Kathy Ellem

Following on from the Blog on focus, I’ve come to realize that we look at the world through filters, which affects how we interpret what...

I’ve been learning and observing a lot about ‘focus’ lately. In reflecting on the last four years of living in Victoria (after our big...

I decided long ago that I needed to make frustration my best friend. This is because I could see that I wouldn’t survive as a painter if...

Becoming a full time, self-employed artist, is similar to becoming a clown: you have to learn the basics of juggling. It’s at the core of...

No painting is ever truly experienced until you stand before it and see it with your own eyes. Art has something akin to a mystical...

There are plenty of heritage festivals around Australia, but for my money, there’s nothing quite like the Cobb & Co Festival (15-25...

With painting, often one question leads to another, and one new discovery leads to other explorations, and more discoveries. Most of the...

People often ask me how I get my paintings to be so accurate and realistic. One of the things I would like to do in these blog posts is...

Welcome to the first post of my new blog, in which I want to introduce my first two major paintings for 2019 (pictured right, and bottom...