Rudo Greissworth
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What’s more iconic than Venus?
Birth of Venus is arguably one of the greatest pieces to come out of the Italian Renaissance. Botticelli painted her in the 1480s…peak renaissance. I can’t say I was wildly in love with this Venus as a young artist, I even avoided using it as a study because it’s so wildly anatomically inaccurate…but now I…
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Respected and revered
Frida. Who better than to use as my example of what the ICONIC series was all about? In my gallery blurb I said that each work centres women both as subject and as maker, inviting a reconsideration of how these figures have been seen, remembered, and revered. It was so incredibly easy to paint Frida.…
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Girl with a Pearl Earing
Another wonderful adventure in my Iconic Series, where I interpret truly iconic pieces of art. I enjoyed reading up on the paintings…in some instances new technology had changed what we know about them, and I’m literally CATCHING UP on the news since last time I studied art history! In the case of Vermeer’s painting…in 2014…
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Pink Gentileschi
Have you ever thought about the magical powers that creative folk can harness? Back in the day people associated deep meaning to those that had creative genius. This piece, called “Pink Gentileschi” is an ode to an ode. The figure is the personification of creative ability, the URGE to create rather than creation itself. I…
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She became art: Surrealist Siren
A new year’s triumph emerges! On the eve of 2026, I painted electric hues on skin till woman became art. A walking canvas. Part deer, part siren, part painting. And what a delightful woman she was. She became art, amazing festival goers at AUM and filling my cup up once again. Meet Jenna. My sweet…
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Flora
I hold the name Flora very dear to my heart. It’s embodiment of Spring..of Flowers…of all that is blossoming within us and as a story of ours to follow. Follow your heart…don’t let anything that came before you define how you will bloom. I ask of Titan, who painted this woman in many of his…
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My moment with Titan
I wanted a painting challenge so I turned to the old masters. Titan’s “Woman with a Mirror” felt like a perfect fit for me; the subject’s main character energy was erotic and coy, the composition was easy enough to adapt to my needs, and the topic was something I could play with. I wanted to…
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Ode to Michelangelo’s Libyan Sibyl
Nothing pleased me more than remembering the passion I share with Michelangelo for bodies and muscles. As this wonderful character…The Sibyl of the Libyan dessert…daughter with Poseidon and Zeus’s blood running through her….Painting this I felt as if I were sitting alongside the old master…I shared my works of progress with a dear friend of…
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Transforming
For a long stretch of my preteen years I thought of being a zoologist. I would collect Wildlife Fact Files that my wonderful parents subscribed me to. I felt the dazzling power of both order and knowledge creep into my bones. Alas, the allure of chaos, artistic whimsy, and teenager laziness won out and I…
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The Tetrahedron: Aum New Years Festival 2022
Super slick night time shot, what a moon! The art collective…I’m the one with huge daisy sunglasses Why hello there and welcome to my website, and most importantly thank you for your interest in the artwork debut’d at Aum Festival NYE 2022. This means you are a curious, considerate soul. We should be friends. As…
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Animals Within- Humming Bird Woman
I have a real strong love of birds. Especially hummingbirds, I mean those feathers are just the most flashy fantastical feature of the natural world. Prismatics are nature’s fireworks. And my love of connecting symbolic attributes to human forms…here’s where it get interesting. I know that we soar. We fly over situations, we rise above…
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Venus
One thing that’s quirky about sharing the art online is you, the viewer, have no sense of scale. This whimsical floaty figure is about 10 cm big…or shall I say small? What I like about it isn’t the way she looks as much as the way I feel when I look at her…and the way…
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Sculptures made of light
I’m more of a painter than a sculptor. This doesn’t reflect my passion as much as the convenience of making. Creating things like this are hard. And making it outdoors, battling wind and humidity were not kind to my sanity. But the actual magic of making something that takes up space…especially a public festival space…wow.…
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Young Lilith
There is a story as old as time. Of woman’s rebellion and refusal to be tamed. She is me. She is the moon and the shadows and the underworld and the fire of new dawn. She lives in my bones and my heart like a muddy shriek of primal protectiveness. But she won’t protect illusionary…
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Slow Burn Panther Woman
A stalking shadow of ourselves is watching us. Always. This inner panther and prey dance. It reins terror for the faint of heart…making them jump and shrivel at their own form. Yet we the initiated, we the brave warriors of truth-telling and self-awareness, and how well we know ourselves! We know the depths and tunnels…
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Goddess of the Corn
One of the greatest gifts Mexico has given the world is corn. The other is chocolate. Anyways, of the first…corn…the most amazing amount of feminine deities and origin stories vortex around this amazing plant. The indigenous people who those stories belong to have full protective rights to those names, identities, and stories so I won’t…
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Upcoming show all about relating to the body
Hey sweet one. I’m proud to say I am on a healing journey involving loving my body. Unconditional love. How radical is that? Well it is for me, because all my life I’ve felt the urge to FIX MY BODY, it was always too fat in my opinion. Doesn’t help that doctors also told me…
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What exhibiting my art has done for me
Oh my goodness. In 2021 I started showing my artwork to the public. I haven’t done this since I was a teenager. What took me 20 years you may wonder?? Well for one I was terrified of rejection…also one gallery owner said my work was GOOD but “it wouldn’t sell here in this suburb so…
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Figurative art…I’m back at it and why it’s important
Ahhhhhh my old love…the body. I love to draw bodies. I love to show how varied we can appear in art…us bodies…of course I focus on the ones I know best…mine and my girlfriends….sorry guys…you’re just not as pretty most of the time. Anyway there’s some serious healing that happens when you focus on your…
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Podcast Miniseries Release: project 1 of many
The Rudo Love Podcast is here my darlings! Since 2019 I’ve been seeing this lovely fellow and one of the many reasons I’m so grateful we’ve found sweet bliss in each other’s company is because he is a massive audio geek. When I confessed I had always wanted to record my voice, in particular on…
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Post 10! (Art exhbition): Mud and stardust
I dream of the stars and yet my feet are firmly rooted to the beautiful earth. It takes both to find my anchor. When I paint the stars I pretend I’m on a ship…exploring the mysteries of outmost reaches. Maybe I love most what I do not fully understand.
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Post 9 of 10 (art exhibition): Te Henga
I have a friend who saw this piece as it was in progress. Sweet Amy took a peek and declared it reminiscent of Te Henga, Bethels Beach. I was so charmed by her association I let the name stick, but you are free to find whatever place, energy, or entity that this vibrant orange beauty…
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Post 8 of 10 (art exhibition): She Bleeds
I call this one She Bleeds and sometimes I have a hard time saying it in conversation. I think there’s a lot of work to be done to erase the shame that comes from women’s moon time…our menses. Blood is sacred, and this painting is my loving homage to the most special time of my…
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Post 7 of 10 (art exhibition): Four Directions
This is the genesis of the exhibition. I’ve been doing glaze abstract painting techniques for a while but something very different started happening when I switched to Golden acrylics. I could see the difference right away. Somehow, even though there are heaps of colour combos here, I see four season or four focal points dominating.…
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post 6 of 10 (art exhibition): Te ao moemoea
The World of Dreaming. There is only so much I can understand about The Dreaming, the the people of Australia. I wanted to use the red to express the otherness while still using indigenous language to describe it. When my best friend told me she was getting Australia vibes from this painting, I saw it…
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Post 5 of 10 (art exhibition): Liquid amethyst
Purple is a divine colour. A luxurious colour. The tones of monarchy, of spiritual foresight, and magic. I hope that whomever takes this painting feels enshrined, blessed, a full of potential. I took a long time watching all the potential for purples to shift from cool to warm tones. I added gold and bronze to…
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Post 4 of 10 (art exhibition): arctic waters
I was so patient with this one. I took my time, using the thinnest of veils…exploring the millions of moments of blue. It’s by far the most captivating colour for me. I painted while thinking of all the oceans, all the sea life (most of all my favourite the Humpback), and finally….once a modest history…
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Post 3 of 10 (art exhibition): Green Fairy Medicine
When addressing the purpose of my exhibition I said I wanted to make people’s eyes feel good when they looked at the work. I got a lot of great reactions from this painting. Some said it was their favourite, and one dear soul said it scared him. Granted, he assured me it was not about…
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Post 2 of 10 (art exhibition): South x west
I’ve never been to the American Southwest deserts. But I think this pice carries its energy. I wonder when I’ll go. Georgia O’Keeffe is calling me. I painted over an old canvas, one from the mid-2000s where I was experimenting with textures and drying techniques…hence there are some surprises in this one!
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Post 1 of 10 (art exhibition): GOlden Slumbers
Gold isn’t perhaps a colour, but I tried to evoke all the hues that make your eye think of golden things. I think it’s more than just the flash and glimmer of a metallic sheen…Gold is in our hearts and minds. We are Golden. And there I go again, my lyrical love!
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Why it took me 20 years to self portrait
I know my title would suggest I’m going to explain myself but surprise! I offer you no explanation. I am a minx, aren’t I? In all seriousness, when I started to investigate my relationship with my body I went down an incredible therapeutic pathway. 2020 was an intensely self-reflective year and a year of self…
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Mirroring ritual in art
While channeling the artwork for the colour therapy deck I stumbled upon new ways to communicate themes. This sweet rosy pink card imbues the viewer with loving energy. This loving energy is a message, a reminder, to love yourself in all ways. Eat well, live well, think well, be your own beacon of vitality. My…
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Process over product
If you’ve taken art you will have heard this phrase. It’s important, and I urge you to consider what is most important: the final destination or the adventures you had while getting there. This is so true in art making, and for me the art of SEEING what is unfolding is a theraputive/informative/transformative/spiritual/empowering ritual. This…
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My Dragon
We all have this innate ability to connect to animal totems. Some of the wisdom for me has been taught by Native American vision quests, Japanese guided meditations, or the various oracle cards I’ve picked up along the way (which is an amalgam of many voices). Most importantly, I grew up using my boundless imagination…
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rectangle in a square world
My title is just a woe-is-me moment over the fact that the post preview image is in a square format! How I wish I were a digital wizard. This bodies drawing was one of the first pieces of art I made when I decided to settle in New Zealand. I had spent the last 4…
