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Happy Easter!

20/4/2014

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First of all - Happy Easter everyone! I hope that it has been a peaceful holiday surrounded by good company and plenty of chocolate!!



At the moment Malta is in full bursting bloom, with spring flowers seeming to grow as quickly and abundantly as they possibly can in every nook and cranny. The fields are green and overflowing with produce, tall with wheat and corn, clover and wild grasses, all dotted with bright red poppies and yellow 'Ingliza' (sorrel).

 

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It's as if Nature has to pump out as many colours and varieties of plants as she can before summer hits - usually overnight sometime in May - and there will be no more rain for at least three months. The greens turn to golds and ochres and then to umbers and siennas as the heat rises and the seeds hide themselves deep in the earth, waiting for the autumn storms.
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This year has inspired me just the same, and so - you have heard this here first! - I will be having an exhibition of recent paintings at the 'La Vittoria' Band Club (opposite the parish church) in Mellieha in May. It will open officially on May 7th at 7.30pm and I would love it if you could be there. I will be saving trees this year and not sending printed invitations at all, so please, just come if you can. 
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My classes continue, Friday mornings in the delightful (and flourishing) gardens of Villa Bologna in Attard, and the Saturday Morning Drawing Club in my studio in Manikata. Come and join in the fun!
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Happy New Year, and a January SALE!

2/1/2014

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I am happy to offer you a half-price SALE on all my prints!
They are all printed using the best digital technology and show every detail of texture and brushstroke as clearly as the original. Each image is approximately 42 x 30 cms. Top quality inks and acid free 250gsm hammered card
make each one a very special record of the original painting.
 
I have several different collections of prints, this first one consists of eight of my paintings created on-site at the Malta Jazz Festival every year. I use acylics on gesso tinted paper and paint on the spot to capture the atmosphere and excitement of this great annual event under the stars.

This one, "Aviahai Cohen Trio"  was painted at the 2011 Jazz festival. To see the rest of the series please click HERE

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For my last solo exhibition in May 2013 I created a set of six prints of local Maltese landscapes. Most of the paintings feature the 'Girna' , or small stone farmer's huts, which dot the landscape in the North of Malta.

This one is called "Girna, Kennedy Grove" and the original was painted in watercolours.

To see all six, please click HERE

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I also have a lovely range of prints made from paintings I painted on site at various of the famous prehistoric Temples in Malta. Some were created in the Hypogeum, the unique underground Temple, and others are of curled naked women, following the legends of sleeping oracles who spent nights down there to have visionary dreams. 
To see the range of prints please click  HERE

This one is called "Portal" and was painted in Ta'Hagrat Temple in Mgarr. 

  I hope that you find at least one that you like and make the most of this offer!

Meanwhile, here's to 2014, may all our dreams come true!

  Best wishes,     Jeni :-)


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"Landscapes" exhibition - opening 3rd May

28/4/2013

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   Haven't posted in a while - just been so BUSY, getting everything ready for the exhibition..... and of course getting myself in a tizz at the same time!
    But now it's almost ready - paintings are framed, posters, flyers, invites etc are all printed and distributed, the British High Commissioner H E Mr Rob Luke will be inaugurating the whole thing, with an intro by the Mayor of Mellieha....... I'll be glad to just sit down with a glass of wine!
    If you are able to, do pop along to the opening on the 3rd May at 7.30pm (oh and the local children's choir will sing a few songs too!) if not, I will be present from 5pm every day until the 12th. 
    More details are on my Facebook event page  'Landscapes' by Jeni Caruana with a map and all.....
        Phew!!

    What WILL I do when it's all over???
    
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First Friday, April 5th

31/3/2013

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   Pop up and see me if you can, or make an appointment for a convenient time.... 
           Meanwhile, Hoppy Easter!!

For directions - just send me a message through the contact form - click the 'button' above :-)
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Of Temples, and Time......

16/2/2013

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    This is a painting I did ages ago, when I was doing a lot of work around the prehistoric Temples of Malta. It's called 'Portal' and sums up a lot of what I feel about these unique and powerful sites.

  This morning I visited the same Temple, called Ta'Hagrat, which is very close to where I live. It really is a very special place. I was with special friends too, and we spent some time there, meditating and just feeling really. 
   I have been thinking of re-connecting with the Temples paintings for a month or so now, and it all seems to be coming together, at least in my head! I want to further the work I have already done in them, and to see where that takes me. I realised that I hadn't even put a Temples page on this website at all, even though I have so many images to use. That I will rectify soon, and I am also making a whole website dedicated to that subject alone.

  These sites date back to around 5,000 BC, and are almost universally unknown! 

  So that's my next project really, but first I have to work on the landscapes exhbition I am doing in May, with all the printing and designing and advertising and organising that goes with it. 
  I have to virtually forbid myself time in the studio or out painting so that I concentrate on all that Stuff.

  And I did resolve to send out regular blogs too, but Time just slips away..... the Temples have been standing there for thousands and thousands of years and I don't find Time to blog!

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Something New!

26/1/2013

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       So there I was, in the studio, fighting with a watercolour sketch that I had over-worked, and getting very frustrated with it. I had tried using soft pastels over it, which works sometimes.... but this time it was just getting worse. I liked the design and the idea of it, but it just wasn't coming together. I decided to abandon the watercolour altogether and start again on a dark-toned canvas using acrylics. To keep it simple I thought I'd try using only the three primary colours plus white...... and this is what happened!








      I feel that the result really is splashy and happy - it's a direction I have been moving in for a while, but this painting is a real step into something new. I can't wait to try it again!


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