Deborah Klein's Art Blog

The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) 2014, ink with touches of  gouache  on A4-sized Khadi paper. Collection: Maitland Regi...

Pictured above: 22-Spot Ladybird Woman (Psyllobora vigntiduopunctata Homo-insecta) 2015, acrylic on wood, 32 x 23 cm. (Artist’s impr...

22-Spot Ladybird Woman : gradually taking on colour and almost ready for her spots. Pictured above: more developmental views of 22-...

Beginnings of a new painting:  22-Spot Ladybird Woman   (Psyllobora viginitiduopunctata Homo- insecta) pencil on wood (top image); pencil a...

True to their conviction that it's well and truly time for a change, the Moth Woman Vigilantes have also commissioned a 2015 Republic o...

Ever the optimist, I’m still imagining and imaging a brave new order in which the Moth Woman Vigilantes* take us under their collective wi...

Spider-hunting Wasp Woman , 2014, hand coloured linocut, 29.5 x 21 cm, edition: 30 Editions (Redux)  currently showing at Tacit Contem...

The watercolour, Wasp Woman was begun, but not quite completed, during my term as artist in residence at the Art Vault in Mildura last De...

Hibiscus Harlequin Bug Woman, 2015 , acrylic on wood, 20 x 20 cm Now full-fledged,  Hibiscus Harlequin Bug Woma...

AKA Tectorcoris diopthalmus Woman and Cotton Harlequin Bug Woman, this luminescent Homo-insecta hails from Northern and Eastern Australia, ...

Top: Between the Sheets:  Installation view, Gallery Central, Perth, WA Base:  Homo-insecta - An Unnatural History Portfolio , 2013, art...

Further to my previous post, which focused on the newly completed Jewel Beetle Woman (Sternocera aequisignata) I  now  present my Mus...

Now fully-formed, the newest member of the  Homo-insecta species makes her debut appearance below, followed by further details of the docum...

Early stages of  Jewel Beetle Woman (Sternocera   aequisignata)  2015, acrylic and pencil on wood, 20 x 20 cm.

Yesterday afternoon (Monday, 2 March) I met with printmakers Clayton Tremlett and Rona Green at Rona's wonderful studio in the Mercat...

Red and Blue Leaf Beetle Woman , 2015, acrylic on canvas, 12 x 10 cm For a great many years I've been drawn to portrait mini...

Yesterday afternoon I popped in for another look at Editions 2015 at Tacit Contemporary Art. The opening on 11 February was so crowded the...

An unexpected bonus of having a studio in my back garden is the regular visits I receive from various members of the insect and arachnid ki...

Currently on the drawing board in the Ballarat studio: Work in progress pictured above: Indian Leaf Butterfly Woman , 2015, acr...

Queen Alexandra's Birdwinged Woman , 2015, acrylic on wood, 20 x 20 cm Recently completed, this is the first of a series of painti...