Exhibition at Cloud Farm

Works from my shredded document series will be on show at Celeste Coucke and Stephen Fearnley's beautiful Cloud Farm Studios , Tourist Rd, Mt Murray, NSW in July. The exhibition opening coincides with Cloud Farm Open Studio on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th July 10 am - 4 pm and can be seen by appointment at other times. Contact sburet(at)gmail.com.

Yellow is the Colour

Susan Buret, Yellow is the Colour, © 2010, Acrylic on linen, 200 cm x 140 cm

The yellow work is finally finished as the last tenacious golden leaves begin to fall from the trees.

I find it such a difficult colour to work with and I have to blame the seasons and Louise Blyton from St Luke Artist Colourmen who showed me the delicious Nickel Azo Yellow paint. Oh the seduction of beautiful colour.

that's my clothes line tan

that's my clothes line tan, a video work made in collaboration with Queensland artist, Nicola Moss opens at the Gold Coast Art Centre, 135 Bundall Street, Surfers Paradise, tomorrow at 4pm. I'm going up for the opening and looking forward to catching up with my friends. The exhibition continues until 1 August 2010.

Nature as teacher.

Louise Bourgeois in 1990,
behind her marble sculpture Eye to Eye (1970)
Photo Raimon Ramis

Yesterday's post about the passage of autumn to winter was written with sadness as, on Sunday night, I had heard that Denis Hopper had died and I had always admired his wild, wild ways.

Today I received the news that Louise Bourgeois had died at age 98 from a heart attack.

Louise Bourgeois was an immense creative force and a great inspiration to all women artists. Like the autumn leaves, her creative spirit burned brightly until the end of her life.

When I am saddened by the void left left by the passing of these two wonderful creative people I find comfort in the continuing cycle of seasons.

While I would like to babble on about taking the time to observe the natural world and preserving this precious resource I think you know what I am saying!

Winter

Winter after a week of heavy rain.

Autumn from my desk.

As you can see from the images above things are moving rapidly in the garden as the seasons change and, on the subject of change, what has happened with blogger draft which wont let me upload photos anymore? With it I could have waxed poetically about the above images and managed to place them in the correct order!

Any way the winds are howling and the rain is bucketing down as I work on a big yellow painting which I think may have been inspired by autumn colour. I always wrestle with yellow paint and this work is no exception. I might post an image if I win the fight.

Julie Mehretu Mural

I would love to work on this scale.

Back in the Studio

Back in the studio I am working on two new large works and trying to plan my schedule for the next year or two.

I often make small 30 cm x 30 cm works as studies when I am working with new patterns and colour. Some times it's fun to place the works side together to see where my work is going. The work on the left is from 2008 and the one on the right from this month.