It is this.
Hobbity Place
And this.
(Dear ones – I am republishing this textures piece, as there were techhy glitches earlier. Apologies if you’re receiving it twice.)
Elf Platters
What is the Texture of Paradise?
Extreme sport for me is stepping onto an escalator in a shopping mall
I said there’d be more about my Aotearoa NZ sojourn. And lo.
Kiaora!
Sally Swain’s mini artelogue journal
Smiley face snow-streaked mountain on a hot summer’s day. Can you spot the friendly mountain appearing in journal page above?
A Smiley Face Snow-Streaked Mountain
watched over the place I fell in love with,
Prepare to be subjected to the Land of the
Long White Blog unfolding itself across time and space.
Can you cope?
And what am I talking about anyway?
Remember the Resting-in-Abundance Tree from a couple of weeks back?
Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Sally Swain © original art
Well, it came to
Who’s the Dinosaur?
Then I had a week in which people from my long-ago world kept surfacing. In person, on social media; some were alive; some were not.
Emotions stirred, swirled, whirled.
I walked at night past an inner city shop – Dove and Lyre Fossils and Crystals. There was a dinosaur footprint sitting in the window.
Dinosaur footprint
in
Dove and Lyre shop
A dinosaur footprint?
Tree Trust
Part Three of a Treelogy
Here’s the
Resting-in-Abundance Tree.
Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Sally Swain © original art
It’s made of paint and beads on calico,
with a glitzy golden sequinned border,
an ounce of optimism
and a dollop of desire.
A Resting-in-Abundance Tree
Tree Love
Magic Close-up Tree 1
Part Two of a Treelogy
In my fifty-six year old world, I was horrified.
Tree Truth
This story straight out of the Creative Love Exchange
is Part one of a Treelogy
Tree Truth 1
A lovely Psychodrama person rings me from far yonder. She requests my arty input into a banner for this week’s Australia/NZ conference in Sydney.
I hum. I ha. I say
Oh Bowie Oh
Space Odditea.
That’s what I called my 2013 exhibition at
Beyond the Ordinary Teahouse. Surprise surprise – lots of teacups.
Would you like to see the painting I called ‘Space Odditea’? It’s never before been seen by non-Sally eyes.
If not now, when?
Space Odditea
Sally Swain © original art
I thought it wasn’t
Whatever you think of Eat, Pray, Love
(plenty of people go hohumm about this book)
(I boldly declare I like it),
you might enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert’s thoughts on the creative process.
I know I do.
Inspired by Summer Solstice
play-in-progress stage 1 Sally Swain original art
Maybe you’ll feel like gobbling, imbibing, EATING her words.
You might experience them as a PRAYER to creativity.
She might help you fall in LOVE
I wish you a JOYful New Year
Little Arty Joy Book
is an Art and Soul playshop coming up soon.
(See the Offerings page on this website)
Here’s a Fat Book of Positivity that helped to inspire it.
Fat Book of Positivity
Sally Swain and others
This was a frabjous art swap I engaged in
as part of the Art Therapy + Happiness 2015 Project.
Imagine.
Art and Soul Space 