
Julie Blog #20
Terracotta Guard – acrylic on canvas – 177×57 cms
For your entertainment and amusement, a painting, a poem and a short story are presented in each blog.

Surely you’ve all heard of the Poodle with a Pearl Earring… very famous in the dog world. The lace down

AUTUMN is one of a series of four I painted in acrylic on metre-high canvases to illustrate the way in

COMBINING POETRY AND PAINTING has become my latest project. Here is Mauver (= more mauve: yes, I make up words

MEET THE ARCHER, just one of hundreds of life-sized clay figures reconstructed from fragments since the discovery of the Chinese

MY CHOSEN PAINTING for today is Big Bucks, high in my affections because it will feature on the cover of

Handmade plant pot is a CREATURE FEATURE, and the creature is SKITTLES. ALL OF MY CRITTERS, with the exception of

Remember the poem Pale Green in Blog #9? Here we have the poem presented as an art work. Nifty, non?

GREETINGS, all you followers of the creative arts. For a special person, I will be featuring some wilder pieces to

OFF TO A DAY’S WORK, our coal miners are descending in the lift, accompanied by essential work mates, a pit

IT SEEMED A PITY to waste the big tough wrapping from my Fed-Ex parcel, so I used it to portray

Greetings, readers. You were probably wondering if #9 was ever going to arrive, but I have a very exiting reason

Welcome to Blog #8. I’ll have to stop promising paintings ahead of time. The photographic image of Late Spring was

Today’s painting is Early Spring, the full version of our Home screen background. Now you can see the full complement

There is a lot to explain in this painting, which depicts a cross-section through the earth, with the earliest form

I WAS SURPRISED to discover that pit ponies were still being used at the Warkworth mine during my working lifetime.

Greetings Dear Connoisseurs of the Arts (mine), This is the third duck commission, which I promised for the last blog

Did I promise a new post every week? Well, that was unrealistic! I would have to live far belong the

Greetings All, Thank you for joining me on My Blog 2. If you have read Blog 1, I hope you

Greetings to you, Don’t we all love to laugh? And laughing is good for us: it promotes health, healing, and