Aug09
Complications of a Still Life
2008Article posted by Gilly
When Australian Artist magazine invited me to submit a demonstration article I quickly became excited by how challenging this project would be. I am not at all competitive by nature but I do enjoy challenging myself when I paint, for example - trying to recreate the sparkle on a glass, the expression in an eye, the rough textures of an old wooden post, or the soft bloom on a rose petal. These are reasons that I am compelled to paint, along with the sheer joy of creating something with my own heart and hands. I paint because I can’t not paint.
I was very small when I began to draw so I can’t remember when it all started. I do remember that as a little girl my bedroom walls were covered in my drawings of horses and animals and that I wrote my own stories and illustrated them - I still have some of them today. 