Festival of Two Palettes

Duration: 2 days

Date: Sat 12 Mar - Sun 13 Mar

Location: Morpeth Gallery 5 Green Street Morpeth NSW 2321

Time: 10am - 5pm

A word from Morpeth Gallery on their website:

“Begin planning your visit to Morpeth, for the “Festival of Two Palettes”, a weekend of art and gourmet food, Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th March, 2022. In residence over the weekend will be 15 artists. Watch them paint at their easels, talk about their plans for the year and fall in love with your next painting. You will have the opportunity to win an original painting donated by most artists, when you make a purchase (original, print or art gift) at Morpeth Gallery during the exhibition. For gourmet food lovers, tantalise your taste buds with tastings of gourmet foods, fudge, cordial, nuts and honey at Morpeth Gourmet Foods on the ground floor of Morpeth Gallery. Exhibition paintings will be available for purchase from Thursday 10th March at 10am. The artists will be in residence for the weekend only. Entry is Free. Morpeth Gallery open 10am – 5pm, Thursday – Sunday.”

One of my new original Artworks ‘Merry King’ will be available for purchase and on display at Morpeth Gallery’s festival of two palettes! I’ll also be demonstrating my Painting with Fire technique at my easel and happy to show you some tricks and answer any questions you may have about my works.

Merry King

“One of the most defining features of our beloved kookaburra is not only their iconic laugh but the blue highlights on their wings. Not as stand out as other kingfishers but subtle enough to still catch your eye. It reminded me of our native Blue-banded Bees so I thought of the two as fitting companions for their harmony of colours. Though I try to stay as true to the flames as I can, adding the watercolour in the artwork just makes it a bit more… ‘Merry’, for our native King.  “