The Goodbye Storm

Artist: Melissa Sandy
Arts Group: Yinjaa-Barni Art
Title: The Goodbye Storm
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Tableland Slabs

Artist: Clifton Mack
Arts Group: Yinjaa-Barni Art
Title: Tableland Slabs
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Without wanting to sound like the Christmas Grinch...Hooray, it's over. I am excited by the fact for two reasons. Firstly we have our shoe box mansion back. (Apologies to our visitors who graced us with their presence over the month of December). Secondly, the Christmas tree took my corner (read studio), which I was deeply upset about. Happily I packed it away in it's box again today and, with a little reshuffling, have reclaimed my corner.

Despite the Christmas shenanigans, I have managed to do some paintings on paper. Little experiments for canvas paintings that will go in the Courthouse Gallery gift shop here in Port Hedland. I have been told that anything with Port Hedland on it sells, which I thought rather odd considering it's usually only tourists that go gift shopping for memorabilia of places they have been, until I realised I too had began buying 'Port Hedland' paraphernalia. My guess is because it is a transitory town that people like to buy little memories when they find the things they like.

The two above paintings are my favourite currently on exhibit at the gallery. I have been thinking how I might be able to incorporate some of the repeat patterning of the landscape that occurs in both nature and these paintings. I am excited by the prospect of something new in my work. I remember people saying to me before moving here, 'It'll be interesting to see how the move will effect your paintings', and I thought 'It won't'. But I shall be a nay sayer no more.