Delivered the three ‘Sky-Dance’ Garden sculptures to a great outdoor sculpture and gallery space in Mullumbimby NSW at the rear of 59 Burringbar St, next to the Rock n’ Roll Cafe Called “Sunshine Alley” … So this week Rosie has put some Watercolour paintings and cards in “Moonrise Studios”  105 Stuart St, Mullumbimby… and I have these in at ‘Sunshine Alley’ … a bit Cute really !!! …. Sunshine and Moonrise !   Rosie has also recently been sought out by “Federal Village Gallery” and has some watercolours in with them !

“Sky Dance” Three Garden sculptures at Sunshine Alley, Mullumbimby NSW

Northern Rivers Hinterland Moonrise Studio

“Sunrise Tallows Beach” Federal Village Gallery

 

 

Bee Dance … That little dance Bees do to give directions for other Bees to find flowers
Work in progress..Welded steel Jewellery

I’m truing a new addition to the “Navigator” series.. This one on Jewellery scale.. We do our little dances to tell each other where we find the Flowers !

I’ve also finished three garden ornaments (Jewellery for the Garden)  They are tall and move in the breeze .. Welded steel with imitation Gold leaf and sealed with ‘Penetrol’

Three Garden ornaments .. welded steel and fake Gold Leaf from about 3 to 4 meters tall

Garden ornament .. welded steel and fake Gold Leaf about 3 meters tall

Hello ! and a very big thanks to Oskar Schlegl ..for giving me this WordPress site to play with ! Thank You Oskar ! You are a Mountain among Men and a very generous soul with your time and expertise ! Also thanks to Josh Pringle who helped me initially to swim (doggy-paddle) in the deep water.. (for a short legged Wombat).. that is the administration of a thing like this.. Thanx Josh !! xx

So ! I have a website again ! Great addition to the Fallow Year process and in time for My Girlfriend Rosie’s and my upcoming trip to central Victoria in a day or two .. Camping in the Van and having another look around Bendigo, Ballarat, Clunes, Dalesford, Castlemain and an aside down to Port Fairy SA. in the mix…. We had a bit of a practice run on Saturday with our friend Glenda..visiting Federal Gallery, then the Channon Gallery .. on to the GreenBank in Nimbin and also the Nimbin Art Association’s Autumn Exhibition… Then on to the Richmond Tweed Regional Gallery for “Tea and tiny cakes” !1….., to check out the new and amazing Margaret Olley Art Centre Wing ! A bit of a taste of things to come for the next two or three weeks.

Rosie and Glenda , Stylin’ it in Nimbinn

So the old testament recommends leaving a field fallow every seventh year to rest the soil and to rejuvenate its potential…..

Tallows Beach

I decided some six years ago to introduce this concept into my arts practice..  So I am undertaking no commissions, supplying no product and only making what I feel like making and experimenting with new ideas all the while.. this is supported by my having saved for the six years and it was a wonderful thing to have the thought of a full year to dedicate to ‘just art’   It was a light at the end of a tunnel and now I am basking in the full rays of it.   Some of the work I’ve done in this time can be found on this new web presence of mine .. and some is not visible but just as important as it is taking seed in my attitudes to work, art and my life itself.