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As a fairly solitary child, my head was always swimming with stories. On wintery days, you could find me curled up in an armchair, siamese cat on my lap, turning the pages of a book. I was so consumed with the tales, I raced through them, barely pausing to remember names or details but just "what happens next?".
I exhausted the children's section of the Mona Vale Municipal Library, leaving each week with armfuls of fairy stories and junior fiction to feed my book-a-day habit during the school holidays. I graduated to Roman and Greek mythology and then resorted to finding the biggest books on the shelves to keep me going a bit longer. That's how I ended up with Leo Tolstoy's door-stoppers War and Peace and Anna Karenina before I finished primary school.
The magic of reading is that, with the right amount of imagination, the story spools out like a movie in your head but you taste all the emotions of the characters. And, when you are a child, ingesting these stories is a way of trying situations out for size, without having to commit to the danger, to romance, to tragedy or exultation.
It was with these thoughts in mind that I created this new collection of 10 paintings for Michael Reid Murrurundi (July3-21). In explanation, a fractured fairy tale is one where details have been changed in often unexpected ways. Here. my birds have become the central characters.
If you would like to see more or get some details, please contact Coline Soria for a catalogue. The works will be for sale prior to the opening of the show so, if you see something you like, don't delay contacting Coline!
All the paintings are the same size (50x60cm) and are in blackwood floating frames, selling for $2400 each.
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