new start no.22

happy new year 2023

dear friends, happy new year, I do hope you had a swell Christmas and New Years Eve. this is my first artblog for 2023. and oh what expectations i do have for this year. rain is pelting at my windows as i write this, quite the tropical storm we are experiencing in Sydney after some lovely warm summer like days, those of which we certainly did not see in 2022. i am feeling a little lighter heading into this year compared to last year. oh what a year it was… i learnt much about myself and have processed immensely and deeply about my practice and my direction as an educator and a practicing artist.

so i am glad to announce that many new avenues of tasha button art are being produced in 2023 and i am so exhilarated about all my ideas that just well, keep on flowing and moving and oozing from the brain that has been bestowed upon me…and i just can’t wait…i have just re-examined my bluethumb page which is a art selling platform in Australia… and have decided to sell old works, they are works that i have kept for nostalgia, but there is far too many of them, and for one, i have no room, and i want to share my art with the whole world, each day i am uploading a new image to the bluethumb and am making a catalogue of my art, so therefore, one day there will be a digital representation of the artworks and journeys that i have made progressively through the years. there is a little of this here on this website, well a snippit of works and stories under the memoir tag at the top.

today i was going through my camellia studio and clearing out a few things as you do in a fresh new year and was surprised to find some old charcoal drawings from my art school days, all rolled up, i felt i hadn’t seen these for many a decade, so that was a little treat… as you get older the memories are sparked by images and i think that is why visual representations, whether photographs or artworks are vital to our existence. hands up dear friends those of you who have not one artpiece or photograph on your wall, there is my point, creativity is so important to society as a whole.

i made this little happy new year sign quickly this year on an app called procreate, it is a wonderful app which enables one to compose digital artworks with ease. so my friends, the journey of my art in 2023 has begun and thank you for your support in this coming year, more news next week…

good night, sleep tight…