m y s t o r y

2012

2012-01-05T10:17:00.003+11:00

Any resolves? Not for me this year...I haven't anything to resolve... ha ha!

Anyway...

Eftixismenos o kainourios xronos..."happy new year" to all.

I'm kick starting the year with a short trip over to Adelaide, where I am going to learn the basics of Photopolymer Printmaking with a print maker who is an expert in this technique...I'll post details and pics in a few weeks time.
I have been guided by my own photography in much of my work over the years, one feeds the other, so to speak, funny how it's taken me this long to finally learn the technique that could marry the two.

Looking forward to using a few of the pics I took on my travels last year!
I have lots to work with, and lot's of subject matter too...subjects around my own heritage that I look forward to the most.

"mitera" mixed media

I have a bit more teaching on my agenda this year...glad to be getting called "back"
Planning a show with a few others too, will keep you posted!

And right now trying to gain some strength back in my right arm and hand after a problem neck disc I've been battling with! Ouch! I'm better-ish now, and getting stronger day by day!
Don't ask me how I did it, but 2011 was a biggy in our household...

So with my "broken wing" all I've been really managing to do is a bit of gentle stuff, like collage.

Cheers
Jo

2011-11-18T08:26:00.002+11:00

I ran Life Drawing sessions for about a year, and finished up the sessions this last June. Just before my trip over to Greece and of course Skopelos, where I participated in a print workshop with Basil Hall...

A really good thing happened with the L D sessions...a wonderful diverse group of artists came together and bonded on not only an artistic level, but a friendship level too.
We have been getting together on a regular basis since August this year, and this week, we organised to have an Icon/egg tempera workshop, with an expert Iconographer.

So how do we start a workshop like this at 10.30am...well, with a glass of champagne and a raspberry darling! That's how!
Another artist gifted us all a 1950s apron or pinny, our choice!!! so with apron on and glass in hand, the group of 12 started the amazing journey into the history of the Icon.

It was one of those unforgettable days, what was meant to be 4 hours ended up more like 8!!! That's Hill's hospitality for you!

So what's with the above image!
Well I worked on this aluminium etched plate after I got back from Greece...Birds were my Icon.
This is a section of the print onto plaster that I experimented with awhile back...and the latest add on is the egg tempera wash...bird, egg, plaster, Icon...all seemed to fit.

Jo

2011-11-10T22:19:00.000+11:00

Springtime

This "pink leaf" tree lives across the road from my house...and I swoon over it every Spring time! Here it is for you to see how beautiful it is.

2011-11-03T22:20:00.000+11:00

"them bones"
Collagraph print + Plate

2011-10-22T09:21:00.000+11:00

Collagraph/Collage

2011-10-11T18:42:00.000+11:00

collagraph on BFK

2011-10-04T12:09:00.000+11:00

collagraph/collage

2011-09-15T15:13:00.002+10:00

Birds lino/monoprint on BFK

2011-08-24T15:51:00.001+10:00

Birds lino/monoprint on BFK