I still do some massage work, it inspires me and I love being able to help people. Also my clients love coming for massage in my colourful studio!
A good year in the studio so far...
Working in deeper layers this year and what I feel to be more subtle texturing details. I'm incorporating what I have been learning through the use of the mop brushes and also exploring more controlled optical effects within the layered surfaces of paint.
I feel that Sabrina Lauriston captures the energetic transfer that occurs in the painting process in this photograph.
Dream Liminality
Acrylic on canvas
86 × 46 cm, 2019
Roz Howie is a multi-disciplinary performing artist and a biologist. Her favourite concept at the time was "liminality", the threshold where sleep and wakefulness intersect. I was thinking about REM sleep, the Akashic Field, and the way dreams sometimes carry information about friends in pain or need.
A good friend gave me this Persian rug for the studio!! It was damaged to the point where she couldn't use it any more, but it makes me feel quite wonderful each time I enter the room!
My studio in May. I'm merging the mop brush and ink techniques with my older style... In one sense, there is not much to merge, it is more about leaving the paintings alone when I have 'said' enough in them.
Dreaming - Other Lives
Acrylic on canvas
60 × 60 cm, 2019
Sabrina dreams between two lives, looking towards the stars above Italy at the moment of her birth and the stars above Australia at that same time. Many of us live with dual homes, dual hearts, and the strange feeling that loved ones might be just on the other side of this stretch of stars.
Self Healing
Acrylic on canvas
102 × 102 cm, 2019
This is one of the places where my work as an artist and my work as a massage therapist meet. Jodie asked to be painted as part of an ongoing process of healing and trust. The longer story is on the artwork page.
Many thanks to Paula Quintela for spending a fun day with me, photographing my artwork!!
Paula Quintela at work in my studio. Check out her art site!
Getting the light right... What a colourful world for Paula Quintela to work in! Many thanks for your great work!
The studio at the beginning of August. Several works nearly done and a few being looked at again...
