Contemporary Art-Ers

We have started a new challenge for the month of July, the subject being simple and quick coloured pencil sketches inspired by the work of the wonderful Damien Cuypers. A brilliant artist who has inspired me for many years.

Hope you like and would like to join the challenge yourselves, click the blue button above and join us in the group to do so.

Much love and happy creating...

Monthly Drawing Challenges.

If you would like to join in, click the button above and join the group. We are presently running a challenge based around the subject of windows. Looking at this everyday object in many different ways and from many different angles, in order to make art works that explore our very complex relationships with it.

The challenges will last a month, giving participants the opportunity to turn this into a project if they wish too.

Inspiration provided by a professional artist (little old me) on a regular basis, but even more important we have a vibrant and active group of artists who provide support and inspiration to others in the group.

Come on in and explore the challenge for yourself by clicking the blue button above.

Many thanks and happy creativity...

The Beauty of Off-Cuts!

The way the works that I posted yesterday were made left a lot of off cuts, partial dots that sat around neglected for ages till I finally thought I had to come up with a way to use them.

This work, and a series that went with it was the result of much procrastination, and trial and error. But when I got to where I wanted to go, the iconography of flowers was my rescue in the end, these were in memory of the culture I had left behind in England when I moved to Australia. I loved my time in Oz, but I had grown up in London and it was a cultural experience I should never forget...

This piece is called 'A Rose is a Rose'