Last Day of Exhibition

Today is the final day of my exhibition titled 'Solitude' at Katoomba Fine Art. The culmination of months in the studio has paid off with constructive and positive feedback and of course, the pride in having people buy your work. The most exciting sale of the exhibition has been to the Emirates Resort at Wolgan Valley who purchased 6 sets of 'Pods' and commissioned me a further 13 artworks.

​Geoff White

I am very grateful to the team at Katoomba Fine Art, and especially Geoff White, the director, for promoting the show and supporting me throughout the exhibition. 

Friends and family have also helped me during this time with their continued support and encouragement. It has been an exciting month for me and I look forward to getting back into the studio once I move house and settle down into work again. As of this moment, I am waiting on an application with an estate agent in Blackheath, NSW for a house on the comically titled 'Wombat' street. 

If successful with the application, I may have to source a studio away from the house, as working from a bedroom has its limitations! I also need to source new art materials from the bushland and may do a short trip away to stock up on my supply of natural materials found on the ground on short bushwalks.

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Jane Ponsford

I love stumbling across artist's who celebrate the versatility, beauty and ephemeral nature of paper and the unexpected forms which may emerge from it. Jane Ponsford

 is one such artist. I came across her in a little book on paper

by Gabrielle Falkener where she states

"I come from a background in Painting but have always been attracted to sculpture and making things. Working with paper as I do is like the midway point between the two. 0The freedom of casting paper is tepered by the formality of the structure of wire and threads"

911

I was going through some old CD's the other day of images and artwork when I came across this photographic piece I composited back in 2001 in response to the 911 attack. I was still at art school and just learning the magic of photoshop.

Who can believe this month commemorates the eighth anniversary of this tragic event? I submitted this artwork into a group show at TAP Gallery in Surry Hills.

Emirates Wolgan Valley

​Today, Geoff White (Director, Katoomba Fine Art), Warwick Fuller (Artist) and I set off to the newly opened Emirates Wolgan Valley Resort to meet with the interior designers who have purchased our artworks to be placed in the the resort. The drive took us just over an hour from Katoomba, but roadworks had us held up for an extra hour or so at the top of the Wolgan valley. We decided to go explore another road to a place called 'Blackfellows Hand Track' but the road proved to be inaccessible to our van. So instead, we sat on a fallen tree and played with 'Digger' (Warwick's dog) who's boundless energy had me jealous and amused. Digger fetched stick endlessly. 

Digger is identical to the kelpie I had growing up in Jindabyne who's name was Pepsi.

The winding road down into the Wolgan Valley was nothing short of breathtaking. High escarpments of sandstone cliffs surrounded us and I was now privy to the choice in location for a 6 star spa resort by the Emirates group. The resort has its official opening in October 2009 and the grounds were abuzz with workmen and activity in preparation for the grand opening. We first carried Warwick's paintings to one of the villas where the decorating staff viewed the work in context. Several of Warwick's pieces were chosen, then it was my turn to place my pods in ravines built into the wall of the main complex adjacent to a stair case leading out to the pool.

It was exciting to see where my artwork would eventually be placed at this prestigious resort and I feel fortunate that I could be part of this experience. 'Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa' have commissioned me to create a further thirteen artworks which I intend to complete within two months.