it's Not Trees

A transformation from a botanical forest landscape to Abstract Mixed Media which includes sheet music, torn strips of previous acrylic paintings on paper with the addition of random marks made by the non-dominant hand for a further abstraction of what is no longer a painting of trees, hence the title 'It's Not Trees'. I have been a painter of trees but have felt the urge to spread the abstract experience of myself as painter and the public as viewer. My home is my Gallery and this painting enhances every room, especially hung on a white wall or blue wall as pictured. It looks good from a distance but it draws the viewer to explore the different textures and understory - it's interesting.

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On return from a holiday in Kangaroo Island in June 2020 with photographs of the burnt landscape I felt compelled to paint. For the next 4 months I painted 55 paintings and an exhibition in my home resulted in donations towards the Stokes Bay community hall, decimated by bushfire and the community by COVID also. People took my paintings and gave $14,000 to help rebuild. It sparked a wildfire of creativity and a broadening of my palette!
In 2021 I still found I wanted to keep painting, trees in particular in places I had lived in the world, and my palette grew to include colours outside of the burnt landscape of 2020. Now I am presenting work, ready to hang, to whomever might find me on bluethumb.com
My home has become my Art Gallery and people find themselves with choices and have been generous to me. I sold two large paintings in the 2021 SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival.
Now, in 2022 I have found a desire to paint abstract landscape and just for the joy of making beautiful marks on canvas, so my style has changed completely from two years before. I am grateful for two art groups I attend. I learn from on-line tutorials in this new genre.