Art with purpose

Miss Magnolia Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition Print

M’s art teacher has a daily habit of walking and posting photos of beautiful flowers along the way.
What a great reminder of God’s goodness in the beauty around us! Whenever I see them I am struck by the diversity and abundance, and I cant help but be drawn to them.
This is one of a series of magnolia flowers that she photographed and posted to her story.
Photo credit to Cathie Hall. Painted with permission.

310gsm cotton rag 
Giclee, archival quality 
50 x 50cm (60 x 60cm with 5cm border) 
Requires framing
Other sizes available on request.

Due to prints relying on specialist printing services, orders maybe delayed.

$290

Miss Magnolia

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M’s art teacher has a daily habit of walking and posting photos of beautiful flowers along the way.
What a great reminder of God’s goodness in the beauty around us! Whenever I see them I am struck by the diversity and abundance, and I cant help but be drawn to them.
This is one of a series of magnolia flowers that she photographed and posted to her story.
Photo credit to Cathie Hall. Painted with permission.

76 x 76cm painting size
79 x 79cm frame size

This painting is framed with a painted Tasmanian oak, white frame. Due to the use of real wood, the frame will have small imperfections.

$1500

Black and White: a Grieved Perspective

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I feel grieved by the divisions that seem to be growing wider. 
I feel saddened by friends and family who feel alone, because they have different perspectives. 
I feel saddened by discussions that can’t be civil and respectful. 
I feel saddened and ashamed of the inability to listen and to hear what another is saying. 
I feel saddened that we are not seeing each other as a part of the same humanity.

Why do we only see in black and white?

I feel hope that conversations can be civil. 
I feel hope that love can cover different opinions. 
I feel hope for the softening of hearts towards others. 
I feel the grace that I have received can be shared. 
I feel hope that the world we are experiencing right now will change.

I know that this too shall pass.

This is a diptych, each painting is seperate. The white painting is framed in a black floating frame and the black painting in a white Tasmanian oak floating frame. 
The frames are hand made by me.

Acrylic on Canvas
2 x 76 x 76cm painting

2 x 79 x79cm framed

$2500

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Once-ler Wattle

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I have always loved Dr Seuss, but only as an adult have I really appreciated the depth and profound nature of his writings. 
As I was painting the beautiful wattle, I was reminded of The Lorax, and the beautiful truffler trees (before they were cut down). 
How lucky are we to be surrounded by such beauty. It is breathtaking to see the diversity around us; even amongst such an unforgiving environment in Australia.

76 x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas

$1500

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The First Buds of Hope

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Have you ever noticed the first buds appear? Everything looks bleak and then slowly emerge the buds…then one or two courageous buds emerge into flowers before the rest.
I feel like sometimes it takes courage to be the first: the first to see the weather changing, first to see the season changing, first to see hope.
But after a few buds courageously transform themselves, slowly, slowly, the rest join them.
How can we be conveyors of life, or hope and of the changing season?

$1300

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Buds of Hope

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This crabapple was planted by the council and is so annoying, it completely blocks the path, so often you either have to walk on the road to get past it or you get slapped by it as you wheedle past. But it is so breathtakingly beautiful when it flowers. It is funny how sometimes we need these things that may seem cumbersome and in the way to literally stop us in our tracks and appreciate life.So life is pretty tough at the moment, we are all (in NSW) in a metaphorical winter, or even some may be in a dark night of the soul. But as winter passes, so do dark nights of the soul. 
These barren times where the trees are naked of life and leaves and maybe you begin to despair; but then slowly tiny buds start to develop, small and hidden. Then more time passes and one courageous bud bursts through to show you life, to show you that ALL seasons change. The winter passes and the dark nights of the soul pass too.

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How Do I Help?

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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the pain you see? Unsure how to proceed? How to offer comfort? How to intervene? 
Do you ever feel afraid to help? What if I say the wrong thing? What if I do the wrong thing and it makes it worse? 
I see pain everyday in my comfortable lovely neighbourhood. I see the homeless men at the station, under the bridge, outside the library. 
I see pain in the parents and families at school, who look so happy. 
I see pain in my friends and family. 
How do I help?

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