Exhibition and New Work

Love is a gamble, Natural Selection, Time and space. © Kelly Gatchell Hartley 2013

Above are my works for the 'Small Works' show at Brunswick Street Gallery which opens this week. Pop in and check it out if you are in the neighbourhood. Exhibition runs until 18 July.

SMALLWORKS 2013 Opening event JULY 5 6-9pm!

Come by on July 5 2013: 6pm-9pm for our opening party,
drinks with our artists and prize announcements
Small Works is a BSG annual prize exhibition - with Hundreds of exhibited works all measuring 30 x 30 x 30cm and smaller! Prizes will be announced at the beginning of the evening. 

322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. VIC. 3065

© Kelly Gatchell Hartley 2013

 

 Here is another two works I have just completed. These will be at my exhibition in October.
Details to come.

Opening Night Invitation

Hope you can make it to the opening night. I have three works entered in this show. Love to see you there.

Just a reminder that the Childrens Art Workshop is coming up. You get to enjoy 5 hours of peace, while your children will enjoy alot of creative fun time. Only $65.

Commission Completed

© Kelly Gatchell Hartley 2013

I was asked to create a babushka character for a clients daughter. This is what I came up with. Happy artist and a very happy client. Horrah.

New work...

It has been a busy week in the studio. I had some pieces of plywood left over from some other projects so I decided to drag out the jigsaw and cut out some birds from them. I then proceeded to get busy with papers, paint, stamps and rub ons to create the works below...



© Kelly Gatchell Hartley 2013
 

I am loving how they turned out. Love to hear what you think.


I have also been busy finishing off an assemblage I started last week. Creating assemblages has become a favourite way to spend time in the studio these days. I love taking things that others have discarded and making them into works of art.

© Kelly Gatchell Hartley 2013

Band tees

For the past few years I have been designing t-shirts for the bands of a local primary school. I initally started them to have a cool momento for my daughters band, but they became so popular that the following year all 4 of the bands wanted one. Here are the designs for the bands of 2013 (The Rock Lobsters is my personal favourite).

© Kelly Gatchell Hartley 2013

New studio

Thought you might like to see some pics of the new studio. I am loving my new space and have heaps of room to move. I don't think the walls will be bare for long!

I'm back...

Wow,it feels like quite a while since I have logged in to say Hi. I apologise for the lack of updates. Moving house, taking a while to set up the new studio and life in general have slowed things down but I'm back.

I have just completed a commission which was alot of fun to do. I can't post images of it yet but once it has gone to its new home in a couple of weeks you can have some eye candy.
I am currently working on some more assemblage work as I just love re purposing things and giving them a new life.

Assemblage work in progress.

I also have some lovely big canvases waiting for me to give them life. Hmmm, what to paint, what to paint???

I would like to finish up  today with a farewell to Penelope Dullaghan from Illustration Friday. http://illustrationfriday.com/  This has been one of my favourite websites for a long time and thanks to all of Penelope's hard work it has become a great resource. All the best with your future endeavours Penelope.
Here is my entry to this weeks Illustration Friday. The theme is TRIBUTE.

© Kelly Gatchell Hartley. 'She weeps for us'.

See you again soon