Keeper Of Secrets
Pastel on canvas.
No.10 in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ Series 2018.
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Tap Gallery Lesley Dimmick’s ‘Drive’ Exhibition Opening, and 65th Birthday Party 14th April 2018
Tap Gallery Lesley Dimmick’s ‘Drive’ Exhibition Opening, and 65th Birthday Party 14th April 2018 was a really lovely night full of really interesting people.
Artist Anna Boros smiles for the camera.
Addiction Affliction
Pastel on canvas.
Number 9 in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ Series 2018
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Saeva Bellua
Saeva Bellua
Pastel drawing on canvas. The 7th work for the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines ‘ series 2018. See blog for more information.
Mary Pace ‘Hanging Out’ Exhibition
Mary Pace ‘ Hanging Out ‘ Exhibition Opening on 31st March 2018
Exhibition finishes- 7th April 2018 At the Sheffer Gallery, Lander Street Darlington NSW
Here are some fanciful images of the Opening. It was a really lovely Opening with good wine and art chat! Lots of it, and its really great to meet such talented artists around the art traps! Mary is fun and lively, smart and keen eyed! Many wonderful life stories to tell. 🙂 Thoroughly enjoyable.
Valerie
Pastel on Canvas.
‘Valerie’ is the title for this drawing on canvas. The definition of the name Valerie, is actually an Old English name derived from the Roman male version of the name with the same meaning: Valiant and courageous.
The narrative is explained further in What’s on? What’s New? Blog It On! section.
Nepean Art Society Exhibition 24-26 March 2018
Some galleries are really fine, and the area is so large that one can peruse the art works singularly and really absorb the image. Other galleries are makeshift, and the works are bunched up together like a shop store with racks of lollies and foodstuffs to grab on your way out. This was one such exhibition, unfortunately. I was quite unimpressed really, though I could see that the volunteers were ardent in trying to make it the best possible exhibition space possible. With cramped space, and a very small room, they had recently acquired ‘set up ‘walls’ to hang as many works for sale on .
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Manumission
This is the 6th pastel drawing work in the series for ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ which will be part of a series of 12 drawings of heroic women. Manumission is about a story of a woman who was being violated by her previous husband and was rescued from a pathetic fate by the man she is married to today. The intricacies to the story go much deeper, as this beautiful woman also suffers from MS. She works full time and takes a lot of life in her stride. She is grateful that every day is away from her former dreadful past. Having MS is a hard slog, and to know her is to but admire her.
Amour- Propre
Pastel on canvas. No.5 in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ Series
Anastasis
Pastel on canvas. 12th March 2018
Anastasis means ‘to rise up’, ‘to rise up again’, ‘to be reborn again’, ‘resurrection’, to be ‘resurrected from a debilitating illness’.
To watch helplessly while your little girl’s life is in the balance , can be any parent’s nightmare.
To have faith in something that is believed that cannot be seen, to be there when all else can fail, and to be finally rescued through what seems like a personal nightmare, is now seen as a past memory that makes one shudder at the recall of a memory so vivid to already be a few years later.