Exhibition Open

Meeniyan Art Gallery hosted the opening of my most recent exhibition - Fragments of a Journey.
The gallery is on the South Gippsland highway on the way to Wilson's Prom around 2 hours from Melbourne. It is the hub of a local art community.
This Friday I will be doing a talk about my art work and on Sunday I am running a print and collage class. There are still a couple of places in the class which runs from 10am -3pm . Contact the gallery if you want to join in.

Print and Collage Workshop in January

Want to learn how to create a print and collage with me?

I am running a workshop in Meeniyan in  South Gippsland Victoria at the Meeniyan Art gallery on January 11 from 10am - 3pm. It is a plant inspired workshop.  You will learn to create a print block and use papers and fabric to create a mixed media piece.
Come and join me for a fun day.
see below for the details. or follow this link to the website

Plant inspired mixed media class with Sally Darlison

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WHEN:

11 January 2015 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

WHERE:

Meeniyan Art Gallery
84 Whitelaw Street
Meeniyan VIC 3956
Australia

COST:

$70 per person plus a $10 materials fee

CONTACT:

 Meg Viney-Bell

 56642430 (bus. hrs)

 

Learn to create simple print blocks and combine your print with images and fabric to create a collaged art piece.

This class will use images of fruit and vegetables as a starting point for the creation of a print block. After printing the image onto various fabrics and papers participants will be guided through the design process, using various images and papers, machine and hand stitching, to create a piece that can that can be framed.

Please bring:

• scissors
• cutting mat
• images of fruit or vegetables
• old vegetable or fruit gardening books or photocopies of images
• words etc for collage
• plain fabric in colours of plant of choice
• sewing machine and threads and/or hand sewing requirements.

Provided: soft cut print block, use of lino cutting and printing tools, pre-dyed silk organza, backing fabric, ink, paper and printing ink.

Exciting news

I'm excited to tell you that the latest Artwear Publication Embellish has just come out and there is an interview in it with me about my artwork.
There are heaps of pictures of my work and quite detailed information about the process I use to make the work.
You can buy it online or have the paper form delivered to your door or find it in shops where all good art magazines can be found!

Summer show

Term 4 is always a really busy time for me as a teacher, thus I have been slack and haven't written an update for ages!!

So... I was asked to fill the Meeniyan Art gallery www.meeniyanartgallery.com.au for the month of January, so I have put together a collection of work from my last show as well as a few new small Italian pieces and a couple from other shows.

The work will be on show from January 2 - 29. The show will be called Fragments of a Journey. 

Here's 4 new little 20 x 20 cm pieces who will join the show.

Cinque Terre

San Gimignano

Tuscan Tower

Venetian Canals

Tansen,Nepal

I have been in Tansen for nearly a week. It is a town perched on the side of a ring of hills. Apparently you ca see the high mountains from the peak behind the town, but sadly there has been heavy monsoonal cloud hanging over the mountains for the whole week.
I did catch a glimpse of the high Himalayas as we left Kathmandu and I live in hope that they will appear when I am in Pokhara and then on the trek I will be doing next weekend.

Tansen is a town where the weaving of the traditional Dhaka fabric used to create the Nepalese hats and other garments. I was able to visit where the weaving is done. The weavers sit in a dug out pit and the loom has weaving cards that determine the different coloured thread the shuttle sends through.
I have had a great time looking in the fabric and garment shops and have purchased a beautiful sari and shalwar chemise, as well as some of the traditional dhaka fabric.

A drawing a day and Teachers workshop

The first weekend I spent in Kathmandu was taken up with a full day of teaching art to Nepali teachers. it was a fun day with all of the teachers appearing to enjoy themselves learning while making artwork.
I have been diligently drawing everyday and have nearly half a sketchbook of imagery. It has been a good discipline to draw each day and I have certainly noticed an improvement in my skills.

The mystery of the missing diary, solved!

After getting a very smooth and comfy upgrade from KL to Kathmandu, my bag had decided to have a stopover in KL. Most inconvenient for me. However I managed to survive.... I have a lovely new outfit -such a hardship ! When it did arrive 30 hours later the only thing missing appears to be missing is my carefully prepared visual diary.
Diary found! My husband found it, finally. I had left it underneath something and forgotten to pack it. Silly me.
 So I have decided to work in a smaller scale in the little book I brought probably a better idea.
I have set myself a daily drawing challenge and so far have managed to keep up.
Here is one of the drawings/collage.