having my car being serviced I took another train ride to the city for a few hours, I visited the Museum of Contemporary art... I know these artists are trying hard to say something, but it strikes me that a lot of modern  art is like the sort of stuff that High School  art teachers would give their kids to do to keep them busy and try to be creative.

I enjoyed much more some of the things I found out on the streets

Today was the opening of  our exhibition commemorating Forty Years of the Hawkesbury Community Arts Workshop.

  Emeritus Professor Graham Swain AM (former Principal of HAC and retired Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney and Chief Executive Officer opened the Exhibition, his speech covered the beginning of his role in the birth of the Western Sydney University, and the beginning of the Hawkesbury Community Arts Workshop, and it's 'mid life crisis'   with the changing relationship from the Hawkesbury  Agricultural College to WSU

The  Exhibition at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries,Female Orphan School, Building EZ, Western Sydney University (Parramatta Campus) i on until Friday 22 February 2019, Off Victoria Road, Rydalmere and is curated by  Monica McMahon, Art Curator, Western Sydney University

The Historical building is a wonderful venue for a beautiful exhibition of works by the variety of workshop members, the disability groups, and  works of Kevin Oxley who was one of the driving forces for establishing the Workshop.

I went to see the John Russell exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW before it closes on the 11th

                                                 Discover the Sydney artist at the heart of impressionism

Part of the French avant-garde of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Russell was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh and Auguste Rodin, taught impressionist colour theory to Henri Matisse and dined with Claude Monet. Yet history has largely forgotten Russell, who was a key member of this ground-breaking group of artists during one of the most exhilarating periods in art history.
Bringing together 120 paintings, drawings and watercolours – including a number of works by his contemporaries – this major retrospective is the first survey of Russell’s work in 40 years. It offers fresh perspectives on French impressionism, reintroducing Russell’s extraordinary painting to today’s audiences.
The exhibition presents the breadth of Russell’s art from his studies in London and Paris, through impressionism and experimentation with pure colour, to his later fauve-like luminous watercolours. It features significant works that were only rediscovered recently and are exhibited publicly for the first time

Unfortunately my phone camera produced mainly blurry disappointing results

Friday night was the opening of the 2018 Hawkesbury Art Fair at the Regional Gallery in Windsor and was officially opened this year by the new Hawkesbury Mayor Barry Calvert.

Local Art groups and individual artists are represented including the Hawkesbury Community Arts Workshop and the Piggery Lane Studios.

The exhibition will be open to the public for a month until Sunday 2nd December,  and all works are for Sale.

Opening speech by Mayor Calvert

four artists from the Piggery Lane Studios

in front of  two of my paintings

It was the Macquarie Towns Arts Society  'Spring Exhibition' in Richmond this weekend. I often forget but remembered this time and  put three paintings in.