has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
I have always admired the "Waterlilies" of Monet so I took a photo of the tropical waterlies in the Cairns Botanical Gardens and then painted them. Unfortunately these gardens were mostly destroyed by Cyclone Yasi in February. This painting captures that moment of the beauty of these gardens.
To create this artwork I layered a sketch, watercolour painting and photograph and digitally manipulated the resultant image. This was printed onto canvas and glazed with acrylic.
Inspired by the movie "Red Dog" I photographed Old Red , a Kelpie near an old horse drawn farm wagon at Cherrabah Homestead near Warwick. I manipulated the photo, layered it with a better photo of the wagon, printed it onto watercolour paper and worked on it with watercolour pencils and light washes.
Inspired by many Artdoxa artists in my gallery of favorites I layered and digitally manipulated two original photographs taken at Montsalvat in Victoria, a painting and paper cutouts to create this composition
