Facebook: Art by Tharina Gillen
Stand Out
Toowoomba Grammar Art Awards
Title: Stand out - They laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at them because they are all the same
Measurements: 1x1m
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
The Different one
Title: The different one – When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person
Measurements: 60x76cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Flowers
Title: Flowers – Every flower blooms in its own time – Ken Petti
Measurement: 60x90cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Tree seek water
Title: Tree seeks water – It is wise to bring some water when one goes to look for water (Arab Proverb)
Measurements: 90x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Silver Fern
Title: Silver Fern – The koro of New Zealand’s silver fern tree is a symbol of centering. While we move constantly, we are always returning to the point of origin
Measurements 60x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Hersham
Title: Hersham – Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we can see – Sting
Measurements: 1.2mx90cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Secret Garden
Title: The Secret Garden - The Secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles - Hodgson Burnett
Measurements: 40x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Tree
Title: Tree – Be like a tree. A tree give shade even to him that cuts off his boughs
Measurements: 60x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on primed canvas, Mixed media
Turbulence
Title: Turbulence – Turbulence breaks a tree’s branches, but only tickles an eagle’s wings
Measurements: 60x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Peace
Title: Peace – Peace is the ultimate wealth
Measurements: 40x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Sunset
Title: Sunset – Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
Measurements: 60x30cm (3)
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Swing
Title: Swing – You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about – Bobby Jones
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Mixed Media
Berries
Title: Berries – Happiness is a bowl of fresh berries
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Silver Fern Close Up
Title: Silver fern Close-Up – Kia ora Aotearoa
Measurements: 50x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Japanese Garden
Title: Japanese Garden - The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. It's ideal does not deviate from that of nature
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Mixed Media
Treasure Island
Title: Treasure Island – Site 317 – If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul - P. Smith
Measurements: 50x70cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Angry Water
Title: Angry Water – Rough seas are showing you what you need to do differently. Are you listening? - Dr Jeff Kane
Measurements: 60x90cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Sweet Tooth
Title: Sweet tooth – Thrive on the sweet nectar of your memories
Measurements 25x30cm
Medium – Acrylic on paper – framed
Bay of Plenty
August 2007 - Painting was sold at the "White Pages Art Awards" in New Zealand - where all the money went for charity
Title: Bay of Plenty NZ – There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is – Jose Saramago
Measurements: 45x45cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Autumn
Title: Autumn – Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower – Albert Camus
Measurements: 45x45cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Escape
Title: Escape – Escape to places where you can feed your soul – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 60x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Full Moon
Title: Full Moon – Let the moon guide you in times of darkness – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 60x50xm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Rescue
Title: Rescue
Measurements: 60x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Dancing Queen
Title: Dancing Queen – You are the Dancing Queen, young and set, only seventeen (ABBA)
Measurements: 30x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on paper
Bigger Picture
Title: Bigger Picture – You concentrate so much on the detail, that you sometimes forget to look at the bigger picture – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 60x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Kalkbay
Title: Kalkbay - A bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at the office
Measurements: 90x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Drunk Man's Cave
Title: Drunk man’s cave – Warning! My cave. My rules! – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 90x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Wave Breaker
Wave Breaker – There’s always bigger fish – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 90x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Lighthouse
Title: Lighthouse - Lighthouses do not go running all over an Island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Home
Title: Home - Where your story begins
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Caravanserai
Title: Caravanserai - Traveling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Saint-Arnac
Title: Saint-Arnac - Tout ira bien (Everything will be fine)
Measurements: 1x1m
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Country life - Great Coxwell
Title: Country life at the Great Coxwell Barn
Measurements: 40x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Greece
Title: Greece
Measurements: 50x70cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Future
Title: Future - Dear past, thank you for all the lessons. Dear future, I'm now ready - Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 40x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Dream Holiday
Title: Dream holiday - How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard - Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 1.17mx83cm
Medium: Acrylic
Scala Contarini del Bovolo
Title: Scala Contarini del Bovolo - Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves
Measurements: 60x90cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Yesterday's Memories - Sold for charity
Title: Yesterday’s Memories – I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future (David Gerrold)
Measurements: 50x70cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Gold Mine
Title: Gold Mine – The golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules
Measurements: 30x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Awake
Title: Be Awake – Stand on your toes and be on guard – The enemy’s watching – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 80x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
African Safari
Title: African Safari - Everything in Africa bites, but the Safari bug is worst of all
Measurements: 60x76cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Mother
Title: Mother - To the world you might be just one person, but to one person you are the world
Measurements: 60x75
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Mother and baby
Title: Baby - Honey is sweet. A little baby is even sweeter
Measurements: 60x75
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Sisters
Title: Sisters – Sisters are different flowers from the same garden
Measurements: 50x40xm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Ostrich
Hampton Art Show
Title: Ostrich – Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand – Samuel Beckett, Murphy
Measurements: 30x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Kookaburra
Title: Kookaburra - The kookaburra's are laughing again, someone has done something funny
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Skippy
Title: Skippy – It’s like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline (Sid Waddell)
Measurements: 30x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Emu
Title: Emu – I am not emused
Measurements: 30x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Lion
Title: Lion – A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man – Turkish proverb
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Africa
Title: Africa – If I ever seen magic it has been in Africa – John Hemingway
Measurements: 50x4cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Colourful Africa
Title: Colourful Africa – You know you are truly alive when you’re living among the lions – Karen Blixen
Measurements: 50x70cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Happy People
Title: Happy – If you want to be happy do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present – Roy J. Bennett
Measurements: 60x50cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Depression
Title: Depression – Consumed by darkness – Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore
Measurements: 60x90cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Try again
Title: Try again - The world is not always your friend my dear. Stand up, dust off, try again - Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 50x40cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Old people
Title: Old – We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing – George Bernard Shaw
Only You
Title: Only you – Change your mind. Happiness is up to you – Tharina Gillen
Measurements: 60x60cm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Dream Catcher
Title: Dream catcher – In dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own
Measurements: 30x90 (3)
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Teddy
Dedicated to Chris
Title: Teddy – You promised you will never leave me. Where are you now?
Measurements: 51x51cm
Acrylic on stretched canvas
Link
Title: Link – The chain is as strong as its weakest link
Measurements: 60x90xm
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
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