Art by Meg Mader
The Journey Studio will be holding their first ever Paint and Plonk event on Friday, 20th October from 6pm – 9pm, upstairs at Wild Saffron.
A chance to unleash your creative side over a glass, or more, of wine. No artistic experience is necessary, just a sense of fun!
The three hour session includes use of all art materials, step-by-step tutorial and two artworks to take home.
The Journey Studio cards are always available at the Clare Valley Wine Food & Tourism Centre and now they are in stock at Starlight Jewellery/D’Vine Art Gallery to join my other artworks.
They are made from quality Fabriano Mediovalis paper. The cards are 260gsm mould made with a soft deckled edge. The envelopes have crisp lines and are a sturdy 120gsm.
Today I dropped some new artworks into Starlight Jewellery/D’Vine Art Gallery to replace the ones I had in there recently. ‘Bruce’ and ‘Scruff’ are now enjoying the view from the window with some unframed works available inside the store.
Danny is working hard at refreshing the look of the shop with more local artists including Lou White, Graciela Dorey and Anneliese Krieg.
‘A Joyful Bunch’ was inspired by a flower arrangement by local florist Dianne from A Joyful Bunch. I just loved the arrangement and with her permission made it into a painting using acrylic ink and pen on watercolour paper.
I dropped this painting into Starlight Jewellery and D’Vine Art today and within 3 hours it was sold! Thanks Dan.
Dan has recently taken over the business and has some wonderful plans for the future of the shop. Make sure you drop in and say ‘hi’, check out the other wonderful things in store and maybe even take something home.
I have more art on display in store with more to be added soon.
Owl with Attitude’ has been sold!
I recently listed this painting on Bluethumb and before long it found a new home in the ACT.
This was a wonderful painting to create. It is big, bright and definitely has it’s own character. What started off as a normal(ish) brown owl suddenly became this multi-coloured madness. The painting definitely led me and not the other way around.
To see the process, check out the post below…
Here is my new painting ‘Owl with Attitude’ and the process of how it progressed. This is one of my larger paintings at 48cm x 48cm and is currently available on Bluethumb.
This was so much fun to create as I was in a bit of a quirky mood at the time and let the painting lead me. The result…a rainbow owl. Fantastic!
Click on each image to see more detail:
I have been working on a magpie painting with an idea in my head of how it should look. It was a disaster!
Nothing seemed to be going right with my painting but after some encouragement to continue, I went in slightly different direction and was really happy with the result.
After posting the painting on Facebook, it sold that same night.
Ah…the magic of social media!
The Linhay Gallery in Auburn had a great idea for an exhibition ‘Galah Gala for SALA’. The galah theme proved to be a lot of fun with galah curtains to walk through at the entrance, galah noises within the gallery with galah cupcakes, a live galah to chat to while looking at all of the galah inspired artworks. I’m sure you get the idea…
Two of my artworks were on display during the month with the larger one, ‘What the…?’, selling before the opening event. It was very exciting to walk into the opening and see a red dot beneath my painting.
The Journey Studio’s art group are holding an exhibition for SALA titled ‘Mini to Massive’ which will run for the whole of August.
The official opening will be held on Saturday 1st August at 2pm at Vine Art Studio and Gallery at Leasingham. There will be nibbles and some fantastic local wine generously donated by Claymore Wines.
The art group have worked together dividing up images into smaller (mini) sections to make some interesting artworks made up of various styles and interpretations to recreate the original picture. Along with these three collaborations there will also be individual pieces of various styles and subject including jewellery from two of our talented members.
