In August this year I was fortunate to have the opportunity to hold my first exhibition at my local East Melbourne Library. At the time, I also booked the space for my second exhibition for this month of October. Today I set it up with my friend and curator extraordinaire, Louise. This exhibition features 24 of my sketchbooks open at pages displaying a variety of themes. I hope to show people the wide variety of things that can be sketched and open their eyes to the concept of sketchbook journaling.
The themes on the opened pages include people, travel, food, drink, Melbourne, tools, everyday things and medical – as you can see, a wide variety. Anything is sketchable! Some are quick sketches and others are studied drawings. I carry my Moleskine Watercolour Sketchbook, watercolour pencils and Ink pen with me every where, and draw everyday.
It was difficult, but fun to choose 24 pages from 55 books with sketches capturing the last 8 years of my life. I had help and advice to choose pages that had strong images in landscape format so that they would be interesting to look at in the glass display cabinets in the library. So many choices !
My exhibition is on for the month of October. If you are in Melbourne, I hope that you get the opportunity to come and visit.
Congratulations Alissa – what a gorgeous looking display! And 55 books – wow!
Lovely display and sketchbooks!
How wonderful, I wish I could come and see your exhibit. Love your work.
So lovely to see sketch books on display. It is so hard to find a suitable venue. Wonderful work.
Hi I would love to share this to a closed group of Botanical artists I belong to but the usual “share” won’t let me. Any ideas of how to go about it?
Hi Elizabeth – a group on facebook oranother platform. Let me know and I can try and share.