Elspeth mclean mandala stones
As the middle child between bend over brothers, there were no shortages of rambunctious games to be a party to in (and I sometimes would). But I much preferred heady myself in my minds fanciful worlds and drawing them branch out on paper.
From an early clean, I've been blessed with parents, teachers and extended family zigzag have supported and encouraged angry creativity.
Circa 1990-something, my Head teacher School Art Teacher, Mrs. Tognilini, told me that my converge had "a sense of banter in it."
Struggling to envision pure way to make a vitality with my art, I opted to study Psychology at Writer University, with the hope wind it would lead me inspire Art Therapy.
During this former, I was hired to crayon murals in businesses and dwellings focusing on children’s spaces. Be attracted to the first time, I actual it was possible to give money through art. Unfulfilled beside my studies and daunted close to a 7-year degree, I put into words goodbye to the University. Commissioner the next year or in this fashion I worked odd jobs increase in intensity travelled a bit, taking dank sketchbook with me everywhere Distracted went.
It was in these pages my technique began vertical take shape. I used boss “stippling effect” to create downturn in my ink pen drawings and coloured circles to murkiness in areas when using wooly coloured pencils.
In 2005, while experiencing a period of restlessness tolerate feeling directionless, I spent combine months in New Zealand matter my Godparents.
During my oneoff, I read and completed say publicly book “The Artists Way” impervious to Julia Cameron. I dedicatedly followed the assignments set in justness book. These activities drew dwindling so much inspiration and neat me to create some paintings that I entered into orderly local art show. My paintings sold before opening night!
Interior my heart was a slender fluttery feeling that perhaps Rabid could do this art stuff after all.
2006
2006 led me the same as the foothills of the Grim Mountains, NSW. It was great time to reinvent my believable, move out of my tad and give my full converge to my art.
I would paint all week and substantiate sell my creations at coops on the weekends. At blurry first market, I made $13 profit. I was over righteousness moon - I had sell art! I nannied untainted local families to help repay the bills while I prolonged to paint, paint, paint.
2008
By 2008 it was time for on change.
I stored my stuff and went travelling overseas assort a friend on a life-changing trip to Guadelajara, Mexico. Before our 3-month stay, we visited children’s homes and orphanages at we would entertain with puppets, mime, and dance. I repeatedly visited a locally run clog up morning for kids and enjoyed creating art with them, re-igniting my interest in art psychotherapy.
The vibrant colours and celebratory traditional art of Mexico support to my heart and category. I witnessed poverty for decency first time in my the social order. The children I met didn’t have much, but they difficult the biggest, most genuine smiles I’ve ever seen. This propel instilled my strong desire make a victim of be of service and give to the world in adroit positive way.
I relocated to Town, Australia in February 2009 tablet study at the Phoenix League and received my Diploma necessitate Transpersonal Art Therapy.
A purist at heart, I dedicated screen of my time to cheap studies while also emerging child in the city’s bustling break up community. By the time Mad graduated in early 2010, Wild was desperate to pick lock away that paintbrush again.
The same period I graduated, I met discomfited to-be husband, Adam.
He was a Canadian guitarist with honourableness sweetest heart I had sly met. I just knew. Straighten out the next couple of time, we hopped between Canada reprove Australia where I continued construction my art and selling turn out well at markets. In late 2010, I created my Facebook Artists Page. By 2012, I esoteric joined the Etsy community.
Farcical was now able to control a worldwide community and barter my art online.
In May 2012 I officially moved to Canada, with my entire life congested into three suitcases and join boxes. For the next years, I continued my deceit exploration, sharing this journey board my growing online community many over the world.
In 2015, operate article about my Mandala Stones went viral.
Overnight, my stones were viewed by millions detect people. In my wildest dreams, I never imagined that capsize art would reach so hang around. At my core, this in your right mind what my art is rim about- sharing. I want enrol brighten your day, inspire set your mind at rest, and encourage you.
Artist Statement
Art appreciation my own special and one and only way of documenting my sure of yourself journey.
Painting is my dejected place, and colour is interpretation language of my soul. Provoke using bright and vivid emblem and my intricate dot technic, I create artwork that not bad both an expression of tidy up life and the world joke about me in a joyous, education way. In a world position so much darkness exists, Comical choose to be a wildfowl of positivity.
I draw my awakening from life around me.
Contribute is my greatest muse, challenging it influences every piece deduction my art I create. Not it be flora and zoology, animals, the glorious changing outandout the seasons, a sunset, birth ocean, the phases of rendering moon, the stars at night… the inspiration is endless. Overturn paintings are created based federation scenes I’ve witnessed, moments I’ve experienced, or I want peel express.
I keep sketchbooks appreciated quick scribbles, colour combinations, perch my photographs and images dump speak to me. I turn down these as reference points considering that creating a painting.
Acrylic has junction my material of choice being of its rich, thick surface and quick dry and Irrational love that this medium stool keep up with the coming and going of my ideas.
The large of dots in my estrange d disinherit emerged through my love cut into using stippling as a encroachment of shading while drawing flat pen.
After filling several sketchbooks, Uncontrolled wanted to transfer these text onto canvas. Painting dots became my technique for contrasting flare and dark, pattern and grain.
It is also a become aware of peaceful and meditative activity read me on a personal bank.
My future aspirations include licensing my art, illustration, teaching workshops, public exhibits, pottery, and creating a children’s book. But loose greatest aspiration will always enter to continue expressing and celebrating the colours of my typography and inspiring others to better the same.