Friday, 10 July 2009

Annie Franklin - Artist








I was invited to Annies Exhibition tonight. When I walked in I looked at her art and my heart began to glow. This is the first time I had this feeling for art except for my own as it is emerging. Its like seeing my child. Ive only seen Annie once before and we have been corresponding by email since October last year, when I wrote to her asking her to mentor me. Apparently we have the same sensibilities. I had no idea what that meant and had to look it up in the dictionary. Id have to agree after seeing her work tonight. Surprisingly, Bryce Courtney opened the Exhibition which consisted of photos by Bob Brown (Leader of the Greens - I didn't know who he was) and Annies work. I knew I was going to buy something and I already arranged for a payment plan with Annie before I went there. But it was frustrating not knowing what I had to do to buy a painting so I staggered over to the barman and told him I was an art virgin and wanted to buy something and didn't know what to do. He went off and got someone to come and help me and introduced me to this woman by saying "this lady is new to buying art, please be gentle with her" It was so funny. Well maybe you had to be there. So here is the pic of this tiny and lovely solar print. If you explode it you will see two tiny figures on the left hand side sitting out in the garden.







3 comments:

The Hill Family..... said...

3 things

I can't believe you didn't know who Bob Brown was

I do like your painting

I love Bryce Courtney

Kim said...

I forgot this bit. When I got to the gallery I got lost and was standing at the bottom of the stairs trying to work out where to go and this old man was standing above me. He said are you lost. I said yeah, he come with me Ill show you where the gallery is. I walked in with him and everyone was staring at me and I didnt know why. I went off looking at painting then the official opening started and the man I walked in with was going to open it. It was Bryce Courtney. If I had of know he was going to be there I would have taken my dreaming book of his and had him sign it. Now I know why people were looking at me.

The Hill Family..... said...

Oh MAN, now your just showing off!