People's Choice Voting: Queensland Regional Art Awards 2021
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Time
16th August 2021 - 17th September 2021 (All Day) AEST(GMT+10:00)
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Event Details
Place your vote to help your favourite Queensland Regional Art Awards 2021 entry win a People’s Choice Award. Selected artists will also be in the running to win judges’ prizes.
Event Details
Place your vote to help your favourite Queensland Regional Art Awards 2021 entry win a People’s Choice Award. Selected artists will also be in the running to win judges’ prizes.
Voting Process
You may vote once for an Adult Category artwork, and once for a Youth Category artwork.
- Click on the individual images below to view an artwork, read the artist statement, and reveal their voting link.
- To vote you must fill out the form and provide your real name and email address for confirmation.
- A confirmation email will be sent to your nominated email address to confirm your vote. You will need to click ‘confirm vote’ to validate and confirm your submission. If you do not confirm your vote through this email your vote will not be valid.
Adult Category
Bird on a wire,
Artist: Andrea Baumert Howard
Artist Location: Ipswich
Medium: Digital Print on Handmade Paper, 2021
Dimensions: 29.8 x 0.1 x 21 cm
Artist Statement:
For me celebrations are an everyday thing. Finding quiet moments to celebrate the beauty of an ordinary life.
The joy when you witness a magpie serenading the sun and, for a moment, you are the one being serenaded. Listening with closed eyes to their incredible and haunting songs.
Remembering that there are a million reasons to smile throughout the day and opening your heart to finding them.
This piece is a further exploration into my experimenting with handmade paper. The image is a digital photograph printed onto a sheet of handmade paper. The multilayered paper is made from the pulp of junk mail, hand dyed office discards and cartridge paper.
As a small-batch artist I am constantly trying new things and I am celebrating the joy that working with paper can offer me.
Photographer: Andrea Baumert Howard
Birthday celebration of 2021, Vote Now
Artist: Tarja Ahokas
Artist Location: Ninderry
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 30.5 x 3.7000000000000002 x 25 cm
Artist Statement:
I celebrate my Birthday each year by producing an Artwork.
I like to be inspired by something I see or experience that day usually by going on a day trip somewhere.
This year due to the lockdown I went to the far corner or our 8000m2 property and pulled out lot of weeds in the pouring rain. I could have danced in the rain but the ground was too muddy and soft, so I let the weeds dance on my canvas instead.
This was the way I “painted the town”…celebrating those weeds that inspired me.
Photographer: Tarja Ahokas
Topography, Vote Now
Artist: Barbara Pierce
Artist Location: Townsville
Medium: acrylic & collage on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 76 x 3.5 x 91 cm
Artist Statement:
A celebration can be described – and shaped – by its’ location in the landscape. The landscape where I live has been the inspiration for this painting. Collage and acrylic paint have been used to make reference to a hillside – its’ rocks and pathways – and a celebration at day’s end as night falls.
Every day I connect with the surrounding environment and notice the changes – subtle or dramatic – depending on the time of day, the season or whatever is happening at the time. All sensory stimuli have an effect or leave an impression. Every day I quietly celebrate ‘my’ landscape.
In this painting I have reinterpreted the landscape surroundings and played with the idea of the possible appearance of a celebration at day’s end in the imagined topography of this environment. Every celebration – like every day – is unique. A celebration takes on a life and shape of it’s own.
Photographer: Ed Pierce
TOWN AND COUNTRY
Artist: Brian Hatch
Artist Location: Cleveland
Medium: OIL on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 76 x 4 x 100 cm
Artist Statement:
The theme ‘Paint the Town’ leaves an artist with many options. My interpretation is to do just that, namely paint a town as perched on a hill in the countryside using a contemporary approach. The blocks of colour represent shops and buildings stretched along a ridge with fields suggested by the larger yellow shapes below. The theme suggests painting the town red but instead I painted what can be interpreted as sky in orange/red to indicate the heat of an Australian summer.
The painting had three stages. Firstly blocking in the shapes of the town, then altering the colours to free up the image. The last stage was to modify the colours by scumbling lighter tones over the previous colours to unify the whole painting. The under painting was blocked in using acrylics and then overpainting with oils to secure a more intense paint effect.
This then is my version of “Paint the Town”.
Photographer: Brian Hatch
THE WHITSUNDAYS – FULL OF COLOURS, Vote Now
Artist: Claudia Gray
Artist Location: Airlie Beach
Medium: MIXED MEDIA, 2020
Dimensions: 43.299999999999997 x 1.5 x 36 cm
Artist Statement:
The theme ‘Paint The Town’, in my art piece, I have managed to capture a joyous, happy artwork where I am expressing the beauty of my town.
This painting is bursting with a plethora of colours.
Enjoy viewing my art work.
Photographer: Claudia Gray
Seeds of creativity, Vote Now
Artist: Shelley Pisani
Artist Location: Avenell Heights
Medium: gel plate printing, screen printing, hand stitching, acrylic and gold leaf on paper, 2021
Dimensions: 56 x 0 x 38 cm
Artist Statement:
Over the last 2 years I have been delivering a project across Central Queensland that has been building the capacity of visual artists, encouraging new ways of thinking. As I travelled for this project I saw the seed pods of the Illawarra Flame Tree regularly and to me it became a symbol of the fertile collaborations being created. I started drawing the pods in March 2020 at a residency near Baralaba and have continued to explore their shapes through printmaking.
As this project nears its end, I have been reflecting on the joy that the moments of seeing artists thrive has given me. The 7 seed pods represent the 7 regions in Central Queensland where I have been working. They are stitched together embodying the bonds created between artists and regions. Glints of golden moments that have seeded new work, new collaborations and inspiration – a cause for celebration.
Photographer: Shelley Pisani
Cobb&Co1, Vote Now
Artist: Katherine Civil
Artist Location: Toowoomba
Medium: oil on canvas, 2020
Dimensions: 51 x 4 x 77 cm
Artist Statement:
The town of Toowoomba is painted in this work as the iconic museum. Bringing visitors from far and wide, this part of the world echoes the celebration of town and country. The wind machines
turn for water and the structure is stable in the elements. In this oil the paint is applied quickly and loosely and the colours harmonise to ring in sync with all that is Toowoomba.
Photographer: Katherine Civil
Celebrating at Sunset, Vote Now
Artist: Debbie Chilton
Artist Location: North Ipswich
Medium: 3D Artbook / Watercolour, 2021
Dimensions: 10 x 1 x 64 cm
Artist Statement:
My idea of celebrating is to indulge in natural beauty. And what is more beautiful than the picture the sunset paints across the sky? The scenic rim is just a short drive from my hometown of Ipswich. Hot air balloon flights over the scenic rim may be booked to celebrate special events such as engagements, wedding, anniversaries, and birthdays. My artwork Celebrating at Sunset takes audiences on this magical journey.
Photographer: Debbie Chilton
Tree Poem – II,
Artist: Katie Harris-MacLeod
Artist Location: Diddillibah
Medium: Bloodwood Tree Sap on 300gsm Watercolour Paper., 2021
Dimensions: 76 x 0 x 56 cm
Artist Statement:
Tree Poem – II is one of a series of works from an on-going project entitled, Sap Works.
Sap Works is an intimate study of the interwoven connectivities between bodies of trees and human beings, specifically the female body.
This work intricately studies Bloodwood trees and the sap that they excrete by mapping
stressed Bloodwood trees across the Sunshine Coast region and stress within my own body.
These ‘stress exchanges’ become a series of intimate durational and ritualistic performances, derived from my ancestral lineage to Celtic/ Gaelic culture, landscape and language. Enigmatic sap pigment drawings are captured on
tra handmade paper, a poetic exchange between body and tree.
Ogham, is the ancient Celtic language of the trees, and it is this ancestral knowledge that has been the conduit connecting me to this landscape.
Sap Worksis a process of re-connecting and understanding. Cross cultural narratives give meaning to my transitory belonging.
Photographer: Katie Harris-MacLeod
West, Vote Now
View Digital Artwork Artist: Renee Yates
Artist Location: East Ipswich
Medium: Mixed media animation, 2021
Dimensions: 0 x 0 x 0 cm
Artist Statement:
West is a moving-image landscape that captures a familiar scene west of the city: the coal trains rumbling through the Queensland countryside as an afternoon storm rolls in down the range. As an artist who works in the Lockyer Valley, I see coal trains as both living relics exisiting on borrowed time and as a symbol of Queensland’s city-country connection. This connection is evident with the economic function of the coal industry (mining in Western Queensland provides city workers and the economy with the expendable income that allows them to figuratively “paint the town”) and with the juxtaposition of the colourful stylised urban street art that adorns the trains with the natural palette of the countryside. West was created with mixed media craft processes (graphite drawings and painted paper collage) that were digitised and brought to life with animation and audio field recordings and footage.
Photographer: Renee Yates
A Covid Birthday, Vote Now
Artist: Emma Thorp
Artist Location: Dundowran Beach
Medium: Digital Drawing Print, 2021
Dimensions: 70 x 0.29999999999999999 x 50 cm
Artist Statement:
During an early period of Covid lockdown, my daughter turned 11.
Unwilling to leave the house for trivial items, we ordered her gifts online and had them delivered. I did not do the careful, deliberate shopping for decorations of years gone past. What is her favourite colour? What is the best theme? These were questions I did not ask.
We still decorated for our family dinner, she had a miss matched array of plates and napkins and wrappings from past celebrations. She still had a wonderful birthday. It was actually one of the best, since during Covid we have become more aware of what is important and how much we value experiences with our loved ones.
Photographer: Emma Thorp
Music to the ears, Vote Now
Artist: Katherine Civil
Artist Location: Toowoomba
Medium: watercolour on paper, 2021
Dimensions: 42 x 0.10000000000000001 x 30 cm
Artist Statement:
With music in the background, the subtle tones in this painting, bely the celebration happening
without. In the night air, the notes float and and dance to the rhythm of the occasion. It is a joyous
sound that brings delight to all who hear and celebrate. The character is the pied piper and he
belts out a merry tune. Come dance and sing with me, the colours echo
Photographer: Katherine Civil
I Left My Heart On The Island, Vote Now
Artist: Jay Feather
Artist Location: Qunaba
Medium: Oil and acrylic on cotton linen blend canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 90 x 3 x 70 cm
Artist Statement:
This piece is very special to me, it was created when I was pregnant with my second child. I find it joyful and it reminds me of my son. After having a failed pregnancy, I was able to reflect on the negative space I had come from and into a happy positive space being pregnant. My marks are strong and confident in this piece through the use of thick oil paint and use of a pallet knife. Forever now I will be reminded of the happy island of hope that emerge from the tumultuous sea of despair, of which, I know I will never return.
Photographer: Jay Feather
Place, Time and Country, Vote Now
Artist: Rhondda Scott
Artist Location: Tambo
Medium: Oil on Canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 50 x 4 x 40 cm
Artist Statement:
The ochre fields in Tambo are a very spiritual place to paint. The big sky. The travelled earth. Her stories are found in abundance and the colours of the earth release in me something that makes my heart sing. There is a music in the outback that touches everything. I have started using ochre gathered from here to create my own paints and incorporate them into my work to create the truth that is the outback. The effort to crush and mix rocks to create paint here places me even closer to the subjects I paint. This helps me release the song in her soil. It puts the earth into my work and pulls my work back to its origins.
Photographer: Rhondda Scott
Flaming Trolley, Vote Now
Artist: Julie Purcell
Artist Location: Kippa-Ring
Medium: Oil on salvaged board, 2020
Dimensions: 42 x 0.29999999999999999 x 47.5 cm
Artist Statement:
My family celebrate by burning things. Most days spent working on our Beebo property south-west of Brisbane conclude with a fire in our ready-made brazier. We warm our feet on “foot rocks” pulled up from the stone ringed cacti garden nearby, crack a bottle or two of home brew and yarn till the stars come out. With the idiosyncrasy of our pastime flickering formally in my plein air brushwork, this painting presents the bush as a backdrop for contemporary family life.
Photographer: Julie Purcell
The Eye of The Heart, Vote Now
Artist: India Collins
Artist Location: Edge Hill
Medium: Textiles new and recycled, PVC, 2021
Dimensions: 120 x 5 x 105 cm
Artist Statement:
The Eye of The Heart
This woven work speaks to the notion that we must learn to see, think and speak from our heart.
This work is a celebration of letting go, following our dreams, believing in ourselves, taking care of our bodies, learning to say NO when it feels right, learning to say YES even when we’re fearful, questioning our self- doubt and reveling in the knowledge that if we live intuitively, we can achieve a more spiritually fulfilled life. There should be nothing stopping us from reaching our full potential and embarking on a path towards self- actualization. Go for Gold.
Photographer: India Collins
This Won’t Hurt A Bit, Vote Now
Artist: Grant Quinn
Artist Location: Bundamba
Medium: Photography, 2021
Dimensions: 50 x 1 x 70 cm
Artist Statement:
Tattooing, the art of painting our town’s people, yesterday today and tomorrow. The history of tattooing goes back for thousands of years, and the reasons for getting tattooed are many. With the markings being personal, they can be plain, or elaborate, and they serve as amulets, healing and status symbols, dedications of love, signs of religion, adornments and even forms of punishments. The fascination of acquiring a tattoo may fall into four main groups, namely healing, affiliation, art and fashion. For many, tattoos are art, similar to a piece of jewellery for others to admire. People allow themselves to get tattooed simply because it’s beautiful. Previously, tattooing at galleries was mainly considered performance art in the form of live tattooing, but recently, tattoos, like graffiti, have gone from cult to art status and have been adopted by the art industry, especially in areas where art and fashion meet.
Photographer: Grant Quinn
Dark Skies
Artist: Donna Glass
Artist Location: Bunya Mountains
Medium: Digital Print In Frame, 2020
Dimensions: 100 x 15 x 75 cm
Artist Statement:
Living In The Beautiful Dark Skies Of The Bunya Mountains Is An Absolute Privilege
Home Of The Wakka Wakka people With Huge Towering Ancient Bunya Trees
With Owls Hooting And Dingoes Howling Makes Foer A surreal Setting For Night Shots.
Photographer: Donna Glass
Pathways of joy, Vote Now
Artist: Anitha Menon
Artist Location: Rockhampton
Medium: Oil on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 40 x 1 x 30 cm
Artist Statement:
This year the art of celebrating has come with quiet gratitude, reflection and fleeting memories of loved ones stuck in a different time zone. Sitting in my cosy home I adore the precious ring on my fingers and feel the safety of the place I’m living in. Waiting for more colours to fill my senses, I celebrate the joy of life in the mundane coziness of my house.
Sometimes inanimate objects speak through their silence. They can be symbols of a cultural past or moments of a time or sometimes, a realisation for me that time has stood still without progress. My identity as a homemaker, my house and the objects associated with it have been a major influence in my art so far. I am drawn towards symbolism and concepts and find textures fascinating to paint.
Photographer: Anitha Menon
‘By the Shoreline We Gather’, Vote Now
Artist: Jacqueline Sanderson
Artist Location: Sunshin Coast
Medium: Buff raku clays, mid-fire glazes, gold porcelain paint, 2021
Dimensions: 44 x 18 x 41 cm
Artist Statement:
By the Shoreline We Gather’ originate from the vessel shapes which are the foundation of my pottery practice. Vessels embody the cultural union of my Sri Lankan-Australian heritage where sharing food is central to any gathering. The vessels vary in shape, size and purpose, and their glazed colours pay homage to the Gubbi Gubbi land and sea where I have lived for over 10 years. Transforming the vessels into the shell-shape was a beautiful, organic process that extended my practice by combining my love of food and food sharing with symbols of the sea. This artwork acknowledges the significance of cultural sharing through celebration, food, and meaningful relationships.
And so, as the ritual moon rises, by the shoreline we gather to celebrate the natural world, friendship, and diversity through food, music, and stories and to honour the shells and other gifts bestowed by the sea.
Photographer: Christine Hall
Meet Lenny, Vote Now
Artist: Suzanne Furness
Artist Location: MONS
Medium: Handwoven with wool and silk, 2020
Dimensions: 120 x 0.59999999999999998 x 72.5 cm
Artist Statement:
I’d like you to meet Lenny. During the day he is Leonard, a CEO wearing a full business suit and highly polished brogues for his ZOOM meetings. At night he transforms into Lenny – freewheeling and colourful.
This weaving was my response to the dismal news cycles about Covid 19
Photographer: Suzanne Furness
Celebration of colour, Vote Now
Artist: Jeanie MacNamara
Artist Location: Benaraby
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 60 x 3.2999999999999998 x 80 cm
Artist Statement:
Border closures, lock-downs and social distancing were terms found in science fiction novels until COVID hit. My joy until then was to go out into this beautiful world that we share and paint it in all its glory, especially when I was able to do so with my friend Gayle – another passionate artist, who showed me the joy of painting landscapes. To my delight, in between lockdowns, my friend and I stole an afternoon at Newstead House when the Poincianna trees were in riotous flower. While this painting most certainly celebrates the vivid colours of the river and the trees, what it celebrates more is the time I managed to spend with Gayle. When artists come together to paint the wonders of this glorious land, either in silent contemplation or joyous laughter, the world is a better place.
Photographer: Jeanie MacNamara
River Town, Vote Now
Artist: Kylie Stevens
Artist Location: Pine Mountain
Medium: Bremer River water, copper leaf, charcoal, earth and acrylic paint on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 92 x 3.5 x 92 cm
Artist Statement:
River Town is a celebration of my hometown and the river it is built around. Creating artworks is how I celebrate, in River Town I have I have painted the town, by incorporating the major streets and bridges into the work, and by celebrating my town in paint.
River water thins my paint, allowing it to pool and travel across the canvas. With the addition of hand ground ochres and charcoal the canvas is marked; then, I map the river in copper leaf. Using the natural elements of river water and earth, the work contains the essence of the place it represents.
I am an Ipswich-based artist working with and within the environment. It is my aim to showcase the beauty and alchemy of nature, inspiring in the viewer a deeper respect for and desire to protect our precious natural spaces.
Photographer: Kylie Stevens
The final meal, Vote Now
Artist: Katie Hooper
Artist Location: Tamborine Mountain
Medium: Digital photograph, 2020
Dimensions: 50 x 0.5 x 50 cm
Artist Statement:
The final meal. With friends, a lover, a community, with life.
The final meal. No matter the reason to say goodbye, it is a time to celebrate.
The final meal. A reflection of what was and is no more.
The final meal. A time to remember the laughter, the love, the learning.
The final meal. All the favourites, all at once.
Photographer: Katie Hooper
Lets have music and dance, Vote Now
Artist: Tarja Ahokas
Artist Location: Ninderry
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 40 x 3.5 x 50 cm
Artist Statement:
I grew up with dancing being part of celebrations whether it was birthdays, weddings, New Year Eve or Midsummer Eve…
Always music and dancing…..
Lets celebrate Life…lets paint the town by having music and dancing…..
Photographer: Tarja Ahokas
Desert Rose
Artist: Donna Glass
Artist Location: Bunya Mountains
Medium: Digital Print In Frame, 2021
Dimensions: 100 x 25 x 100 cm
Artist Statement:
Surrounded But Still Alone
We are Surrounded by Billions Of Galaxies But We Alone Are The Only Biological Life That Has Been Found As Yet
We Indeed Are Rare And Special
Photographer: Donna Glass
When hippies choose the colour scheme, Vote Now
Artist: Caralyn Wiles
Artist Location: Welcome Creek
Medium: Acrylic on canvas board, 2021
Dimensions: 25 x 0.5 x 51 cm
Artist Statement:
Celebrating to me revolves around colour. We dress up in colour and adorn ourselves with colourful pieces. This piece takes the viewer to the extreme of celbrating by painting the town vibrant colours
Photographer: Caralyn Wiles
At the Oak, Vote Now
Artist: Ela Bozek
Artist Location: Healy
Medium: Acrylics on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 77 x 4 x 102 cm
Artist Statement:
The first beats of live music starts the evening at the Oak. Undeniably, there would be no celebration without it. Everyone in the room waited the whole week to come here to the dancefloor. Familiar and unfamiliar faces smile to each other. It always helps to look at that joy.
Visiting the Oak made me feel like me, back home.
Photographer: Ela Bozek
Kickin Up Ya Heels, Vote Now
Artist: Donna Rivers
Artist Location: Jundah
Medium: Acrylic on canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 60 x 3.5 x 60 cm
Artist Statement:
My preference is to explore with acrylic mediums and textures in a free style to bring my art pieces to life.
Kicking Up Ya Heels has been created with bold colours, textures and evolving brush strokes. With feelings that bring joy of having fun, a connection to country, family and friends and elevates life in our town.
My artwork captures the sense of excitement of the ‘paint the town’ theme as it represents the atmosphere, culture and people of my town, Jundah, during times of celebration. It has a strong visual appetite for colours in my outback surrounding at festive times.
Photographer: Donna Rivers
Gunna Need A Bigger Brush
Artist: Grant Quinn
Artist Location: Bundamba
Medium: Photography, 2021
Dimensions: 50 x 1 x 70 cm
Artist Statement:
When you respect and preserve a towns history, you are preserving and respecting it’s personality, the very thing that gives it character, and brings new residents and new life. When most people think of preserving history, they envision painting the town, restoring old buildings and historical sites, and beautifying our urban landscape. But preserving the history of our town is so much more. Preserving our history has many benefits, from improving economy to becoming more environmentally conscious. Having pride and celebrating where we come from, improves connection to community, to neighbours, and a strong community makes for a strong town. Historic preservation is proven to provide jobs and increase tourism. Our history is the heart and soul of our town, and it is vital to our future success that we work to protect it and with preservation comes rejuvenation. In our beautiful town, our history has been our heartbeat, and we need to continue to work tirelessly to respect our town’s history and continue to work to embrace it.
Photographer: Grant Quinn
Palm Cove
Artist: Mark Skelcher
Artist Location: Cairns
Medium: Oil on canvas, 2020
Dimensions: 40.6 x 2 x 50.7 cm
Artist Statement:
How do you celebrate? Simple, I visit Palm Cove! It is the most beautiful beach village I have painted time and time again in an attempt to capture its beauty, tranquility and natural vibrancy, its warm tropical light that is so fresh and bright.
It is such a special place for me and my family. From our Wedding Day here to the simple pleasures of playing with our children on the beach, it holds past times of joy and memories of connection and togetherness. Warm summer days, walking the esplanade and jetty, the sea breeze, palm fringed shoreline, sound of birds gently singing and conversations in the busy cafes and restaurants, celebrations of birth and remembrance of those gone.
For some time, I have been capturing the mesmerizing landscape of Cairns and the Northern Beaches that I am honoured to now call home, I celebrate and ‘Paint the Town’.
Photographer: Mark Skelcher
PAINT IT YOURS, Vote Now
Artist: Jodi Bowen
Artist Location: Ipswich
Medium: FREE-STANDING CERAMIC- hand built and painted with 18 carat gold detail. Works are finished with either a gloss or matte finish, 2021
Dimensions: 40 x 20 x 20 cm
Artist Statement:
Everyone likes to celebrate differently. Whether it’s partying, picnicking or a pot of tea- celebration is a personal experience. PAINT IT YOURS invites the viewer to make their own experience. You mix and match from the following ‘pots of colour’ to design your own celebration.
‘Paint it red colour pot’ : champagne, a new party dress, heels, handbag, some long lashes, sparkly jewellery and a red lippy (followed by a taxi home and a few Panadol before bed)
‘Paint it yellow colour pot’ : a day at the beach, a picnic, a sun-bath, a ball game and a spot of surfing
‘Paint it blue colour pot : ’ a cosy night in, a good read, a pot of tea and a comfortable chair or bed.
Select your options from the 20 available and add to the ‘Paint it Yours’ pot to create your ultimate personal celebratory experience.
THIS WORK IS MADE UP OF 4 ‘POTS’ AND 20 OPTIONS. ALL PIECES ARE HAND BUILT AND PAINTED CERAMICS- SOME WITH 18 CARAT DETAIL. The second photo is an example of the options available.
Photographer: Jodi Bowen
Family Colour, Vote Now
Artist: Tricia Reust
Artist Location: Clontarf
Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas, 2021
Dimensions: 76 x 3 x 76 cm
Artist Statement:
Artist Statement – Tricia Reust
FAMILY COLOUR
Mixed Media on Canvas
76 sq cms
Joy and undaunted application abound every time we create together – how better to celebrate being an artist than to share art with my grandchildren? They bring me closer to the primary reasons I draw each day.
Here, a portrait of Nanna (me!), a portrait of Rudolph and an ice cream melting in the sun – all gifts – are collaged around my jar drawing, full to the brim with rediscovery of my life work.
When we make art together we “paint the town” in family colour.
Photographer: mark Lutz