AMRAP MENTION
I'm very happy to be included in this group of talented composers featured in Classical Collisions on AMRAP.
As Cameron Menegoni writes:
“While pop might dominate the airwaves, a growing number of Australian artists are reshaping the edges of contemporary music… bending genre and expectation to create something strikingly new.”
“The Road Not Yet Taken, is a flowing, piano-led composition that transcends the need for vocals. A study in restraint, it doesn’t overwhelm with notes but instead unfolds gently - a resonant suite that traces a quiet journey through circumstance, confidence and creativity.”
Honoured to be in such bold and imaginative company.
Read the full feature here: https://amrap.org.au/article/classical-collisions by Cameron Menegoni
Camille Delaquise
Colour Inspiration
Inspiration - where does it come from? When inspiration strikes it feels like magic, another dimension reaching out and whispering it’s secret. When it eludes you it feels like you will never have another creative idea for the rest of your life. In short inspiration in art is a most elusive and fickle friend.
Inspiration - where does it come from? When inspiration strikes it feels like magic, another dimension reaching out and whispering it’s secret. When it eludes you it feels like you will never have another creative idea for the rest of your life. In short inspiration in art is a most elusive and fickle friend.
When I’m creating my art prints and I say art prints rather than the singular art piece because turning them into prints is always part of the vision (although why is a topic for another time), I look for colours in my everyday that just happen to collide in most unexpected and delightful ways. Whether it's from the plate, I just ate a delicious pastry from and then happened to place it on a recipe book left open on the coffee table (as pictured on this blog post) or from mix-matched bath towels hanging against the tiles of an outdated yet cheerful bathroom. It is in this meeting of colour within the practical things we use every day that the spark of inspiration begins to stir, even if I’m not sure what direction it's taking me, I’m down for the ride.
I suggest taking photos of these meetings of colour in order to build up a library of inspiration to have on hold. There is just something about these different colours and shapes in our everyday that, for me at least, begin to open up new ideas. It is no surprise, I guess when you break down what art is at its core: the gathering of the life we observe as we try to make sense of it and express our perspective or, at the very least, come closer to understanding this thing called the human experience.
Happy colour collating in your everyday!
Delaquise
Everything is connected
It’s been over a week now since I deleted my posts on social media and decided to delete the apps from my phone altogether and I’m not going to lie, it hasn’t been easy. However I wanted to get rid of the distraction and
It’s been over a week now since I deleted my posts on social media and decided to delete the apps from my phone altogether and I’m not going to lie, it hasn’t been easy. However I wanted to get rid of the distraction and the ever nagging feeling that I must post, share, post, create, post in this never-ending cycle of content creation, which is not at all where I wanted my creative energy to go. So here I am on my blog sharing a little of my work without the pressure for likes or approval of any kind.
This is a photo of a piece I’ve been working on lately under the working title Everything is Connected, it won’t be available as an art print for quite a few months but I just wanted to share a little of the process. I like where it’s going so far although I feel a little unsettled in saying it. I always seem to get this feeling of panic, if by some miracle I actually like how the painting is going I feel sure that I will mess it up in the next step. So for now it is on hold while I concentrate on a piece of music I’m composing called Catching the light, as I wait for the courage to take up the brush again.
Anyway that’s all I had to share, maybe this will become and art print one day or maybe it will just end up being something I paint over and try again some time. I guess that’s why art is a living thing, it’s always changing or at least it should be.
Pink
I hated pink as a child
Pink was a box or a cage
In pink I was only a girl
Pink was the colour I fought
Today I like pink in the winter sun
I hated pink as a child
Pink was a box or a cage
In pink I was only a girl
Pink was the colour I fought
Today I like pink in the winter sun
I wear it sometimes but prefer green
It’s funny how subtle a rebellion can be
The colour of resistance in hues of pink
From a seed
What if
Life could be
Peaceful
The road not yet taken
The formula gone
Creating beauty
From a seed
Watching it grow
Leaving only what life needs
Nothing more
What if?
Hope conquered fear
And joy was for all
A better world, for sure
Moving past what has had its day
No perfection, please
Just free
Available as an art print here.
From one life to another Inscribing the human condition (From The Gratitude Poem)
From One Life to Another: Inscribing the Human Condition. #poetry #gratitude
Aesthetics
Aesthetics
Fresh cut flowers on the windowsill
Sun streams in, the room is set
Only, we are pacing the aisles of the megastore
Searching for happiness stacked on a shelf
Another Saturday sacrificed
New garden to seed, room to redecorate
All wilted by next season’s palette
Kingdoms built today by a life compromised
Just a click or tap away
Always though, step too far
Made to break; never to last
Why is the question for the day
Back to the flowers
Sometimes sticks will do
Add a touch of imagination
And you may find…where beauty resides
Camille
#poetrycommunity #poet #poetrylovers
From things that brought me joy today
From things that brought me joy today - a beautiful colour palette in the morning and flowers blooming on a sunny afternoon ❤️ #joy
From my poetry book Behind the facade, the poem that inspired the book.
From my poetry book Behind the facade, the poem that inspired the book. #poetry #poem #lifestylesells #behindthefacade
From home in the morning
From home in the morning
Grey day nothing much to say
Gotta get moving but I’d rather stay
Here in this messy little house
Curled up on the couch
Sharing toast with my cat With the dog begging for more
Oh this messy little house
You have me surrendered
Camille
#poetry #poem #poet
From Daydreaming on a train
From Daydreaming on a train, none of these images were deliberately created. I only saw them once I finished and stood back, they appeared like shapes in the clouds and I thought how nice to capture that essence of daydreaming. #poetry #poem #art #daydreaming
Daydreaming on the train Sitting quietly.
Daydreaming on the train
Sitting quietly, world buzzing
Giddy excitement, where to begin?
Colours whizz by, visual delight
Close the eyes, soak it all in
Slow and steady breath in a fading afternoon
The blank space of neither here nor there
A moment of stillness mutes the noise
Amongst it all an inner sanctuary awakening
A wondrous game of endless possibility
Let it flow or take control, either way Imagination unlocks it all
Daydreaming on the train
Camille
#poetry #daydreamer #dreamy #abstractart
New Art Prints
From a delivery of new prints. Now I just need to photograph them for the website Aargh!! I know I could just use stock images but apparently I like to do things the hard way. Oh the curse of being an analogue child. #artprints #analogue #art
#freeassangenow
From a time to act while we still hold the power. #freeassangenow #freeassange #julianassange #speakupforassange #journalismisnotacrime #dropthecharges @assangecampaign
From today’s thoughts
From today’s thoughts a little humour to get you through your Monday. #thoughts #monday #creatives