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Monthly Archives: February 2013
ART EXHIBITION
Next Sunday sees the opening of my one-man show in Launceston, (my home town) Tasmania, Australia. It has been almost 12 months since my wife and I returned from our 12 month trip to the Australian mainland. 23, 000 klms … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, art exhibition, art framer, artist, coloured pencil, gallery, one-man show, paintings, presentation, rocks
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MIXED MEDIA
Pumpkinscape 60 x 40 cm Prismacolor pencils, gouache and pastel on pastel board During the week I won the Mixed Media section of the Annual Australian Coloured Pencil Group’s Online Exhibition. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged art prize, Australian Coloured Pencil Artists Group, coloured pencil, gouache, imagination, landscape, mixed media, pastel, pumpkin, surreal
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ART PRIZE
Norfolk Plains Landscape DNA Prismacolors on pastel board 112 x 67 cm (framed) What a difference a week makes. Last Friday week I found out that I had failed to make the finalists’ list for the Glover Art … Continue reading
REJECTION Part 2.
Artists enter awards for a number of reasons. If you are confident and think that you’re good enough, then it’s only natural that you’re interested to see how good you really are when judged by your peers. Entering purely for … Continue reading
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Tagged art awards, art exhibitions, art judges, art patrons, art prizes, coloured pencil, failure, painting, rejection
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REJECTION Part 1.
‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are the two most powerful words in the art world, and I suspect in everyone else’s lives. Just one word can mean the difference between success and failure, a dream or a nightmare, the will to continue … Continue reading
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GLOVER REJECTION
The long wait is over and the finalists have been announced for this year’s Glover Art Prize, Australia’s richest for landscape painting. Sadly, for the 4th time in a row, I’m not on the list. I’ve entered on 7 occasions … Continue reading
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Tagged art judging, art prizes, artist's statement, Australian landscape, criticism, Glover Art Prize, rejection in art
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LANDSCAPE PANORAMA
Landscape Panorama 80 x 24 cm Prismacolors on pastel board Today’s image is the next stage in the development of my ‘Brick’ series of paintings, that began with the patterns … Continue reading
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Tagged bricks, coloured pencil, direction, ideas, journey, landscape, panorama, themes, three dimensional look
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