We are on - Through the Lens is Tonight 17th April 6pm!!

Whoooo hoooo

I am so happy it is finally here - everythign is done and it looks fantastic

So here are the details to the exhibition:

Through the Lens Exhibition

Launch:  6pm 17th April

M16 Gallery:  Blaxland Cres, Griffith ACT

Opening hours 12 to 5pm Wednesday to Sunday

Exhibition goes from 17th April to 4th May 2015

I will be there staffing it on:

Good Friday 18th April
Saturday 26th April

My artist talk is on the 3rd May at 1.30pm

So exciting :)

Lots of love
Carol xx

Set Up for the Exhibition

We are all set up for the exhibition

Here are some candid shots (of course I am not in them as I was managing the marketing and set up behind the camera (but I assure you we were all absolutley stuffed afterwards)....

Cheers to our men - Phil and Bill who did the best job in getting it all up and straight onto the walls. Through the Lens has 62 peices and so it is not a small exhibition but we did it!!

Phil (L) and Bill measuring and nailing paintings for the 'green room'

The 'old timers' wall

Taking a break - Ross and Kristin

Action shot - more hanging (about 20% done)

The 'Green Room'

Beach scenes

Kristin doing hte floor management duties

Many hands make light work 

Our Photo

Well we have a photo we both like - it took 2 goes but we did it - thanks to Ray MacNeill for your amazing photographic work and patience

W are using this as the marketing photo

Great work and lots of smiles

Summer Grasses

I am loving sunsets at the moment so here is another one that I finished yesterday - I am really happy with it and enjoyed getting back to one of my loves - free form shapes like the grass...

This is Broome Beach - I love the sunsets there

I have only 3 paintings to go til I have my 25 .... it has been a great experience and the confidence I have gained from painting to painting is priceless

Cheers
C

The Shell Seekers

Once in a while you have an idea for a painting that is off the normal ..... this was one of those

I love Cable Beach WA and I found a photo which shows its marvelous sunset with a little family who are looking for shells - I have to say that the photo I took it from is not mine (I used a small section as inspiration)  - and whilst I would love to tell you who is the photographer - they are sadly unknown - I will continue to search though and give recognition to them when I find out

The Shell Seekers

Mediums;
Acrylic pain
Shells
Impasto
Garnet paste

With love
Carol

Break of Day

This was from a photograph that I took while in a smail aircraft near the Argle Mine in the NT.... where hte argle diamonds are from. It was very early in the morning before it was too hot - the air was still and the dawn coloured the sky with an amethyst wash. The sun hit the terracotta of the rock faces and they glowed in the sun

Break of Day

Mediums:
Acrylic paint
Teture medium
Garnet paste

With love
Carol

Ebb and Flow

I have painted a lovely scene from a photo by Jill Pierce with her permission. It is near to Tarthra NSW South Coast and when I saw the photo I was really inspired to paint it.

This one uses no paper at all - but has glass beads in the breaking waves  to give it the mixed media edge.

I counted my paintings today and I am up to 24!!!!! So I am really getting there for the exhibition

EBB & FLOW - Carol Mead 2013

I hope you enjoy it

Love
C

Serenity

Here is the painting I finished a few weeks ago - I really love Mossman Gorge and this painting brings in the feel of the place - it is serene but sort of spiritual too - you sense that it is a place with a history and a deep aboriginal heritage.

This painitng is from a photo I took a few years ago .... the colours are very true to life. I have to say I found it challenging but fun to paint ... the rocks were the hardest - but most satisfying of all

SERENITY Mossman Gorge - Carol Mead 2013

Thank you for looking
Love
C

Raucous Chorus

What wonderful birds we have in Australia - and especially our amazing parrots

Here are the red tailed cockatoos of Fitzroy Crossing Western Australia

I used real bark for some of the larger parts of the trees

Thanks for looking :)

Cheers
C

Blue Flash

I love hte rainforest and took a great photo on a walk one day a few weeks ago at Mission Beach

So here is 'Blue flash through the rainforest' featuring the amazing Ullsyses butterfly which you see as a blue flash before it dissappears.... they are so qucik and so very hard to capture on the camera

Now onto another one this week :)


Cheers
Carol

Sunset over St Kilda Beach

My lovely husband and I enjoyed a holdiay in Melbourne in March and one night we went to St Kilda Beach to relax and have a look at the awesome sunsets they have there with the city in the background

So here is the painting that will be the front piece for our exhibition... Thank you St Kilda


'Going home to roost' is a very large piece and I am really happy with it :)

I love it when a painting comes together like this and I am really happy with the sky :)

Love
C

The sublime Milla Milla Falls

I love this place - it is beautiful and awe-inspiring ... a fabulous large waterfall with lots of beautiful bush and lush growth around.

It makes me happy just thinking about it - so of course .... I painted it!

Here is 'Textures of Milla Milla Falls' - I love the place 

I do hope you enjoy it :)

Love
C

Thank you for the support!!

Through my working life I have met some amazing people and I have to say working in drugs and alcohol for 5 years were challenging in so many ways. I loved running the organisation and makign a difference to the people who used the services we ran.

I was lucky enough to meet Ben Aulich who came onto the Board and worked with him for a couple of years. Ben and I started talking about my art and he said he was interested in sponsoring an exhibition.

Three years later we are making it happen and today was our first meeting where Ben has some great ideas about the exhibition and the leadup to it at the M16 Gallery. He is not only financially sponsoring the exhibition but assisting us with marketing too through his contacts into the MArketing and Promotion industry.

In addition we also have a winery who are happy to serve our launch guests for free. I am so excited.

Today I met with Ben and we nutted out the sponsorship and I am delighted to say I think it will be fabulous!!

I am excited !!

Love
Carol

Such Exciting News

Wow I have to say I was feeling kinda rejected after 2 galleries did not feel as though they wanted our exhibition. It was rather deflating - as you put so much work into the paintings and works, planning and writing and putting yourself out there.

It sort of felt being rejected by that school boy you had a crush on all over again!!

But - not anymore - M16 has let us know we have an exhibition with them in 2014!! Hooray - I feel at least someone is going to take us on - how excited are we!!!!!!

Through the Lens 

17th April - 4th May 2014

M16 Artspace

Kingston Canberra

Carol Mead - Mixed media

Kristin Ballard - Photography

Whoooo hoooooo
And we have a sponsor too - Ben Aulich and Associates
So it is all steam ahead

I drank champagne last night - yep it is exciting!!
Love
C

In the quiet of the morning

I love far north Queensland - the light and the colours are just magical

So I have been wanting to paint Mossman Gorge for sometime and my son Matt and I went there before the visitors at 8 am to get some shots before the water was stirred up and people were everwhere

This is the painting that I completed today :) I love the water - it is different but works well I think

I have another photo and a different aspect - I think that might be my next one :)

Bye for now

C

Jacaranda Time at Tilba

Some paintings are so easy - and some are not :) This one was a particularly tricky one because it has huge rock outcrops with no sky to reflect on them, plus quaint (and difficult) houses in the foreground. But it is done - and now I can enjoy hte colours and textures of this painting.

I am very pleased with it

Thanks

Thanks for sharing this with me
Love
C

lots of painting finished

I have been busy today finishing off another painting and I have also completed 2 others over the past few weeks so I actually photographed them and here they are ..... I am really happy with the one I finished today - 'Morton Outlook' and I am interested to see people starting to crop up in my paintings :)  I have never painted running shoes before so I think they look okay :)

Morton Outlook (Riverview lookout Morton National Park)

Mixed media 2013

Waiting for lunch (Lanyon ACT)

Mixed media 2013

 Last Light (St Mary's Tasmania)

Mixed media 2013

I decided to take photos of these again..... they are much better I think

In the shade (Lanyon ACT)

A better photo than the previous post 

Mixed media 2013

Mid Summer Afternoon (Lanyon)

A better photo than the previous one

Mixed Media 2013

Thanks for looking :)
C

Been Painting today

I try to ensure that I have a painting day once a week and I love a challenge so today I finished another painting of the beautiful Lanyon and some visitors. I haven't named it as yet as I cannot seem to get the right name ... it will come

I took a photo of 3 ladies who were sitting after lunch and the tables had been cleared just looking at the amazing scenery of Lanyon.

What I didn't know was that while I was painting a rather interesing ghostly apparition decided to appear in the left hand door of the tractor shed - my husband Phil and I can see a man in a suit but my kids cannot - so it will be interesting to hear the response of others.

It is currently drying and I will post it up with 'Last Light' tomorrow which I finished last week

Then I am on to a painting of Morton National Park in NSW which is a different size and called 'Outlook' I am half finished that one so it will be completed (if all goes to plan) next Wednesday

It is all looking great.

I have lent 6 paintings to Branka for her open house and auction ..... she loves them and they look grat on the walls

Bye for now - I will be back soon with updated photos of the paintings

Cheers
C

Under the Shade

I love the Australian bush - and gum trees are a special part of my love - I love their form and their variety and never get sick of looking at them - this old gum is only minutes away from where I live - it is so beautiful and magestic

So here are a small group of cows under the shade of a tree on a hot summer afternoon

It will be available at our exhibition in 2014

Cheers
Carol

Mid Summer Afternoon

Here is the painting I completed last week - I am very happy with it ... lots of texture and hidden bits

It will be available for our exhibition

Enjoy :)

The building is the restaurant at Lanyon

Detail

 

Thanks for looking
Carol