Art, craft and Mosaic, Drawing and Beginner photography Classes for Kids After school, Enrolling now for next term

Tuesdays and Wednesdays 3.30pm to 4.30-5.00 pm 

 Limited Spaces still left. 

Please enquire to enroll your creative, gifted hardworking child who also wants to have fun being creative in a real artists studio with cool soothing music and a happy, relaxed, positive teacher. 

All ages and abilities welcome. 

Email  jkeen@clear.net.nz

Phone 346-3435

0273513887

Mindfulness, how to practise it with photography and haiku.

Whenever someone annoys me by stomping on my boundaries I make sure I get out of this mind frame as quickly as possible. 
Being annoyed is unproductive and not good for the health. 
I go to my photographs and I  start manipulating them into double exposures and also making haiku to go underneath them. 
By the time I have involved myself with this practise the reasons for my annoyance disappear or lessen considerably  because I have been mindful while being creative. 
Here are some double exposures and accompanying haiku from a recent trip to Auckland. 
I hope you enjoy them. 

                                        Meditation after a blow out.

sometimes when you're mad
best to wait to count to ten
before you fry them

spread all over walls
pictures of forbidden fruit
K Road, red light zone

nude marble woman
gazes at my warm  jumper
winter garden wind

 (Tanka)
more nude bronze sculptures
frigid with teal patina
sparrows fluff feathers
winter city wind whips the park
 lovers coldly drift apart

  
Young arranged marriage
photographer arranges
their limbs near the tree

 motorway driving
woman walking overbridge
stooped against the wind 

cafe pendant lights
shine like autumn  harvest moons 
we stop for pancakes

 black power pylons
transporting cities life blood 
gobbling hungry child

raining for ages
metamorphising to mud
the pylons plough on

 alien pylon
 outsider standing apart 
watching cars go by

The big question to ask is, will the person who is annoying me so much matter to me in ten years time? 
The answer is probably no, so the idea is to not sweat the small stuff. 
But also to let the person who has tread over your boundaries know  there will be consequences if they do it again. 

 Creative Quotes of the Day about Mindfulness
 
 Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” ~Sylvia Boorstein

In today’s rush, we all think too much — seek too much — want too much — and forget about the joy of just being.” ~Eckhart Tolle

 “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” ~Pema Chodron

  “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ~Amit Ray

 

Adult Art pupil of Janet Keen, Ruth Hughes, a selection of her work, please enjoy, she is excellent pupil to have.

Acrylic glazes. copper leaf  and Indian Ink 

Acrylic glazes, Indian Ink and copper leaf. 

Acrylic glazes, Indian ink and metallic leaf

Mixed media and acrylic paint 

Mixed media, stamps  and acrylic paint 

Acrylic paint and machine sewing on paper. 

Acrylic paint 

Acrylic paint on board

"Taking painting lessons with Janet Keen has changed my life, I love it." Ruth Hughes



Winter is the perfect time to take up a hobby. Come along to my studio for a four week course in mosaics, painting or photography. 

Limited spaces. Monday to Wednesday Mornings. 9.30am to 11.30am
And Fridays 9.30am to 11.30am

Phone 0273513887
Email jkeen@clear.net.nz 
07346-3435 

Weekend workshops by arrangement. Email me for a quote. 

At the painting and mosaic filled gallery and studio of Rotorua artist/ teacher and aertistic photographer, Janet keen
374 Clayton Road, Rotorua


I am happy to travel out of town  and out of New Zealand depending on time considerations and numbers. 

Creative Quotes of the day
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
― Vincent van Gogh

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
― Robert McKee

Auckland adventure, Carmen Jones Eatery, Bar and Lounge

Last weekend we had to go to Auckland to my mothers 80th birthday party  lunch on the Sunday, so my husband Graham and I went up and stayed in a lodge near the domain and went for a photo safari adventure along Karangahape road on the Saturday afternoon. 

We came across a lovely cafe called Carmen Jones Eatery Bar and Lounge 

                             and stopped for a cup of tea

 Look at this gorgeous glass it came in. made the tea taste divine

I was so taken by the artistry of the cafe that I took a lot of photos and have made double exposures out of them to make them look more arty, rather than straight photos. 

 The cafe was so warm inviting with a snuggly open fire and glowy colours with beautiful art prints and originals on the walls . 

I met the owner who designed it. 

She was vivacious, really friendly and originally from Taupo. 

Next time I  go back to Auckland we are going to  stop and have a 

 meal because the menu looked very appetising. 

 The staff were friendly and beautiful, the furniture eclectic and something to celebrate. 

 You'd be tempted to stay there all day. 

I love cafes that look like art shops or even upscale living rooms. 

It's only been open  for about 8 months and I'm sure it will be very successful . 

I wish them all the best. 

It should get an award for the decor. Just wonderful. 

Thank you so much for inspiring me.

 I felt like I was in Cuba, Mexico, Spain and Greece all at once. 

I would love to exhibit some of my work in a cafe like this 

 Art and prints on the walls mixed with textures from the walls. 

Lovely waitress

 Lovely waitress crossed with texture from the table, double exposure. 

 Double exposure Cup of tea in nice glassses crossed with texture of a table

Double exposure of texture of walls with texture of table 

Double exposure of art on the walls with  texture of table 

Art, mosaics, photography workshops available. 
Email jkeen@clear.net.nz


Phone:           0273513887
                     073463435 

See my shots on facebook and viewbug. 

Creative Quote of the day 

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself. Delia Smith
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/good_food.html

“Photography is a love affair with life.”

Charlie Waite
1949

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself. Delia Smith
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/good_food.html