the sensual figure
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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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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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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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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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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…
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For Emma
As a full time worker and mama, making time for my art usually comes in the form of making things for special people on their special days. For her 30th birthday my friend Emma got this huge original art birthday card. Lots of fun to make, trying to capture her exuberance for life and new…
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the dancer
To be alive and to delight in the sensual…to be liberated and free to know what pleases you. This is the dance with pleasure.