Cultivating Creativity

This weekend I am off to Cedar Creek to participate in Moreton Bay Council's Cultivate the Arts program. I am really looking forward to it, and hopefully it will be beneficial. A weekend of nature, art and a bit of navel gazing, never hurt anyone! Thanks to MBRC for the opportunity!

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Summer Beauties

Love it when these little beauties pop their heads out.

Webinar

So here is the link to the webinar I recorded last month for Flying Arts (re a few posts ago).

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Blinky

Yesterday when I got home I was beckoned by the dulcet tones of this little chap over the back fence. It took me a few minutes to find him, but eventually he was discovered high up in a tree probably 30 metres from the house. Don't see them often, but it is good to know they are here.

Webinar

During the week I had an opportunity to present for a Webinar for Flying Arts. It seemed to go well, thankfully. The workshop was titled 'Layers of Thought' and was about layering mixed media to create a more complex and nuanced communication of meaning than is often possible in a single-layered work. Some pictures of works at various stages of 'layering' and one that is completed are below. The last one is the only one that is completely finished; looking forward to continuing work with the others and will show you when I have.

An abundance of Birds

Have been a bit slack in keeping up with the blog, lately...apologies. Have been very busy, but not too busy to notice the abundance of little birds in residence here at the new digs (well newish). In the last few weeks alone, I have sighted scarlet honeyeaters, golden whistlers, yellow robins, red-browed fire tails and our resident family of variegated fairy wrens (the boys are dressed very brightly in their breeding plumage just now). And these guys...apparently they are white naped honey-eaters. I have never laid eyes on this species before, much less in my own back yard! Loving where I live! (photos taken on a phone, so not excellent quality).

Salvage

So the tip shop exhibition has opened at the Judith Wright Centre in Brisbane. My finished tree is below. You can find out more about the exhibition and vote for your favourite (mine of course) at the link below:

Voting

Voting is open 27 May to 7 July, online, at the Judith Wright Centre exhibition, at Council’s tip shops or at Brisbane Square Library.

Salvage: Recycling Art Exhibition

See the artworks on display at the Salvage exhibition in The Judith Wright Centre between 27 May and 17 July 2016.

Where: 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley

When:

·         10am-4pm Sunday-Thursdays

·         10am-7pm Fridays

·         2pm-6pm Saturdays

Free ‘floor walk’ tours of the exhibition

10am-12 noon every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the exhibition. No bookings needed, just drop in.

Free group tours available on request via tipshopart@brisbane.qld.gov.au