Our studio shows the results of our happy creative pursuits including paintings, photographs, prints, fine art photo artistry images and photographs of endemic birds printed on aluminum, works on paper and a selection of greeting cards.

Marilyn has been painting portraits, still life and landscapes.  She spent several weeks painting ‘en plein air’ in the Flinders Ranges with a wonderful group of fellow art makers, and since her return she has been working on several commissioned paintings as well as a portrait for the 2024 Circular Head CHArchibald Portrait Competition.  Recently, she has begun a year-long project to create a drawing/a painting a day for a year.  This project may not create 365 works of completed art pieces, but the efforts will deepen her meditational investment in creating meaningful paintings. These project works will be posted on her Face Book site – Marilyn Patton Paintings – so you can have a look there to see the project as it develops.

This month’s highlighted painting can be found near the desk as you enter Deloraine Creative, Studios, titled “Ode to John Masefield” who wrote Sea Fever in 1902, which begins “I must go down to the seas again…” I love those words and that beautiful approach over the hills for the first view of the vast Bass Strait, especially in the afternoon. My favorite part of the painting is that late afternoon sky!