Emma is a commission a beautiful Cocker Spaniel dog. It's oil on canvas. The owner of this commission loved this painting of their dog.
Today I'm varnishing my oil paintings. You need to allow time for the oil to dry, 3-6 months, then you can varnish them. Varnish protects the painting and gives it a lovely colour.
Flowers in the sky, a beautiful painting of flowers in the sky on canvas. I was painting in acrylic with these colours and had left over paint so did this small painting. I was really pleased with the result.
I am am artist producing fine art.
I use oils, acrylic, watercolour and soft pastels and oil pastels.
My work is collectable.
I have been painting for 20 years.
I have a Fine Art degree .
I became very ill quite exepectantly while I was working as a Mum of two girls. I suffered chronic fatigue syndrome. I was bedridden for two years very ill unable to take more than a few steps. After a few years my husband encouraged me to get out once a week and try a TAFE Enrichment course a few hours a week. I did this and enjoyed it very much. I did this for two years. Then I went to TAFE for a year to persue art full time. This allowed me to be admitted unto Griffith University where I studied Art, and finished with a Bachelor of Fine Art.
I really did not know much about art, drawing, painting, different mediums, tools, etc at all. I just learnt as I went along.
I was in a class at TAFE with much younger teenagers, and in Uni with just out of school teenagers also. They were very good and been doing art for many years. I just did what I could, when I could. I would work everywhere, outside, on the dining room table, and do small tasks when I could.
I grew to love art, the challenge of it, and learning new things. I researched different Artists, and got to love different ones. I especially loved the art of Margaret Olley, an Australian artist, recently passed away. Her work was beautiful, I loved colours.
During our critique at Uni, one of the Directors of the Art Gallery of Queensland told me that my colour combinations, and use of colour was very good. It came naturally to me, which I loved.
So in spite of a difficult illness coming my way, a beautiful skill has come to me also. Life may show up with difficulties for you also, and you can turn your life around like I did, and take up an artistic skill.
I started painting after an illness which put me into bed for 2 years. I slowly recovered and went to an Enrichment TAFE course for 2 years. I so loved the art that I would come down and work on it all week before returning to do art the next week.
I then was encouraged to go to TAFE full time and do an Art course. I did this for one year which enabled me to apply to University with my Portfolio of Art. I was accepted into the College of Art, Morningside, Brisbane. Then the College moved to South Bank Brisbane to the University of South Brisbane, where Art was an offered as a subject. We were the first students in the brand new beautiful building.
I majored in Painting. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2004. Since then I have been painting and and exhibiting yearly with Visionaries Group, a group of artists specialising in Christian art.
I had my first solo major art exhibition in 2016. I worked hard for this exhibition, producing about 26 new art works.
