Christmas wishes and thankyou's

MERRY CHRISTMAS

The strawberries have been terrific this year, to the point of, as I water around the garden I grab little handfuls of strawberries.

Collaboration with artist John Beard and Bill Moseley

Swinkies garden

I have wanted to write about this garden for a long time. It belongs to our terrific friend Swinkie.
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It's such an honest garden with all her succulents and found concrete pots and golden ladies from around the suburb she really has created a haven of joy.

It's organic in the real sense, it's not trying to be fashionable or ambitious, self conscious of itself or trendy. The garden has become the true cottage garden where objects are found from what is available for free, discarded but reinvented again in the hands of an artist.

All the cracks in the driveway have been filled with I think its called a sea daisy making the concrete drive look like its threaded with lacework.

It's about working with what one has.

There's a vegie patch and plenty of natives for the wildlife.

There's romance with its sculptural ladies but like true romance they're tucked in corners that are not obvious at first, but magic when you find them.

Cottage gardens are often contrived and the true meaning has been lost over the years, all following each other but an honest cottage garden is one that reveals the person whom makes it, not belonging to anyone but themselves.

Very thoughtful gardens

Bravo Swinkie
A garden well done

It's show time!

It's finally here, well just about around the corner, our exhibition at the Damien Minton Gallery Annex Space. damienmintongallery.com.au/

We have made our own individual letterpress invitations using our 100 year old Gordon Platen Press, we are really happy with them, their different and unique, collectors item. A brush of paint and a running man, just about sums us up!

My paintings and poetry are all about getting through winter, with still life arrangements brought together in chaotic and figurative abstract compositions where objects become consumed and heightened by the use of colour. It's the ideal, where my poetry is the reality.

All my work is autobiographical and is concerned with the psychological and seasonal landscape in which I live at Hill End, Central Tablelands NSW.

This series of paintings is called The Wattle Room - Winter's resolve

1. Last years summer roses etched in ice - Oil on canvas W 52cm x H 41cm 2011  $1,750

2. I'm suspended in my elbow of words - Oil on canvas W 52cm x H 41cm 2012 $1,750 SOLD

3. Winters' resolve - oil on canvas W 62cm x H 51cm 2011 $1,900 SOLD

4. Green grass persisting to remain awake for an hour - Oil on canvas W 52cm x H 41cm 2012 $1,750

5. Preening the clotted quilt for violets - oil on canvas W 62cm x H 51cm 2012 $1,900

6. Outside the little hedge leaves have turned quite yellow - oil on canvas W 52cm x H 41cm 2011 $1,750

7. Rented Autumn - Oil on canvas W 62cm x H 51cm 2011 $1,900

8. The violets are pushing up through the stones - Oil on canvas W 52cm x H 41cm 2011 $1,750

9. A polite storm grazing at the edges Oil on canvas W 102cm x H 102cm 2012 $2,400 SOLD

10. Patch together forget me nots - Oil on canvas W 62cm x H 51 cm 2011 $1,900

11. Centimetre by bright centimetre - Oil on canvas W 62cm x H 51cm 2011 $1,900

12. This or that, never grey - Oil on canvas W 62cm x H 51cm 2011 $1,900 SOLD

13. Cherries signing papers Oil on canvas W 91cm x H 91cm 2012 $2,300

14. Portent of the englarged thought - Oil on canvas W 91cm x H 91cm 2012 $2,300

15. I want to hold you like a waterbottle full of salmon sun Oil on canvas W52cm x H 41cm 2012    $1,750 SOLD

16. Ticking soft seconds in tidal yellow Oil on canvas W 52cm x H 41cm 2012   $1,750

17. The Wattle Room - Winters still life - drawings, watercolour and letterpress on somerset satin 2011 $1,450

Myths, written in a margin
Copperplate photogravures by Bill Moseley

Bill's photography refers to impressions of his life in Hill End, a village set in the margins of rural life and small town suburbia.

The work is photographed in the landscape around Hill End and Bill makes clay sculptures and then places them as props.

The pack 2 - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W 60cm x H 50cm 2011
 Framed $1,200    unframed $1,000   Edition of 20

Lonely traveller - copperplate photogravure printed on somerset satin W 75cm x H 50cm 2011
 Framed $1,700      unframed $1,500  Edition of 20

The Grove - copperplate photogravure printed on somerset satin W 60 cm x H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,200   unframed  $1,000  Edition of 20

Running Man - copperplate photogravure printed on somerset satin W 75 cm x H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,700  unframed $1,500  Edition of 20

Pool 2 -  Coperplate photogravure printed on somerset satin W 60cm x H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,200  unframed $1,000  Edition of 20

The Pack 1 - Copperplate photogravure printed on somerset satin W 38cm x H 34cm 2011
Framed $900  unframed $750  Edition of 20

Pool 1 - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W 75cm x H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,700  unframed $1,500  Edition of 20 SOLD

Dark Shelter - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W 62cm x H 52cm 2011
Framed $1,200  unframed $1,000     Edition of 20

Encounter - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W 53cm x H 43cm 2011
Framed $1,200   unframed $1,000  Edition of 20

Pack 3 - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W 75cm x  H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,700  unframed $1,500   Edition of 20

Spirits - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W 53cm x H 43cm 2011
Framed $1,200   unframed $1,000  Edition of 20

Visitor - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W60cm x H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,200   unframed $1,000   Edition of 20

Decline - Copperplate photogravure on somerset satin W60cm x H 50cm 2011
Framed $1,200   unframed $1,000   Edition of 20

Fremantle print award

This year Bill has been selected for the Fremantle Print Award with his photogravure on copperplate with the image titled  'Raquel at Hawkins Hill'.

This image was done using two plates called a Duotone which was quite a feat in itself registering the colours, the two plates were created to achieve  depths of colour.
If you have the chance pop in and have a look!