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25.01.2022 Some of the vitrigraph fused into a sample

23.01.2022 With the help of a friend, I was able to give this vitrigraph lark a go. Lots of work but I think it's going to give a HEAP of little murrine to add into my work. 2kg worth! Next step is fusing some to see how they turned out. (Bullseye glass; tekta clear, teal, vanilla, aquamarine and spring green)

19.01.2022 Another one from "painterly glass" course with Kari Minnick at #bluedogglass.

19.01.2022 Just finished the "painterly glass" course with Kari Minnick at #bluedogglass learning some fantastic new techniques. Thanks Kari, Brenda, Kirstin and the rest of the team. It was a fantastic week.

19.01.2022 I recently did a workshop with Blue Dog Glass ... Rolling into Canberra 2018. Here's how it went. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/

18.01.2022 Lorna Selim (British/Iraqi painter) 1928 - Unknown Title 1, 2 and 3, 2000 oil on board 24 x 30 cm. (9.45 x 11.81 in.) 23 x 31 cm. (9.06 x 12.2 in.)... 23 x 28 cm. (9.06 x 11.02 in.) signed "Lorna" in Arabic, executed in 2000 private collection photo Bonhams Lorna Selim is an English artist and art teacher, who married a prominent Iraqi sculptor and relocated to Baghdad in the 1950s. She was a practising artist and contributed to arts community in Iraq through her exhibitions, teaching and active participation in arts groups. After her husband's premature death in 1961, she was part of the team responsible for completing his iconic monumental work, Nasb al-Hurriyah. Although Lorna Selim is well-known as the English wife of the prominent Iraqi sculptor, Jawad Saleem, she was also a capable and influential artist in her own right. She is always listed as an Iraqi artist from the pioneer generation. Born in Sheffield in 1928, Lorna received a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, graduating with a Diploma in Painting and Design in 1948. The following year she received an Art Teachers’ Diploma from the London University Institute of Education. From 194950 she taught art at the Tapton House Grammar School, Chesterfield. In England, she met the Iraqi artist and sculptor, Jawad Saleem, who was also studying at the Slade School, and the pair married in 1950. Following their marriage, the couple relocated to Baghdad. An Iraqi art critic noted that: "Lorna came to Iraq and saw beauty where none of the rest of us had noticed it before. Other artists began to study the rich artistic tradition which had been under their noses all along. She has had a profound influence." She was fascinated by the traditional Iraqi housing found along the banks of the Tigris - the bayt (houses) and the mudhif (or reed dwelling). Not long after her arrival in Baghdad, the city underwent a period of "modernisation," and many traditional houses were being demolished. She would rush to make sketches of the structures before they were lost permanently. Sketching an outline of buildings, intending to return and fill in the details later, she all too often discovered that the building was gone at the time of her return. By painstakingly locating other similar houses in the area, she was able to fill in the architectural details and complete the sketches. Between 1957 and 1963, she sketched hundreds of vernacular buildings and homes. Lorna Selim was very active in Iraq's arts community through her participation in important arts groups. She became a member of the Art Friends Society, and Society of Iraqi Plastic Artists. and the influential The Baghdad Modern Art Group which had been founded by her husband, Jawad Saleem and Shakir Hassan Al Said. Three years after its inception, the Baghdad Modern Art Group had just sixteen members and notably three of these were female artists; in addition to Lorna Selim were artists Susan al-Sheikhly (wife of Ismail al-Sheikhly) and Lisa Fatah (19411992) first wife of sculptor, Ismail Fatah Al Turk. She exhibited her work in first exhibition of the Baghdad Modern Art Group. She participated in the Iraqi Pavilion Design for the International Fair held in Damascus in 1954. Her husband, Jawad Saleem, died suddenly in 1961 at the age of 41 years, in the midst of a project to complete a major monumental sculpture, The Freedom Monument, for Baghdad's city centre. Following his death, she, along with Iraqi sculptor Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, supervised the completion of the iconic monument. Hikmat, who was a good friend of both Lorna and Jawad Saleem, had previously been an assistant on the project and was responsible for casting the bronze figures. She was an art teacher at Ta’ssisiya School, Baghdad, in 1951; the Girls College in 1961; and also taught drawing at Baghdad University's Department of Architecture, headed by Mohammed Makiya, in the 1960s. As an educator, she took her students to sketch structures along the Tigris and was especially interested in exposing young architects to Iraq's vernacular structures, alley-ways and historical monuments. This work inspired a generation of architects to consider including traditional design features - such as Iraqi practices of temperature control, natural ventilation, courtyards, screen walls and reflected light - in their designs. Source: Wikipedia

17.01.2022 It's a gift ...

16.01.2022 Some jewellery made from fused glass and hand made beads

14.01.2022 Lovely work from an artist I hadn’t heard of before.

13.01.2022 This is my entry in this year's Moreland Summer show - Liberty & Language. At Counihan Gallery, Brunswick. Open until Saturday 14 December 2019. https://www.moreland.vic.gov.au//cou/moreland-summer-show/

12.01.2022 Maybe a good resource (but not available in AUS yet). I was once told that fusing glass was very much like working with water colour. Also an interesting piece of history.

07.01.2022 Step one - only one bandaid

06.01.2022 Tove Jansson (Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator) 1914 - 2001 Malli (Model), 1938 oil on canvas 75 x 60 cm. (29.53 x 23.62 in.) signed and dated -38... private collection Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. For her contribution as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and then Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. She continued to work as an artist for the rest of her life, alongside her writing. Jansson is best known as the author of the Moomin books for children. The first such book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, appeared in 1945, though it was the next two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, that brought her fame. Starting with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter (Sculptor's Daughter) in 1968, she wrote six novels and five books of short stories for adults.

03.01.2022 Detail from a platter. I really enjoy the bubbles in glass.

03.01.2022 Some reference photos for a project. Stay tuned!