'COAL PAINTINGS' and MORE

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Knowing Stillness Oil On linen 85 x 160 cm 2011 In recent weeks my BLOG has been attracting larger numbers of visitors [up to 100 per day!], which is great. Many thanks to all of you who have dropped by. I was quite excited to read on my STATS page today, a number of search phrases and words which have brought visitors here. They include: Darling currency blogspot Abstract rendering Bible 3d 3d hidden images Coal paintings Hidden pictures within pictures Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox Multiverse tree So, the painting above is one of my multiverse paintings. Knowing Stillness invites you to consider, in stillness, the possibility that we are not part of a universe, but a multiverse. I say, in stillness, because stillness provides the space/place where possibilities, that perhaps have not been considered, can be seen, heard and felt. Stillness...almost...replicates that dimension just preceeding the Big Bang, when space, distance and time did not exist, but potential was potent. In Stillness sees a multitude of my much loved transcultural/religious trees-of-life form into one entity...a planet, a universe, a nano particle? Beyond this entity is a space shimmering with small circles of white dots. For me, these are the portals to other universes, keeping in mind, that the universe/multiverse, as a metaphor, can mean these portals could be conduits into the realms of human psyche. Meeting Place Of The Mind Oil on linen 100 x 70 cm 2011 The painting above again gives my tree-of-life some cosmic rendering! This is a paragraph from my previous BLOG post for this painting. The image is a man and woman, who seem to morph into one being. There outstretched arms reach forward erupting into cascading trees. The vortex/spiral enclosing the figures is like a spring of energy, suggesting that the man and woman, who are at the centre of this energy are... conduits, the core, the essential element, the stillness that is replete. The moon, in its phases, represents time and the energy of push and pull, an innate balance. I've uploaded this painting on this post because it is one of my newest, plus if you put on a pair of 3d glasses the painting goes totally 3d! This actually happens with quite a few of my paintings. I had no idea they did this amazing 3d layering until a man brought a pair of 3d glasses into my exhibition Frisson in 2010.

Murray Darling Currency Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm Murray Darling Currency is one of my 'quiet activist' paintings which 'speak' about environmental issues surrounding water, coal seam gas mining, food security and so on. Here's a link to a previous post about this painting. http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/11/murray-darling-currency.html Can We Eat Coal For Breakfast....No Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm 2010

$oils Ain't $oils Anymore Oil on linen 70 x 100 cm 2010

The two paintings above could be called 'coal paintings' ie: like the phrase used as a search that lead someone to my BLOG. Here's a link to the post I wrote about Can We Eat Coal For Breakfast....No! http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/11/food-fantasy-in-future.html Here's a link to the post I wrote for $oils Ain't $oils Anymore http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2010/12/oils-aint-oilsany-more.html Check out my GAS GALLERY http://kathrynbrimblecombeart.blogspot.com/2011/05/gas-gallery.html I am currently working on large oil painting inspired by the Murray Darling environmental 'conversation'. Like the work on paper above, I am using a map of Australia with the Murray Darling region painted in small $ signs. A tree-of-life cascades across the canvas forming the oceans and the continent, reminding us that we all share life on this planet...and

<><><><><> have done so for millenia and hopefully for many more into the future. The small $ signs question how we 'value' our natural resources. The fact that the viewer is unaware of the $ sign until up close, 'asks' the question, 'Have you noticed?' I hope to have this painting finished by next week. <><><><><> In Stillness and Meeting Place of The Mind will both be in my Melbourne exhibition 'Paradise' @ Purgatory Artspace, 170 Abottsford St, North Melbourne 8 September -8 October. I intend to hang some of my 'quiet activist' paintings too, because our environment is our paradise...and paradise lost. Check out my PARADISE online gallery for a glimpse at some of the paintings. http://tinyurl.com/3ndj542

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<><><><><><><> I am the speaker at the next C.J Jung Society meeting Tursday 4 August 7.30-9.30 pm http://www.jungqld.com/ My topic....The tree of Life! TATTERSALL’S LANDSCAPE ART AWARD: I have been invited again this year to participate in the Tattersall’s Landscape Art Award. The award is announced Wednesday 7 September. The exhibition will be on display at Waterford Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane September 12 – 23. ALSO! Please check out. Two workshops I am co-presenting. http://www.artandinsights.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Kathryn www.kathrynbrimblecombe-fox.com   <><><><><>

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