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LATEST ARTICLES ( 134 )

• Putting Your Life on the Line

  

  At some stage in their career, a Brisbane artist must come into contact with the infamous and inimitable David Paulson. Ryan and I signed up to his weekly life... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Dangerous Liaisons

  

  Les liaisons dangereuses © Samantha Groenestyn (oil on canvas)The winds of change bring not just cooling Autumn rain, but also new adventures: within a month I... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• In Defence of Drawing

  

  I had the excellent good fortune to be gifted this well-considered, eloquently written book which I am currently reading for the second time—Robert Nelson’s... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Glass House Mountains

  

  © Samantha GroenestynI was fortunate enough to accompany one Tim Miller to the Glasshouse Mountains just north of Brisbane this past week for a spot of... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Time and Psychology, Visually

  

  Dancer studies © Scott Breton Scott Breton, one of my teachers at Atelier Art Classes (and, just quietly, this year’s winner of the AME Bale travelling... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• J’etudie

  

  Secret history © Samantha Groenestyn I’ve just emerged from a solid twelve-week intensive at the Atelier Art Classes in Brisbane. A re-cap: Tuesday to... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Naples and Madrid

  

  I picked up a book of vintage knitting patterns from the Woolloongabba Antique Centre a little while ago, and made this light cardigan called Naples from some... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Lance’s Studio

  

  Maynard Ferguson by Lance Bressow The other week a few of us drove over to the Brisbane studio of one Lance Bressow, a local painter who spent seven years in... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Where I’ve Been

  

  I’ve been feeding my brain and it’s full of thoughts on painting: Lambert’s lively portraits and Sorolla’s vibrating edges, Antonio Lopez’s severed ghosts... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Allanah

  

  Saturdays at the Atelier we have a model come in and hold the same pose for five hours, for five weeks in a row. Gruelling for a model, and the rest of us work... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Holidaying

  

  It being summer and all, I’m working on a couple of light cotton knitted things which I certainly won’t be able to wear for several months unless I put the... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Unsayable

  

  Copies after George W Lambert, at the Art Gallery of NSW and at the Julian Ashton Art School An especially excellent thing about spending all my time at the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Mad Drawing-demon

  

  I’ve just returned from the sparkling shores of Sydney Town, where I spent an action-packed week, a week bursting at the seams, getting my fill of all things ar... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Full Time

  

  I’ve almost forgotten I have a home, because I’ve been bunkered down at the Atelier which I pretty much never want to leave. You may recall I’m taking a... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE