I was on a bit of a roll with commissions in 2014. Two were for peoples homes; Victoria Street and Macleay Street, the third one was for a wedding present of Cottesloe Beach in WA.
I started painting ten years ago in 2004 so I created this book to celebrate. Looking back it is interesting to see how my style has changed. There were a few disasters and a few successes. It was great remembering some of the courses I attended overseas and in Sydney. More courses to come too.
Platform72 is a hybrid art gallery
and retail store housing artworks and
Australian designer homewares, jewellery and accessories.
The ABC’s “The Business” show ran a piece on Design Thinking
(CCD), featuring our very own CCD team + Next Gen + Level 7 branch + me starring as a customer.
Becker Minty put on a great night where customers of Westpac Private Bank were able to enjoy some beautiful jewellery by Claire, have a glass of wine and see some of my paintings and books.
I have lead two tours now and there is a lot of interest for a third, they are based on my books and take around 90 minutes.
This photo essay is part of a 120 page book I designed and produced, included are four 'paintings' which I created on my iPad, this is a completely new way to paint and presents a whole new range of challenges.
I'm not sure I'm happy about being called a banker but it is a good headline!
I presented a copy of my book to Clover Moore and she very graciously sent this note.
Thanks to Cat's efforts from Becker Minty, the Wentworth Courier ran a little article. Lucy was not happy about being picked up in public as you can see.
It was a great night, despite being really unwell with a cold I had a wonderful time talking to everyone about my paintings and the book. The team at Becker Minty did a amazing job and I sold some work as well.
The 17 oil paintings for the Potts Point book are finally finished, it took 18 months and here they all are on the wall in my studio, next stop Becker Minty.
This book is a photo essay of our trip to Queenstown, Piha beach on the west coast of the North Island of NZ with its very hot black sand and the Amazing MONA in Tassie.
I created this book to record our trip up the Rhine then onto New York, Boston and Seattle.
These two paintings have been purchased by a collector in Lake Tahoe, very exciting.
The exhibition at Becker Minty was a great success, all the books sold within a couple of months as did most of the oil paintings, I even sold some water colours from the book.
I had always wanted to know
what "bronze sculpture using the lost wax process" meant and this
course at the National Art School was a perfect way to learn. I'm not
going to try and explain the process here so I hope these images will give
an idea of what's involved and how difficult it is.
I managed to produce two sculptures during the eight week course.
Officially opened on 26 February by Eddy Meyer, Senior Journalist, Channel 10 News. The highlight was the torrential rain.
This is the cover for the book that I designed about the last few paintings courses I attended in Florence and London.
I took this shot in the vestibule of the Biblioteca Laurenziana, design by Michelangelo.
