wood and wool stool

I just came across this and wanted to post it straight away... I love how inventive people are being with things from the past...bringing woolen crochet  squares together with recycled wooden stools.

image on website for wood & wool stool

This image was posted on 12th July on Norskstil.blog Curious to see more I clicked on wood & wool stool which took me to a website for these colourful stools produced by Ingrid Jansen. Love the look and the appeal of these colourful and practical seats... perhaps not quite perfect for our warm climate here.However I can just see them in a cosy cafe...and I'd be very happy to have one of these for my home!!

handmade by wood & wool stool from Flickr

Mia Pearlman

Here are images from artist Mia Pearlman who works with a variety of media and forms, notably Cut Paper instillations, Cut Paper Sculpture and Cut paper Collage as shown below. I have included images from her website in this post that are inspiration to Mia's Art Practice and also 4 of her paintings. I was quite awestruck at the first viewing of this artist's work and made contact to express my interest and was granted permission to post images from her website. The website contains a wealth of quite stunning material so I am pleased to finally get to sharing this....thanks to  Mia!

Eddy - a conceptual drawing on many levels. Read more here.

Eddy

Eddy

Images found clicking on contact of Mia's website titled Cool Stuff

Mia at work

Cloud Vortices

Cells

Nutball clouds

Flame nebula

Alluvial fan

 

cloudscape paintings,  Mia Pearlman, 2006

From the Breathe Paintings:

   

All the blues of the world scattered, 2006

That rumour of a cohesive unity, in which all things participate or adhere, 2006

5'  x  7'

recent work

'Coastal Reverie' - Sophie Munns

120 cm x 40 cm

acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

'sub-tropical totem' - Sophie Munns

60 cm x 80 cm

acrylic and ink on canvas

small works in progress in the studio.

afternoons spent drawing and talking...

1.

Working with adults and children in my studio brings all kinds of experiences my way. For many years the studio teaching I did was mostly with adults. For the past few months however I have had a very interesting diversion away from that when approached to work with children. Above I have included 10 images from recent afternoon sessions I have conducted with some wonderful 11/12 yr old girls once a week. The one exception is No: 5 from  6 yr old Elliot who interpreted the task of drawing a plate of marbles in a wonderfully unique way. There are 3 in his age group..all enthusiastic and capable of surprising me and engaging in the most curious and fascinating discussions. Image 1 and 2 are of Phoebe and Isabella working on botanical subjects. Image 3 Kirsty (pictured), Jamilla, Lizzie and Phoebe are drawing Cumquats  and in 4 we see Lizzie's finished work. 5 is Elliot's  marble drawing. 6 to 10 are the drawings the girls did of marbles using textas and paint for the background.

It must be mentioned some inspiration for working with textas came in part from the one and only Arlene Texta Queen pictured here below. The girls had met Arlene Texta Queen at the newish State-run GOMA : The Gallery of Modern Art here in Brisbane over summer when she was part of a large show called Optimism featuring works from contemporary Australian artists. 

below: Vahri- from Arlene Texta Queen's portraits on her website.

Undercover Painter on Ian Fairweather

Recently I viewed an excellent documentary film on ABC  TV (Australia) called Fairweather Man which I was reminded of tonight when reading a compellingly well written post dated August 4th by Undercover Painter.  Do take a look! I hope to find a DVD of this film and watch it again sometime soon. Thanks for the inspiration Undercover Painter!

Carousel by Ian Fairweather -I didn't find a date with this work...perhaps an earlier painting.

House by the Sea   Ian Fairweather  1968 from his later mature work.

John Wolseley

Last night I watched a CD recording of the 1st epsiode of 'Painting Australia', a 6 part art series produced by ABC TV about 3 years ago.  John Wolseley was invited on location as the Master Artist interacting with 3 emerging artists -which was filmed in the bush near Bendigo in Victoria- for 2 days of solid artistic production with John as their tutor. To begin to appreciate this artist refer to his website He comes across as generous, engaging and someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. Travel to places both remote and tough going are par for the course. The breadth of his body of work and subject matter is inspiring and well worth further investigation.

The artist at work in the desert.

Top image:

South Flank of Dune  1992-1993  Lithograph, Australian Print Workshop archive 2.  Although this image may not be easily viewed here it is an example of the research and knowledge this artist gathers through his work in situ.

2nd image:

John Wolseley  Landmarks II  by Professor Sasha Griffin, published by Craftsman House, Melbourne, 2008

strange fruit

'Buddha's hand'...one of the more unusual fruits I've come across. I bought this wonderful specimen from a market in Brunswick Heads a few months ago and it never made it into my kitchen as it was the curious subject of a few drawing classes. It has a lemon fragrance and can be used in cooking by grating the skin... which is not unlike the skin of a lemon as we know it.I'd like to know more about this fruit!

I just noticed this painting below by Wendy Van der Drift when visiting some new blogs this morning. Ceramic artist Shannon Garson's blog Strange fragments featured Wendy's painting of this remarkable fruit which I only recently came across for the first time..

I have included this image from Shannon's Blog where she was preparing at that time for the July, 09  Australia Ceramics Triennale.