This month you can find more of my work at the Aspire Gallery in Brisbane's Paddington as part of Delicate Emotive. A group exhibition where the emphasis of the work is emotion and delicateness.  'Reflective Rose' (above) 9x11" original digital mixed media on board.

'Night - misty lake' digital mixed media print

'Day' digital mixed media print

Super excited to announce that you can now find creative monsoon on hard to find! All of our 11x14" and 10x8" nursery prints with FREE shipping in Australia. Hard to find has scoured Australia – and the wider world – for unique, exceptional products from independent craftspeople and manufacturers and creative monsoon is so pleased to be part of it.

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This month I'll be taking part in the SNAP16 exhibition at the Aspire Gallery with my latest piece 'synthetic scene'

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the work of photographers often shunned by many in the artworld for not being true artist. Anybody who vists SNAP16, a new Paddington exhibition can see that’s a lie.

SNAP16 is a collection of  photographers of both international and local recognition who know their way around a camera.

SNAP16 is open to the public from the 4th to 21st May at Aspire Gallery in Paddington, Brisbane and showcases a real variety of photographic talent and skill.
53 Kennedy Terrace
Paddington, QLD

10x8 and 11x14" prints are available through artfinder.com

Called into Manly this weekend and was really taken by the work of Debra Hood, a local artist who paints Brisbane cityscapes. You can find her work at the Manly Gallery, 11 Cambridge Parade, Manly, QLD.

This weekend we did our annual trip to the Archibald exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. I actually always think the best part is the Wynne prize, and two of my favourites from last where finalists again. Joshua Yeldham and Neil Frazer. Plus I really liked the photo realistic painting of a graffiti covered back street by Luke Barker. Which reminds me I still have some Melbourne graffiti photos to share from our trip in January - more of that later.

The winner of this years Archibald Prize, Margaret Olley by Ben Quilty, was far better in real life, photos don't quite do it justice. I also really like the technique of Craig Ruddy's Cathy Freeman portrait. Splashes of acrylic paint across the back of toughened glass and ink on the front, over the top of plaster on canvas.

The Archibald and Wynne Prizes are at the Art Gallery of NSW until 26th June.

Finally a holiday! The easter and anzac break is here and Im getting stuck into some artwork - plus finishing off all those little DIY jobs around the house. Here is the latests print added to our etsy shop. I did this as a gift card a couple of years ago, don't know why it didn't occur to me to turn it into a pretty print sooner. The creative monsoon website is also down for a revamp but check out our new online gallery. A bit of fun, I'll be changing the exhibitions on there every few months so be sure to keep checking back.

This week I was feeling a little inspired by the work of Frida Kahlo. Ive been looking at a lots of Mexican wedding ideas for the 'i do' it yourself site, and she just kept popping up! So I put together a little homage to Frida, a digital mixed media collage using one of her quotes "Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?" Available as a print from our redbubble and etsy shops.

So I cant really say new work for this, its something I did many years ago and just found on an old backup this weekend. But its still really lovely :) 'Buddha and lotus' available in my etsy and redbubble shops.

Bad, bad me Im so far behind with all my blog posts!
Last year we finally made it to Sculpture by the Sea, two years right by Bondi and we'd never been before!  My favourite sculptures were the steel camel complete with its own sewing machine by Suzie Bleach & Andy Townsend, and a beautiful wave made from eucalyptus sticks by Peter Collins. But of course I have to love the steel French Bulldog sculptures by Geoff Harvey standing on sentry duty along the coastal path.

Another favourite from the Wynne prize this year, Min Woo Bang and his beautiful misty acrylic landscape paintings.

Thanks to the windows and doors group on redbubble who awarded our 'Flowerbox in Paris' photographic print the 'Best of featured work in the group for 2009'! Thanks guys!

This week I finally found some time to tweak another one of Aarons beautiful sunrise beach shots. Love the pink and cloud detail. I think it would make a lovely gift for Valentines Day.

Selecting art or photography for someone else can be a daunting task. So we've made things a little simpler and we're now offering a creative monsoon gift certificate! The perfect way to give the gift of art to someone special this Christmas. And great for those friends and family overseas.

To celebrate the launch of our new prints we're doing a special on our Jacaranda series. You'll be able to buy all three prints at 305x305mm, framed in beautiful black flat frames for only AU$400 + p&p. Saving $50! They look gorgeous as at set and we'd like to keep them together!

Ive mentioned it in a few previous posts but I wanted to write a little piece about redbubble today just to introduce it properly.

Redbubble is an Australian based website, launched globally last year, thats a bit like flickr. A place to upload your art and photography and share it with others. But the difference with redbubble is that you upload high resolution images, these can then be turned into cards, t-shirts and prints and bought by people.

Now dont get me wrong, I love flickr, but for some reason I've had much more feedback on my images through redbubble. Such great feedback I've got a bit of a big head at the moment :) Sites like redbubble and flickr are a great way to test products. I now have a pretty clear picture of which images people like the best and that will help me decided how many copies of a print to produce when selling at the markets etc.

I also love the fact that people can buy such a wide variety of print options, from greeting cards to fully framed prints. And the interface and previews are fantastic, you get a really great idea of how it will turn out.

So if you see me pointing you towards redbubble, check them out, the feedback on print quality has been really great and the options are excellent.