar compositions on a larger scale seemed to come together in this one much smaller canvas and this is where I effectively left off from pursuing this compositional approach in my painting.

'navigating the complex' - acrylic on canvas, 40 40 cm

Ovoid forms were curiously compelling and creeping into my work beyond my will it seemed. 

Below: This is a section of the top painting 'untitled' that demonstrates the merging of the organic ovoid forms with the geometry which had obsessed me since living in the inner-city of Melbourne previous to the year 2000 when i relocated north to Newcastle.

In conclusion, this fluid engagement with different qualities and types of forms seems less unexpected, uncommon or awkward that it once did.. However, going back to the year 2001 onwards it was disconcerting to be drawn to the two opposite ends of the spectrum as I painted. Polarities dominated - chaos and order, fluidity and stasis, organic naturalness and tightness. Perhaps now it appears to not be quite the polar opposites I thought it was.


What has been a constant in all my work, over 3 decades really, are the glimpses of something more going on behind the surface. No matter which way I come at the composition this has been something perrenial that has engaged me and characterised my work to a greater or lesser extent..

Art arrived here with science by tagging along...

Images: top 2 taken by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen on a research ship 66o miles north of the Antarctic... found at Inhabitat  this month. Inhabit.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future -well worth a look!


The 3 Images below were taken by Steve Nicol - found on the Australian Antarctic Divison website . For the curious click on the website's Arts Fellowship  program to view websites of participating artists like Stephen Eastaugh where you can read his Intransit  archive of journeys to Antarctica and beyond.


I have borrowed words for the title of this post from the 2009 Intransit journal entry where Eastaugh  discusses his experience of being in this location in the role of artist. Science he suggests is the main reason people come to this continent...art tags along...mostly in the form of photography.
I was interested to read here there is a recently published Antarctic English dictionary formed from science, acronyms, slang, Inuit and other borrowed words...all required to describe this icy continent.

Easton Pearson at GoMA

A survey exhibition of internationally acclaimed Brisbane based fashion house Easton and Pearson is  showing at GoMA - the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane at the moment during the same year they are celebrating their 20th anniversary. This exciting show seems to be drawing the crowds as there is so much to  appreciate that is a remarkable and a joyful celebrations of craft and colour.

images taken in the gallery last week.

In the Children's Art Centre an Easton Pearson workroom has been set up with paper dolls for kids to dress in outfits made with paper samples of the designers materials which can be cut up and arranged into a wardrobe of designs inspired by pieces from the designer's collection. What fun!

Easton Pearson: Runway show 'Rainbow Coalition' 29 April 2008

If you go to the weblink for this show you can click on this exact image and it will open a fabulous preview of the exhibition. On the left of this same page you can click to read the Curator's Essay for more details about the wonderful Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson.

website:  easton and pearson