tis the season no.21

dear friends, this is my last artblog for 2022, wishing you all the joy, the peace, the quiet or the loud that this time of year brings to you. happy holidays! sending you love, light, and laughter for good memories and a bright and healthy 2023. i am feeling really glad that i’m back writing again about all things in my life that are to do with my art journey. when you look at our world and the wonder that it is, it makes sense to me to be creative about it all. this showcases ones’ depth of meaning and well, just being.

i would like to

thank all my subscribers for your constant encouragement of my art, artblog and my art practice. hip hooray to you!

this year has been a busy one with all the teaching of art to our youth, and i indeed have had a great couple of years with them, the above artwork was an appropriation created by said students and I was thinking about this tremendous ancient work’s colour palette the other evening as i was composing a painting in my head, and although it is not a christmas scene or theme it does have a christmasy type of colour palette, so here i share this appropriation of a Van Eyck, “arnolfini and his bride” for you to be inspired by, as was i, many times over, all of 16 year olds…who knew??? i think Van Eyck the artist from 1434 would be pretty chuffed to think that these young art students of the future are being inspired by his work centuries later…i am presently preparing for festivities in the next few days, then, when all is celebrated i am back to the canvas and i cannot wait…. it has been too long between paintbrushes, so i will keep you all posted on the goings on in my world of art and projects in the new year of 2023…and finally to share a quote a very wise student of mine shared with me in her christmas card this year…

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others feel” the great Degas.

peace out

tasha