What a strange world we now live in. When I wrote my last post Covid-19 was something new. It is now some months later so I am looking back on how it has affected my arts practice – and life in general. At first, being oldies, we very much stayed at home. With a ‘life…
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I'm Jennifer Eurell - also called Jen, or Jenny. I am an artist living in Mapleton, Queensland, Australia. I work in mixed media – painting, printmaking and photography and now and again I work with the old medium of cynotype
The Overwintering Project
It was rather exciting to see that $13,000 had been raised by The Overwintering Project and given to the Australasian Wader Studies Group today. The art project is run by Kate Gorringe-Smith and I would have to admit that I really don’t know just how the money is raised, but I do know that it…
Stitching the time away
I’m not the only one – there are plenty of us (mainly women) who are whiling away some time in this period of isolation from COVID-19 and doing some art stitching under the guidance of http://www.TextileArtist.org.com. The site is run by Sue Stone and her two sons, Sam and Joe, but they have rounded up…
Artist of the month
One of the art groups that I belong to allows us to have the spotlight now and again and exhibit as the Artist of the Month. This month I have the opportunity to arrange my works on the wall where they can be seen by not only the members of the Fine Art group but…
Feathers of the Forest
Printmakers with work on display are Cholena Drew Hughes, Dianne Collier, Gerry Luhman, Jenni Matthews, myself, Jillian Bergman, Julie Hanrahan, Karen Shaw, Lois Collins, Neville Field, Nicky Carey and Sylvia Mekhitarian. We are a diverse group and depending on how you do the numbers, linoprints outweighed other processes. Cholena had a large multipiece cyanotype work…
Collectables 2019
I think this is the fifth year of the Maleny Printmakers ‘Collectables’ exhibition. Each year the printmakers all make around five or so different original, handprinted prints in editions of 10. They are only small – 13.5cms x 11.5cms – and at $30 each they sell well. They have found their followers, and of course,…
The memory shelf
There is a shelf above my computer desk, and from it four cameras peer down at me. Occasionally an upward glance brings back some of the memories associated with the cameras. Most peoples memories are reinforced by their collections of snapshots whether still lounging around in shoe boxes, albums, or saved on hard drive or…
The moth migration project
Last weekend John, my sister-in-law Pat and I drove up to Gympie. There were two reasons for this: first to catch up with our Rockhampton friend Trevor who was in Gympie for the weekend, and secondly to see the Moth Migration Project at the Gympie Regional Gallery. I knew I couldn’t get to the opening,…
On being part of the crowd
Almost all of the exhibitions I’ve been in have been group exhibitions. My work stands on it’s own in amidst other artists work. Sometimes there is a theme – and sometimes there isn’t. However two of the exhibitions I’ve been involved with are different. My work has been part of a project as well as…
The evolution of Phangna Bay
I’m not always sure that I’ve done the right thing – and my painting Phangna Bay fell into the negative side of that category – well, maybe, maybe not. The style – and I’ve no idea just what style it is, even though I’m aware of other artists working in this manner – goes back…
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