‘We have been led to think that culture is what we consume. It’s not. It’s what we create.

‘Of the Earth’
42x30cm
Graphite & chalk on paper

#foxglove #foxgloves #botanicaljournal #portrait #botanicalillustration #bluemountainsartist #realism #tasmanianartist

Spring in the Blue Mountains NSW.
Drawing in the garden today; attempting to fill the Spring pages of my perpetual journal.
#botanicalillustration #botanical #botanicaljournal #springinaustralia #bluemountainsnsw #perpetualjournal #thepowerofasketchbook #garden

When artists seek to do a master copy of an artist’s work , we kind of know we won’t get anywhere near, but it never stops me trying! Everything about Alan Lee’s @alanaplee work astounds me. His intuitive response to landscape, the searching line, the poetry, and the complexity that plays a rhythm.

Magical regionalism is a term I’ve coined to represent my new body of work.
Magic regionalism is specific to a place - Australia’s historic past- and is rooted in an attitude of spiritual connection to this ancient land.
#sydneylong #charlesconder #magicregionalism #oilpainting #magicrealism

Encounter at Rippon Lea.
The stunning conservatory and exotic planting at Rippon Lea estate. Frederick Sargood designed an underground irrigation system in the 1860s. Stunning ingenuity.
#oilpainting #magicrealism

Adeline Snow crow thrives in the bleakest of Winters. She knows how to break open stone to find warmth, & light. She understands despair & knows the secret of keeping it from any heart.
You’ll hear her call in the darkest dawn & frostiest twilight. Know there’s always hope.
#fibreart #fibreartist

Meet Annabelle- (my dabble into textile art). Annabelle wakes just before dawn to go traipsing through the Hare Bell Wood, looking for any eggs have inadvertently fallen or been thrown from nests. She collects them and raises the offspring as her kin. #handmadedoll #artdoll #fibreart #textileart

Leonor Fini 1907-1996
Oil on panel
My tribute to Leonor Fini- wild, fiercely independent, wonderful surrealist artist. If you don’t know her. Look her up. You’re in for a treat.
#leonorfini #surrealism #magicrealism #oilpainting

Carrington
9x12in oil on panel
This painting is a tribute to the surrealist artist, Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011). Carrington along with Remedios Varo & Leonor Fini make up the triumfeminatus of female surrealists I adore.
#surrealists #oilpainting #magicrealism

Lunar Moth Maiden

Of moon and moss,
Of magnolia and Iris,
Of time and it’s passing.

Oil on acm
40 X 50 centimetres.
#oilpainting #selfportrait #magicrealism #magicrealism

Red Symphony- self portrait of precious moments

Oil on panel 30x40cm

Mum’s 1960s red silk evening dress, an autumn puppet, a Persian rug, scrabble , a pilgrim shell, the Celtic spiral and tea.
I lost count of the glaze layers…
#oilpainting #selfportrait #magicrealism

Hia Bluesky .
I’m posting my paintings here. Hope you enjoy.

Immigrants to Tasmanian Shores.
40 x 50 cm
Oil on canvas

This painting, is a work based on the immigrants that have made their way to Tasmanian shores.
These immigrants have shaped the character, landscape and economy of Tasmania.