I'll be back... I promise!

I have been absent from my blog writing duties for a while!

You see I've been busy with a few creative projects this year, as well my very special milestone birthday and living life in general!

I'll be writing a new post in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here is an image from my current exhibition, Presenza (Italian for presence) on show until 21 November 2011 at The Art Vault, Mildura

Luci Callipari-Marcuzzo, Queste scarpe (Nonno Francesco), graphite, watercolour, coloured pencil, chinagraph pencil on paper on paper © 2011

 

Too much of a good thing?

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Melbourne and stay with my beautiful sister and her husband.  They've just moved to the big smoke and are living right in the CBD, which was very convenient.  However the weather wasn't so great, with wind, rain and cold (yes, I DO realise I was in Melbourne!)

In spite of this, I was still able (stubborn) to visit lots of exhibitions and arts organisations and research public programs, workshops and do a tiny little bit of shopping for good measure!

I am now thinking that perhaps I may have overdone our spell there, as on our return home, my son and I have both become ill.  So maybe, the old saying "too much of a good thing" is applicable here?  Next time we visit, I might not be so hell bent on seeing and doing everything on my jam-packed schedule!

Time to create!

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” - George Bernard Shaw 

So finally, it has happened!
I have started creating again!
What joy and relief I'm feeling right now!!
What has brought on my creative juices you ask?
Necessity!  I have no less than three creative commitments this year; whitecube mildura in August, Mildura Palimpsest in September and a solo show at The Art Vault in November and with the end of May so near, it is time to create!

Just thought I'd share that with you all... now no more procrastinating, there is art to be made!

A dedication on Mother's Day for my Mum:

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.  ~Washington Irving

Intervention!

I like many of my friends, like catching up with what is happening on Facebook. Okay, so let me rephrase that, I am obsessed with it! There, I said it!

It's not so much the stalking catching up with my friends, acquaintances, relatives, potential relatives and celebrities (I am "friends" with both Kath AND Kim!), since I cut back my work hours to help my husband out with the grape harvest this year, I have become more preoccupied with Farmville!

Yes, Farmville, the pseudo farming game where you can own and run your own virtual farm, well I actually own two, the home farm and one in the English Countryside!

Before you say "get that girl some help pronto!", let me explain - this virtual farming business is quite addictive, (which is ironic, as my husband will vouch, I'm not that great on our real life farm!) However in the last few days I have had more than one person comment, "how often are you on Facebook?!"; which has made me think now might be the time for a self-imposed Facebook intervention!

So instead of harvesting crops for my English pub and home farm bakery, breeding sheep, milking cows for the dairy, collecting peanuts from the baby elephants and ice-cubes from the penguins, brushing the cats, collecting gold from my Leprechaun's Cottage and eggs from my chooks and tending to my beehive (keeping a farm running is hard work!) I'll be back at work three days a week, working on creating some new artworks for a number of creative projects I have coming up this year, keeping our five year old occupied during the school holidays and getting our house in order.

I couldn't give  up "bookface" entirely though, that would be no fun!

Time to create

I purchased some art materials yesterday.

In view of my second solo show coming up in November. I've decided I need to start making art again sooner than later, and rather than wait for the repairs to the studio to commence, I'm going set up a table in the lounge room and start drawing.

I might even start with a watercolour of the vine moths I've been collecting.


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Life is what you make it

I thought I'd share this quote by Mother Teresa which I came across recently, she says it much more eloquently than I ever could!

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

Mother Teresa
Catholic Nun, Missionary
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient