New Gallery.

Sunday morning our friend Bophavy and daughter Selket arrived to have a wonderful rave about painting, sculpture, travel and life. Selket has just arrived to visit Mumma from Barcelona via Laos, where she has been kayaking. Wonderful to be young and adventurous. A very sweet person!

The Gallery Bophavy is taking shape and this week sees the final editions of hanging systems and plinths before the soft opening next week. It is so inspiring to see someone taking the plunge to help the work of local artists. Thank you!

Also welcome to Masaya, Akane's fiancee from Tokyo. He is in the illustrating game. We wish him an enjoyable time in Australia.

Recent Atmospheric paintings by Miodrag

Recent Paintings Miodrag Jankovic Charles Hewitt Gallery

Dragonfly on lotus.

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Blowsey and beautiful Poppy.

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Poppy

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Dunk and Bedarra Islands.

These two exquisite Islands are part of the Family Group, a little archipeligo off the coast of Mission Beach, North Queensland. They support a large range of birds and plants and tropical reef creatures. Incorporated into small bays are two resorts which are enviromentally planned.

Also two artists colonies exist on the edge of bays which were the homes of Noel Wood and Bruce Arthur, both no longer with us. My dream is that the old Hideaway Resort on Bedarra could become an Artists Camp and be made available for sojurns to painters and artists.

Another little dreamscape (escape) is divine little Timana Island where once two sisters painted and played before it became the home of Bert and Deanna Conti.

I am looking forward to once again shedding my trappings and wandering barefoot in these beautiful realms.

Pandanus sidetrack.

Just as I was going down the track this morning, I noticed the Pandanus near the pottery had lots of dead leaves on it, so I decided to clear them away and started pulling them into a heap under the tree. Simultaneously a horde of little red ant dropped out into my hair, down my shirt and crawled up and bit my arms. Now they are red wealts. I wonder if this is an ant or the Jamilya Bug which is devastating coastal pandanus trees. Also noted the turkeys or bandicoots have feasted on the Taro patch as its dried up after the rain. The joys of living in the rainforest.

Cattelya Orchid from Mexico

Bright Orchid by Marcel Desbiens

Michael's show at University of the Sunshine Coast

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Pan's Place

This painting is by Ian van Wieringen, who lives In Ubud, Bali.

The special white cranes of Ubud in a lovely painting and the little brothers beneath.

Art and mountains in July,

Today we went up to Maleny and Mount Mellum to visit Ken and once again be spellbound by all his amazing paintings.

It was windy but sunny and the Glasshouse Mountains were superb, seeming to be right there in one's grasp. The bare Eryrithrinas were covered in newly emerging red buds and flowers. So graceful.

The early works of the Boyd Family and John Perceval were unique. So close and real. No moulds, only fingers and love.

Misty landscape abstract by Debby Krin

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Still Life painting by Gayle Levee

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Photograph of the centre of a flower.

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Textile adventure.

My clever eldest daughter lives in Bali where she designs and manufactures a range of childrens clothes. When the girls were young I loved to dress them in Liberty prints so I had a little look to see what is new in London. Below are some results.

Old Glaoui Rug.

Handmade Glaoui, 140 x 132

Beautiful old fabric design

Briarwood Print Fabric, Osborne & Little

Fabric by Osborne & Little.

Strawberry Thief Print Fabric, Osborne & Little

Strawberry Thief

Strawberry Thief, G, Liberty Fabric

Fairy Clock,

Fairy Clock, D, Tana Lawn Liberty Fabric By Michael Angove

Indigo geometric design.

Rhian B, Liberty Fabric

Shades of Virginia Woolf,

Angelica Maylah C, Liberty Fabric

I spy Lantana?

Edenham, Assorted, Liberty Fabric

Desert women painters

I am reading Suzanne O'Connell's write up on Nora Wompi and feel I must share it with you.

She talks of Nora as a treasure with her jewel colours and palette of ruby, citrine, amber and amethyst gems deep within a bed of snowhite spinifex. So evocative of a woman who has lived on the Canning Stock Route in the middle of the Australian desert. http:// suzanneoconnell.com

Sun on Sunday

Still trying to get the hang of blogging and cutting and pasting. It is tricky and before you know it, there it is, in front of you.

Ron Mann is a designer whose work I have found most fascinating. He uses the natural assets of planet Earth to create enviroments that are green. Most of all they are unique spaces which reflect oceans, deserts, old driftwood tree sculptures and iron elements. His wife Louise also adds her great coloured textiles into the mix....together they produce an eccletic brew!

California Beach house .

Ron Mann Design - California Beach House

Diane Tuft, abstract painter.

Ameringer McEnery Yohe > Artists > Diane Tuft

A friend on a rainy winter day.

There is a lovely woman called Maureen who is a bundle of golden light. Today she called in with the most divine bunch of Tuberoses grown by her husband Michael. They have brought a gorgeous perfume into the house and really brightened up a grey day. I wanted to share an image online. Thank you for your kindness and sweetness.

A painter's journey slightly delayed.

Daily Paintworks - Qiang Huang

Helta skelta

Greetings,

We have spent a lovely few hours re writing a web site

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Visiting with friends.

Visiting with painters on cyber space is a joy I have recently found through the gift of blogs and I am truly amazed to find abstract painting alive and well. Also there is a great interest in landscape and atmospheric paintings,

Living in a fairly isolated world, I find myself enjoying this brief glimpse into studios all around the world. One would have to say it is not the same as seeing the work in the flesh but it has given me much joy. Thank you to all the people who have enabled this to happen.