Thursday, January 24, 2013

A CHANCE TO SEE AND BUY MARGARET'S PAINTINGS AND CARDS

On February 16, 2013, the local parish church, St. Michael's, North Carlton, is holding its annual day to celebrate the creativity of people in the community. It is a Saturday and the exhibition will run  from 10.00 in the morning until 3.00 in the afternoon.

Marg will be exhibiting half a dozen of her smaller works, including some early paintings of local shops and cafes, a seascape and one of her wellknown fruit paintings.

I have been re-printing a number of Marg's paintings on cards. We now have over 150 different cards of these  paintings and many of these will be available for purchase on the day.

Speaking of cards, they are also available throughout the year ar the following local places...
Art Stems , at 1018 Lygon Street, North Carlton
Artastic Gallery at 781 Nicholson Street, North Carlton
Alice's Bookshop , 629 Rathdowne Street, North Carlton 

Below you can see a couple of the cards which are now available.


                                                                        Passing Storm


                                                                     Art Stems



Alice's Bookshop



                                                                         Cosmos



Tatong Road in Autumn

                                                   
                                                                     Stillness

We hope you may be able to get to the St. Michael's exhibition. There will be food available for sustenance.
Otherwise , feel free to drop in at one of those local shops if you would like some more cards.

Monday, January 07, 2013

MORE PAINTINGS FOR SALE

               At Margaret's October- November exhibition, thirty three paintings were purchased by friends and other visitors to Artastic Gallery, where proprietor Kate Carns had presented Margaret's work so attractively.

                  We still have over thirty paintings from the exhibition which are available for sale. Here are some of them. The first is the Old Greendale Pub. located in Western Victria on the way to Ballarat. This is a watercolour painting and its price is $  250   .


          This painting is one of a pair painted  in Spring, the time when freesias are appeasring in our gardens. It is priced also at $ 500  and it is titled Freesias Freshly Picked.           
                   
      
            Painted in 2010, this absract painting was the first of a new series which Marg tackled in that year. It is titled Created.and it is available for  $ 400.

           For more information about these or other paintings, we can be   contacted by email at                                           macmarg@optusnet.com.au