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Being a Guest Artist and picking Features
I was Highly honoured this week by being asked to do the features for the Landscape Painting Group

I personally have done just one Landscape Painting of any worth! lol
Bush Trail Ride
so to be asked to choose the features was such an honour that I was excited to say the least!

Doing the Landscape Painting features was simply the best treat for me as the beauty I see in the painted landscape is so inspiring to my poetic soul!

There were just so many I wanted to feature but when I saw these pieces I knew I had to feature them! Due to the vibrancy, the colours and the light, and how the artists captured the essence of the views brilliantly!
☼ B R A V O !!! ☼

(and note there were NO Lynda Robinson pieces …. <( ... she begged me not to! lol Besides which one would I choose? I love them all! So I did a journal of them instead! lol)

Anyhoo I hate picking art without explaining WHY I chose it above others. First of all I started at the back of the gallery (I love being up the back; it’s quieter and you can take your time viewing stuff everyone’s forgotten!) and selected my favourites from there! Then I wheedled through my fave list to select ^{Just 12!!!} then (as the artists would contest to) I farted about favouring them over and over until they looked right on my fave list wall – as you do – then I featured them in order to look right on the group page! (I wont tell you all the other things I was dealing with in the real world left handed with my feet and mouth while my eyes remained glued to the screen and my right hand busy on the mouse weaving magic! lol)
_{(PS Don’t ask me the technical stuff or shoot me for my incorrectness – I’m no painter remember! lol)}

So here are the results and I hope you like my choices!

“Onkaparinga Gorge SA” by Alexandra Felgate

☼ When I saw this I knew it was an Australian valley – the colours are so true to how our countryside looks! We don’t have lime green grass and emerald leaved trees we have brown and yellow grass and blue-grey trees! And our sky is so blue it hurts to look at it … except on the horizon where it is pale
I had not come across Alexandra’s work before but now she’s on my watch list for sure!

“Milby Park” by Mrswillow:http

☼ There is something wonderful about this kind of watercolour painting – the simple brush strokes depicting so much! The warmth of the colours again shows it is Australian mid day on any bush track! For me she has captured the haziness of the heat and the smell of dry grass baking in the sun!
As a girl I was fascinated how Rolf Harris would paint on this huge screen and in the matter of minutes and with just a few deft strokes of a house painter’s brush he’d created an image to steal your breath away! For me Mrs Wub you have done it again!

“Summer Landscape” by Colin Cartwright

☼ How merry is this picture! The sun drying the hay fields the clouds scudding across the sky! So picture perfect you can hear the birds sing! (& Violins? lol)
Then to my delight I discovered it is an “Ekphrasis!” The very clever Mr Colin Cartwright had created his interpretation of a master work of “John Callow (1822-1878)” I have to say I am not familiar with that artist’s work but if this is the influence he has on Colin I’m grateful for it!

“15 minute study Sulphurous light !” by LorusMaver

☼ Again another quick deft stroked piece showing the brilliance of the artist’s skill! Lorus brings such amazing light to his pieces present in the first wash of colour and then adds stunning detail to feast your eyes on! Another artist who reminds me of the excellence of Rolf (and I dare say other masters but I’ve never watched them paint!) This is one of his earlier pieces but if he can achieve this in a 15minute setting I adore what he does when he really works on his pieces – check them out! You’ll love them too!

“my institute” by limon

☼ I came across this artist when I came looking for work to feature and fell in love with his work in just two pieces! In this piece he has the birds singing the insects buzzing and cicadas ringing in your ears! I could even happilly hear a macaw! This piece shows you are in the cool shade and it’s much hotter out there in the sun! Definitely another new artist on my watch list!

“Freedom” by Lui Grande

☼ Hows this for a mood change?
Lui’s work is passionate and moody. I love how his landscapes are full of atmosphere!
<sub>A frosty night atop snowy mountains in the bright full moon
Brumbies run for freedom! For Man will come too soon!
The snow will fly from thundering hooves terror pierce the night
Til sheltering boughs of snowgums will vanish the herd from sight
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I don’t know if Lui had painted this with that in mind but that’s what this picture says to me. (But then I’m a hopeless romantic when it comes to Brumbies & the Victorian High Country! lol)

“Early Spring, Kilmore” by Helen Miles

☼ Helen’s work is stunning! It speaks to me like Monet’s does! As much as Alexandra and Mrs Wub’s works scream Australia funnily enough so does this! Kilmore is just under an hour north of Melbourne (and sadly the place some of the 07-02-09 Black Sat Fires started from) and yes in Spring there are fields of flowers as vibrant as this! Helen calls it a chunky piece and yes I feel the texture depicting the fullness of life!

“the vineyard” by elisabetta trevisan

☼ This is the piece that drew me to Elizabetta’s work! I find her choice of colours and depth of light stunning! It just intrigues me the way she weaves the countryside like a tapestry behind the frame of embroidered realness of the vine! Exquisite!

“The lake and the mountains” by RiSH :

☼ Who said lakes and mountains were boring? This is LIFE! RiSH is new to me but boy am I glad I found this! What colour! What energy! The verve of living is leaping off the page like the guardian of splendour inviting you to dance* (Pippin) and be happy! This explains why I love the country and the recharge I get when I escape bush!

“Landscape-Country Walk” by Janis Zroback

☼ Again another energy filled piece! Janice invites us to go walk in the countryside and I’ll be off with her anytime! This has colours that speaks of Australia but then it could be a scene from anywhere in the world! I love all Janice’s work!

“Poulnasherry Bay, Moyasta, Co.Clare (30×23 ins)” by Pauline Dunleavy

☼ Colour warmth and light Pauline brings the depth of Ireland to life in this piece. I’ve always wanted to go to Ireland (ancestral roots) but I can’t say I knew what I expected to see – grass and rocks and rain I guess. And then I saw this and knew there was such warmth I itch to see it for myself!

“Pennington Airfield Before The Storm” by Monica Vanzant

☼ Can you feel the heaviness of the sky just about to burst and pour down on you? Monica has captured that eerie glow just before (or after) a daytime storm. Standing out there I can feel the electricity building! The fear it generates snatching my breath and quickening my heart! Another of moodiness passion and power vibrant with colour and life!

Enjoy!
☼ Happy Bubbling! ☼
Chookas! ♥