Graeme will open his studio again this year - See Graeme's web site
Graeme is looking forward to seeing you on the Mundaring Hills Open Studio weekend.
This year he is having two guest artists exhibiting with him, they are Denise Gillies & Lynne Mitchell from The South West Printmakers Association.
The essence of drawing for me is simply to make a line.
Then another line and another and so on.
Eventually as they cross and cross hatch they start to make tones and shapes emerge.
From then on it becomes a struggle to balance the simple joy of the rhythmical line making with the rational mind wanting to make it into something.
That thin dividing line. One side in, one side out. The yin and the yang.
One side, the reality of today's world, the other the reality of today feelings, thoughts and worries.
Regarding what I draw: Have you ever seen a cloud that looks like a hat, face or some other random object?
Well I often look at a tree and see a struggle, a dance, a symphony, courage, growth, disappointment and other things.
And when I look inside myself and draw what I see, it’s always a tree.
When I cross to reality I see the tree in the landscape and how it relates to that landscape. When I cross back, I feel the rhythm of the tree’s struggle, disappointment and life in that landscape.
My 2011 "One Drawing A Week" project bought me face to face to my inner tree and I saw it soar, and dance with confidence only to retreat with worry and doubt. The landscape itself also changed over the year as I visited places such as Albany, Furguson Valley and family and friends in the north of the state.
The completed fifty two drawings and resulting limited edition prints formed my March, 2012 "My Inner Tree" exhibition (Kidogo, Fremantle)
For the 2014 Mundaring Hills Open Studio I will have on display some of this work along with new work done since.
Come along and have a cup of tea, coffee, cake and a chat in the peaceful Darlington hills environment.
I hope to see you there.
Graeme