It has been a while, five years in fact, but I have decided to reinvigorate my blogspot, which I am then hoping to attach to my website…when I make the time and effort to sit down and do it. Harder for me is the business side of the self employed artist. Easier is the hiding in the studio, head down, brush in hand. This I could do, aspire to do every day.
I wanted to share with you a painting I am currently working on. It’s based on a local boat shed that fell in to disrepair. At the beginning of last year I started painting over and cutting up old paintings, then hand sewed them back together to replicate weatherboard. For me the weatherboard represents the Australian landscape, everything from inner city workers cottages, to the country farm house, to the iconic boat sheds that line the Melbourne beaches. There is something about the pantina piece of wood that intrigues me. It has a history, like everything else. It is also something I like to recreate with paint. There is something cathartic about applying and removing paint from canvas. It’s waiting for each layer to dry that makes me pace the studio impatiently.
