Janelle Buckley
'Blue Nude'
cyanotype (sun print)
'Drowning in Blue'
colour photo from slide
from Azure
December 2017 - January 2018
'The last Stroke'
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
Four sweltering summers ago,
I sat in the hot little warehouse studio painting this.
Jackson came in and said he could feel a tingling in his arm
- “should I call mother?” ... “I don't know? Perhaps, yes”.
We were to do a collaborative exhibition called “Reflections”.
It was to be Ray Moller, Jackson Gooch and myself.
We had picked the colour scheme tones of blue and ochre.
I lay the last strokes for the day, put away my brush
and thought to myself “I hope Jackson is ok.”
That night Jackson had a stroke.
This was the last time I laid brush on canvas.
This piece is unfinished.
I call it 'The last Stroke'.
- Janelle Buckley, August 2017
Spontaneous opening night jam session: Anthony Smith - percussion,
Rodney Sharpe - clarinet, Jason Aldridge - guitar,
and Janelle's wonderful jazz tones.
art and music from Yang - August/September 2017
Janelle joined with Jason Aldridge, Rodney Sharpe and Anthony Smith
to provide musical entertainment at the opening of Scarlet on the 21st of July 2017.
