nearly… no.14
well, here we are, two weeks till christmas, i cannot fathom how we got here, but we did! so last saturday i took a sojurn into the city with a friend to see the portia geach, a women’s only portrait prize. i try to see the portia geach when it is on, some years i have missed it…..in the past, Australian women painters whom i admire have won the prize, i would love to follow in their footsteps, they are so inspiring to me. these wonderful painters are dora toovey, jocelyn maughn, margaret woodward, rosemary valadon, jenny sages, wendy sharpe, lucy culliton, prudence flint, just to name a few. also, i just love to see all of the other artists who have put works in too, one of my friends from art school days- yuri shimmyo was in the exhibition too, you can see all of her beautiful artwork at www.yurishimmyo.com the portia geach its always a motivatingly good show. this year was especially special as i had entered, and to see the other works i was up against made me realise that i have to lift my game, get more serious, although i always do my best where i am. i do think that i am serious, but i need more deep spiritually devotional energy, i think that i concern myself with overworking a painting sometimes that i underwork it, then it does not, well you know, sing…..(even though we are not supposed to sing coz of covid, tee hee) so last year as we went from painting to painting, i said to my friend erina, i am going to paint you for the portia geach next year in 2021. so i did. i entered. and my painting was rejected. i did mentioned this in my artblog a couple of weeks ago, as an unknown artist i am getting used to not getting into prizes. one day, there is always hope! you cannot rush these things… like everything it takes time, and over these last 20 years i have always had my art as a side to other things in the life of mine. which is all ok, i wouldn’t have changed a thing…
which leads me to last sunday, the market, i was involved in the eramboo artist environments’ first ever christmas artisan market. as i said in my last artblog, “it may rain”, and it did, sydney has had an elnininniyay (sp?) type of start to the summer THE WHOLE DAY! :( not ideal weather for a market day out. all i can say is that i met some really nice people who braved the weather and came out anyway to support eramboo and the artists. i showed some of my wares and handed out cards, that was my goal, to be a presence and meet some interesting people, for example: the people in the tent next to me lived on an island, another lady paints from her tinny rather than the land, how cool is that! an island where you have to get a boat to work… one lovely lady who popped along to my tent entered my lucky dip and won an artwork of mine, congratulations Sally! she was quite glad about it too which is nice.
camellia studio has been calling me back into its fold, so i am looking forward to some time over the summer break, moving on the next groupings of creations, so much going on in my mind…
au revoir bella’s
tasha
