tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91079549706496822012024-03-05T00:07:59.002-08:00Lou Saxton artspacelouise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-50103600671665461202015-10-30T14:25:00.001-07:002015-11-20T23:57:56.484-08:00Going W I L D at Gould Galleries<h2>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My second solo show with Gould Galleries is now up and running.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The show is called W I L D and in this body of work, created over the past two and half years, I really have gone wild - in material, form and content. The show follows my first exhibition<span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with Gould Galleries, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">SANCTUARY TOO, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">which was held in May-June</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 2013.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">This body of work continues my passion for collecting and reclaiming discarded needlework and also introduces other materials, such as paper, in the form of reclaimed book illustrations and a 'porcelain garden' of discarded ceramic flowers and birds, collected over the past year. Some works also include elements commissioned from a glass-blower and an expert cushion maker. My first large 3-dimensional work, "Let the Jungle In" which won the Yering Sculpture Award in 2013 will also have another outing.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Unlike SANCTUARY TOO which was a cohesive exhibition in terms of imagery, materials and technique, WILD is more eclectic and in regard to some of the three-dimensional works and installations more experimental - in other words, its wilder! As with SANCTUARY TOO, this exhibition continues my interest in celebrating and reconstructing discarded domestic materials and drawing a link between the domestic archives of home and the public archives of the museum and library. Several works reinterpret historical paintings of flora and the human figure immersed in flora.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">I do hope you will be able to</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> see the show during its run at </span><a href="http://www.gouldgalleries.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gould Galleries</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> 270 Toorak Road, South Yarra 9872 8482</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> - until 5pm on Saturday 5th December 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">For images of some of works in the exhibition, please visit the WILD Gallery on my </span><a href="http://www.louisesaxton.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">website</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">NEW FILM <span style="font-weight: normal;">For now I'd love it if you spent</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">four minutes viewing a short film of my studio practice, made by a talented young Melbourne filmmaker Lily Youngsmith, titled </span>Louise Saxton Assemblage<span style="font-weight: normal;">. You can view it on </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNYJ22Yj8ts" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" target="_blank">Youtube</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> or on my website </span><a href="http://www.louisesaxton.com/about/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" target="_blank">"About"</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> page.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Making progress on my reinterpretation of a portion of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Flora meretrix, painted in</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> c.1590 - it's slow but we are getting there…(I say "we" because I feel like the original embroiderers and the original artist are collaborating, silently, with me!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today I took her tulle backing down from the wall and have begun extracting the different sections and pinning them to the museum mount board. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm using vintage velvet for the background in the top left corner - a deep midnight blue which will be overlaid with antique black lace; Mason's regalia brass thread embroidery for the hair (which, in the original painting, Arcimboldo references Octopus' tentacles!) and; everything else is reclaimed embroidery and lace. The collar of her garment will be made of white flowers that are set in relief from the rest of the work.</span><br />
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louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-19947345591340309142015-07-29T01:51:00.001-07:002015-07-29T01:51:18.110-07:00Frida is finished...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Frida" is complete and captured here by my wonderful photographer of 14 years, <a href="http://gavinhansford.com.au/">Gavin Hansford</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I refer to the work affectionately as Frida, but it is actually titled "Desnuda y Flores (nude and flowers) 2015 after Diego Rivera 1944". Reclaimed needlework (Tehuantapec embroidery from Mexico, antique lace doilies from NYC, vintage cross stitch from Boston, pinned to nylon tulle and silk using</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> lace and beading pins and mounted in relief on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">museum board H1360 x W880 cm)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Here are Gavin's photos of Frida and me pinning her to the mount board, and also a link to the journal article on my <a href="http://www.louisesaxton.com/journal/2014/12/13/desnuda-y-flores">website</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was in Paris in 2010 I walked through miles of galleries in the Louvre to see the Arcimboldo paintings, only to learn that they were all on loan to Madrid. I was quite disappointed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This particular painting has always been held in private collections and has only been exhibited to the public once in four hundred years - in Vienna in 2014. What I wouldn't have given to have seen her in the flesh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been in this lovely space, with north facing windows which is wonderful in winter, for nine years now. The shop downstairs has changed hands recently and while I miss my previous "land-lady" the new owner is happy for a low-rent paying artist to scratch away in her 'bower' upstairs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posting a few photos of the studio filled with the materials I use for my artwork and other objects I also collect in the local charity shops, which inspire and "embower" my creative space.</span><br />
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louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-23832791134901240882015-04-10T00:34:00.000-07:002015-04-10T00:34:17.446-07:00Greetings old friends and fellow bloggers<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been an age since I wrote here, probably because I spend more time on my website Journal, which is a diary type blog. So please feel free to wander over there for a look-see at all my recent goings on:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm back here today to share some great photos taken by my dear friend and photographer of 15 years Gavin Hansford, who as well as being a great documenter</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of other artists work, is a fabulous landscape photographer in his own right </span><a href="http://www.gavinhansford.com.au/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.gavinhansford.com.au</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most recent pieces shown below have just been completed for my show later in the year at Gould Galleries </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(now scheduled for November) </span><a href="http://www.gouldgalleries.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.gouldgalleries.com</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vanitas 1 & 2 are inspired by the paintings of </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">Herman Henstenburgh (1667-1726).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I named this work The Twitcher as it is filled with embroidered birds of all sorts, colours and sizes, from different parts of the globe - America, Australia, China, England, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Palestine and</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Vietnam</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I named this Vanitas - The Storyteller as it is based on a fetal skull (yes creepy I know!) and is filled with embroidered motifs which in some way reference childhood and storytelling - the bluebirds of happiness, the Koalas of Blinky Bill, Mexican people and animals, a Beatrix Potter rabbit, a Pirate with his parrot, gun, lantern and treasure, some cute puppies and a Spanish Galleon!</span></span><br />
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<br />louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-79053611440353343662015-01-04T18:02:00.000-08:002015-01-04T18:04:05.970-08:00Homenaje a México<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This new work-in-progress is my homage to the residency I undertook in Mexico in August 2014. It takes its inspiration from Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and uses the exquisite and quite rare Tehuantapec hand embroidery from Oaxaca, Mexico, that I purchased during my residency in Jalisco. There is also a unique hand-embroidered silk Bird of Paradise stem with buds, which I commissioned from a local embroiderer named Lopita.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.0980392); line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In researching Dutch still lives I came across some wonderful Vanitas painted in the early 1700's by Herman Henstenburgh (1667-1726). He painted in watercolour on velum which gives the flowers surrounding the strangely smiling skull, a wonderful luminosity. (See photo below, provenance unknown). My reinterpretation of the Vanitas, in reclaimed needlework, is the first in a series of 'cornucopia' works planned for my next solo exhibition with Gould Galleries in 2015. On a recent trip to my mother's home in regional Victoria, I found some exquisite needlework including Chinese silk embroidered birds with tree and sunset and cross-stitched Hummingbirds with Honeysuckle. These are being incorporated, along with other pieces from my collection, into the floral arrangement adorning the skull. On my return to the studio I backed the fragile pieces with Vlisofix and silk to stabilise them for extraction. They are temporarily pinned directly to the wall of my studio while I work out their arrangement, which is reminding me of the floral bathing caps my mother's generation wore, to keep their hair dry whilst swimming, hense my working title, 'The Bather 2014 after Herman Henstenburgh c.1700'.</span></span><br />
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louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-68717693582897204212014-09-26T01:22:00.002-07:002014-09-26T01:22:56.529-07:00Maravillosa México - part 1<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>360 Xochi Quetzal Artist Residency</b> on the shores of the largest freshwater lake in Mexico, Lake Chapala, was my home for one month in August this year. A beautifully decorated and perfectly appointed little casita, perched on the third floor with views of the mountain range, the lake and the Red Cross clinic, was truly a home-away-from-home. This was made even more so, by the residency patron Deborah Kruger who is an established artist from North America working in fiber, digital and installation and her partner Christian. There were two other inspirational artists on residency at the same time - Gloria Clunie, playwright from Chicago and Yen Hua, porcelain/installation artist from Taiwan. The purpose of the residency is "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><i>to support artists, writers and musicians who would benefit from having uninterrupted time to devote to their creativity. By providing free housing and a generous food allowance, we hope that our residents can make artistic progress without the stress and distractions of daily life.</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My purpose for applying for a residency in Mexico was to experience a culture which still has a living tradition of embroidery, but finding this tradition in Chapala proved trickier than I anticipated. A lot of the embroidery found locally is made solely for the tourist market - blouses, dresses, table runners, pillow covers etc - but I met some very generous people, both connected to the residency or in chance meetings, who were able to direct me to artisan pueblos and galleries. I was also very fortunate to meet an embroiderer who I commissioned to make several Mexican flower embroideries in silk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The residency afforded me time to relax, explore, experiment and enjoy life "without the stress and distractions of daily life", although there were many wonderful distractions which took me out of the studio and into the streets of this wonderful, and very alive, pueblo!</span><br />
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louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-82289841181873116582014-09-25T17:03:00.001-07:002014-09-25T17:03:22.967-07:00Home again<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's been months since I wrote a post here. I've been in Mexico, New York and Boston and couldn't work out how to post using my iPad, which was very annoying, but gave me time for other things!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is a very brief post before I dash off to the studio for the first time in two months, to say it's great to be back home, but it was fabulous being away! I will post about the wonderful residency in Mexico SOON.</span><br />
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<br />louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-43898469664316859862014-07-08T17:26:00.001-07:002014-07-08T17:31:47.228-07:00Snowy and Bubo go to Boston...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Snowy owls I've spent 10 days on so far, took a recent hiatus while I was laid low with a winter lurgie, but they are back and almost finished, in terms of the painstaking pinning. They will soon be extracted from the surrounding tulle and backed with silk and then pinned to foam core before mounting and framing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm thinking of calling this intimate pair, 'Snowy & Bubo - after Edward Lear c.1843' - Snowy as they are <i>Snowy owls</i> and Bubo as their latin name is <i>Bubo scandiacus.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are some very precious and unique materials used to re-create Edward Lear's watercolour, including; antique needlelace collar from Belgium, for the black and white owl, which I purchased at an Embroiderer's Guild market; a vintage lace doily for the body of the white owl which has been pinned to my studio wall for at least five years; Hungarian black and gold 1920's 'flapper' lace from Budapest</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which I purchased on Etsy,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as highlights on the black and white owl and for the rock on which it is perched; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hungarian silk embroidery is placed under the 'flapper' lace to give the rock form and under-colouring;</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japanese gold couching for the eye and French Chantilly lace for the markings on the black and white owl; a raised floral lace for the top of the branch, which came from a vintage dress which a friend gave me; and a very unusual Irish (I think) long thread-work, cotton </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">doily for the face of the white owl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The owls will soon be migrating to Boston USA for exhibition with Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, later in the year. My plan is that they will travel with me in my suitcase to Mexico, NYC and finally to Boston where I will have them framed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To see the Sanctuary collection and other aspects of my career go to: <a href="https://sand-della.squarespace.com/journal/2014/6/9/part-of-history" target="_blank">louisesaxton.com</a></span><br />
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Antique riblon-lace collar becomes an owl (left owl)<br />
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<br />louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-58345292857232720422014-04-28T05:52:00.003-07:002014-04-28T05:52:47.103-07:00NEWS - Mexico 2014<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">I am so thrilled to have been awarded a month long artist residency in Mexico in August this year. I am one of 8 artists selected out of 180 applicants from around the world for a residency in the idyllic central Mexican location - "</span><em style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">The 360 XOCHI QUETZAL Artist and Writer's Residency Program is located in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico on the shores of the largest lake in the country where the perfect year-round climate and stunning Lake Chapala and mountain views have long established the region as an international artist mecca</em><span style="line-height: 16px;">." The aim of the residency "</span><em style="line-height: 16px;">… is to support artists, writers and musicians who would benefit from having uninterrupted time to devote to their creativity….and make artistic progress without the stress and distractions of daily life</em><span style="line-height: 16px;">." This unique opportunity is courtesy of the generous patronage of North American artist Deborah Kruger and the Juror for the summer visual arts residency was Jeannine Falino, Museum of Art & Design, New York City. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Day 11 - today I worked on the top left corner and I embedded several letters within the white/greys - a "G" for Georg (Ehret) and Georgia (O'Keefe); a "D" for Dionysius (Georg's middle name) and an "L" for? … see if you can find them… they were all embroidered on scraps of linen sent to me from France! I am yet to find an "E"...</span><br />
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<br />louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-9877991177045239442014-04-21T16:19:00.000-07:002014-04-21T16:19:16.393-07:00Vintage find at Ratty & Mole's...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yesterday I took a country trip to the lovely town of Warrandyte with my friend Suzana </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(that's if a half hour drive from Thornbury is country but the air certainly felt fresher and with trees all around and river running through the centre of the town we felt transported!)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I wanted to return to the local op-shop and to "Ratty & Mole's Antiques", where I had found an exquisite Madeira appliqué table setting, when we visited four years ago (there's a link to their Facebook site at the end of the blog).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the latest journal entry "Deep Water" about a new 3-dimensional work;</span><br />
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<br />louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-33211299928935122842014-02-14T23:11:00.001-08:002014-02-14T23:11:57.233-08:00John & George find a new home...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'John & George 2013 - after John Hunter 1789' was sold by Gould Galleries yesterday - four hours after I collected it from the framer and delivered it to the gallery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My Sanctuary Collection, which began with Queen Billie and Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2012, and its reiteration as Sanctuary Too at Gould Galleries in 2013, has now been completed by this reinterpretation of Captain/Governor John Hunter's King parrot, painted in 1789. Hunter copied the bird from another first fleet artist, the more proficient George Raper, whose Emu I have also reinterpreted in reclaimed needlework.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm grateful that my gallery are not only able to sell my work, but also love it and while I'm excited that 'John & George' have found a new home, I'm also (slightly) sad that I may not see it again.</span><br />
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louise saxtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05541370778652597147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107954970649682201.post-39984954472982734382014-01-19T14:52:00.000-08:002014-01-19T14:57:27.002-08:00continuing the journey ...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There is a new journal entry on the website:<a href="http://www.louisesaxton.com/journal/" target="_blank"> 'the wild flower journey continues'</a></span><br />
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