Off again, this time to the UK!
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Off again, this time to the UK!

I can’t believe it’s a year since my last post! The year has flown. After returning from the Venice exhibition trip I put aside my palette knife for 6 months to renovate and PAINT my house to sell. Walls, doors and trims are no longer a pleasurable passtime. The house sold quickly, thankfully, and I have been back in the studio recreating my trip on canvas. So many beautiful shots to paint…it’s really hard to choose what to paint next.

However the biggest news is that I am heading to the UK to have 6 paintings on Exhibition. What an honour to involved in the International Art scene again. These are the paintings that have gone over ahead of me.

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Venice, here we come!
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Venice, here we come!

Well this is it. My paintings ready for packing and shipping to Venice. They will arrive before us so it will be a new experience having someone else do the presenting and hanging work for me. Next time I see these, they will be hanging amongst a selection of International artists’ works. Phew! What a ride!

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Venice
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Venice

I am honoured to have 4 of my European paintings selected for an exhibition in Venice in December, Contemporary Venice 2018. What a wild rush now, as I try to finish an essay on French Impressionism, complete the Impressionism course and prepare for a trip to Venice, all in two weeks! Nothing like last minute living in our household. The paintings selected will be hanging on display from Dec 6th - 11th January.

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Blending the built and the natural world
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Blending the built and the natural world

From Queenstown to Sydney to Jasper Alberta. My palette and knife are wandering the world for a while, taking in and putting down on canvas some of the highlights. This latest is a waterfall near Jasper. It has been slow going building layers over the past few days, but I think something is finally coming together. With this one there have been many times where I have put down the knife and covered my palette for the night, or simply moved on to another painting for a break. It has required many steps back to view from a different angle. Once again, it would have been simpler to reproduce a realistic copy of the original pic (photo cred Phil Dakin) than to create an impressionistic version. But therein lies the challenge that I love.

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True colours
Heather Philp Heather Philp

True colours

I have vague memories of the colours of Autumn when I lived in Canberra, but the experience of Queenstown, Arrowtown and Wanaka was new. It was a total saturation of my visual senses every time I looked outside. I wasn't the only one being overwhelmed. My companions constantly exclaimed at the view. The colours brought out different behaviour in people, and all over town there were people throwing leaves, kicking their shoes through leaf "puddles" and rolling around the ground in piles of fallen autumn leaves, taking photographs. I have started the new series of Queenstown Autumn, and have discovered a new love. Autumn.

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Morphing
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Morphing

I find it delightful how my art direction morphs and fine tunes. It's now been a year since I left my regular source of income and returned to being a full time artist. "I took the path less travelled..and that has made all the difference". My very first introduction to the French Impressionists, by my school Art Teacher, has begun a life time love of their work and style and given me a wonderful benchmark for my own work. My focus is Impressionism and my favourite topics have become ancient villages and fields of flowers. Recent travels have now enabled me to work from my own photographic material, so my new works will cover winter in the UK/Paris, and Autumn in Queenstown. The seasons with their light and colour are what drives the Impressionist to capture it on canvas. This week I start this new series.

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Tying up loose ends
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Tying up loose ends

It's still quite a juggling act, renovating a house and keeping the lid partially on the desire to start new works. Some pieces from last year weren't quite finished so it has been quite cathartic to finish these off. No time pressures at the moment. However, a kitchen in our house would make life a little more organised. #impressionism in the kitchen and the studio!

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Back on the Bike
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Back on the Bike

Well I'm back in my studio with palette knife in hand. What a wonderful feeling! Over this Christmas/New Year period, I've had two successful exhibitions and a trip to the UK and France for material for new works. So now I can wade through all the myriad of potential shots. Hmmm...days of pouring over photos and memories coming up!

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Variety
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Variety

15/07/2017

I need variety when I paint. I must work on several paintings at a time, like when I read books. I always have several books on the go at once: something philosophical, something entertaining and reasonably light, a novel, a biography. Two of today's works have started with the whole board painted black. Leaves much to the imagination and everyone guessing.

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Watch this space…..
Heather Philp Heather Philp

Watch this space…..

Hello! Thank you for visiting my art website, and welcome! I'm interested in accompanying my painting with a little something extra, and thought the occasional blog post would be a great way to do that. So watch this space... exciting things to come!

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