Author: Lyne Marshall

  • The value of self education

    Many, who have a passion and vision, have followed a focus that in turn answers the questions for rest of us. Recently I attended a one-day workshop on Colour Interval and Linkage. It was given by 74 year old artist Merv Moriarity, who founded Flying Arts forty years ago. Merv’s…

  • Hot off the Easel

    The beginning of a new body of work emerging after some frustration as to a clear direction for future work. I have been going back to basics and experimenting and currently finishing four panels 150 cm x 50cm wide. This is an interesting format and quite a challenge.

  • Infinite Horizons: the Fred Williams Retrospective

    These were layered atmospheric paintings which grew on you more as you advanced through the exhibition, which I did a number of times. In all there were seven galleries. Right from the first gallery where the early landscapes were fledgling, showing the artists search for direction, there was an inherent…

  • A painting of a Birds Eye View

    The world is changing and so is the way we think about the internet. I have always said you can’t sell art online unless the buyers know your work or have been to your gallery. Now I have to change my thinking…I am in awe of socia media. It is…

  • Perfect peace for creating.

    I was reflecting on an inspirational speaker, Vicki Simpson, who I heard talk recently about a Beatles song that had preoccupied her during a time of soul searching.. ‘ get back, get back to where you once belonged’. At the time I heard her say this a few neurons lit…