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“Duplicity”

1/2 sheet Watercolour Diptych

Copyright 2009 Jean Burman

I am not altogether sure what’s going on with me lately… but recent paintings have a distinct duality to them!  I think it all began with the decision to paint diptych’s in vertical format… and from there well… you can see for yourself what’s happening!

I attribute some of the effect also to offshore Double Island… and nearby Scouts Hat (Haycock Island)… which is maybe having some sort of bi-polar effect. [Nothing serious here though folks... and nothing to be unduly worried about! grin]

I swear this place never stops.  People come… people go.  And I get to meet pretty much all of them.  As resident artist I have a little pozzie by the main door and most people stop to talk… the rest simply smile and pass by.  Either way… I like it.  I enjoy people… well most of them anyway! And here at the Reef House I am getting to meet my fair share.  I had an extraordinary thought the other day… perchance I stay long enough I might eventually get to meet everyone on the planet.  [Needed an asprin and a good lie down after that one... Grin]

“Double Island Duet”

1/2 Sheet Watercolour Diptych

Copyright 2009 Jean Burman

Earlier in the week I met a lovely couple from Southern Italy.  They were on their honeymoon.  He spoke English very well… she only a very little.   It so often confounds me how much can be said by “not saying anything at all”. How gestures of friendship transcend the  language barrier and people go on to become firm friends in spite of not having a clue what the other person just said… whilst instinctively knowing exactly what they meant! How funny is that.

It’s hard to know where exactly this experience is leading me.  It’s fun but it’s also tiring.  And the money hasn’t quite hit the bank yet. But I am painting like there’s no tomorrow… and let’s face it… if nothing else I shall have a good body of work for my 100 year Retrospective!

I had a phone call from another friend the other day.  I met Judith earlier this year at a Freelancing for the Creative Industries Seminar in Brisbane. She rang to tell me she had decided to take up an extraordinary opportunity to live the artist’s life for three glorious weeks in November in the artist’s quarter in Paris.  An apartment had serendipitously become available and she had decided to run with it.  I spent the following 24 hours online researching artists working in Paris!  Oh… *sigh* … if only.

I sit every day on the precipice between doing the sensible [and expected] thing… and jumping right off the creative deep end. Judith has my full creative support as she takes that dive into what can only eventually be a very good thing.  Needless to say I will be with her in spirit… and who knows… the body may even get to go too… if only I can manage to squeeeeeze myself into that suitcase!  (((chuckles)))

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