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Find your light with Jacki Archibald while painting using hot Encaustic-Wax medium combined with watercolour paints on various papers.
   Sunday, April 27 · 10am - 1pm AEST            Saturday, May 10 · 2 - 5pm AEST

                    Location - Yorkeys Knob, Cairns, Qld. Australia 4878

   

Please bring your favourite watercolour paints, couple brushes & reference images of a lively sky, water view or both.

Encaustic-Wax medium, wax brushes, equipment, papers & materials will be supplied.

Cost: $60 to be paid on Eventbrite site ( above link ) before workshop please

Contact Jacki for info or payment issue - 0455721885 or art@jackiarchibald.com

                                         

 

Australian Artist of May 2021

Creating a 'Sense of Place' 

Robert Juniper established a reputation for landscape, particularly desert, painting that used surface & colour in a vivacious way. His own 'sense of space' goes beyond the landscape into the figurative to make the landscape human. 

                                        

                                         'The River Dies in January' 1977

                Robert Juniper's landscapes have a relationship to those of 

         John Olsen (recent news post) & Fred Williams ( next news post )

                                   

                                         Robert Juniper VIDEO link

All three painters play with the lateralness of the picture plane

and the illusionistic space that lies behind it

Juniper uses marks and materials scattered across the surface ( see video)

Both abstract and naturalistic forms create a sense of place 

My experiments with inks & oil sticks on Kitakata paper reflect 

colours used in some of Juniper's paintings

Often my paintings becomes the land & sea while I am the sky 

This ink on rice paper is reflecting the warm sunny climate of 

Far North Queensland and is only the beginning of what is to come 

I too am discovering my sense of place 

Abstract Australian Artist

 Australian artist this month is John olsen 

who has been one of the biggest inspirations for my art Journey

quote "to be an Australian artist is to be an adventurer"

                 HE IS SAID TO BE AUSTRALIA'S  GREATEST LIVING PAINTER

                            John Olsen keeps an open eyed innocence of a child

                                       

                                             A tribute to John Olsen here

       A journey into You Beaut country series is a landscape of the mind

One of my favourite works here "Where the bee sucks, there suck I" that he borrowed from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' 

It reflects on the country life in Clarendon, South Australia linking the land, light, people and attitudes of Australians. 

A big attraction for me is John's use of strong colours that creates a joyful sense of place while his curvilinear style makes us feel so alive.

This flowing energy is essential to maintain my belief that "art is the process"

                 

     My 'Dragon' Encaustic Wax painting is a typical example of John's influence

  

NOW available as Giclee Canvas prints ready to hang & FREE shipping Australia

Encaustic Wax paintings turn into Canvas prints

Painting with a torch & Encaustic Wax on a board first 

Originals are turned into high detailed quality canvas prints  

In studio unrolling Giclee canvas print 196cm x 104cm 

' FLOW  ON ' Limited Edition (10) Framed 200cm x 108cm see  Online shop

Fluid Collection 'Flow On' Limted Edition Giclee Canvas print  in-situ 

Hand signature on each print from original painting  

 

ORIGINAL ART delivered free in Australia

'Golden Sands' Ready to hang, original art Giclee Canvas Print from $320 

                        'Golden Sands'  $590  stretched canvas 98 x 100cm ready to hang

                                    White float frame + $200 

                                     

                                      So much detail up close you want to touch it

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          See my website for more on Encaustic-Wax paintings -Jacki Archibald

EXHIBITION EncausticWax

Here’s your chance to pick up an original painting at clearance prices or join me hands on with this versatile medium.

Exhibition opens 1st July so hope you can support One Arts Gallery down the Gold Coast

...................... IT WILL BE WORTH IT .......................................

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Sometimes i find my family of people while painting or printing. 

This can be described as 'BIOMORPHIC' meaning 'life & transformation'
These forms can be described as organic and abstract shapes derived from biology or living organisms

An all time favourite Australian artist of mine is Andrew Sibley. This work of his is an  example of how he uses discoveries on the surface during his printing process to develop into his painting compositions by eliminating what is not needed to reveal his subjects.

'Salt of the Earth' is an early Encaustic-Wax painting of mine.

It reveals an unplanned weathered figure as part of the landscape. It went through a process of many layers, changes and many hours of work before i decided it reached the final outcome i was happy with. 

My next post will show you more examples to hopefully inspire you to 

BE FEARLESS & LET'S BE CREATIVE

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or Email me - art@jackiarchibald.com