Cleaning up the studio and making a cosy corner

Candice Herne, Art Studio, 2012

I'm cleaning up the studio, getting organised and making a memory wall for a cosy corner.

Getting ready for the Home Festival

 This week Rhody and I are in the studio in production mode

 Rhody applies the paint to the sealed table top.

 Lot's of colour and a spray of water

 Then a bit of a play around with a sponge

 A few more squirts of paint on top of the sponged paint

then the paint brush orchestra begins. In the end I come along and put a large piece of paper over the top and take a print of the work. Rhody is very excited to be invited to set up shop this weekend at the Home Festival at Kangaroo Point. This Sunday 19th June 11am-8pm. Pop in and see

us if you come along, we would love to see u.

Candyxx

In the studio

 I feel rather indulgent having a permanent studio space available. Oh this is the way to work. I can leave everything out, close the door behind me and open it again knowing I can start again where I left off. The children also enjoy playing, making and meandering in and out when I am working.It is a lovely space we can both enjoy. (After years of kitchen tables, corners of rooms and lots of one day studio set up's. I am enjoying this space :)

 I have barely unpacked the studio and I had to get straight into work. Continuing the work I started while travelling. I have raw ochre that I found in South Australia, which I am grinding in a mortar and pestle and adding matt acrylic medium.

I am painting on to 20cm x 10cm pieces of hand made artist quality white 300gsm (thick/card) paper, which I bought from the makers workshop, Creative paper in Burnie, Tasmania. It's the raw edges on this paper which have me hooked. Every piece is individually crafted by the process which produces the soft, gentle uneven edges. I have called this series of work the Ochre Diaries, as they are a record of the time I spent travelling. Each piece has little notes made in pencil of where I was or what I was thinking, when I made the work. Next week I will show you around the other end of the studio, the gallery space and invite you to a exhibition I am having on January 12th at the Logan Regional Gallery. Till then, Candyxx

The door must be here somewhere, Northern Territory  ©      Candice Herne 2010

Bare Mountains, South Australia ©      Candice Herne 2010

I passed by a Billabong, ©      Candice Herne 2010