The Three of Us - Carol Endean Little

The Three of Us

For this show I am exhibiting both paintings and sculpture. 

The paintings grew out of sessions with my sewing machine, when I began playing with the thread as line, texture and pattern.  I like the freedom it brought to experiment, tracing out the walks I took in memory along the cliff lines of the Blue Mountains, or along rocky coasts and beaches. 

In the sculptures, too, I took the freedom to experiment with different types of stone and wood, using different tools and techniques.  I have always had an affinity to stone, bringing them home from all my travels.  The weight of stone, its density and colour, its enormous age, bearing within itself the geological and environmental history of the Earth, all of this is quite marvellous and worthy of respect.

There is something rather mystical about stone.  Carving is laborious and dusty,  sometimes frustrating, but always, pleasure.

Carol

The Exhibition The Three of Us is running at the Little Gallery, 89 George St, Bathurst from 19th November until 9 December.

Postcards from the Middle - Karin Smith explains

I have included most of my postcards in the exhibition, I have always liked the idea of them being lined up together in an exhibition so this is a great opportunity. The other thing I have done is created actual postcards from them. With much fiddling about in Word I feel like I have achieved something very impressive – speak to anyone who knows – I am MAD for using Word but I don’t have access to more sophisticated programs. I plan to have lots of these at the exhibition for sale at $2 each. The money for these will go to charity. It also means I have an unlimited supply of cards for birthdays and attaching to presents. One of the good things about using postcards as cards like this is that they use only a quarter of the resources of other cards. No envelope and no double fold. I like that!

The Exhibition The Three of Us with Carol Endean Little, Karin Smith and Catherine Hale will run from 19th November to 8th December at The Little Gallery, 69 George St Bathurst.

View Karin Smith's website here

Postcards from the Middle - Karin Smith explains

Quite a while ago now I decided to do linoprints in postcard size. There were a couple of reasons, first I thought it would be easy to go somewhere and find something unique about it to create an image that easy identified a location, secondly it meant I could use them as cards. The first one was not as easy as I thought (nor do I go to too many different places!) but I have now done quite a few postcards of Bathurst. The second is an interesting dilemma. I hate spending heaps on cards that are going to be thrown out as soon as the present is opened or the birthday is over. My solution was to do lots of the postcard prints and put them on some matboard and make that part of the present. I thought they would be stuck on the fridge or thrown out like most cards. This backfired on me because the people I gave them to wanted them in a format they could frame – quite a compliment but I hadn’t intended to give them a picture that they ‘should’ frame. 

The Exhibition The Three of Us with Carol Endean Little, Karin Smith and Catherine Hale will run from 19th November to 8th December at The Little Gallery, 69 George St Bathurst

View Karin Smith's website here