We had a great time ....

Estelle's walkabout was brilliant as always and pretty soon 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.

Walkabout by Estelle Hudson

Tomorrow Saturday 26th - 10:30am ..... @ Fat Tuesday, Kloof 

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.

Lost, Found n Stolen - Walkabout with Ana Pereira de Vlieg - 12th May

Ana Pereira de Vlieg led a group of interested people around the exhibition. Her comments were insightful and her animated descriptions and passion for art drew the audience in ... even the artists were fascinated with new perspectives of their art.

Ana will be conducting another walk-about on Tuesday15th May for her students and anyone else interested.

A little more about Ana here:  Ana Pereira de Vlieg earned distinction early on in her art career by being a finalist in the Emma Smith Scholarship Competition, awarded to her when she did honours in Fine arts at the Natal Technikon.  

She has been employed in formal art education functioning as the art teacher and vice-principal at a school for disadvantaged children in Kwamashu. Participating in community based projects such as murals for Effingham Road Bridge and everyONEcounts is testament to her warm generous spirit.

Most recently she completed the KZNSA Professional Course in 2010 focussing on an investigation of the shadow – using art as a means to confront the “negative” in ones life and use it as a healing tool. She uses this therapeutic aspect of art in her private lessons for adults held at her studio in La Lucia.

Along with Joan and Lara, Ana participated in the international Sketchbook Project,hosted by the Brooklyn Art library, New York City. 

You can see more photos from the walkabout on Saturday here.

Lost, Found and Stolen - Opening

Maggie Strachan, me and Joan MartinWe had a most enjoyable and very successful opening of our exhibition:  Lost, Found and Stolen @ Fat Tuesday on the 8th.

Jeanette Gilks gave an interesting address with her usual insightful take on the works.

Tomorrow Ana Pereira deVlieg will conduct a walkabout, but for now ... here are a few pics from the opening by kind courtesy of Harry Lock who is a fabulous artist, photographer.

I'll post photos of my new works within the next two weeks.

Jeanette Gilks giving her address at the opening on Tuesday.

                                                       You can click here to see more photos ...

We never LOST it once, as we FOUND our space at Fat Tuesday ... so now to have a few moments STOLEN away in my bed :-)

We had a great time hanging our exhibit in the Fat Tuesday gallery this morning. Maggie, Joan and I are so in sinc that hanging the works was easy.

Our boys were great and did a really fine job ... so we've decided to keep them :-) 

We're looking forward to Tuesday's opening.

Click here to see a few more pics.