One painting every other day...
By Australian artist, Shirley Peters
Mar 8, 2024
Plein Air Week at Bathurst NSW Australia
Feb 1, 2024
Self portrait
Reset
For me, this is a non painting. I took it all the way to finished, then scraped it back to the linen. It is reset.
100 x 76cm
Oil and charcoal on linen
Dec 4, 2023
Art Trail Open Studio
Open Studio with the Mulgoa Art Trail.
What a lovely weekend meeting old and new friends and clients.
Nov 13, 2023
Nov 5, 2023
Dappled beauty: a stepped waterfall in the Blue Mountains.
Oct 17, 2023
The Dam
A beautiful spring day produces bright colours and deep shadows. I enjoyed painting this landscape as it is a favourite subject.
Aug 4, 2023
Bush landscapes: oil and/or synthetic polymer
Here are some of my latest paintings: all large (100 x 76 cm) or (100 x 100cm) and framed in white.
I won't label them here, but if you are interested in sizes, prices etc, or buying one (😉) go to the "Bushland" page on my website.
Here's the link: https://www.shirleypeters.com.au/landscapes
May 9, 2023
May 7, 2023
New paintings in my studio
I'm in the studio nearly every day, painting for an upcoming Art Fair, and a Solo Show.
Here are five finished paintings. These will need professional photography, but the iphone will manage for now.
Mar 19, 2023
Small annoyances
Mar 6, 2023
Blue Creek Down Back
I'm starting a new series based on my favourite muse: the bushland behind my studio. These paintings will be looser than before, and my goal is abstraction, within the landscape genre.
I am referencing Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles with this painting. My alternative title was Black Stump. But I'll save that for another one.
In 2001 this area was burnt in a massive bush fire, and today many of the trees are still blackened. Some are dead stumps, but many have survived, and are re-growing.
This painting is about climate change: we have severe droughts and flooding rains, and fires that are so destructive that regrowth can take decades.
Hot weather at last!
Warm winds from the north have bought 40ºC heat to Sydney this week. So luckily I have finished my latest painting and was happy to head to the beach. It is about an hour's drive to Bronte Beach. Being a Monday we were hoping it would not be crowded but it was! Forgot the flash card for my camera, so only iPhone shots. :-(
Nov 4, 2022
To sign or not to sign abstract paintings
I recently visited "Blue Poles" by Jackson Pollock. It is hanging in the Australian National Art Gallery. It's purchase almost destroyed the leftist government back in the 70's. Goodness, they paid over one million dollars!! (Now estimated to be priceless!)
Pleasantly surprised to see that he had signed his painting!
I recently have been advised that "you don't sign abstracts on the front, because it interferes with the image."
My response is: signatures have always interfered. They have cut across the soft and sensitive paint of the masters, and sometimes taken a major role in the composition.
These large elaborate signatures were a form of advertising for the artist, especially on self portraits. This was probably the beginning of the signature tradition, and it evolved into a modest corner position.
The same applies today: it's a form of marketing yourself, as not all visitors to your patron's home will be familiar with your style. It's a chance for networking, and it is respectful to your buyer. They won't have to pull the painting off the wall to remember the artist's name.
The fun with abstracts is that you can hide your signature somewhere in the surface movement, or just fill a corner.
Let me know what you think in the comment section.
Cheers
Shirley