Dancing Jade

Dancing Jade

Medium - Acrylic, canvas, plyboard. 9" x 5".

Grown in the tropics the Jade Vine flowers are uniquely spectacular in both shape and colour.

This work, completed for the 9 x 5 Exhibition

at Walker St Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria, is showing December 01 - 21, 2009.

This exhibition is in light of the spirit of the first Impressionist 9 x 5 exhibition

first held in Melbourne back in 1889.

  And ...the work is for sale.

Exhibition Flyer.

 

Beach Infuences - Landmarks

'Pathway of Journeys'

'Pathway of Journeys', one of my earlier works, finally makes its debut for a Print on Demand at my Red Bubble gallery site http://artropica.redbubble.com/works

• Mixed media – acrylic, charcoal, collage, montage – wood, sticks, shells, seedpods, string, fabric, paper, own photo imagery used from my temporary sculpture installation work at Brampston Beach, Queensland.
• Support – plyboard.
• Size 600×1200 x 30mm.
• From the group exhibition ‘Landmarks’, Innisfail Art Space.
• Origianl work has sold and is in a private collection Innisfail, Qld.

You can read further comments about the work at my RedBubble community site here

• http://www.redbubble.com/people/artropica/art/4057438-1-pathway-of-journeys

Hidden Treasures

"Rhythm and Rhyme" by Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch Copyright 2009

My latest artwork Rhythm & Rhyme, is currently showing in the 'Hidden Treasures' Postcard exhibition at the Cairns Regional Gallery (their annual fundraiser) from Oct 23 - Nov.6, 2009. Mixed media on gessoed board. Diptypch, size 2 x (5" x 7").

About the Exhibition: There are about 105 invited artists involved this year with the work displayed in alphabetical order around the room. On the finale night Friday Nov 6, the closing silent bid time is at 7.30 pm. The last silent bidder's no. written on the bidding card displayed underneath the work will be the new owner of this work. 50% of the finale bidding amount will be donated to the Gallery.

Generally a fun social finale night though sometimes as witnessed in previous years, is mingled with some hissing and yes, even cat fights amongst friends and complete strangers towards the end, as people desperately try to get that last bid on a favoured artist's work or two, hoping to add to their art collection!

Photo: First night session of the work in progress in my studio.

Rhythm and Rhyme is now available as a POD in various print formats. Can check it out at my Red Bubble Gallery.

Australian Artist Ian Fairweather

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Artwork: Ian Fairweather Inspired

Medium: gouache, charcoal on paper. Sold

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I have adored and drooled over this man Ian Fairweather's lifetime of art work since ... (I can't remember) a long time ago now - more than any other artist in the history of this planet! I have stood in front of his work displayed at the Queensland Art Gallery, for such long periods ... soaking in the multiple layers of paint and their contextual meaning, then only to walk away and turn right back again not wanting to take my eyes off them ...

It was one of Ian's abstract artwork images that adorned the front cover of the very first magazine publication, Art & Australia, back in the 1950's. That was definitely 'not popular' at the time.

I have one very precious art book on Ian Fairweather and his work purchased well over a decade ago now. In recent years there has been no books available to purchase.
Someone had posted this ABC1 Television Guide link on facebook today (27.07.09). Yet another generation is being inspired by this man's artistic & creative genius.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200907/programs/ZY9058A001D16072009T213000.htm

RB Features to date.

Last night, for my own records, I listed in my Red Bubble journal most of the RB features I've received/remembered from over the last few months, while I have been more active there.

Reason being I've noticed Red Bubble is only showing records of the last 16 recent features (listed on a one pager) and then the older records just vanish! Also some of the groups' hosts are having a big clean up and dish to make things easier in their file land management.

My last blog talked about my actively entering works in certain group challenges. Follow my link and you will see some of these results.

Cheers
Kerryn.

Group Challenges on Red Bubble

Layered with Texture - Challenge: Extreme Mixed Media

Spiritual Journey

Materials: Mixed media - acrylic, pastel, fabric, linen thread, leaf, butterfly wing, banana fibre, paper. Canvas support. Size: 8 x 6 inches.
Techniques: painting, drawing, collage, coiling and stitching, basketry assemblage.
Original work sold through one of the end of year fundraising Cairns Regional Gallery Postcard Exhibitions. Usually up to 100 selected regional artists are invited to exhibit in this show each year.

This is my current work entry listed in one of the Red Bubble Group Challenges. The group is Layered with Texture and the current challenge is Extreme Mixed Media. You can view a total of 14 entries here with the challenge criteria and voting for this will end in one day from the day of this post.

For those not familiar with the set up, there is both an entry and voting time schedule put on each of the challenges by a volunteer group host. Those with the most votes ususally get a feature on the group's front page and runners up, in the top 10, are listed and displayed on the challenge page.
*Note, an artist cannot vote for their own work and there are other codes of fair conduct to be respected by all those on the RB site.

It is a wonderful way to get artists involved, actively thinking about and displaying their 'best' work in various groups and for other community members too, to get involved, meeting and connecting with others.


A second artwork, Sanguine Nude, is currently entered in the Challenge - 2 Colours with Works on Paper group. This one runs for yet another 28 days and has a much larger total of 58 entered works.

Sanguine Nude

Medium: Gesso, sanguine pastel on Arches 300gsm rag paper
Size: 76×56 cm (30×22”)

Description: Worked directly from a life model in my studio gallery, this work combines both drawing and painting skills. I have a love/passion for embellishing, building up a surface with both actual and implied textural qualities.





Also this work currently has a Monthly June feature at the home page of the group Life Session Expressions. This was achieved by being voted in the 'top ten' of a recent challenge for No. Favouritings - see here.

It is indeed a pleasure, after many years of solitary art practice in an isolated regional rural community in Far North Queensland, to have the tools and to be able to be involved in marketing oneself directly via the internet, to show work that would otherwise probably never be seen except by a select few.

Previous post was about the Beast, now for some Beauty!

The work Dual Splendour (below) was painted for total right side brain relaxation mode back in Jan.2006, after a very busy lead up to Christmas retail business period. Usually I work in 'hidden discovery' non-objective mode for non-preordained experimental compositional results but in this instance I've allowed myself to work quite prescriptively here, with a predetermined photographic image taken from my recent rose shoot series.

Listening to my inner instincts I had a strong desire to paint with oils, to try out a warm/cool dual under painting approach and incorporate a build-up of translucent glazes for their rich luminosity. On completion it was interesting to note that people who knew of my previous creative art work habits had no idea I had painted this work. Being in my retail shop people had asked me “who was the artist?” (:-) I know I am very capable of painting and drawing realistically. After uni and years of art practice and teaching, creativity, with all its challenges and rewards has infused like oxygen is needed in the blood to support and maintain life and flows fluently through the veins.

• Original artwork: Dual Splendour
• Oil with an acrylic texture underlayer on canvas support.
• Size: H. 675 mm x W. 998 mm.
• Framed with a large round gold and inner flat small navy blue liner frame
• Exhibited Feast of the Senses, Innisfail and was jury accepted into the Cairns Art Society Inc Annual Art Exhibition held Cairns Regional Gallery, where it was positioned in a prime position at front entrance. (Note of interest - I actually was awarded a 'commended' for another work entered/accepted which was in the 'abstract' section)
• Detail below

• Background: Heavily perfumed these roses were so ready for the picking. A gorgeous variety of roses were grown that year by my husband (he goes through fazes) during the cooler winter months of our Far North Queensland tropical climate, in tubs up off the ground (because it rains so much) in our rainforest backyard near Innisfail. I arranged and photo documented many of the different roses for future artwork reference material. My painting time and a rose series was stopped short with Cyclone Larry's devasting visit in March that same year.

• Concept: In this work, the concept of duality is explored at various levels, such as: in the division of textures (smooth and rough); the warm and cool underpainting tones used on each half of the canvas; bright sunlight and cast shadow, with the complimentary contrast of magnificent fleshy orange, round spiraling rose petals branching out into full bloom in the foreground, to jagged edges and silhouetted dark blue/green cast shadows in the background.

• Prints: Artwork image is available in a variety of reproduction prints, eg.card, mounted or laminate print, poster or framed, at my RedBubble Gallery