Sunday

thx so very much nishagandhi!!

thank you so much Warren, so glad you like it… i worked real hard on this one :)

aw, thank you so much, that’s a lovely response to this…so pleased you like it!! xx

thx so much Janis, you always see so much and express it so well back to me….i wish i could articulate like that….sorry I’ve been a bit absent, but this has taken me a lot of hours..hope to be back to the bub soon :) xx

aw, thank you so much Renate, i am so pleased you like it…i’m worn out after this one!! i gave it 100 percent :) x

thank you so much gillian!! I’m tickled to bits you like it…. i had to get it very Australian and earthy…it was so hard….as I started off with it being all English and the lawns and mountains….and i really had to stop myself and make it Aussie, Aussie, Aussie – glad i did now ;) x

thank you so very much Amanda!!... it’s really good to see you :) xxx

thank you, thank you, thank you!!! i love the way you describe it…wonderful, most appreciated :)

thank you so very very much Ming!!! hugs xoxox

so happy you saw it…you’re up late Sorina!!! lol
thanx so very much…i’m thrilled you like it, thrilled!!! did i say how thrilled i am :) xxxx

Sharon, it’s so go to hear from you, and i’m wrapped you like it…thank you so much!!! ;)

aaaaw, thank you Karen… I’m so so so happy you like it :) xx

thx so much rosie, i do believe we had a wicker pram…as it’s etched in my memory… when mum sees this, she’ll soon let me know. Lately, I’m bringing memories from childhood into my work, it’s rather fun but it’s also very deep, real and meaningful to me :) I’m so happy you like it…. and yeah, she’s a shy little thing….pretty much like me :) x

thx so much Antanas, glad you like it :)

thank you so much juha!!! so happy you liked it :)

aw, thanks so much Shanina… i am happy with the outcome….i feel like the Charlotte…(from Charlotte’s web) like i’ve done my life’s work and can now go to bed and sleep for a long, long time … lol :) xxx

thank you so much Sonia… so happy you like the comp and colours!! :) x

aw, thank you Anita!! i think the rich colour must be coming from you….you’re reds are inspiring me to think in the realm of red… lol…
so happy you like it!! :) xxx

aw, wow…that’s fantastic Ellen, great english…completely understand :) xxx

so pleased you saw the original unfin version too and can compare the two Ingz… you are so right in your description…. i jut feel so blessed by your comment :) xxxxxx

thx so much Alice!! wow :)

Oh wow mimi….she was my favourite ‘saint’ as they called them…. i have since been thinking the church might be St Josephs and the statue out the front at the side door may have been St Agnes…i’m going to check that out…. I’m sure my parents will know :) So happy it’s brought back memories…that’s fantastic!!! thx so much mimi xxx

oooo here it is, and i was right in the first place, it’s St Agnes Parish, and would you believe the same priest is still there, Fr Donnelly!! that’s 40 years he’s been there!~

thx so very much Luda!! :)

hey there Mui-Ling…it’s been a while hey…the new paintings they take quite a lot longer than I’m used to…so I don’t upload nearly as often and find i’m less on the bubble too, as the amount of time they take, well i need a bit of rest time in between sessions…i’m trying to keep up tho…but as always falling behind…..lol xxx thanx so much!!

thank you so much francis, i’m so pleased you like it!! :)

thanx so very very much Katri Lumi !!! :) :)

aw, you are there, you saw it….yay!!
thanx so much Jan…. i love hearing what you have to say!!! :) always
xxx

thank you so much Sharon, yes, it is quite a bit different, a while back i did another ‘bush-inspired’ painting, painted it by hand, called hidden treasure where i was seeing these deep reds/pinks and wanting to give some feeling or sense of the Australian landscape and bush… i even painted my studio wall in that deep red…but this is only the 2nd time in 12 months i have used that palette…. i have tended to go for more pastel colours in between. I must say, i thoroughly enjoyed seeing the colours interplay and the results as it was coming along, and i just couldn’t wait to get it finished…i worked non-stop on it yesterday, colouring digitally from 8.30 am till 11.30 pm last night…with just a break for dinner and an hour in front of the tv and i’d worked on it …. it’s great to have it complete….the bush landscape is very iconic! :) x

thank you very much Michael…stoked!! :)

thank you very much CJ!!.... yes, the good old days….oo i feel so ‘age-ed’ lol…. hugs xox

thank you JM!! much appreciated!! :)

o really that’s so incredible, i didn’t know that lol… wow! giggles… it feels amazing to hear something like that…now my head’s gonna get all big and explode most likely :) thank you thank you thank you so much :) xxx

ah hello Steve, and a big thank you mate!! :)

o wow, thank you kipi….i admire your creative flair so much…hearing you say that…wow…it’s a big deal – thanx so much :) x

aw…. Cathleen…. thank you so much for your vote of confidence!!! :) x

helloooo Sarah…. aw, i dunno about that….i don’t really ‘do’ series…. if i say it out loud it goes missing basically…. and that’s what happened 12 months ago…I talked out loud about my idea and i just couldn’t do it anymore… the excitement and stuff just diminished once I’d talked about it lol…

Yes, you are correct too, in that this is not the landscape of the more coastal Port Macquarie…a little more representative of a place called Tottenham out western NSW (near Peak Hill) where i once lived between the ages of 1 and 3…we walked everywhere there…but the church building is more rep of St Agnus’ ... the brick was red though, and my friend Mary-Anne Henshaw, who became one of the Teddy’s on Bananas in Pyjamas, (also was a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock) used to terrify us daily with her ghost stories, while we watched the windows of the church…(actually now i wonder if the church was St Josephs cos that was the name of the school attached)...but St agnes was the statue at the front with the long hair covering her naked body… ahhg… not sure now.

But anyway… we’d watch the church while enthralled in her storytelling…and we’d be terrified as we saw the shutters move… it didn’t help either that the church had blood splatters on the floor and the kneelers….. i thought many murders had been committed in there…lol…but later found out it was sparrows who’d got caught inside and battered themselves trying to get out…lol

I wanted the landscape to reflect rural Australia very much, so i tied in many ideas together…. i doubt that this will become a series, as the next idea i have is completely unrelated…although, you are right again in seeing this could definitely be the first in a series, if there ever was one coming about :) xxxx thanx for your lovely insightful comments Sarah, they/you mean a lot to me :) x

thank you so much rain-dogs…yesh!! little butterfly…of which there was only one…seems to have multiplied….i hope kookaburra doesn’t think it’s his next snack! I’m so happy you like it….i think this work would be the most representative by far of myself and family…obviously dad isn’t in the image…but i tend not to put men in…don’t ask me why…that’s a puzzle to me still. But anyway, someone mentioned and i think it was the lovely Sarah O’Rourke, that this doesn’t quite fit the landscape of coastal Port Macquarie, and she’s dead right…this is more the landscape of Tottenham, which is way out western NSW…and we walked everywhere then…so i’ve combined ideas and thoughts….I’m so glad you like it ;)

Holy mackerel Helen, i just adore that image Kookaburra Princess it’s etched in my mind whenever i think of you!! Another friend of mine who’s an artist here recently did a kookaburra too….. maybe they’re coming back into fashion! I think you are so right, kookaburra is keeping an eye out…and particularly for snakes me thinx… i love lizards…but i’m wary of snakes….you just never know with a snake…. i guess as long as you leave them alone, they leave you alone lol :)

I used to have lots of nightmares filled with snakes…then one day I slaughtered them on the beach with huge sword in a massive dream one night…and now the snake nightmares seem to stay away thank goodness :)

that is just the HUGEST compliment…thank you Helen!!! :) x

thnk you so very much dear Leilana, you’re a sweetheart!!! x

aw, thx mate…. that means a lot to me….i really appreciate it!!!! :)

thx heaps Gary, that’s an awesome compliment! :)

thx so much bev, greatly appreciated ! xx

Jenny….. great to hear from you….really happy you like it from the conceptual view….terrific… hope you’re well!!! xxx

thanx so very very much catherine!! means a lot to me that you like it ;) x

haha…yes and thank you very much Amanada….. I do actually use the mouse…i draw them first, then take a photo…then upload and work on them in photoshop…and my thumb and wrist feel like crying…from overstrain and overuse!! but it was well worth the effort and I love making the drawings come alive with colour…this was a bit experimental, i am learning as I go, but i was extremely happy and satisfied with the results…I used to spend 4-5 hours on a piece…and could almost upload daily, now it takes a lot more of my time, but it is more fulfilling for me to do the larger and more detailed works…so i guess i shall continue this way :)

oh wow, thank you so much webbie :)

Hi Bunny….thank you!!! what a great comment… much appreciated :) x

aw, thanx so much Di…and for sharing about your ‘tree-change’....lol i’ve never heard of a ‘tree-change’ before…. i love that!!! x

Gee thanx so muchly!!!! :)))

Thx very much ti you Anastasiia!!! :))

Wow thank you Renee :)))

Aw hi mum…. And thanx so much…. Noooooo! I had no idea re the pram, if it really existed or was just my imagination!! Thx for clearing it up..x wow, what a history that old pram had!! I’ve been thinking about this picture for about 2 years now…It’s great to have it complete finally !!! Love k xxxxx

aw bella, i’m not clever at all, but thank you so much….it just takes time i guess that is the hardest part…finding enough time and then making up for it later with the washing, ironing, cooking…oh hum drum….all those other things piling up :) I’m so glad you really like it, you’re a sweetheart! xxx

Julie, great to see you, thank you so much, I’m so pleased you like it!!! :) x

Rosalie, thank you very much…lol….yep it took quite a few hours :)

thx Josette, so glad you got to see it… i find out later that this pram did actually exist in my life, and it was handed down from my mum’s family…it nursed all my aunts and uncles on her side…and then me!! and i wasn’t sure if i’d just imagined the pram…or if it was real….good to find out it actually existed!! thx so very much for your lovely response :) xxx

thx Pip… i understand,... and as I’m both mother and daughter….it’s a bit of everything…mum in there, myself in both of the chacters too… it’s all over the place and a bit non-specific as well as being representative of mother/daughter relationships in general…. i like the idea of the journey aspect too, all on a pilgrimage to a meeting place…this is for that challenge ‘the meeting place’ x

aw, thank you so much Lorna… xoxo

oh yes!! wouldn’t it be simply wonderful to be sponsored!!!
now that would make up for so much time and energy… a little sponsor in the background, ever believing, organising shows for us…believing in us… spurring us on to more…. allowing us to be creative while they sort out the rest… i think they’re called ‘agents’ nowadays and they want to be paid…rather than paying us!!! lol … hugs xoxo

aw, thank you so much Midori-sama!!! xxx

thank you so much maria, really appreciate it…and how’d ya go in the exhibition/s recently?

...aw, thanx MT… you came, you saw….you commented….thank you my friend!!!! :) lol

thank you Arcadia, ....Arcadia Tempest… beautiful name…
i bin workin’ on that long time now….. I’m glad the sig style is coming through….cheers and biiiiig thanx :)

blamo, g’day mate…great to see you’re around and about… thanx so much!

aaaawww, thanx so much dear izzybeth!! :) xxx

wow, thanx so much Debbie :)

aw thank you very much Trish, wanted to get a bit of the aussie bush into it… much appreciated :) x

thx so much, so happy you like it, it’s a bit different with the colour work this time, richer… but i really enjoyed the change :)

thx somuch Brenda, really nice of you :) x

aw byron, i’m so sorry i’ve missed your lovely comment….this is great!!! a new fave, grinning from ear to ear now ;) thankyou so much!

thank you very much DDD!!! :)

thx so much Junior! :)

thx heaps Tracey-Anne, good to see you on the bubble :) x

thx so much Kylie, you have given me a few more ideas for tags there,.... so happy you like it…you aussie bush lover you!! lol xxx

thx so much R&R xoxox

thx so much Imber, really means a lot to me! :)

aw, i grinned from ear to ear reading this…you know how to make me smile that’s for sure! .... x and a whopping great hug!

aw, thank you so much Natsky… so pleased you think so… it’s great to hear from you !! xxx

thx so much Linda !! :)

... taking me so long to get back to you Fa…so sorry…..and such a lovely long comment… thank you very much.

.. so sweet that you had that response, and that you like that shade of blue, it was the only colour that really suited apart from a rich red/brown, but there needed to be some contrast from the red dirt.

It does look boyish, but then my mum had my hair quite short when i was little…we lived in a very hot place so it was cooler for me and i used to get skin rashes./ ezcma.. so i think thats another reason for keeping it short. I grew it once i got to primary school and wore it in 2 pigtails or a ponytail lol

so happy you like it Fa .. hugs n glompz xxxx

Thanks for the lovely comment on Sunday :)

thank you so much sonjas :)

thx very much Patricia Anne :) x

aw, thank you Brigitte, you always make me smile and i love your art so much!! hugs xxxxx

what a beautiful comment Stretch, thank you so much… xxxxxx

thank you so much Mel!!! x

aw, thx heaps and heaps….hugs xxo

Tania, so kind..thank you very much :) xxx

greatly appreciated Rajeev! :)

helloo and thanx so much isa… lovely is your new avatar too :) x

thank you s much carlos ! ;)

thx so very much Julian.. very kind! :)

much appreciate your lovely comment vian :)

thx so very much scarlet : )

oh wow, thank you so much Jane for the feature!

I think your reply was so timely Cate, you stopped me dead in my tracks today, and as often happens…i just got very teary reading your words as they moved me so deeply…. right down where it matters at the heart of things, you see right into the soul…

I used to feel that people who explored their emotions through art were revealing a weakness…were being too open… and their vulnerability made me uneasy… and now, here i am, doing it myself. I hope i don’t make anyone uneasy…and to some it’s just a pretty picture…but oh…it goes sooooo much deeper :)

Thank you for so wonderfully affirming me this day, i feel so overwhelmed, everywhere i look there have been beautiful affirming words, friends around… just so far from the lonely old me that usually skulks around… haha… so i am enjoying immensely today, this moment… these words which so uplift my soul…

what a special girl, artist, friend you are Cate Townsend! and what a giant you are going to be in the art world… i can feel it xxxx

thank you so much Wendy! :) x

thx so much Alexander, that’s a lovely comment indeed :)

Mel, you’re very kind… yes, that they are… so happy to hear it …thank you so much :) x

thx so very much Dave, you are sweet and kind… i really appreciate it :)

thank you so much Tammy, what a terrific comment… and a funny memory!!! hugs xoxoxo

Rajeev, i thank you :)

thank you so much Jean! :)

thank you so much, what a gorgeous comment!! you have so made my day!! x

thx so very much Steven, great to see you again ! :)

Thx so much Doreen, always so much going on isn’t there, all too easy to miss works…. Happens to me lots and it’s a real shame too, but thanks so much for finding this one and giving me such z lovely response x

Thank you so much banrai :)))

Thx very much for your lovely response!!

So good to hear from you tracey-Anne, guve Richard a big kiss from me hahaaaaaaaaaa- hugs to you and hope you’re all well .. Very warm here already… Guessing you’re rugging up and getting chilly over there, stay warm n cosy….... xxxx

thank you so much Christian – i’m so glad you like it :)