pastel on canvas, 2009
Where do animal spirits go when they die?
A question we all often answer, even if it’s the truth of a fact, or a hope, or an experience.
EMAIL REQUEST FOR FROGMORE HOUSE EXHIBITION PHOTO. 2009
This is a particular email clipping which was sent to me to ask me if this particular photograph could be used for the Western Sydney University magazine. (at the time the uni was called University Of Western Sydney). In the magazine, it would be entered as a point of art discussion about the FOCUS Series, that I had entered for exhibition.
Here are my two favourite people that have made the Frogmore House seasonal art exhibitions gloriously happen.
On the far left is Dearne, who is no longer in this section and has moved on,
and on the far right, is
Ms. Kathy Adam-Cross who continues to be the mastermind over the two exhibitions that occur just about every year at Frogmore House, Werrington Campus, Western Sydney University.
Her knack for making a beautiful show never ceases to amaze me.
This is beautiful Frogmore House, where often, twice a year and sometimes more, I visit to drop off and pick up my art work, ready to exchange my art for another new lot of works to bump in.
I love the place. It has nooks and crannies of room after room, where there is sure to be some sort of ghost hiding around some dark corner! Lol. One afternoon, as I was leaving, I swear I saw the ghost of Mrs. Frogmore at the window….Were my eyes deceiving me?
Who knows?!! Eeeek!
As you can see on the far left of the image, there are rather large additions, and that is where the conference room is . It is beautiful in there, with very high ceilings and lots of sunlight shining down onto the room. All around the walls, the collection of artist’s works hang for the exhibition, and so many more are exhibited around the whole old and new parts of the building, which cheers the place up and makes it such a pleasure to be there.
THE COMMON WEAL
Pastel on a very large canvas. 31st May, 2009
This work was created to make image for a book cover. The book was written by
Professor Kundan Misra, which is about Australian political history,
entirely written in Rhythmic Verse. Below is the bookcover and a pastel drawing on
canvas with Kundan and his lovely wife. December 2009
THEODORE’S CAFE
Pastel on canvas. 5th May, 2009
Here is ‘Theodore’s Cafe’… and just across the road is ‘Across The Road From Theo’s’.
That one is a painting. This one, titled ‘ Theodore’s Cafe’, is a pastel drawing.
It was bought by the proprietor at the time, Theo.
PYRMONT ART FESTIVAL – SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL . 2009 .EXHIBITION FLYER.
PYRMONT ART FESTIVAL 2009 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
ELEPHANT ON THE PIANO
Elephant on The Piano. Ink on acid free card. May 2009
By the title, one would expect an elephant playing a piano. How absurd! 🙂
It was actually a beautifully decorated resin vase that became broken through a kitten
climbing onto my piano, and shoving it off in the excitement. 🙁
The symbol of the crocodile hanging onto the side of a Wheel Of Fortune, in a stellar atmosphere, has its own Metaphysical meaning.
NEPEAN ART SOCIETY ART EXHIBITION 2009 FLYER
LOSING FACE
Losing Face. Pastel on canvas. 16th April 2009
It was interesting to note that at the time of the US stock market crash, Tasmanian Devils in Australia
were being devastated by a tumorous disease. Both species were suffering the decay of
something much bigger than themselves.
THE THREE NUDES
Three stages of womanhood. A follow on from uni days studying thesis for
Femininity Series. Here we have Imogen, a young 22 year old, then Vanessa who is in
her early thirties, understanding young children and pregnancy, then Sandra, who has
grown up children, and is now exploring her own self again… and so repeats the cycle.
Each is pastel on canvas. Series completed, April, 2009.