Changes

'Still Autumn Night'

Gouache/Watercolour on A4 Paper

'Wild Bunnies On The Esplanade'

Gouache/Watercolour on Hotpress Paper

I haven't posted all year since January but I really wanted to put something up and talk a bit about what I have been doing and not doing :)

I have really struggled health wise this year which makes it hard to make art but I have been doing a bit of playing around with different styles and mediums.  I decided that I had come to the end of the road with my coloured pencil drawings.  I felt I had come to the end of a phase in my life and really felt the need to do something new and slightly different.  I have been playing around with watercolour and gouache paints and lighter subject matter.  I really wanted to move to more of a folk art style in terms of subject matter, painting more about my environment and my love of the country and nature and the lifestyle that goes with it.  My previous works were more confessional and personal and I wanted to move away from that.  I now am enjoying working with the paint, it feels better and more natural than the coloured pencil.

Thank you to all the people who supported me and my art this year, I so appreciate it!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and that the New Year brings all good things!

The Escape revisited

The Escape

Prismacolor and Polychromos Pencil on Arches Hot Press Paper

33cm x 44cm

This is a drawing I posted earlier last year and I wasn't all that happy with it.  So I stored it away and only got it out again before Christmas last year and my Mum saw it and loved it and said I should take it up to the Gallery.  I decided that it needed extra work so I played around with it a bit until I was happy with it(you can see the earlier version of this in the post I made earlier last year).

My heart really goes out to all the people in the world feeling like the girl in this drawing at the moment.

This drawing is for sale at Willunga Gallery