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  Been doing this art thing for 26 years. Twenty of those years a portrait photographer.  Now a chick who writes words then draws them for people to hang on their walls. This website is brand new, mate.  My last one I got bored with. Content will come.  It won't happen overnight but it will happen. In the meantime... if you're into social, head over to Facebook and Instagram. If you're more into email, flick me one studio@fleurwickes.co.nz to sign up for my fabulously thrilling weekly newsletter called This Artist's life.  You'll be please you did. Over and out for now. Dec 2015 / FW          

 

Been doing this art thing for 26 years.

Twenty of those years a portrait photographer.

 Now a chick who writes words then draws them for people to hang on their walls.

This website is brand new, mate.  My last one I got bored with.

Content will come.  It won't happen overnight but it will happen.

In the meantime... if you're into social, head over to Facebook and Instagram.

If you're more into email, flick me one studio@fleurwickes.co.nz to sign up for my fabulously thrilling weekly newsletter called This Artist's life.  You'll be please you did.

Over and out for now.

Dec 2015 / FW

 

 

 

 

 

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A BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK, FULL OF FIRE // a very special commission close to my heart off to Taupo today. Thanks, SM for being my patron and helping me live this artist's life //
A BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK, FULL OF FIRE // a very special commission close to my heart off to Taupo today. Thanks, SM for being my patron and helping me live this artist's life //
IT HURTS TO LOOK INSIDE SOMETIMES // some of these artworks I'm making for the show hurt me to make, hurt me to look at. Even if they are beautiful and tender and most definitely about love, they are also about loss and leaving. My loss. How I'm dealing with someone I love so much leaving me. // I'm bearing with it though. Gritting my teeth in the hope that the final artworks will say what I want them to// #itsakindoflovesong #fleurwickesexhibition
IT HURTS TO LOOK INSIDE SOMETIMES // some of these artworks I'm making for the show hurt me to make, hurt me to look at. Even if they are beautiful and tender and most definitely about love, they are also about loss and leaving. My loss. How I'm dealing with someone I love so much leaving me. // I'm bearing with it though. Gritting my teeth in the hope that the final artworks will say what I want them to// #itsakindoflovesong #fleurwickesexhibition
#itsakindoflovesong // opens 5.30 Saturday 15 October
#itsakindoflovesong // opens 5.30 Saturday 15 October
A DIFFICULT DAY'S WORK // I have tender feelings right now. I want to show those feelings in my exhibition. I'm not used to showing my feelings in a gentle way. Big and loud is easy for me. Gentle and tender ain't. But that's what this particular artwork called for. To be treated with tenderness. // there have been tears today. Of frustration. But I kept pushing through and at the end of seven hours solid I think I finally got the start of something to work with. // a friend said to me yesterday, " I thought making an exhibiton was fun." the word I'd use for making an exhibition is gruelling with a little bit of thrilling at the end when you finally make something you're satisfied with. // you gotta dig so deep into yourself and it hurts // If I ran marathons Maybe I'd equate the two. #itsakindoflovesong #fleurwickesexhibition
A DIFFICULT DAY'S WORK // I have tender feelings right now. I want to show those feelings in my exhibition. I'm not used to showing my feelings in a gentle way. Big and loud is easy for me. Gentle and tender ain't. But that's what this particular artwork called for. To be treated with tenderness. // there have been tears today. Of frustration. But I kept pushing through and at the end of seven hours solid I think I finally got the start of something to work with. // a friend said to me yesterday, " I thought making an exhibiton was fun." the word I'd use for making an exhibition is gruelling with a little bit of thrilling at the end when you finally make something you're satisfied with. // you gotta dig so deep into yourself and it hurts // If I ran marathons Maybe I'd equate the two. #itsakindoflovesong #fleurwickesexhibition
ARTWORK ALL PACKED AND READY // off for the critique with the gallerist. Excited-nervous! This ain't business mate, this is all pleasure! My end at least. Lol.
ARTWORK ALL PACKED AND READY // off for the critique with the gallerist. Excited-nervous! This ain't business mate, this is all pleasure! My end at least. Lol.
AIN'T NO GOOD EXHIBITION HAPPENIN UNLESS YOU GOT YOSELF A PLAN // got a meeting today with the owner of the gallery to look at the work I've done so far for the show // I'm so nervous I woke at 3am // went back to sleep eventually and dreamt of sobbing and then a great studio visit where my work looked like McCahon ... // back to reality and who I am is me, not McCahon // and what I've got is some simple words that mean so much to me, and a desire to paint them and that's enough for me to go on with // oh, and I've got a plan. A rough drawing of how all this artwork gonna fit into the space // God help me I wanna run away from having this show... But at the same time it is so fcking exciting to be once again about to SHOW myself in real life and in public // I'm taking my work to the Nek Level // for sure I ain't McCahon yet but hey I'm making like a snail and I just keep moving forward and if I keep doing that year after year, I won't turn into McCahon but after a while I'll be making some mighty brilliant Fleur Wickes work :-) // comparison is pointless - as an artist you just gotta say what YOU got to say // I'm raving now... // so help me god I'm nervous. // I heard Adele gets terrified before performing, too // #performance anxiety #itsallgood #itsakindoflovesong #spacegallery #fleurwickesexhibition
AIN'T NO GOOD EXHIBITION HAPPENIN UNLESS YOU GOT YOSELF A PLAN // got a meeting today with the owner of the gallery to look at the work I've done so far for the show // I'm so nervous I woke at 3am // went back to sleep eventually and dreamt of sobbing and then a great studio visit where my work looked like McCahon ... // back to reality and who I am is me, not McCahon // and what I've got is some simple words that mean so much to me, and a desire to paint them and that's enough for me to go on with // oh, and I've got a plan. A rough drawing of how all this artwork gonna fit into the space // God help me I wanna run away from having this show... But at the same time it is so fcking exciting to be once again about to SHOW myself in real life and in public // I'm taking my work to the Nek Level // for sure I ain't McCahon yet but hey I'm making like a snail and I just keep moving forward and if I keep doing that year after year, I won't turn into McCahon but after a while I'll be making some mighty brilliant Fleur Wickes work :-) // comparison is pointless - as an artist you just gotta say what YOU got to say // I'm raving now... // so help me god I'm nervous. // I heard Adele gets terrified before performing, too // #performance anxiety #itsallgood #itsakindoflovesong #spacegallery #fleurwickesexhibition
BEAUTIFUL // this woman is on Paul Henry right now and god she is beautiful. Gorgeous grey hair, class all the way glasses AND fabulous dark red nail polish. // oh, and she was the only economist to predict the global financial crisis... So she's just a little bit smart // so good to see beautiful intelligent classy older women on the telly //
BEAUTIFUL // this woman is on Paul Henry right now and god she is beautiful. Gorgeous grey hair, class all the way glasses AND fabulous dark red nail polish. // oh, and she was the only economist to predict the global financial crisis... So she's just a little bit smart // so good to see beautiful intelligent classy older women on the telly //
BROWN PAPER, BLACK GLOSS, MATTE KAREN WALKER WHITE // hashtag i'm in heaven. // working painting // wish you could see the scale // it's big . I like big // #itsakindoflovesong
BROWN PAPER, BLACK GLOSS, MATTE KAREN WALKER WHITE // hashtag i'm in heaven. // working painting // wish you could see the scale // it's big . I like big // #itsakindoflovesong
NEARLY TIME TO SHOW OFF WHAT I GOT // about 5 weeks until my show opens. I'll be sitting around chilling out from now until then. Yeah. Right. // so scary putting my heart up on a gallery wall instead of wearing it on my sleeve. Lol. #itsakindoflovesong #spacegallery
NEARLY TIME TO SHOW OFF WHAT I GOT // about 5 weeks until my show opens. I'll be sitting around chilling out from now until then. Yeah. Right. // so scary putting my heart up on a gallery wall instead of wearing it on my sleeve. Lol. #itsakindoflovesong #spacegallery