Hello….
Thank you for visiting my bubble…
Due to the onset of chronic illness a few years ago, my husband and I left the ratrace of our city business, and moved to the bush to grow our own organic vegies and live a simpler lifestyle. We are currently owner/building a house on 110 acres on the side of a mountain in the forest hinterland of the Nambucca Valley, NSW. We have only solar power and a wood stove, and aim at as much self-sufficiency as possible. After years of collecting shiney stuff – we avoid the mass consumerism which feeds the ubiquitous multinational machine and try to make or grow most of our own stuff.
After the isolation of our previous bush block, on the drought ridden southern tablelands, I am fortunate now to live near small towns which harbour vibrant arts communities and am a member of the Nambucca Valley Art Group. Some of my work can be seen at the Stringer Gallery in Nambucca Heads. I live in Gumbaynggirr country and there are some fine indigenous artists in my area.
The light is gentler near the coast, the skies less harsh and the colours are easier on the eye. I love Australia in her many, many guises and all of her people. I am self taught artist, more or less, but learn something from everyone. Life is a great adventure of learning for me.
I work in various mediums, oil paint, pastels, acrylics and watercolour and love to draw. My skills are still developing and I learn from every painting.
My sister Yeddles
is also a redbubble artist so please check out her lovely work too.
Estelle O'Brien is a member of # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE , 1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture , * Painted Ladies *, Complex Simplicity of Art, Floral Watercolours! and Still lifes with Nature , "Real" Life Artwork (No Photography), Abstract Art, Abstract Realism, Acrylic Painting, African-American Experience, All About Rodeos, All Abstract Art, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Art of the Middle East, Art Students and Beginners, Artists with Disabilities, Aussie Bush Paintings, Australia! You're Standing In it...., Beginner's Expressions, Contemporary Pastel Painters, Creative, Talented, and Unknown, Cubism, End Times, Equine Art and Photography, Fine Arts, Freedom to Shine, Friends of RedBubble, Horse and Rider , Horses at Work - Geared up.., Impressionist Art, JUST WATERCOLOURS - 2 art in 24 hrs, Landscape Painting, Life Session Expressions, Living Christianity, Masterpiece: Art, Mixed Media, Multiracial Beauty, Nautical, Oil Painting, Painted Birds! , Painters In Modern Times, Paintings From Beginners, Pencil Drawing (2 per 24 hrs), Printmakers and Printmaking, Realist Traditional Art, Remodernist Painters' Group, Self Portrait, Skyscapes, The Word Tree, Water Media (Paintings by hand only), Watercolour-Pencil Art and Works On Paper.
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