we're scheduled to exhibit there again in June, 2013. This time we're fortunate to have Ana de Vlieg join us.
We meet regularly to discuss our work.
As four strong personalities, we have a lot of fun. We discuss - debate - deliberate - decide - deduce and well ... we drink. We drink copious cups of coffee, and when it's fitting we'll have a glass to celebrate the occasion.
We're using an interesting process for this exhibition ... but more of that later ... can't let the cat out the bag just yet ;-)
One not only needs 'balance' in composition!! Ana will go to any lengths it seems to get great pics ... and manages to do this with style all the same (how beautiful is her crochetedjacket).
Maggie needed a quiet place to read over the first draft of our exhibition statement. She found this great spot in Joan's office, in and alongside her fabulous classroom where we get to meet each month. The view of Durban's Berea stretching towards the sea is spectacular.
Ana's always hard at work taking notes ... by hand or by apple :-)
So there you have it ... when we're not painting away in our studios, we're getting together where the cameras snap, the cuppa's are a-plentiful, the computers tick tick away and the whole thing of collaborating is fabulously filled with friendship and the stuff that keeps us going. Joy, joy, joy !!!
works donated by artists, which are auctioned to raise funds for the galleries purchase of new works. This is the fourth year that I've enjoyed participating and in contributing in a small way along with other artists supporting art.. !
You can see the works that I donated here.
The works will be available for viewing from the 25th to the 30th November, when also the final auction will take place.
ToOn delivering my works to Maggie to get bundled off and sent to Pietermaritzburg, I was delighted to see that for a change WE MATCHED ... so we took a photo for fun.
Maggie has so many intersting nooks and crannies and interesting finds in her garden ... I regularly want to snap away and capture these images ....
with prezzies that only artists would know to give to artists ) ... and as in the last two or so visits ... they're MATCHING AGAIN :-)
So, we had to take photos ... don't they look beautiful !!
and delivered to the buyer. I LOVED doing them ... and plan to do more towards my first Solo Exhibtion ... !
You can see them here: under the sub-gallery "Look to the Hills" or on my artist page on Facebook.
I meant to take a photo of the works up in the buyer's home ... but was dead tired and left with my camera still hanging over my shoulder, unused .... "get some rest Mellon" ... or better still, time for a holiday.
We're new 'old-friends' ... and seem to have an unbelievable synchronistic and magical connection. She'd be talking to someone about the art, and then gets an email from me and vice versa.
On one occassion I'd literally just thought of her, mentioned her to my husband Patrick, and then within an hour bumped into her at a book launch (caught on camera by a journalist as in the photo insert)
Even how we came to meet was incredible: in 2007 she'd been given an article of my work featured in a magazine and kept track of me since. On the day she first mails me to make contact, I had been listening to the radio (which I seldom do) and hear this lady being interviewed about her clinic for epilepsy at Entabeni... and so when her email pops up in front of me I'm blown away coz I just heard her ... she was the lady on the radio!!
We've had many more such synchronistic and magical moments in connecting. It's wonderful.
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endless in hope and possibility, and in freedom.
I refer to the process of painting these as “resting in the landscape”.
I have wonderful childhood memories of long solitary outrides on horseback alone and content, with the lands as much stretched before me as was hope. In a sense there is a longing for these days, but not a melancholy. Hope persists and freedom if not in open fields, is still within spirit.
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I'll be able to post a transcript of her insights of our works. You can click here to see some fotos from the walkabout as well as some nice pics showing how our works were hung.
I've also loaded the images of my works here on this site, under works, gallery is called Lost, Found and Stolen.
We had a wonderfully successful exhibition with great support and feedback ... so encouraging. Thanks to all for making it totally splendid.
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Join us for the walkabout, see the works before they come down at 1pm .... shop in Shannon's INCREDIBLE Fat Tuesday Shoppe and stay for a delictable snack and cuppa at Bellefue Cafe !!! :-)
We had fantastic feedback from those who attended Estelle's walkabout of our exhibition last year at Fat Tuesday, where everyone absolutely enjoyed and were informed by Estelle's remarkable insights.
A little bit about Estelle: Estelle Hudson is a narrative and family therapist.
She conducts dream workshops for professionals, masters students and interested people. Her personal interests include feminist spirituality, drawing, painting and dream work.
Estelle and Maggie Strachan have conducted dream-painting workshops together for many years.
Estelle was also a painting student in Maggie’s studio and a student of drawing, printing and mixed-media with Jeanette Gilks. She continues to work with the Garret Artists group.
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