One Hundred Faces

 

For the past 6 years, Trudy McLauchlan has curated an exhibition titled One Hundred Faces. As the

pics show, the exhibition is displayed in her shop window which enables a 24 hour viewing. Trudy's shop has small handmade things that are sourced locally and internationally, from cards, puzzles, paper theatre models, animals, sketch books and etc. This exhibition is held annually and each painting is restricted to 10 x 10 cm, in keeping with the small things in the shop. Although there are 100 pictures of faces, the faces can be anything from humans, animals, birds or the moon. Anything with a face. My image is titled Woman in Gold and I enjoyed painting every brushstroke.

Trudy's shop, PLAYING IN THE ATTIC, is located in Talbot, a small regional town in Victoria, Australia.

Last 2 photo credits  -  Deborah Klein

Near Winter's End

 

Near Winter's End, 2004, oil on canvas, 76 x 51 cm

There are a lots of trees growing along the side of Lake Wendouree so this painting is a heavily edited image. The two trees in this painting caught my eye and the composition was arranged around them. I had the intention of creating a completely grey winter's day but during one of my painting sessions the clouds moved across he sky and the blue tint of a sunny sky revealed itself. I loved the contrast but even more than this, it seemed like the end of something and the beginning of something else.