Earth's Creation comes home to Alice Springs

Well, it's finally home in Alice Springs.... Earth's Creation by Emily Kame Kngwarreye has been under wraps in the Museum for 2 weeks now after arriving home from Darwin where it had been hung in Parliament House for 2 months. This painting is a wonderful example of aboriginal artwork and looks great on the wall. Takes up most of the space.... We are having an opening tonight with family and friends and then tomorrow the Mayor of Alice Springs, Damien Ryan, will unveil it to the public. Dale has done a tremendous job to get it ready for us....

Tim's England Trip

I'm booked to head over to England in mid September with my wife Jan, where I am hoping to mix some work with recreation. The draft plan is for me to take some nice Utopian paintings and visit people on our database or anyone else that might like to view them. This will all depend on what type of response I get over the next few months from clients or potential clients. I am led to believe that England is doing it very tough with this world economic crisis (much worse than Australia), so if I don't get much demand this year, I will probably just mix promotional work with a holiday, and maybe set things up to revisit when times get better again.

Having said that though, it's certainly not all doom and gloom, and not all people are affected by the downturn. And by September things may well be considerably better than they are now. I have been watching the Australian stock market fairly carefully over these past few months, and there are certainly good signs of a general recovery in my view.

Most Governments are also encouraging people to spend to help rejuvenate economies (and people seem to be doing that - certainly in Australia), so I feel fairly optomistic about future sales. I think it's also a pretty good time for people to think seriously about purchasing investment art. And I can honestly assure you that we have some great paintings with excellent potential for good growth in the years to come.

Maybe I'll catch you in England later in the year. Bye for now. Tim