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What's up for 2023?

18/12/2022

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 With 2022 quickly vanishing I've been reflecting on what I was involved in artistically this year. I was surprised with the volume of different events and the twists and turns that my business took as the year progressed. January saw me at Queen Victoria market in one of the String Bean Alley sheds exhibiting my first solo project "Resilience" based on the traders at QVM and how we formed community and supports through covid. I moved to the Macedon Ranges and threw myself into interactive art events at local farmers markets, joined a collective, participated in group exhibitions and art shows, was commissioned for personal pieces, had unexpected publicity in local papers and the Tourist News, and received feedback from an Archibald finalist! Just recently I started Brush n Bubbles parties encouraging people to give painting a go in a relaxed environment. 

My plans for next year include growing the art parties to include a fixed venue as well as keeping a mobile option, introducing group plein-air painting whilst the weather allows us to be outside, running life-drawing classes and taking commissions for special orders. A fun year it will be! 
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I Am An Artist

23/8/2022

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I always was but I didn’t think it was a legitimate or sustainable career choice. I now know that this was because of things said to me at a young age that I took onboard as being the truth. My realisation that this belief was rubbish came after nearly 2 years of creating art and people buying it.  I was still saying “you can’t live off your art…and I’m self taught so I’m not good enough” when a good friend of mine told me about her brother, also self-taught, totally smashing his way in the art world.

Hearing this was my wake up call, why the hell wasn’t I believing I could do this?!!! I actually got pretty p/d off with myself for taking so long to acknowledge this false belief. I’ve wanted to be an artist since I could hold a pencil! 


So I quit my day job in November,  relocated to regional Victoria with my dog, some clothes and my painting stuff, lived with  awesome friends for 10 weeks in Gisborne, then moved to beautiful freezing cold Kyneton haha. I threw myself into getting to know people in the community, making connections with gallery owners and finding things to get involved in to become part of the town.

​I was so stoked when I found out that the organiser of the Kyneton farmers market had a feature story run in the Tourist News and in the local paper! I was so busy painting and entering competitions and preparing for my market gig that I didn’t know or expect the promotion that happened. The life-change was happening!
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I can't paint

23/8/2022

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This is something I hear often when I tell people I'm an artist. As a kindergarten teacher my role is to encourage learning through exploration and supporting children that say "I can't". Maybe the adults that tell me they can't paint weren't encouraged, or didn't have an opportunity to explore this creative process in their childhood. The thing is, in mho, if you can hold a paint brush, dip it in colour and splosh it on a surface you are painting! 

I can hear the objections!... but my painting doesn't look like anything, it's not right, I don't know what I'm doing, I'm not trained to paint etc etc...

If you want to give it a go that's enough to make a start. No-one can produce an Archibald winning painting from the first time they pick up a brush. Learning to paint can happen without formal education (Henri Rousseau and Vincent Van Gogh for example).  You just need a bit of confidence to step out of your belief system of "I can't"... and with some guidance either one to one, or with like-minded friends let creativity through colour begin!

Learn to explore and express yourself in a fun, relaxed environment with me as your initial artist on hand😘
See my contact page to make a booking today xx Evie D
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Making art visible

17/7/2022

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​I've jumped into market stalls, an artist collective and also developing this website! Having space to display and sell my art is fantastic, it makes my identity as an artist feel so much more real.
Being part of a group of talented local artists is also a great experience, seeing how the same subject matter can be interpreted in so many different ways. 
A creative life may not be straight forward or run on a timeline that you want (as I'm quickly finding out!) but the sense of achievement from creating a special piece for someone is amazing. 



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