SCARD TV visited me in my studio .

The guys from SCARD TV came for a visit yesterday to interview me . most exciting . I had my lovely model emily there also who is my ALICE for my new ALICE IN WONDERLAND SERIES . I am very recluse and its normally just me painting away in the studio so it was interesting to have the film crew there . This is a still of me painting " wonderland status update" . Thanks SCARD TV was a lovely interlude on what was just another day with the canvas and paint . xox

WONDERLAND .............the artist statement .

Starr’s latest solo exhibition is based on the beloved Lewis Carroll fairytale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, taking influence from the classic Disney movie. She has also drawn upon various other iconic images and a touch of the current dark and far more sinster Tim Burton movie showing Alice as an adult.

Starr’s work shows the journey a modern woman takes as she struggles to hold on to traditional values. iPods, Facebook, Coke Cola and the Twilight phenomena are all intertwined as she navigates her way through an ever changing technological world.

Whether it be ‘Wonderland’ or Brisbane, this exhibition is brought together by the unique style and colourful imagery that can only come from one artist…. Starr.

this exhibtion opens in brisbane in dec at the REDHILL GALLERY  .......will be the offical unveiling of the ALICE SERIES. xox

I heart ROLLERSKATING.......

So yes I love too rollerskate .....................LOVE IT . oddly this pair are very easy to stand in most days while i am painting ........however did u think i got all the energy into my paintings , its happens as i swish past . lol . Well what dose go on in an artist studio is always fasinating i guess .Mainly a lot of FOXTEL noise in the back ground . Noise is the important thing as i really dont wanna feel alone . Yes if you dont like your own company then this occupation might drive ya mad. Van gogh went mad but i dont think it was from foxtel or rollerskating in his studio . Would be a boring world if all artists came out of the same mould.

"I feel the need , the need for speed"

Well thats a quote from TOP GUN. a classic 80's movie we all loved even if just for tom and the thought we too might get to have a lamb roast with him. I am not a risk taker at all . I have no interest in anything to do with anything remotely risky . So no jumping out of planes for this girl. Instead i prefer to capture the action all on canvas . I totally love indy /formular one this is a memory from my childhood . My dad would watch this almost every sunday  too me it seemed like it anyways. I admite to finding the whole thing rather interesting ????? so now i love the challenge and patience it takes to paint this series .................lots of detail and concentration is needed with the most complicated of subjects . Tour de france and horse racing are also other favs..........xox

australian artist .................FINALLY

Well i am more than a little excited about the fantastic article featuring me and several other redhill gallery artists.It always so important for an artist to have the right gallery represent them. My brisbane gallery THE REDHILL GALLERY has been representing me now for over 10 years and in this time i have had many sell out solos and sold lots of paintings .............cause all said and done its just a great match and continues to be . I am very loyal and respectful of the gallery process . I paint and they sell its just the perfect combination . All said and done all i wanna do is paint . Australian artist mag is availiable in australia and new zealand in most newsagents ............its got the yellow deck chair on the front . september issue '315' xox

draw like ya paint ...............

Well I think its gotta be a given that most artists paint like they draw . Artist wendy sharp is exactly like this . There is not much difference from the drawings to the paintings , Stewart Mc farlaine is also the same . Drawing is a skill thats parmount to a great painter . I always draw and like to think my drawing style is iconic as my paintings are . I find it amazing too that there is a core of art collectors that just collect drawings . They might just have the right idea as they realise its in the studies and sketches that the paintings come from but more its where the esscence of the artist is. Ok they might just have a thing for black and white like minimalist do .This is one of my stetches from the fairy nude series .  enjoy xox

cult of celebrity

Celebrities have replaced royality and shows like 'E entertainment ' make them  like gods. I love the lastest dramas unfolding while i flick the paint around . Its ohhhhh so nice to have foxtel going while ya paint as you do feel like someones around even if it just the lastest robert patterson sighting. Andy warhol was a massive celb fan and liked to surround himself with as many as possible . This was his thing but i think artists are just attracted to attractive and interesting people . I painted this painting of brett michaels about 15 years ago now while still at art college its so beautiful cause it takes me back to when i was happy to just dance around my then studio which was under my grandmother house to POISON. Artists will always paint celebrities cause we wanna capture and imortalise not only on canvas but in our own distintive styles. There are many art books of famous celbs like madonna who have been painted by hundreds of different artists in the last 20 years .I paint celbs that i know or am so inspired by what they do i just cant help myself ...................... I have painted many some for art prizes and some that end up in private collections.xox