Welcome to my blogspot
G’Day
I’m a sculptor, printmaker and textile artist. My passion is to draw and to make things. I collect lots of stuff. I’m always making something. My images come from my life. I create installations; that’s when I arrange things in a particular way in relation to each other and the space they occupy. Sometimes in a gallery, sometimes just for fun anywhere. I really like to make artist books these days.
As a sculptor I work with metals, casting aluminium and bronze. Sometimes investment casting, sometimes just by carving out holes in the sand. I also carve aerated concrete blocks and paint the surface. Then I could have a spasm of paper making and casting from plaster moulds or just hand forming the paper pulp or working for a time with clay.
Printmaking
I like to print onto anything, mostly I print onto paper and fabrics. I use relief, woodblocks, and lino but mostly I do intaglio with Solarplate etching or monotype paints. Then I mix these two methods together or print Solarplates onto fabric with dyes in intaglio, which brings me to textiles.
Textiles
I have a love affair with colour especially on silk. Silk scarves, silk shirts, silk hankies and fabric lengths, cold water wax resist and dyes………I’m sucked in!!!! I like to dye wool yarn and knit and crochet things.
Painting
I paint just about anything, rocks, footpaths, magazine storage boxes and my shoes. I don’t usually paint much on canvas or on paper any more, but my monotypes are very painterly.
Artist Books
I create books from paper, wood fabric and plastic. Some books are very tiny and some are quite large, some are in bags, some are in boxes, some are loose pages, others are collections of past drawings or rearranged photos.
Exhibitions
I have exhibitions, enter competitions .
Studio
I belong to BARRACKS ARTISTS Studio in Thirroul which is on the eastern coast of NSW, Australia. I live one street away from a subtropical rainforest and 3 minutes on my bike from the beach. The studio is between these two places. Every day I ride my bike to the beach, walk to the next beach, Austinmer (Paradise), have a swim and then ride back up the hill to home.
Environment
My message to artists is to use less, waste less, reuse everything, reduce waste, and work with less-toxic materials. I use non-toxic paints & dyes and acid free etching methods.
Exhibitions
I have exhibitions, enter competitions .
Travel
I love to travel around to take my work to exhibitions and to look at other exhibitions.
I hope you enjoy visiting my blog site.
Judy
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