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24/07/11 00:32
For more blog visit me at www.kerrythompsonsgallery.com
Licorice allsorts
23/07/11 23:33
Last Sunday our (Gabby Malpas’ and my) opening for “I’ll bring cake” (our exhibition of paintings at Ku-ring-gai library, Gordon ) was wonderful! Gabby had made cakes decorated with licorice allsorts and mini marshmallows...my friend Jocelyn had made scrumptious sandwiches and chocolate cups and fruit skewers and cupcakes and other goodies, and we had bubbly in glasses with a raspberry or bit of kiwi fruit at the bottom, and dozens of teacups and saucers and coffee or three kinds of tea. There was a very jolly crowd of very lovely people, and so it was a great afternoon!
My little car was packed to the eyebrows for two trips to the library and two trips home again.
This blog is also pretty full so from now on I’ll blog next door at www.kerrythompsonsgallery.com
See you there!
My little car was packed to the eyebrows for two trips to the library and two trips home again.
This blog is also pretty full so from now on I’ll blog next door at www.kerrythompsonsgallery.com
See you there!
Tree of life
13/06/11 08:52
A friend told me a few weeks ago that Royal North Shore Hospital is celebrating a new Community Health Centre and Art program and gallery with an exhibition of various pieces of art with the theme, “Tree of life”. It is such an inspiring theme that straight away I painted my own “Tree of life”... and it was selected! The launch is tomorrow and will be opened by Marie Bashir, the wonderful and inspiring Governor of New South Wales.
Tree of life
The exhibition at St Vincent’s Hospital is in full flight with “Traffic jam sandwich” having been bought by a bus driver. Perfect!
Traffic jam sandwich
Stay tuned - I have an exhibition opening in July with a lovely artist whom I met at Art Sydney last year. Details revealed soon...
It is winter and rainy here - time for warm socks and feet on footstools by fires! Keep warm (or cool, depending on where and when you are).
Mist
Tree of life The exhibition at St Vincent’s Hospital is in full flight with “Traffic jam sandwich” having been bought by a bus driver. Perfect!
Traffic jam sandwichStay tuned - I have an exhibition opening in July with a lovely artist whom I met at Art Sydney last year. Details revealed soon...
It is winter and rainy here - time for warm socks and feet on footstools by fires! Keep warm (or cool, depending on where and when you are).
Mist"I spy with my little eye..."
09/05/11 19:13
Are loaves of bread getting shorter? I swear that bags are the same length, but it looks for all the world as if somebody has taken about 5 slices out of the packet! Has anybody else noticed this?
I’ve been busy - I have an exhibition of paintings hanging at The Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, called “I spy with my little eye...”. Just before the exhibition opened a big painting emerged which I’ve donated to the hospital - the perfect home for it. It’s called, “I went to Toronto and fell in liove with a green bicycle”. I did!!!! But I was about to fly to eastern Canada then Wales then France so a bicycle wasn’t something I could bring with me.
Here is the painting...
...and here is the bicycle...
Soon I’ll be hanging an exhibition of new works at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, called “It’s a jungle out there!” Having been too busy to tend to the garden, it has been growing wild...
I had a lovely trip to Bendemeer to co-judge the Art Show in April. Here is a painting of Erik and Margaret’s garden...
I’ve also been busy painting rooms in my house and having bits I can’t reach painted by somebody with a ladder. Cosier and cosier. At the markets yesterday I found a sweet old double bed hand made patchwork quilt for $15. It is elderly and there were holes in a few of the patches so the vendor gave it to me for $10! Good grief! I love it and am giving it a very good home. All the work in it. Wow!
And I have finally been sorting through and clearing out unwanted stuff and putting together bookcases and cupboards. Ikea is very clever in the way good solid furniture can be designed to fit into a flat pack and so anybody can put it together using instructions with absolutely no words. Of course you may need to take it apart again three times along the way, including once when you discover you’ve put a central piece in upside down, again when you realise it’s now back to front, then once more after you’ve nailed the back on and realise it wasn’t back to front after all so now it is. Poop.
I’ve been busy - I have an exhibition of paintings hanging at The Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, called “I spy with my little eye...”. Just before the exhibition opened a big painting emerged which I’ve donated to the hospital - the perfect home for it. It’s called, “I went to Toronto and fell in liove with a green bicycle”. I did!!!! But I was about to fly to eastern Canada then Wales then France so a bicycle wasn’t something I could bring with me.
Here is the painting...
...and here is the bicycle...
Soon I’ll be hanging an exhibition of new works at St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, called “It’s a jungle out there!” Having been too busy to tend to the garden, it has been growing wild...
I had a lovely trip to Bendemeer to co-judge the Art Show in April. Here is a painting of Erik and Margaret’s garden...
I’ve also been busy painting rooms in my house and having bits I can’t reach painted by somebody with a ladder. Cosier and cosier. At the markets yesterday I found a sweet old double bed hand made patchwork quilt for $15. It is elderly and there were holes in a few of the patches so the vendor gave it to me for $10! Good grief! I love it and am giving it a very good home. All the work in it. Wow!
And I have finally been sorting through and clearing out unwanted stuff and putting together bookcases and cupboards. Ikea is very clever in the way good solid furniture can be designed to fit into a flat pack and so anybody can put it together using instructions with absolutely no words. Of course you may need to take it apart again three times along the way, including once when you discover you’ve put a central piece in upside down, again when you realise it’s now back to front, then once more after you’ve nailed the back on and realise it wasn’t back to front after all so now it is. Poop.