Hello Dhaaaarlings...
Our recent adventures took us to the Tweed River Gallery in Murwillumbah NSW.
On permanent display as an exhibit consisting of reproductions of rooms from the studios of one of Australia's famous female artists...
(to view some of her works click the links for "exhibitions" on the page that the link above takes you to)
Most noted for her "still life" works and known and loved for her philanthropy and selfless mentor-ship of up and coming artists
The Studios where she created much of her artworks were also the homes that she lived in during her long and productive career.
The exhibit is a melding of several of her Sydney abodes and contain many of her original collectables that appear in her artworks
A prolific artist... Margaret was still painting up to the very day she died... doing exactly what she loved...
Here are some of the snaps I took of the exhibit... I apologise in advance for the blurry ones... It's not your eyesight its just my dodgy photography...
The dining room... though I think one would be hard pressed to find space to squeeze in a set of cutlery... let alone a whole dinner plate...
Objet d'art
Here's the Empress caught keenly observing "the mess" in the yellow room and itching to get in there and tidy things up just a little bit...
And behind the Empress is one of the artists paintings of...
"The Yellow Room"...
of which.. the Empress is still observing and itching to tidy...
"The Yellow Room"
With some of the many characters in and sometimes even the whole room itself starring in her paintings...
"What the Empress saw" and I might ad was pretty quick to point out the cigarette still resting in the "dirty" ashtray...
Not even the kitchen was out of bounds as a work area... though quite blurred you can still make out the tubes of paint on the stool in front of the hotplates and oven...
Cluttered... Not?
Despite the clutter... Many of the objects appear as characters in her still life paintings...
Even whole or parts of rooms can be found in her works...
One truly amazing Woman...
Needless to say I was very impressed with the exhibit... As was the Empress even though the clutter reminded her of my own creative space announcing at the top of her voice...
"It looks just like your workroom Princess"
Where... I might add... she has no hesitation in getting in and
"Tidying up just a little bit"... to my horror
as it then takes me twice as long to find the things that I had readied to complete a project that have suddenly... in my absence... disappeared... having just been "popped away in a draw"... "shoved in a cupboard" or "moved to a completely different place".
God Bless Her.
At any moment I was expecting Margaret to come wandering back into the room... pick up a brush and get on with it...
Delightful!...
