As time marches forward, we can only expect our art to follow suit. Engaging in making practices, perhaps as an homage to tradition or a hearty goodbye to age old parameters, contemporary art offers both artists and aficionados the chance to experience their everyday realities…
This weekend we celebrated Australia Day (26.1.19), and I spent the day at Australia’s iconic Bondi Beach with Sally West on another painting day. After some careful planning and organisation well in advance, the paint-out was confirmed in the early hours of the morning after receiving the…
Sally West regularly visits Australian Beaches to paint en plein air. Throughout her art career she has worked to perfect the process of plein air painting – painting in the outdoors on location. This is an artform that Sally West is constantly fine tuning as…
Sally West regularly visits Freshwater Beach to paint en plein air. Freshwater, colloquially referred to as “Freshy,” is a beautiful iconic Australian beach on the East Coast of New South Wales with great waves and white sandy shore. It is a significant location for surfers, as it’s…
