Emily Penso

Love Atop A Cloud

Emily — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:26:41 +0000

Working Process

Emily — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:23:45 +0000

At the moment I am working on a little something for a loved-up couple, a Valentine tribute.
Starting with this image of nuzzling budgies, I am drawing them into a new scene.
This is a good example of my working process…I have recently found that drawing directly from the screen, rather than from a print, suits me well. The level of detail satisfies my obsessive eye!

My New Online Store!

Emily — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:04:03 +0000

I have opened a store on Etsy (a great site for all things handmade and vintage) where I am selling giclee prints of my art as well as originals. There are plans for more things in the future too, but as a busy Mum all these things are slowly, slowly for now!
Click to visit my store
Enjoy!

You will soon be able to buy me

Emily — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:50:24 +0000

So the latest exciting/nerve racking news is that I am soon to be opening online stores, to really be able to share the love (hard copy kind of love) and make my drawings available as purchasable prints.
I’ll also be selling originals once they are born.
So you will soon be able to find me on Etsy and I will also be filling my own store on this website.
Good luck to me.

William Robinson

Emily — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:03:17 +0000

Years ago at the NGA in Canberra I saw a William Robinson exhibition which unexpectedly made quite an impact. He is a painter of landscapes and in his most interesting work he totally shifts perception so that you are looking down, up, sideways, etc, all at once.

Tonight, while I draw trees from various perspectives, I am reminded of his breathtaking work.

This is a William Robinson painting from 1990 called ‘Wispy Landscape’

He was kind of wild…

Upside Down

Emily — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:52:36 +0000

So here I am again on the other side of the world. Which is kind of exciting, and I’m not sure if I’m the only one in the world who experiences this sensation, but I sometimes feel as if I am upside down.
Which I know is impossible as there is no right side up anyway…

Perhaps it is that I feel very far away.

Regardless, this feeling makes me think of things like plants growing out of clouds, chairs on walls, trees growing sideways. I feel like playing a little bit with perception.

Welcome to my blog

Emily — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:12:34 +0000

So….I’ve decided to treat my news stream as more of a blog (with serious news popping up as occassionally as my serious news does!) I’ll be discussing what I’m working on, what is interesting me, what is inspiring me…

So here we go….

We moved to Israel a few months ago. This is cool with me, to a degree, I have lived in so many places in my lifetime. In fact since I left home at the age of 18 I have not lived in a single house for any longer than one year (I am now 35).
I love the freshness and excitement of a new home and I do enjoy change, but here I am finding myself longing to plant myself somewhere and stay for a while.

I’ve been thinking about home and what that is, or where that is, and the feelings that are associated with the concept of home.

Tonight I’m drawing the house I grew up in atop a cloud (cloud theme going on). I still dream about this place regularly, as I do the city it was in (which I think I still consider home). The dreams are warm, safe and comfortable. Sometimes it seems normal and other times I am full of excitement, nostalgia and curiosity to have returned and I explore the house room by room.
It’s amazing that a structure can create such feelings. Home is: a big old brick house on a steep street that I visit in my dreams. I still can’t look at a picture of this house without emotion. I left there when I was 15.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world…

Emily — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:32:17 +0000

A fancy little portrait – Sascha

Emily — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:55:20 +0000

Visible Horizon in Melbourne

Emily — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:31:45 +0000

My work ‘Where gardens grow and paper boats float’ will be shown in the Visible Horizon exhibition which is open from 6th June – 30th June at The Library Artspace in Melbourne.