Emerging Artist Exhibition

Oooh I am excited to be next week a finalist in the Emerging Artist Award and Exhibition, at the Walker Gallery in Dandenong.

I've just started putting my work "more out there", so it is very exciting to see progress... and I'm really looking forward to see some other work. Should be fun.

Embarrassingly, when I went to hand in my work, children's book illustrator Leigh Hobbs was there and I introduced myself with the babble that I hoped to be a kid's book illustrator one day. Fate or awkward!? :)

Byron Bay

Illustration Friday - Caged

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.” ~ Saskya Pandita

The Canvas Project

There are some clever chaps in NY who have set up "The Art House Co-op", bringing together whoever wants to contribute with cheap, fun international projects.

I'm going to participate in "the canvas project" - I was sent 3 mini canvasses with the words "SAVAGES", "KEMPT" and "PERSISTENT". Just for something different I've made them with oils and ink, however sort of forgotten how long damn oils take to dry... still wet a week later, so needing them to hurry on so I can mail them on their merry way back to the USA to join their exhibition in Brooklyn later this year. Dry oil dry!