Melville Open Studios 2024
This year I will be participating in Melville Open Studios and exhibiting my work in the Artists Hub of Feld & Co along side the fabulous Myra Mitchel
A chance to see some of my paintings and original prints as well as some of my plein air works painted on location out in the bush. Come along and thumb through my sketchbooks and have a chat to me about my process. All work will be for sale including some affordable unframed works on paper or loose canvas.
Melville Open Studios is a popular annual event within the City of Melville and showcases a large number of artists that live and work in the area. Visit art hubs and individual working studios and view a diverse range of both art and craft. For more info visit the homepage.
artwalk freo 2024
This year I am delighted to be part of Artwalk Freo 2024 for the White Gum Valley precinct. A ticketed event that offers the chance to see inside artists studios and homes and discover how they work. I will be opening my doors on the 11 and 12 of May. Come and see my studio which looks out into my inspirational garden full of trees and visit my make tranquil gallery space at the bottom of the garden.
After a longer than anticipated hiatus [with COVID-19 in-between], Artwalk Freo will return for not just one weekend, but three this May!
With more than 20 artists to visit, grouped within three different walking routes, there'll be lots to see and do along the way. More information coming soon.04-05 May: South Freo
11-12 May: White Gum Valley
18-19 May: Monument HillMelville Open Studios 2023
This year I am participating in Melville Open Studios on the 28 and 29 Aril 2023.
As well as having a number of paintings and prints for sale I will be running a workshop or demonstration.
TRANSITIONS SOLO EXHIBITION
In August 2023 I presented two new bodies of work in a solo show TRANSITIONS at Zig Zag Gallery, Kalamunda from
This exhibition celebrated my love of painting, printmaking and the West Australian bush which provides me with the inspiration to create my work.
To date my previous exhibitions have mainly comprised of my paintings, in contrast this show was equally split between showcasing my acrylic paintings and my monotype prints. In addition to this I had a wall of accordion plein air sketchbooks on display documenting my time outside in nature and provided a direct insight into the process behind my finished pieces.The paintings in this exhibition are about how I experience place when passing through on foot. When walking through a landscape time passes slowly, my paintings are not of a particular view or snapshot of time but rather an accumulation of different viewpoints, experiences and times of day. They are of place in an all encompassing way, when painting a place I am delving into visual memories of the near and the far, what is in front and what is behind, the flowers I saw at my feet and the rocks I passed 5 kilometres before. I am trying to say a lot in one painting - each painting is a token of my appreciation and wonder of place. The work is made in response to places I have returned to time and time again, especially those on the Bibbulmun Track
My prints are original monotypes. A monotype is a one of a kind print, a print that cannot be reinked and repeated. Some of the prints in this show are collages, made up of cut and torn papers that I have hand printed and then reassembled to recreate the magical world that I feel I inhabit when being surrounded by trees. Many of the prints are in direct response to Monkey Rock in Denmark. On this beautiful cluster of Granite boulders, leaves drift down from ancient Karri trees and land on fallen trunks that decompose slowly in the damp earth. This place is timeless to me which is why I have titled two of the prints In Between Trees and Outside of Time. To see the exhibition online click here https://bridgetseaton.com/section/523257-SOLO%20SHOW%202023.html|