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The Joy of Line: Wanganui Summer School

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009. Now that my paintings are boxed and sent off with the courier, it's time to assess the fallout here in the studio. Brushes are standing stiff and irretrievable in solidified varnish; the boxes left over from the Storylines Festival and the Spinning Gold conference are tripping me up daily, and piles of papers are dotted about, their contents a jumble and a mystery. Somewhere in there is my ACC invoice- but where? If you don't have it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Joy of Line: Gonner

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Thursday, August 06, 2009. The painting on the extreme right in my last post didn't earn it's place, so on Saturday I replaced it. With a worse one! Oh well. it happens. Recently I've been rereading from the pages of What we Ache For. By Oriah Mountain Dreamer;. It sounds a little mystical doesn't it, but trust me it isn't - there are gems in there and on second reading I still think so. Is often what facilitates the flow - and with it the joy of the unexpected. The answer to the question 'what if empty ...

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The Joy of Line: January 2011

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Monday, January 17, 2011. Saturday, January 08, 2011. Last week I posted some quotes and images that are inspiring me lately. Carrying around a quote in my diary since last year:. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. They need little explanation -. Evoking space, provoking thought and handing out a challenge. To choose a large sheet of paper. And some chalky or waxy drawing tools to describe my. Response. My son's travels in Patagonia were. Photo: D Knight (Patagonia). Fifi Ver...

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The Joy of Line: Embodied in paint

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Saturday, July 25, 2009. Last year in the film festival I saw a movie about Edith Collier. A Wanganui artist of the 1920's who was a friend and fellow painter of Francis Hodgkins and Dorothy Kate Richmond. It's not just that she stopped that saddened me, but that after she died, the family found a whole trunk of art suppiles she'd gone on collecting throughout her life. Hopes and dreams embodied in canvas and tubes of paint. I've been playing with new colours all afternoon. Happy as a sandboy.

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The Joy of Line: Quotes to be remembered

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Saturday, October 03, 2009. Quotes to be remembered. Here's a quote from Picasso that resonates with me today. The artist goes through states of fullness and emptiness, and that is all there is to the mystery of art. I've been varnishing paintings this week - and learning a lot in the process about the fickle nature of varnish. After one piece clotted up and gelled alarmingly in the warmth of my studio and I washed it off hurriedly, I also learned a lot about the outer limits of acrylic to be soluble!

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The Joy of Line: Wilderness continued

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Saturday, January 08, 2011. Last week I posted some quotes and images that are inspiring me lately. Carrying around a quote in my diary since last year:. Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. They need little explanation -. Evoking space, provoking thought and handing out a challenge. To choose a large sheet of paper. And some chalky or waxy drawing tools to describe my. Response. My son's travels in Patagonia were. A delicious catalyst - those vast expanses of. Joy of Line by.

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The Joy of Line: Readers and Writers Week

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Thursday, February 04, 2010. Readers and Writers Week. Clouds, you fly dangerously close. And falling dreams make hopeless midnight feed. Come rain, sweep out my dark mood. Send in that rare sunny caress. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Joy of Line by. View my complete profile. Click here to go to my work blog 'Picture it so'. Readers and Writers Week. Picture it so. Adele's work blog. Best New Zealand Poems. Austin Kleon is writer who draws. Fifi Verses The World.

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The Joy of Line: December 2010

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Friday, December 31, 2010. Wilderness thoughts and inspiration. I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.". 8212; Bruce Chatwin. 8212; Bruce Chatwin. And the end of all our exploring. Will be to arrive where we started. And know the place for the first time.". 8212; T.S. Eliot. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of ...

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The Joy of Line: Red Art Gallery showed my work in Nelson last week

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Monday, October 19, 2009. Red Art Gallery showed my work in Nelson last week. This time last week I was heading down to Nelson to open my exhibition at Red Art Gallery. Week I'm back at work (have a look on Picture it so. To see what I've been up to) and looking ahead to the next creative project or job on my books. That odd and over-used phrase 'onwards and upwards' delivered with an Irish lilt and a heavy sigh, springs to mind. Although it makes me inwardly smirk, I do. I really enjoyed chatting to tho...