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Life at the end of a paint brush

MIA LAING Artist.

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20171029-oct17-290121-2 — ‘In Memory of you’ Oil on canvas 2017

copyright Mia laing 2016 — Summer Oil on canvas 2016 30×30′ / 76x76cm

copyright Mia Laing 2016 — ‘Aloha’ oil on canvas 2016 91x91cm/36×36″

Mia Laing - mymiasart.com — Pomegranates and Pottery oil on canvas 24×20 / 61x66cm

20171029-oct17-290160-2 — ‘Blush’ oil on canvas 2017

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🔴Thank you @gallery.360! ‘Fair Weather Friend

🔴Thank you @gallery.360! ‘Fair Weather Friends’ has found it’s perfect match...it makes my heart sing when my quirky imaginative works find their way into the world, especially when the client understands the narrative, allegory or metaphor within them. I don’t like giving too much of the story behind my art. I like each viewer to bring their own lived experience to the work and this one did exactly that for my happy client. Back to the easel I go, to see what story needs to be painted next!

I do love to receive photos from clients...this is

I do love to receive photos from clients...this is ‘Statuesque’ pictured in its new home. What a terrific way to finish what may otherwise be a neglected wall. Stair wells are perfect for art and with the blue and white ceramics, it’s made a dead space come alive! 💙🤍💙🤍 @fineartatperthcollege

Happy Mother’s Day! Whether you have little chil

Happy Mother’s Day! Whether you have little children or ones all grown up like mine, this is a day to give thanks to those special women in our lives...the ones that helped raise us. To say you are amazing to the women that have worked tirelessly to grow us (hopefully) into nice human beings. My girls are young adults and though they still live at home, I know our time living as a family of four is limited. So here’s a cheer to the decades it takes to raise an adult 🥳🥂 To the good, the bad and the downright ugly times of parenting...it’s all worth it in the end. ❤️

Work in progress, just an underpainting at this st

Work in progress, just an underpainting at this stage! Seems I Found my missing mojo this afternoon...took one photo (thank you @bec_bartell for the protea in ginger jar photo) and added my own touch. It’s taken me quite a few years of pushing a paintbrush to learn the shadowing and tonal shifts of combining multiple photos into one image. It’s where I want my art to stay...I’m not happy copying an exact reference anymore, the challenge to add bits and pieces is so rewarding. Let’s see how this one ends up. Watch this space.

A new allegorical imaginative realism piece fresh

A new allegorical imaginative realism piece fresh off the easel...those darn suitcases again! These paintings are incredibly hard but enjoyable to make. They certainly push me out of my comfort zone. Thinking this one will be titled ‘Moonshine’....but fire some titles my way! 76x100cm. Oil on canvas.

Any one else addicted to fruit? Not necessarily to

Any one else addicted to fruit? Not necessarily to eat, but just because the colours and shapes are totally irresistible to an artist’s eye? I follow some Pinterest boards and Instagram pages just to see beautiful fruit platters...it’s kind of a bit nutty, in a fruit loop kinda way! Anyway, I’ve had this one photographed for prints and the original is available at @bluethumbart. 76x76cm, delivery worldwide. Message me for print details. 🍓🍉🍊🍍🥝🥭🫐

So many exhibition entry forms arriving in my emai

So many exhibition entry forms arriving in my emails daily! It’s fabulous to know things are moving ahead...I have so much catching up to do after slowing down for a breather. My paintbrushes are going to be working like crazy to catch up! Let’s do this...

Such a magnificent morning painting in the grounds

Such a magnificent morning painting in the grounds of @govhousewa with @wasainc . A very unique opportunity for sure. The sun was out, the birds were singing, the Governor General came to say hi...we left at 2pm and were home as the showers and thunderstorms arrived!! It bucketed down, then a long walk along the beach to round a fabulous day off. 💙💚

My new card with @lalalandshop . I’ve absolutely

My new card with @lalalandshop . I’ve absolutely loved my journey with this wonderful Australian business. Hopefully some more cards will launch over the rest of the year, but for now you can find ‘Rough End of the pineapple’ as a greeting card and mini card (link for online shopping in my bio or available in gift stores Australia wide) and the original to this painting is available at @yallingupgalleries in our beautiful southwest Western Australia. Thank you one and all for the support of my art. ❤️

ANZAC Day 2021. With Perth in lockdown for another

ANZAC Day 2021. With Perth in lockdown for another year in a row for this special day, Let’s light up our driveways this dawn in remembrance of our service men and women who gave their lives and to give thanks for those who are currently serving our country to keep us in peace and safety. #lestweforget🌹 #anzacday2021

We are heading into lockdown for a few days here i

We are heading into lockdown for a few days here in Perth. It’s been a year since we’ve had any community transfer, but sadly we’ve got two confirmed cases that have been out and about as tourists. Snap lockdown starting tonight...wishing everyone in Perth an okie time in the next few days or so. Hopefully it won’t be longer. I’ll be painting, finishing up this one (just a snippet shown here) and hoping I won’t have the second birthday in a row in lockdown. 🥴 It’s on Tuesday. Meh. Not looking hopeful. We had a family dinner planned for Sunday night and lunch out Tuesday. Never mind. It is what it is. Paintbrushes crossed we get through quickly and safely ❤️

Every single painting can feel like a first beginn

Every single painting can feel like a first beginning, no matter where you are on your art journey. This is what I love. The challenge of working out how. What goes where. The tones, composition, colours and marks. There is never the same original twice. So a master artist is the one that just keeps on showing up and working their way through the process. 💙 I’m not at ‘master’ level yet by any means, but my goodness, I’m going to keep beginning until I am! Goals.

It’s been two years since I was blessed with two

It’s been two years since I was blessed with two trips to Italy. I cannot believe what the world has been through since I took this photo. When FB memories showed me this photo today, I realized I haven’t had a holiday in the last two years, except for one night in York, WA. I am so passionate about my art that until this photo popped up, I just hadn’t realized That’s probably why I’m so tired and lacking my usual mojo. I just haven’t given myself a break and time to smell the roses. Note to self, even when following a passion, breaks are needed and necessary for recharging. 🧡

A ‘little things’ painting (available) plonked

A ‘little things’ painting (available) plonked amidst family treasures is my kind of homemaking. My grandmother’s cherished Quimper pottery collected over a life time of travel. Found feathers and books on art and cooking. A painting of my eldest daughter and her Daddy flying a kite that I painted many moons ago. ❤️ #thisishome

The Fab Four. Hanging at @repeatoffendergallery in

The Fab Four. Hanging at @repeatoffendergallery in Subiaco. Frida Cavalier, Chloe Hopes it’s Vegan, Elizabeth and Chill Out Arctic Fox. I so enjoy painting these people parodies. Got many more planned!

I have been super tired this week and struggling w

I have been super tired this week and struggling with insomnia. I did mothership duties today and didn’t think I’d paint, because quite frankly, my mojo, like my sleep is M.I.A. Upon getting the food shopping home and seeing the glorious colour splash in the fruit bowl, I felt like painting with nothing but the process in mind. So I painted. And it was divine. I’m Still needing to adjust the mandarine colours as I just couldn’t figure it out, and add some highlights, but this is what getting back to basics is about. ❤️🧡 Sometimes you just need to paint. No goal, no outcome, just you and the paint and the tool to apply it.

This is for every artist who struggles with doubt.

This is for every artist who struggles with doubt. ⁣
For every artist that is a people pleaser. ⁣
For those that feel judgement, or overwhelm, or simply just don’t know which direction to follow. ⁣
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Art is a passion that can very quickly turn to an addiction that steals the joy from us. ⁣
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I’ve had many conversations over the last decade, with so many artist friends about the struggle of maintaining the actual joy of making art once it becomes a buisness. This is for you. You know who you are. ⁣
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My answer is to go backwards. Slow down, smell the roses and find what it is that gave you that spark of joy it once did. ⁣
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Stop comparing yourself to others and paint for you. No goals except to challenge yourself to paint how and what you love to paint. ⁣
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I’ve got a big portrait painting on my easel right now. I’m generally not a portrait painter, and it’s for a prize entry. This could have me tearing out my hair and worrying is it good enough? What if it doesn’t get in after all these hours and hours of work? Justified concerns, but...⁣
I’m painting it for me, my way. And with this thought process, What ever happens will happen and I will still have a painting I’ll be proud to hang in my own home. ⁣
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What if you simply painted what you want? ⁣
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We’ve had a crazy ride weather wise in Western A

We’ve had a crazy ride weather wise in Western Australia over the last few weeks...we had late heat waves leaving us sweltering and now we’ve had a massive cyclone hammer parts of our coastline. So much damage further up the coast from Perth, but no lives lost. Thank God. On the positive side, we’ve finally had rain! Omg. Such a relief for our parched land. ‘Rain Dance’ is an apt post for this last few days. Oil on canvas 50x60cm. PM for details. Available.

Blue thou art, intensely blue’ now listed with @

Blue thou art, intensely blue’ now listed with @bluethumbart. Gosh, how many times I’ve painted my grandmother’s beautiful glass jug is beyond counting. 💙💙💙

Having fun with @adobe Fresco and photos I took in

Having fun with @adobe Fresco and photos I took in Italy two years ago. One of my storks has made it onto a fresh new imaginative painting currently on my easel! Swipe for the sneaky peek.

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