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Author Archives: Jan Mullen

equal billing

23 May
Jan Mullen
WEEK TWENTY (may 15-21) We are back to earth this week, back to a sort of normality….sort of in the sense that we are out of routine, out of provisions, and still not quite back in our time zone. A ... Read more »

my studio artwork process, Knit One Purl One, Sulphur Crested Cockie

nail a big sign in my noggin

18 May
Jan Mullen
WEEK NINETEEN (may 8-14) The final word, and the final photos of our trip to Europe, are bought to you this week by the Bavarian National Museum – a very quick trip on our final morning in Munich. Not that we ... Read more »

gallery hopping, the reading pile favourite museums, future thoughts, paint chip drawings, travelling

a golden glow throughout

17 May
Jan Mullen
WEEK EIGHTEEN (may 1-7) The week starts gently for me and with a whack for the other three. I stayed close to home drawing, reading and walking – a lovely day of solitude – whilst the other three hired a ... Read more »

away, gallery hopping cameras, favourite museums, travelling

it’s grand to be in budapest

15 May
Jan Mullen
WEEK SEVENTEEN (april 24-30) From a week full of visual overload, and camera overuse, this post features photos from Budapest’s Museum of Ethnography. It was a perfect first day full day in Budapest. The bloke and I started this trip ... Read more »

away, gallery hopping, movie night favourite museums, travelling

a week of small steps

23 Apr
Jan Mullen
WEEK 16 (april 17-23) It’s an unusual week that starts with a day less – though the ‘lost’ day was pleasantly spent. We were happily held captive at our ‘little house’ mucking around with two small girls and planting two ... Read more »

movie night, organization, our little house, the reading pile artwork process, Knit One Purl One, paint chip feathers, project priority

breaking cycles / break through

18 Apr
Jan Mullen
WEEK FIFTEEN (april 10-16) The week was FULL before it started and very inconveniently, bouyed by the recent weeks of art making, my noggin was firing and had me ready/itching to get back into making mode immediately. Which idea? Which ... Read more »

away, feathering the nest, our little house artwork process, bush delights, project priority, pumpkin festival

felled feather bounty

10 Apr
Jan Mullen
WEEK FOURTEEN (april 3-9) Finally I have finished Knit One Purl One and it is not until I have seen it a few times, viewing with others, that I have lost my ‘attachment’ to it and can begin to feel ... Read more »

feathering the nest, our little house artwork process

letting the ‘making’ ground me

3 Apr
Jan Mullen
WEEK THIRTEEN (march 27- april 2) This week, my strong priority of ‘making’ has felt like a real treat. There are still decisions to be made on this particular project but I really appreciated making the time to settle into ... Read more »

AGWA, our little house, out visiting, the reading pile artwork process

pie in the sky dreaming

29 Mar
Jan Mullen
WEEK TWELVE (march 20-26) After a big empty of my head and heart here last week, I start the new week with a few tiny specks of change in motion as, realistically, expectations for real change take time and inspiration ... Read more »

back to my past, gallery hopping, my studio, our little house artwork process, future thoughts, project priority

something is brewing

20 Mar
Jan Mullen
WEEK ELEVEN (march 13-19) I am continually exploring my future, a way forward that can nuture my increasingly desperate need to move to a different level of my art practice. Barriers exist that manage to thwart me on a daily ... Read more »

AGWA, back to my past, The Quilt & Textile Study Group of WA, the zoo artwork process, favourite artists, future thoughts

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