More Goulburn Paintings

Gabrielle Jones, "A Cross Our Country" 2010 oil on Canvas, 152 x 122cm

Gabrielle Jones, "Changing Perceptions" 2010 oil on Canvas, 122 x 122cm

Gabrielle Jones, "Rite of Passage" 2010 oil on Canvas, 122 x 122cm

Gabrielle Jones, "120kph Yass" 2010 oil on Canvas, 122 x 152cm

Gabrielle Jones, "Speed Shade and the Distance" 2010 oil on Canvas, 122 x 152cm

Sorry - the pics are a bit dark. I used the wrong files. If you're curious and want to see the work in a better light. here's the link

Paintings from my Goulburn Show

Gabrielle Jones, "Time trees and the Night Sky"2010 Oil on canvas 122 x 152cm

Gabrielle Jones, "Driving Force" 2010 oil on Canvas, 122 x 182cm

Gabrielle Jones, "Changing Light, Changing Shape" 2010 oil on Canvas, 152 x 122cm

Gabrielle Jones, "One thing Leads to another" 2010 oil on Canvas, 122 x 182cm

Gabrielle Jones, "All the Possibilities" 2010 oil on Canvas, 152 x 122cm

It's been a pretty good week.

I have a Sydney 2009 painting put on hold by Westfield for their "Quintessential Concierge" VIP room in the newly renovated Sydney Tower, Pitt Street complex.

My students in the Master Class at Goulburn loved the workshop and want me to hold workshops at Bowral and Canberra.

I sold "Uncertain truth," a Goulburn painting to a friend.

An Art consultant I have been chasing decided to come to my studio, loved the work, and wants images so she can be an advocate in her practice. She loved my charcoal drawings as well!

I am off to the studio today to show another new client (with connections!) a large abstract painting for her harbourside house. If bought, the painting will go into a collection that includes John Beard's work.

And I'm off on Holidays tomorrow...

So here's the pics from Goulburn, in case you didn't manage to cross over to my website to have a sticky beak.

Sorry - the pics are a bit dark. I used the wrong files. If you're curious and want to see the work in a better light. here's the link

Some quotes to keep you going

McLean Edwards, Installation View, Goulburn Regional Gallery, (two views)

OK ...So I've been off air for an inordinately long period of time. But, in my defense, I have been working hard for my first solo show in a public gallery, Goulburn Regional Gallery in November, and have managed to complete ten large works -and I'm pretty happy with them. I checked out the Gallery on the weekend - swallowed hard and crossed my fingers - it's a large new gallery, very exciting and very scary.

I've also been teaching two days and two nights per week - so something had to go.

Anyway, in my process of artistic creation, I always read a lot...so, over the next few posts, I'm giving you the benefit of what I've learned from higher powers than myself - famous artists, poets and authors, about their inspiration, process and philosophies. I'm kicking off with a fellow female, and different thinker -Enjoy!

“..I draw out the shapes as quickly as I can to keep myself off balance. I try to think about them as little as possible and let them come from unconscious places…It’s a way of tricking myself into trying to do or see something not so predictable…I get anxious to discover a new way to paint, which brings back the pleasure. …I play around (with paint) as long as I can stand it…it’s a process of trying to be unconscious and very deliberate at the same time…”. Elizabeth Murray

More Art Classes

Image: Gabrielle Jones, "the One" 2010, 122 x 152cm, Oil on canvas

I am adding an extra day for my Art classes - now on Thursdays and Fridays. You can find the dates and information here and some testimonials from past students here.

I really enjoy the classes - it makes me articulate what I believe about art, to break down what works and why, and I love to see the "aha!" moment when students have a break through. As well, I have learned that if I hear myself repeat something too often, that it's my subconscious telling me what I need to hear for myself! Consequently, I have recently had my own "Aha!" moment in the work I have been struggling with for my Goulburn Regional Gallery show. I am very excited about it, and it seems to bring together my realist/abstract bent, my love of paint and it's processes, and the obsession with lines and movement that had been taking over of late. It's still landscape, and still in it's infancy, so there won't be any pics until I am confident of the quality- (stay tuned).

Better still, my students tell me they have learnt more with me in a few weeks than they learnt in a couple of years of community based courses (aren't they nice? See, that's why I love them). I teach to students needs, so at any one class, there may be people working on different elements of painting. I also structure classes to provide core remedial work, and engaging projects which include still life and landscape (and possibly figure work in the future).

So... if you're in the market for some tutoring in art, join the class - I'd love to see you!

Phew!!!

Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Sapphire relief" 2010; Oil on Canvas; 122 x 152cm

Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Dry Bounty" 2010; Oil on Canvas; 122 x 152cm

For those of you who have followed my recent angst (and who care!) I have finally submitted - by default- an image to the Goulburn Regional Gallery - well, two actually.

It's default because circumstances prevailed that I didn't make it into the studio today to make the impossible, possible, so I just sent the best of what I had (as promised). And the two I sent are above. It is the same one that three of my trusted artist-friends and one partner said was the best - so I guess I just have to listen to that.

Guess which one they chose???

Absence makes the heart grow fonder???

Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Bondi" 2010, 1oocm x 100cm, Oil on canvas

Hola! - Apologies for not blogging sooner. Have begun my Spanish lessons, in prep for my residency (still undated!) and am back to learning the guitar after almost slicing my finger off catering for a momentous birthday party in the family. The Spanish is, of course, confusing and stretching my brain further than it seems to want to go at the moment, and the guitar is frustratingly, haltingly, finger callously ear screeching!

Just to add to the current turmoil, I am pushing an image deadline for my exhibition, at the end of the year, at Goulburn Regional Gallery. I have the last show for the year, but need to provide an image for the 6 monthly publication booklet that advertises the program of exhibitions and "Funding stretched" Gallery.

In realty, were there no deadline, I'd be happily following my own path to creative genius (I wish!) as I feel that there is something tying the six different paths I seem to want to trek at the moment. Professionalism requires, perhaps, that I bite the bullet and choose a path for this show - but I am a contrary beast, and not willing to compromise, or put a breakthrough on hold, for the sake of one exhibition. I will provide the best image (due last week!) of work I have to date, but still tread the path that beckons - in the hope that it will all be worth it in the end. The alternative? A mish mash of a show - I'll have to live with that. If you don't get an invitation to the exhibition at the end of the year, you'll know I am keeping quiet for a good reason - its a schmozzle!

Ah, but I will have shown creative integrity, as well as professional suicide! What would you do?