Fiona Murphy's Paintings and Workshops : Bring on the Creativity!

Well, it has taken me 9 weeks to actually be able to sit down and blog. I have been busy with our move to Brazil. We are renting a new house and being the first tenants to live in it has been a bigger responsibility than I had ever imagined. The rainy season has begun and we have discovered major leaks in the house over the past few weeks. One leak through the ceiling of the studio comes down the light socket and when the lamp shade fills up with water it causes a short circuit that trips the electricity for the whole house. Fun, fun, fun!
Besides the house there is the surreal world of Brazil's horrendous red tape. Brazilian bureaucracy is worse than the leaking house. No matter what you buy or which foot you try to put forward you have to sign papers, show all forms of identification and go from one office to the next to get stamped by notaries. They made me photocopy all the pages in my passport including the blank ones. Hilarious but very time consuming. Well, enough complaining as there are so many wonderful things about Brazil. You will get to see those through my paintings, so stay tuned. I've made a promise to myself that I will paint everyday so my future posts will be filled with color and creativity.
Today I started my day by recycling furniture that was damaged in our shipment. There is no point in going out to try and replace them as furniture here is so expensive and the style is generally plastic and glass, very 80's. You can find fabulous solid wood furniture but one needs to go to Tiradentes to get the bargains as shops charge an arm and a leg in Brasilia

The color scheme and patterns of my bedside table coincide with the bed covers and the overall color scheme of our guest bedroom.