Studio Painting Sale: Sept 4th and Oct 2nd

Come meet local Hornsby Heights artist Kim Mathieson when she opens her private studio for an exclusive sale of paintings, before moving interstate in October. Featuring garden inspired paintings. Still lifes, done with vintage collaged grounds and painted in acrylics or oils on canvas. Guardian statue paintings of angels or lions in acrylics on canvas with oil glazes. Industrial pieces in encaustics with rich textures and abstract motifs. Sampling of available works shown above and below. Varying sizes, from small 10 x 10 cm to large works over 90 x 120 cm. Priced ranging from $35 to $ 500. Works sold finished and ready to display. All works signed by artist Kim Mathieson.

Two sale dates:

· Open Studio Sale on Saturday 4 September, 2010 from 10 AM to 2 PM

· Boxed Studio Sale on Saturday 2 October, 2010 from 10 AM to 1 PM. (the studio will be boxed up, but paintings left will still be available for sale !)

Studio Location: 9 Plateau Close Hornsby Heights, NSW 2077

Hope you might be able to come to one of these dates. Its a great time to consider one of these paintings. Priced to move (pun intended !!), in the spirit of a new start. Or if you are not local, email me at kvalois7@me.com for more detail. I can send you photos of the works available, just let me know what you are after and interested in. Many of the paintings can be posted, even overseas (all but the biggest ones), I can get you postage estimates.

Re-Defining Creative

Between work and planning our move, I have not had the usual time for painting and artistic endeavors I would like. Though some of the planning is becoming a bit "creative". Right now I have been working on the conceptual plan for the first phase and beyond of renovations. The list of things to do has gotten pretty big. So now the conceptual design is quite important, it will help us prioritise what gets done in first phase, before we move in. So all the yucky and messy and difficult to live around bits need to be done then ! I have done up floor plans...by hand first, measuring to scale. Then will get put into something on the computer. But at least it is scanned in and has been very useful already. Last week we got to make some measurements and I now have to interpret the scribbly little notes I made on a copy of the old floor plan into useful instructions and parameters. Just started that this morning, while waiting for the car to be serviced (I can work from practically anywhere !). Some measurements have required some initial thoughts and ideas to change a bit, but it is all still evolving--I consider this a refinement step in the design.

Next steps will be to rescrub and prioritise the budget, set up room by room, or sub-project by sub-project plans. In October, we will retain someone to take our concepts and actual site details and do specification level drawings and plans. This will help with the interior fit outs that will feature in Phase 1.

The logistics and move campaign also is afoot. Now that September is here, I feel like it is all coming together.

Top photo is new old house front verandah in dappled morning light. Sun rising in east, and shining through tree in front yard. The light was really pretty.

Left is close up of some of the front verandah area, stone walls, trims and lanterns.

Lower right is a scene behind the property, sheep are grazing on the hillside (they are behind the trees in centre) in an lightly hilly pasture behind the back yards of the houses. The yards on that street are all 1/3 to 1/2 acre or so, and the area shown below sits beyond the back fence lines of them. The countryside reminds me very much of Central California (where I lived for some years when growing up and spent many childhood vacations).

In the coming months, I will split the blog between art and renovations...like my life at the moment, a bit of both ;)

New Neighbors ?

Today Ian and I have been doing advance reconnaissance in the Barossa Valley. Tomorrow we will look and measure up a bit in our soon-to-be-new-home. We must also find a rental property, or at least find some leads. And find some leads for the all-important new garage for Ian, which is a critical early to do. then lots of planning and logistics to organise !

Very exciting to see the Sold sign on the house we are buying too !

On a country road not too far away I saw some new neighbors, happily enjoying late winter afternoon sunshine as they enjoyed a meal of hay.

More soon !