Take Flight

Always learning new techniques from artists viewed on-line and signing up for on-line classes in abstract form and mixed media has resulted in this beguiling piece. After the initial acrylic strokes, I used random marks, using charcoal with my non-dominant hand to initiate the next stage. I stepped back and considered the shapes and suggestion of shapes and made choices where to paint and what opposite colours to use. There outcome is both colourful and. pleasing to the eye.

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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.