I have been busy through the Months of Winter and now well into Spring, I could not get enough time to post anything on my blog.  But I finally sat down to write.

I had a very productive year so far painting and selling every week and also took part in 3 Exhibitions so far this year and another one coming up at the end of this Month.

Exhibitions! Am not sure why I partake in them! Except for the one coming up in a couple of weeks, I don’t usually do well in them.  No one does well, out of over 100 works maybe 6 -7 will sell and maybe one or two will be in the big (under a meter) category.  They are group exhibitions and I don’t choose the venue!  

I don’t like on plain-air exhibitions or in crowded little spaces and worst of all when other people hang your work ‘to fit’ in bottom parts, when they need eye level viewing  and worst hang bad work with no particular focal point,  on prominent places because ‘it fitted better ‘.

So why do I do it? To be in touch with other artists!

 It is a lonely vocation been an artist.  Even breaking for coffee or lunch can be the end of your concentration  and inspiration for the day, it can take hours before you get back to the same level of creativity.

 When I paint, I cannot hear or see anything else but the end of my palette knife!  And when I stop after  working  for a few hours, only then I can see what I have been painting.  This is how I create my  abstract  artwork, the theme is in my mind but the execution is in my heart, my hand  will be driven by my inspiration and transfer all these feelings on the canvas.

 

My latest painting – Hope and Peace

 

 

My Art Club's Annual Exhibition

Our Annual fine art exhibition this year at Melrose Arch promises to be a huge success for all artists involved!
I will be entering 4 abstract paintings on this exhibition.  I will post the images of my paintings soon.
Keep a look-out for my posting next week! Thank you all who follow my blog!

A new painting,.

Crying Willow

A few years back I started with a series of paintings.
 In this series I wanted to explore the environmental distraction of our land. I did these four paintings of barren landscapes with a sole tree in the distance try to express in my paintings the damage of the land caused by the big developing companies.

 

STANDING ALONE

 

SOLITUDE

 WAITING TO BE....

A NEW ROAD

The beginning of a developing site.

Before I add to the progress of development, am still feeling the pain and devastation of the land. The trees cry, bleeding as they get uprooted and the earth once flourishing green and alive turns to dust and barren under the new concrete. 

A new painting from my 'City' related series. - "Old City"
This painting depicting old Churches with traditional architecture in an abstract way.   Buildings that city developers don't create anymore but most people love to visit and admire!
Oil on Stretched canvas 50x100cms.

And here is the next painting of my 'City'  series. - "New City"

The jungle of the new overpopulated big City!  I love City Life! I love the country and I love the Suburbs too! 
Oil on stretched canvas 50x100cms.

2012 was a year of many successes and memorable moments!
I worked very hard on both my styles and palettes and also had a few commissions to complete in between.
I painted 81 artworks this past year and sold 89 paintings, some created in previews years. 
I hope 2013 will be an equally good year for Art!  

Many times I’m asked from gallery owners - why don’t I keep to one style of painting?  My problem is that some galleries like my abstract artwork only and others sell my country, floral colorful paintings.
It is very difficult to choose which style I should stick to.  I enjoy painting in both styles. 
Should I stop painting the one style in order to please one segment of my collectors? Or should I continue painting as I always do according to my state of mind and feelings at the time of starting a new painting and produce an artwork that really is created from the heart!
Another question I get very often is – why my abstract work is almost double the price of my other work?
Although my colorful paintings are very creative, my landscapes are in the most unrealistic color palette and my flowers so bright they pop out of the canvas, they are created with such ease, as if they paint themselves.  I only have to take my palette knife on my hand and go to town with my paints!  It is that much enjoyable to do! The pleasure I get creating is so great that no matter how long it will take me to paint a landscape I have difficulty stopping for the day or night.
On the other hand my abstract work is more involved.  I have to make sketches think along the lines of my theme, what I have already created and what I still need to explore in line of my subject which is the ‘City Life’ without loosing my original style of expression.  Once I develop my new idea then I start to paint.  All these need quite a lot of preliminary work.  The execution of my abstract artwork is done by my hand been guided from my heart and soul. Palette knife on my hand following a spiritual enlightenment!