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Creative Backstory: Celebrating 20 Years – Year 2005

16 June 2020 Filed Under: Creative Backstory, My Surroundings 2 Comments

To mark the 20th anniversary of my first baby quilt, I  have been reflecting on what I have learned along the way. Creative Backstory is a series of blog posts each highlighting a different year. I invite you to share your creative backstory. Each day, I will post an optional prompt. Leave your response as […]

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Creative Backstory: Celebrating 20 Years – Year 2004

14 June 2020 Filed Under: Creative Backstory, My Surroundings 2 Comments

To mark the 20th anniversary of my first baby quilt, I  have been reflecting on what I have learned along the way. Creative Backstory is a series of blog posts each highlighting a different year. I invite you to share your creative backstory. Each day, I will post an optional prompt. Leave your response as […]

Seachange: Whale Tracks in Season After Season at the European Patchwork Meeting 2019

Seachange:Whale Tracks at the European Patchwork Meeting 2019

14 September 2019 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, My Surroundings, Season After Season Leave a Comment

My artwork Seachange: Whale Tracks is currently touring with the Studio Art Quilt Associates/SAQA* global exhibition Season After Season. I wrote a comprehensive series of blog posts about the creation of this artwork on my blog and also produced a journal that you can preview in full and/or buy on Blurb. When your work is away […]

Whale Trails - Allagai Bay - Monthly Art Project by Brenda Gael Smith

Monthly Art Project 2019: June – Whale Trails

28 June 2019 Filed Under: Monthly Art Project, My Surroundings, Season After Season 1 Comment

My self-guided Monthly Art Project for the first half of 2019 is to make a 30x30cm (12x12in) textile sketch that is based on the view from my studio overlooking Copacabana and Allagai Bay. This is the final installment – a mini version of my earlier work Seachange: Whale Tracks celebrating the wonder of whale migration […]

Monthly Art Project 2019 May - Dusk over Allagai Bay

Monthly Art Project 2019: May – Dusk

15 May 2019 Filed Under: Monthly Art Project, My Surroundings Leave a Comment

My self-guided Monthly Art Project for the first half of 2019 is to make a 30x30cm (12x12in) textile sketch that is based on the view from my studio overlooking Copacabana and Allagai Bay. This is the fifth month – one month to go! Dusk Despite living on the east coast with a view to the […]

Monthly Art Project 2019 April - Storm Brewing

Monthly Art Project 2019: April – Storm Brewing

15 April 2019 Filed Under: Monthly Art Project, My Surroundings Leave a Comment

My self-guided Monthly Art Project for the first half of 2019 is to make a 30x30cm (12x12in) textile sketch that is based on the view from my studio overlooking Copacabana and Allagai Bay. Storm Brewing Dark, ominous – storm watching can be compelling: Sketching time. Grays with a tinge of green: Gray is such a mecurial […]

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It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026
It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 and so am I 😍 After many years of submitting, this is my first QuiltCon acceptance and it will be my first time attending in person. I look forward to seeing many fine quilts in the cloth, meeting friends old and new and generally revelling in the energy of this exciting event. Let me know if I will see you there too.
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My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun an
My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun and Desire Lines #3: Running Hot & Cold feature in Ahead of the Curve, an invitational exhibition of Australian modern quilts curated by Tara Glastonbury now showing at the @pacc_gallery Cessnock until 31 January 2026. FREE entry. Gallery hours:
* Monday to Friday | 9am – 4.30pm
* Saturday | 10am – 2.30pm

I am grateful to Tara for the prompt to create a new artwork and to put an older piece out into the world again. They glow in the gallery space. I also have some smaller textile sketches available for sale in the gift shop.

Here Comes the Sun 85x136cm 
You can’t outrun or bypass grief. Getting ahead of the curve is illusory. The only way is through. Even in the depths of loss, moments of brightness appear. These glimmers remind us that light is never fully extinguished. Darkness and radiance are not opposites but companions, entwined in the human experience. This work is both a lament and an invocation: an acknowledgment of pain, and a quiet turning toward the light that eventually breaks through. Such is the duality of grief.

Running Hot & Cold (37x75cm) explores the volatile spectrum of emotion—where passion ignites and ambivalence cools. Through shifting tones and contrasting forms, this work reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, embodying the unstable rhythm of feeling too much and not enough. 
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