Guitar Man

ARTastic inspiration for April comes to you from ...

Australian Indigenous Artist, Trevor Nickolls with his piece Warmun Mandala.
A little about Trevor Nickolls

Born 1949, Adelaide, South Australia, Trevor Nickolls is a significant “urban” Aboriginal artist who has been working as an artist since the 1970’s. He has inspired and influenced many artists. He is represented in collections of all of the major art museums and galleries in Australia as well as in collections in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States of America and Canada.

Trevor Nickolls' work is innovative and unique. His work often shows a complex iconography with many layers of meaning. A major theme in his art is “Dreamtime to Machinetime” a theme which articulates the cultural transition which many Aboriginal people have undertaken in their journey from their traditional cultural heritage of living in the Dreamtime, into the world of mechanisation and technology. Trevor Nickoll’s work often presents various interactions between these two different worlds or shows the dilemma of living within both. Subject matter includes the spirituality of the Aboriginal people and their interrelationship to land, sea, sky and cosmos; where people and elements are seen as integrated rather than separate.

Trevor has had interactions with other artists, including Aboriginal artists like Dinny Nolan and Warmun artist Rover Thomas with whom he shared the spotlight as the two artists representing Australia at the 1990 Venice Biennale.

Click here for more information about Trevor Nickolls.

The criteria this month is to use these colours on your work.

Here is my page -

 

I really love this photo of Pete playing, so with these gorgeous colours of Trevor's work I really enjoyed creating. 

I chose black CS, & using bleach & a template (outside on the grass) I achieved this fab background...cleaned my template too!!

Then I reused a piece of backing paper that comes with Marg's goods & more painting with that great template, & the use of shapes, I really was happy with the result.

 

 

Do join in, there is such scope!

 

Hugs xx