Author: Lyne Marshall
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Accessing inspiration in unlikely places
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What inspires us as artists? For each one it is as different as the lives we lead. We each see the world differently and on our current travels in our little self sufficient caravan journeying to Western Australia from our Queensland home I have met a few interesting people who…
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Finding the unexpected
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I love to travel and seek out wild places. When I experience something in nature that inspires me I feel such a level of excitement and gratitude that I want to capture enough information, to translate the experience into an artwork when I get back to my studio. I aim…
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Take a Walk under My Skies
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I remember when I first moved to this area thinking I had not noticed the skies in this way since I was a child. Storms can race across the paddocks on one side of our house while strong bright sunshine pours down on the other.
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taking care of art business
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One of the darkest places one can go is to the land of indecision. This invented land may challenge your values. A lesson well learnt is when you discover that to challenge your values is to compromise the truth of who you are.
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What is the Purpose of Art?
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One memorable occurrence, which I later believed to be Stendhal’s Syndrome, happened to me twice in 2006 in Shanghai while standing in front of the paintings of acclaimed Chinese artist Zhou Chaing Jaing. I wrote about this unexpected and life changing experience in my first book Gleaner or Gladiator The…