This is the first block in my newly structured art classes. 
Follow is an explanation of how classes will be run from July 2018
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Paint loosely in watercolour…. TASMANIA 2018
Working loosely is difficult for many of us,. We are so used to drawing and rendering carefully…. getting it right. But if you aspire to work in a more spirited way that suggests it is effortless and captures the essence, then I have some tips I will share. As an ex Science teacher majoring in environmental ScienceI, now visual artist who loves fluid media, really understand the dilemma.
Acrylic on Canvas… NW Tasmania, Realism
I am happy to share this collection of 6 small works. I have become pretty slack at posting here, using my Facebook page instead, but as a number of people have recently commented that they don’t use Facebook, or find it frustrating, I will make an effort to post more frequently on my web site. So this is a catch up from a bit a over month ago. Commissioned works, traditional style of specific, recognisable locations. Now happily living in Queensland.
Bakers Beach, Narawantapu National Park SOLD
Mt Roland, cloud cloaking the western face, Sheffield SOLD
Goat Island, Penguin Coast Rd, Ulverstone SOLD
Hawley Beach SOLD
Cradle Mt, done as part of my artist’s residency, October 2017 SOLD
The Nut, Stanley from East Inlet SOLD
Cradle Mountain watercolours… Tasmanian Icon.
Cradle Mt is not Tasmania’s tallest mountain but it is an icon. Located at the Northern end of the Cradle Mt Lake St Clair National Park, the dolerite peaks tower above Lake Dove (Lake St Clair is down the Southern end of the reserve, a five day trek which many walkers enjoy but which must be approached with good planning due to the very variable weather which may be experienced).
I enjoy painting our Tasmanian landscape, showing here the hard edged dolerite crags and the muted greens of the alpine vegetation. Typically there is cloud or mist encroaching from the west (right hand side) and often visitors are disappointed to find the mountain has “disappeared” . But this was a clear day so the majesty of “The Cradle” and Little Horn could be fully enjoyed.
Cradle Mt on a Clear Day, watercolour 2017, 36x26cm SOLD
Here is that mist that encroaches from the west.
A Whisper of Misty cloud (Cradle Mt), watercolour 2017, 18x26cm (approx) SOLD
….. and a hint of Autumn Colour from further along the walk.
A Hint of Autumn at Cradle Mt, watercolour 2017, 18x26cm (approx)
Encaustic painting of the coast…. passions meld
My most frequented subject for my art over many years has been the coast.
I love living on the coast. I can sit and watch the waves roll in for hours. I have painted many other subjects…. recently geological inspired works, but even that was often rocks along our coastline.
My most recent painting medium is encaustic. I love the fluidity of molten wax, I love the fluidity of the ocean. Combined…. encaustic painting with the coast as the inspiration is, for me, a “match made in heaven”.
This work has now SOLD
Acrylic Painting workshop. Devonport Tasmania, July 2017
I like to encourage people to be bold and free in their art. I do love sometimes working with carefully drawn and rendered illustration but I find the freer ways more exciting and challenging, and also more playful. So, for this workshop, we will be a bit on the wild side…. painting with hands (not just fingertips but the side and heel of the palm), using palette knives, paint shapers, sticks, plastic shapes and occasionally a paint brush. We will use paint lightly at times but contrast that with impasto and juicy modelling compound. or texture mediums.
More details about the workshop on the tuition page.
EARTH MOTHER Abstracted acrylic with some modelling compound. Paint applied with various tools. SOLD
STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL. Tarkine Coast. Texture medium, palette knife and brush work. SOLD
UNLEASHED (Tarkine Coast). Modelling compound, air brush, acrylic inks, acrylic paint, palette knife and brush work.
Corvus Tasminica over Papavum Somnifera, (Ravens over the Opium Poppy Fields ), Palette knife and broad brush work inspired by Van Gogh’s art. SOLD
DIMINUTIVE FIGURES, OCEAN BEACH< STRAHAN. A quieter, smoother style of working with thinner paint using acrylic medium. Paint applied with hands and taklon brushes. SOLD
The Oriental Vase, impasto technique using the palette knife with texture medium added t the paint. SOLD
Tasmania’s Tarkine Wilderness…. Art
2017 was the third year of a gathering of creative people (about 150 artists) in Tasmania’s Wilderness…… Takayna (the Tarkine), on the rugged West Coast. This unique area should be offered more protection by affording it National Park status, not to “close” it to visitors but to maintain its environmental and heritage values so that future generations can enjoy it as we do. Art is a language which we hope will give more insight into the inherent value of Tarkayna.
An exhibition of works is currently on display at the Long Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania showcasing artworks created. These are my entries in that exhibition , along with the promotional invitation
“South of Temma”, Acrylic, charcoal and sumi ink on colour fix paper
“Coast”, Encaustic SOLD
3 sets encaustic bracelets and matching pendants…. all SOLD
“Enchanted”, encaustic,
“Layered”, Encaustic 
“Tarkine Treasure: Trowutta Arch“, pigment ink on Vellum, miniature. SOLD
Promotional flier
“Turmoil”, encaustic. 
“Unleashed”, acrylic on stretched canvas
Fine art originals (encaustic paintings) in jewellery settings. “Day’s End”. SOLD
Fine art originals (encaustic paintings) in jewellery settings. “Sarah Ann Rocks”. SOLD
Fine art originals (encaustic paintings) in jewellery settings. “Rain Forest”. SOLD
