Not the perfect blog post…and some handy links!
For days I have been waiting for the planets to align so I could write the perfect blog post and you know what? That ain’t going to happen. The time to do this is now! Here’s hoping that by now, you gorgeous people know what to expect and can see the treasures in the dross.
One of the good things about having to clean up a bit before the house sitter comes to look after the dog* is that you have to clean up a bit before the house sitter comes to look after the dog! It’s a deadline. My darling husband is up there cleaning the house and actually the doing the things that will matter to the house sitter and I am clearing here. Where the house sitter will not be. But I know he will sleep better at night just knowing that the mysterious room out the back has been organised a bit.
If, like me, you were totally unaware that there are 60 magnificent sculptures dotted along the Snowy Valley Way, you will be glad that I am telling you now. We stayed at the divine Kestrel Nest Eco Hut for a couple of nights and headed out to Pilot Hill arboretum where several sculptures are. I won’t bang on but, at some point, if you are here in Australia, try to visit them. The sculptures were built after the terrible bush fires and are an initiative by the Sculpture by the Sea. lot. Stunning. Breathtaking. Inspiring! And the colours! The textures! You would not believe….
Contemplation - by Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
And while I am doing PSAs, I just want to have a little rave about The Colour Room. I have been in this classroom for nearly a year. It is a gathering of people who want to know more about colour; people who LOVE colour; some people who were scared of using colour! Artists using all sorts of media are involved. There are textile artists and graphic artists and sculptors and painters and ordinary people like me who spend their days going The colours! The textures!
Tracy Holmes, our colour guide and guru, describes the Colour Room as a place where you turn outmoded colour theory into FUNdamental hands on practice. And she is absolutely right! I learn so much AND that learning has influenced just about everything I do here in the studio. To celebrate Tracy’s birthday, we’re inviting people to the Colour Party! Students are inviting people who we think might be interested to join! So…if like me…you adore colour and would love to learn more about why things work, or don’t; or would love to become more fluent in how you think about colour and talk about colour check it out here! (In the interests of transparency, I think using this link this says tells Tracy that you joined by my invitation so I might get a discount at some point but I would do this even with no discount which I think you would all know. )
There’s lots happening workshop wise in the studio and June and July workshops are excitingly close!
In late June I am doing one of my lovely Mindful Mark making workshops and there are still a few places here. Head here to book a place. In late July, I’m doing the first of three workshops designed to give you greater confidence in mixing colours and creating palettes. Each workshops stands alone but there is a saving if you book into all three workshops which go together beautifully…if I may say so myself! You can book for the first one of these here.
There are more but that’s enough for now. And there’s the lure of freebies. The women that came to my last workshop were delighted with the extra bits and pieces they received!
*We’re only away for a bit! This isn’t another Nepal trip yet!!