colour canon

The other day I was listening to Margaret Throsby interview author Sonya Hartnett on Classic FM. Sonya Hartnett chose Pachelbel's Canon as one of her favourite pieces of music. If you don't know the name of this piece of music you will certainly recognize the tune, it is ubiquitous in shopping centres and lifts, but, as Harnett pointed out just because it is played in shopping centres doesn't make it any less beautiful. I totally agree. I've been listening to Pachelbel's Canon for many years and it has taken on a new importance in my life as a mother- it works calming magic on manic two year olds and manic 36 year olds!



Pachelbel's Cannon has also had great signifigance in my artistic life. Wallowing in the post-modern sea at art college Paul Klee (1879-1940)was my lifeline. His elegant, scientific lyrical explorations of colour and line inspired and comforted me. Klee developed a "Canon of Colour Tonality", a formalized graph of colour relationships using lines, circles and triangles. This sounds very dry and boring but Klee's explorations were fascinating and beautiful.



Klee said:
"There are two things in a painter, the eye and the mind;each of them should aid the other. It is necessary to work at their mutual development, in the eye by looking at nature,in the mind by the logic of organized sensations which provides the means of expression."

home beautiful

It gives you a whole new perspective to see your work in the print media.


There is an article about "The Magnolia Project" in this month's Home Beautiful magazine.

Pots on the left of me, cheese on the right.....

"No matter what it's size the Vaishnava kitchen is divided into two areas: one for preparation and cooking and another for storage of staples...... A cook bathes and puts on clean clothes before entering the kitchen, then sits comfortably on a low stool and uses the floor as a countertop space....Cooks develop a sixth sense for their ingredients ,and, without assistance from recipes or measuring tools, they prepare sumptuous meals..."
from pp.xii "The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking" by Yamuna Devi

It is always interesting to see how other crafts arrange their working spaces.
Yamuna Devi's kitchen sounds like a good description of a beautiful clean, calm studio (apart from the clothes!)

But look....

AAAAAAARGH! Today my studio is being pulled apart in preparation to being rebuilt.

I have moved temporarily into the kiln shed.


We are rebuilding the studio because Trevor Hart husband, jazz cat is now becoming a CHEESEMAKER! (I am so happy that Trevor's personal fullfilment is leading him to become an expert in my favourite food) Half my previous studio will now be a cheeserie producing buffalo mozarella and yoghurt, chevre and goats camembert amongst other things.