How did I get here?

Two years ago my partner and I came for our third holiday in Tasmania. As is our habit we looked at the real estate pages in the paper and discovered an interesting cottage.

‘Let’s go and see it,’ says the Significant Other just 5 hours before the plane is about to leave to fly us home to Queensland.

This was no cottage it was a unique home constructed totally in timber with a matching garage. After inspecting the house, we went into the double garage. Inside, I opened a set of double doors and wow!….. a very large storage room.

My imagination whirled. What could I envisage?

ROOM FOR STUDIO!

This could all be a dream come true. My own studio.

A week later we purchased the house, sold our home on Tamborine Mountain, Qld in 2 days. A month later we moved lock stock and art gear 2000 km south to Tasmania.

Of course, all I envisaged was a storeroom behind those doors where I would place my easel after a day of painting. However some months later I built a "box within a box" behind the garage roller door and .....

Like a pig in mud, I blissfully moved into my own studio.

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1 Response to How did I get here?

Hi Pauline
I love colour too. I like to wear colours rather than black or grey. I am attracted by colours in the landscape. I like to have lots of different colours in my garden. A lot of people seem to be afraid of colours. I think they might be worried about looking too "loud" or not following the received ideas about which colours "go together". I remember loving the psychedelic colours of the 1960s. I still have a scarf I bought back then. I think people worry about not being in good taste if they mix up colours.
As to the Tasmanian art scene, I think there are quite a few artists who do use colour, but you might have entered an exhibition where the judges were suffering from chromophobia! The Tasmanian "watercolour school" tended to favour a very limited palette and not much tonal variation. I think this has affected some local painters, especially some of the older ones.
I think you should continue to use your bright colours. Think about Van Gough. His earlier paintings were very drab, but it's his later colourful works that people appreciate.
Cheers
Paula

Posted by Paula Woodward · via paulinejohnsonart.com · 96 months ago

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