Saturday, May 13th 2023 to 11 June 2023.
WAXING LYRICAL at ‘Water Through Reeds’ Gallery in Bungendore, NSW.
THE OYSTER LEASES // encaustic & mixed media on cradled panel 50x50cm
THE OTHER ART FAIR 2021
Join me at The Other Art Fair between the 18th to the 21st of March at The Cutaway Barangaroo, Sydney.
Regeneration Of Our Land, 2020, Size, $240-
WILD2FREE FUNDRAISER FOR AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE
100% of the proceeds from the sale of this artwork will be donated to Wild2Free Kangaroo Sanctuary.
Wild2Free are a charity organisation based on the South Coast of Australia. Run by volunteers, they aid in rescuing and rehabilitating sick and injured native Australian animals. In the most recent devastating bush fires, they have taken on a large number of young joeys and kangaroos with injuries.
Please get in touch if you’d like to purchase this piece to support their efforts.
HER BEAUTY and HER TERROR Cold Wax & Oil on Arches paper onto Cradled Panel. 38 x 56CM
AUSTRALIAN BUSHFIRE FUNDRAISER 2020
All proceeds from the sale of this artwork will be donated to The Bushfire Relief.
POSTPONED / The Other Art Fair ~ Sydney March 2021 (Dates TBA)
I will be exhibiting at The Other Art Fair at The Cutaway, Barangaroo Reserve. Date TBA.
FOR FREE TICKETS: toaf.com/mar20
PROMO CODE: ARTVR
SAPPHIRE MISTED MOUNTAINS | cold wax & oil | 30 x 60cm
WILFUL LAVISH LAND | cold wax & oil | 30 x 60cm
Our Unique Land
This time my work is drawing on Australia for inspiration… its landscape, ancient heritage and the very uniqueness of our fauna. The big wide starry skies filled with thousands of cockatoos and the tiny marsupial hopping mouse burrowing into our huge brown land. All represented in my encaustic paintings between the layering and transparency giving the viewer a sense of times passed, and the very uniqueness we are lucky enough to live with.
Exhibition ‘Our Unique Land’ at Art2Muse Gallery 19 February – 4 March 2019
Launch 6pm – 8pm Thursday 21 February 2019
MILAGROS (miracles/votives) as featured in the Frida series of paintings by Verity Roberts
Historically the Milagros is a folk custom in parts of North, Central and South America traceable to ancient Iberians who inhabited the coastal regions of Spain. They accompanied the Spanish as they arrived in the Americas. It is still used occasionally in the folk culture of the rural areas of Spain.
Milagros are small religious metal charms. They’re made of tin, silver, gold, bone, wax and usually 3 dimensional. They’re found in many Catholic countries especially Mexico and Peru. They are frequently attached to altars, shrines and sacred objects found in places of worship. Used as healing purposes or votive offerings – often purchased in churches and cathedrals or from street vendors.
As part of a religious ritual or an act of devotion , Milagros can be offered to a symbol of a saint as a reminder of a petitioner’s particular need, or in gratitude for a prayer answered. They are used to assist in focussing attention towards a specific ailment, based on the type of charm used. Milagro symbolism is not universal : a milagro of a body part, such as a leg, might be used as part of a prayer or vow for the improvement of the leg: or it might refer to a concept such as travel or mountainclimbing. Similarly a heart might represent ideas as diverse as a heart condition, a romance, or any other number of interpretations. Milagros are also carried for protection and good luck.