Online Finalists

Artist Name: OLIVIA RYAN

Artwork Title: THE LIFE OF BANKSIA AEMULA AT STRADBROKE IS.

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30 x 25cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

The lifecycle of the Banksia Aemula is a beautiful and tactile one. These three pieces seek to capture the detail and texture of this transition.

Artist Name: OLIVIA RYAN

Artwork Title: TRIOS PAPILLONS

Medium: Ink & pencil

Size: 28 x 42cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

The muse for this piece began with the central rainbow butterfly and the pattern on the wings. It quickly evolved into a bigger piece that represents colour and movement - butterfly-esque.

Artist Name: OLIVIA RYAN

Artwork Title: RED VINE

Medium: Ink & pencil

Size: 28 x 42cm

Price: $3200

Artist Statement:

The Red Vine is the seminal work and beginning of my organic-geometric designs. It evolved over 10months of mindfulness and flow.

Artist Name: KAYE COGLAN

Artwork Title: MIDNIGHT BLUE

Medium: Mix Medium

Size: 29.7 x 21cm

Price: $120

Artist Statement:

Very light mixed medium. I called this 'Blue Midnight,' which is my interpretation of moon light on a black horse at the midnight hour.

Artist Name: BEN STARLING

Artwork Title: LIGHT NIGHT THOUGHTS

Medium: Oil

Size: 45 x 55cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

This is a painting of a woman going through what we all do time and time again when things just seem to dwell on our minds into the njght

Artist Name: BEN STARLING

Artwork Title: RUSTY

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

Acrylic painting of Russell Crowe

Artist Name: RHONDDA SCOTT

Artwork Title: DARK DAYS

Medium: oil

Size: 22 x 12cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

Sometimes landscape isn't all pretty and greens. This is after the bush fires. The devastation. The blackened earth. The chance for regrowth and a fresh start. we all need a fresh start from the darkness

Artist Name: CAMILLE NICHOLLS

Artwork Title: MANDARIN QUARTET

Medium: Oil on Paper

Size: 29 x 21cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

An ode to Dutch Still Life paintings and Australian flora. The Mandarin Quartet is a hanging still life of utter simplicity but technical intricacy.

Artist Name: GLENMARY SWAN

Artwork Title: FLEUR

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

"Fleur" represents our special and unique flora and in Australia. The inspiration for the painting includes grevillea (on top) water lily, wildflowers, bottlebrush (earring), and eucalypt leaves for her eyes. Her straight neck is the tree trunk, water flow on the left and earth on the right. The patches are our human impacts.

Artist Name: MALVEEN WHITE

Artwork Title: STORM ON GLASSHOUSE

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 35 x 54cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

Rain cooling the earth's crust after the ancient fiery explosion which brought the volcanic peaks into being.

Artist Name: BETHANY SAAB

Artwork Title: GARLIC AND PLATE FROM BENNA II

Medium: Acrylic on birch panel

Size: 30 x 21cm

Artist Statement:

Often there are moments in my day where I see something and have to paint it. This was one of them. The garlic from the neighbour’s backyard, sitting on a favourite plate in the kitchen. This painting for me is a slowing down, immersion in detail of shadow and luminosity.

Artist Name: KYM MULLEN

Artwork Title: NOT LONG NOW

Medium: Oil

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1200

Artist Name: CHRISTOPHER MCLEOD

Artwork Title: SWINGING THE BILLY

Medium: OIL

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $5500

Artist Statement:

SWINGING THE BILLY was once a very common occurrence at camp sites around Australia and a few years ago an Overseas visitor asked me what it was, as everyone she asked did not know what it was. The process, I explained involved a Tea maker boiling water in a metal can we call a billy over an open fire and throwing two handfulls' of Bushells Tea into the boiling water and after a pause grabbing hold of the handle and swinging it over their head in a vertical motion .My Father always said it made the Tea taste much better. The setting is campsite on the Nullarbor Plain near Forest where my Parents took me for a picnic. Don't ask.

Artist Name: EMMA WALKER

Artwork Title: ASA (HOPE)

Medium: Acrylic and wax on shaped marine ply

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $3000

Artist Statement:

2020 brought intertwined experiences that were darkly challenging and profoundly beautiful. From fear and uncertainty came powerful revelations about what was truly valuable. Radical shifts were needed. I pared things back to reveal something essential. This proved a potent instinct to follow that paved the way for clarity to emerge.

Artist Name: PATRICK MAVETY

Artwork Title: BRAIDWOOD

Medium: Oil on cotton paper

Size: 14 x 18cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

This painting is a landscape and a house that is dear to us. This property was almost lost to the bushfires of 2020 but through some twist of fate was surrounded but untouched by fire.

Artist Name: JOHN MASON

Artwork Title: LOUD CLICK

Medium: Arcylic

Size: 50 x 60cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

Soundscape. The sound of a loud Click such as a sliding door locking.
Acrylic on canvas with 24-carat Gold leaf embellishments 60cm x 50cm (approx 20″x24″). 2018. Ready to hang.

Artist Name: CATHERINE M TAIT

Artwork Title: THE ROCKS SYDNEY

Medium: oil on gesso board

Size: 18 x 24cm

Price: $510

Artist Statement:

I developed into landscapes and streetscapes later in her career, where I endeavour to capture the impression of a location. It could be a shadow in an alley or the unique rock formation on the Flinders Island coast. At the moment I am reflecting on the landscapes that I see around me– the Australian bush, my home and also when travelling overseas. Plein air painting is a challenge but I have developed the skill of using, preliminary drawings, small sketches on location then combining her information to complete her impression of location.

Artist Name: CATHERINE M TAIT

Artwork Title: COLUMBAS AVE MANHATTON

Medium: oil on gesso board

Size: 24 x 30cm

Price: $520

Artist Statement:

I developed into landscapes and streetscapes later in her career, where I endeavour to capture the impression of a location. It could be a shadow in an alley or the unique rock formation on the Flinders Island coast. At the moment I am reflecting on the landscapes that I see around me– the Australian bush, my home and also when travelling overseas. Plein air painting is a challenge but I have developed the skill of using, preliminary drawings, small sketches on location then combining her information to complete her impression of location.

Artist Name: CATHERINE M TAIT

Artwork Title: RAIN DOWNTOWN MANHATTON

Medium: oil on gesso board

Size: 20 x 40cm

Price: $520

Artist Statement:

I developed into landscapes and streetscapes later in her career, where I endeavour to capture the impression of a location. It could be a shadow in an alley or the unique rock formation on the Flinders Island coast. At the moment I am reflecting on the landscapes that I see around me– the Australian bush, my home and also when travelling overseas. Plein air painting is a challenge but I have developed the skill of using, preliminary drawings, small sketches on location then combining her information to complete her impression of location.

Artist Name: JULIE SHEA

Artwork Title: PATRICIA AS HER GARDEN

Medium: Watercolour on Paper

Size: 47 x 60cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

Patricia Fleming – a strong, intelligent and constructive country woman – loved to landscape. This torn and mounted watercolour on paper portrait shows her resting, reflected in her garden pool. She has left us, but we will always find her in the places she created.

Artist Name: GAIL MCKENZIE

Artwork Title: MEADOWFLAT AFTER THE RAIN

Medium: oil

Size: 32 x 32cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

This artwork comes with an external box timber frame

I was inspired by an en Pleinair painting trip to Meadow Flats NSW.
I had never seen the landscape so green. It was stunning and the rain certainly transformed the landscape from the yellowish greys to vivid green! It was a joy to visit and paint in this beautiful landscape.

Artist Name: HARRY ROTHEL

Artwork Title: RED GLOVE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 57 x 45cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

Red glove is a portrait based on a fantastical character created in my head over lockdown and the height of the pandemic. Translated into an image after the aftermath of 2020. It embodies the whimsical nature of how I was feeling.

Artist Name: CARLY LE CERF

Artwork Title: KNOW HER NAME

Medium: Encaustic, oil and pigment on board

Size: 40 x 30cm

Artist Statement:

I am a contemporary landscape painter, developing works that are drawn from emotional responses to the landscape. As an encaustic artist, I strive to evoke memory and emotion through intuitive layering and carving, evolving to become seductive and tactile works. Texture is a theme embedded in my practice, where I explore its dynamic potential through building up and carving back; a dance between control and unpredictability revealing the sculptural quality of wax, oil and pigment.
Currently based in the Mount Barker, Western Australia, I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Edith Cowan University, Perth in 2000. I have been included in numerous group shows across Australia, including twelve successful solo shows.

Artist Name: D.K. PERKINS

Artwork Title: SELF PORTRAIT AGED 14, LIVING WITH OSGOOD-SCHLATTER

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 45 x 35cm

Price: $978

Artist Statement:

Inspired by Ben Quilty I used a photograph of my 14-year-old self to experiment with thickly applied paint to explore how I can reveal inner truths. At the time I was suffering from intense growth pain known as Osgood-Schlatter disease. I also had sunburn.

Artist Name: TRACEY HEWITT

Artwork Title: WITNESS

Medium: Acrylic, charcoal and oil pastel on canvas

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Witness attempts to convey the feeling that there is much more going on in the desert than can be seen at first glance, and that those things are revealed in fragments, inviting us to pay close attention and be present with the place.

Artist Name: TRACEY HEWITT

Artwork Title: HUNTING FOR WISDOM

Medium: Acrylic, charcoal and oil pastel on canvas

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Hunting For Wisdom is inspired by the patterning on desert goannas and a line from a sonnet I wrote as I travelled through the desert:
But freedom doesn’t come without a cost,
To hunt for wisdom, first we must get lost.

Artist Name: VICKI BOSWORTH

Artwork Title: SQUAWK

Medium: Oil

Size: 61 x 51cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

This painting is done in oils. It is inspired by memories of my childhood on my parent's farm. They kept chooks who were presided over by a very bossy and ferocious rooster. I have tried to convey in paint through expressive brush strokes the rooster’s bellicosity.

Artist Name: HEIDI KAUFMANN

Artwork Title: NO MATTER HOW PERFECT, IT ONLY LASTS A FINITE PERIOD

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

Roses for me a very fascinating flowers. I can watch them grow for days going from a tender small bud to a full bloom and then loose their petals one by one and show a swift passage from a beautiful life into death.

Artist Name: ROGER CALLEN

Artwork Title: DESECRATION

Medium: OILS ON RECYCLED PACKET

Size: 46 x 50cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

Rock art site on track to Grindells Hut, Vulkathunha NP, Adnyamathinha country, Gammon Ranges, S. Aust. Boulder desecrated by rifle fire. Also commemorates massacres and murders that occurred elsewhere. Bottom panel shows the nearby rock art site.

In this example I commemorate the close relation of the Adnyamathinha (Rock-people) with nature.

Artist Name: ROGER CALLEN

Artwork Title: TREZONA STROMATOLITES

Medium: LINOPRINT

Size: 42 x 50cm

Price: $100

Artist Statement:

From sketches made on site , Flinders Ranges NP, 1 of 8 prints. Trezona Formation, near Aroona Valley. Ancient fossil algae, among the earliest life in Australia which generated the oxygen in our atmosphere. The textures fascinated me. This was an area I once mapped as a geologist during the 1960's/70's.

Artist Name: VICTORIA FITZGERALD

Artwork Title: TRANSIENT LIGHT

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $610

Artist Statement:

For this piece I explored the juxtaposition of minimal swathes of colour and a highly textured section to draw the viewers eyes around the canvas without overwhelming them.

Artist Name: CANDICE TOPPER

Artwork Title: EVENING HARBOUR

Medium: Oil

Size: 46 x 61cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

A celebratory evening spent in the salty breeze of the Sydney harbour. Encapsulating a memory spent with my loved one as the warmth of sun beams over the waters and the bustling city hiding its secrets within its shadows.

Artist Name: ALLA ART

Artwork Title: ISOLATION

Medium: Watercolor

Size: 38 x 58cm

Price: $460

Artist Statement:

The past year has not been easy for all of us. It was a time of isolation and limitation. However, life is much better than last year gave us. Eternal values remain unchanged, love, peace, concern for others . In this picture, I have depicted a fragment of my nephew, Jack’s life in isolation during the Lockdown.

Artist Name: LAYONG JINGGA PROBO

Artwork Title: THREE KINDS OF ROSES

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

I compose the natural objects, especially fruits and flowers, to form a harmonious spirit of life. Therefore, I put the details to create an impression that in not just a photo poured into a painting.

Artist Name: LAYONG JINGGA PROBO

Artwork Title: BUNCH OF APPLE IN BLUE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 50 x 60cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

I compose the natural objects, especially fruits and flowers, to form a harmonious spirit of life. Therefore, I put the details to create an impression that in not just a photo poured into a painting.

Artist Name: IMOGEN EVE

Artwork Title: POHUTUKAWA AND WATTLE

Medium: gouache, coloured pencil, and watercolour including CfM malachite watercolour

Size: 27 x 19cm

Price: $410

Artist Statement:

'Pohutukawa and wattle' is part of a larger series of still lifes, recording time and place through foraged local flora, often with personal props, in this case the picture books I was reading aloud to my young children. A reminder to take note of nature, in what feels like an increasingly screen-driven world.

Artist Name: LLAEL MCDONALD

Artwork Title: LAST OF THE SUMMER ROSES

Medium: oil

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $690

Artist Statement:

This work is predominantly a study in light and its effects on colour values and its ability to ship the mood and tome of ordinary everyday objects.

Artist Name: REINA MULLER

Artwork Title: CAJUN HIBISCUS IN THE HEDGE

Medium: Acrylic paints

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $477

Artist Statement:

It’s going to be long story if I talk about why I painted this.

I just explain that I painted this because the flower’s colour combination was very rare and beautiful to me.

The hibiscus flower was blossoming on a hedge and it was prominent within the greens.

Artist Name: JULIE HOBBS

Artwork Title: LIGHT THROUGH GLASS

Medium: oil paint

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

There is a soothing quality to the simplicity of light through glass. The limited colour palette accentuates the shadows cast, making patterns and allowing our eyes to rest a moment.

Artist Name: KATHLEEN MASON

Artwork Title: COMO GEORGES RIVER

Medium: oil paint on board

Size: 20 x 20cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

This is another local painting with a slide ghost image of one of the piers near the Como Marina. I've worked to give the feeling of the energy of the water and the light of the day on the distance landscape across the Georges River at Oatley. This is similar to another painting I worked on recently, but I feel this has more contrast and energy in it.

Artist Name: HEIDI KAUFMANN

Artwork Title: THE MAGICAL SPIRIT HOUSE

Medium: Oil on Canvas Paper

Size: 32.5 x 42cm

Price: $350

Artist Name: ALESSANDRO BELLOMUNNO

Artwork Title: HUNTING TRIP

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 41 x 61cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

2020 will certainly be remembered as a year of rebellion, earth’s rebellion, which is now forced to evolve in order to curb the greatest enemy, MAN.

Along with its own deep changes also earth’s creatures become rebels in their own lands. The Whistling Kites for example are the third cause of bushfires in Australia. They carry small fiery branches, from land to land, to enlarge the areas of the bushfires. This will force the weaker animals to come out from their hiding spots to get to safety. A vile illusion created by the kites just to turn other animals into easy prey.

A bit like this 2020 that is exposing the fragility and weaknesses of modern man. The normal and the everyday habits have become a source of fears and awes.

The "flying" and "carrying" of the whistling kites become means of spreading for an evil (the fire) too difficult to control.

For us too, "traveling" and "exploring", always perceived as an extension of culture to tear down borders, have become means of spreading the last of evils for the humankind (COVID-19). And so, just as that fiery branch widens the fire until it is uncontrollable, travels spread the pandemic and the closure of borders.

Artist Name: GRACE LILA

Artwork Title: BLUE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 25 x 20cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

It’s a cold wet night, as I briskly walk to my car, i briefly glance across and see a young boy, his eyes met mine. No words exchanged, but, even so, I still understood his despair. His name was Blue.
This is a photo taken in my mind of him.

Artist Name: JESSIE CUNNINGHAM-REID

Artwork Title: COVID PLAYGROUND

Medium: Charcoal on paper

Size: 40 x 30cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

During the Melbourne stage 3 Covid lockdown we were allowed to leave the house for exercise once a day, and I started walking around Princes Park, the same route almost every day. I documented the changes happening around me, including the closure of this playground

Artist Name: MARGHERITA SANGUINETI

Artwork Title: ANNAPURNA 1

Medium: Oil

Size: 37 x 53cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

The inspiration and reference for these paintings comes from 35mm Kodak slides taken by my late uncle, a mountain climber.
Through these slides I was able to connect with him and see all the amazing places he visited.
With vibrant colours and high contrast she hopes to share a beautifully tragic story and celebrate his passion for nature, determination and courage.

Artist Name: MARGHERITA SANGUINETI

Artwork Title: ANNAPURNA 2

Medium: oil

Size: 17 x 27cm

Price: $540

Artist Statement:

The inspiration and reference for these paintings comes from 35mm Kodak slides taken by my late uncle, a mountain climber.
Through these slides I was able to connect with him and see all the amazing places he visited.
With vibrant colours and high contrast she hopes to share a beautifully tragic story and celebrate his passion for nature, determination and courage.

Artist Name: JOHN R P HODGSON

Artwork Title: EASTER CROWD

Medium: Soluble Oil Crayon

Size: 26 x 32cm

Price: $895

Artist Statement:

My work is exploratory and investigative of personal history and contemporary socio-political place. Easter is emblematic of confusion more than clarity, of desire more than truth: a microcosm of political exigencies intersecting social reality such as continue to drive the world today.

Artist Name: LEIGH SCHOENHEIMER

Artwork Title: WAYS OF SEEING / WAYS OF KNOWING: UNPACKING MONDRIAN

Medium: Oil on Ply

Size: 41 x 60cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

This work makes reference to the famous abstractions of Piet Mondrian. By imagining a possible starting point to his last known painting - 'Victory Boogie Woogie', I have engineered a 'reverse chronology' to establish a dialogue between perception (what the eye sees) and interpretation (what takes place in the mind).

Artist Name: REINA MULLER

Artwork Title: AUTUMN WALK WITH MY DAUGHTER

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 46cm

Price: $560

Artist Statement:

This was an image from our family visiting Kyoto Japan in 2017.

We celebrated our daughter getting 3 years old.

It is a Japanese custom to celebrate 3, 5, 7 years old children.

We call it “Shichi Go San” means (7, 5 and 3).

Artist Name: LARA MCKENZIE

Artwork Title: LIONESS II

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 42 x 29cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

The Lioness Series is inspired by the powerful, dynamic and fierce energy of The Lioness. There is great strength and freedom when you are truely loved - it sets you free.

Artist Name: LARA MCKENZIE

Artwork Title: LIONESS III

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 29 x 42cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

The Lioness Series is inspired by the powerful, dynamic and fierce energy of The Lioness. There is great strength and freedom when you are truely loved - it sets you free.

Artist Name: GAYE CHAPMAN

Artwork Title: THE BURNING SHORE III

Medium: mixed media + polymers + ashes + site specific materials + gold leaf on canvas

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $5000

Artist Statement:

Alone in the far Southern ocean, ignorant of the inferno they presaged, the first white invaders spoke of Australian fire over and over:
"smokes of fires ... along the coast all the day" 1642 Tasman.
"[Aboriginal people] presented us with fire...fires and the smoke seen day /night". 1772 du Fresne.

Artist Name: PAUL WILLIAMS

Artwork Title: VIRTUAL GIRL

Medium: Ink on paper

Size: 41 x 29cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

Cosmetics cannot hide the girl.

Artist Name: PAUL WILLIAMS

Artwork Title: CUBISM

Medium: Ink on paper

Size: 29 x 41cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

Cubism is a matter of perspective.

Artist Name: CHERYL RABE

Artwork Title: CAFE E TORTA

Medium: Lino Print

Size: 23 x 20cm

Price: $320

Artist Statement:

I used to walk past Cafe e Torta in Lt Collins Street every morning on my way to work. The red Vespa outside and the warm glow from inside always brightened my day and I knew one day I wanted to paint this picture.

Artist Name: MICHELLE SLATER

Artwork Title: SUNSET DREAMING

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $728

Artist Statement:

Inspired by walking through Australia's outback desert at sunset

Artist Name: DEMI MARINO

Artwork Title: JASMIN

Medium: oil on board

Size: 30 x 20cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

Jasmin is a Brisbane based writer is an old friend of the artist. The artist aimed to emulate Jasmin’s thoughtfulness and reserved nature, capturing her pose in her sharehouse of the time.

Artist Name: LARA CHAPMAN

Artwork Title: SUMMER'S BLUSH

Medium: oil

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

Having watched a favourite tree blossom over summer, I foraged the last pink gum blossoms from a neighbour’s verge on the eve of the most recent Covid19 lockdown. There is always hope. There is always beauty.

Artist Name: KAREN COLLINS

Artwork Title: DHARPA

Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas

Size: 41 x 51cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

The tree stands alone in a sea of rock. How does it find the nutrients and water to survive in the harsh outback of Australia?

Artist Name: MAX BUTLER

Artwork Title: MY COUNTRY #506

Medium: OIL

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

An ideal spot to free-camp for the night, with the ever-present mountains in the background. This beautiful stream passing through the rock-strewn countryside was perfect, especially as the sun was setting.

Artist Name: SOPHIE DALGLEISH

Artwork Title: TOMORROW IS A NEW DAY ...

Medium: oil on board

Size: 28 x 38cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

" Sophie's fascination with the Australian landscape is present throughout her work, focusing on the observation of nature and its different interpretations. Her paintings are an exquisite offering of 'views through small windows', these are evocative vignettes of those soft warm , sensual experiences that we associate with luxuriating in beautiful countryside and feeling 'at one with Nature' . "

Artist Name: SOPHIE DALGLEISH

Artwork Title: MISTY SUMMER NIGHT

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 25 x 25cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

" Sophie's fascination with the Australian landscape is present throughout her work, focusing on the observation of nature and its different interpretations. Her paintings are an exquisite offering of 'views through small windows', these are evocative vignettes of those soft warm , sensual experiences that we associate with luxuriating in beautiful countryside and feeling 'at one with Nature' . "

Artist Name: MARK KLEINE

Artwork Title: VENUS GENETRIX

Medium: Photographic Print

Size: 61 x 41cm

Price: $720

Artist Statement:

Venus Genetrix is from a photographic series about the artist’s identity as a “mestizo” (i.e. a person of “mixed” Filipino descent). The project is facilitated by the artist’s depiction in images wearing an 18th century costume. This entry connects the Venus convention in European art with the "mestizo" experience.

Artist Name: MARK KLEINE

Artwork Title: THE LOCUSTS

Medium: Photographic Print

Size: 61 x 41cm

Price: $720

Artist Statement:

The Locusts is from a photographic series about the artist’s identity as a “mestizo” (i.e. a person of “mixed” Filipino descent). The project is facilitated by the artist’s depiction in images wearing an 18th century costume. This entry speaks to a coming-of-age experience through light, domesticity, and religious iconography.

Artist Name: PAM FLETCHER (PAINTING AS P.A. FLETCHER)

Artwork Title: TRAFFICO IDRICO SU UN CANALE DI VENEZIA

Medium: Computer painted Digital Art

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

In this digital artwork created from a photograph taken by myself, I endeavoured to capture the vibrancy and uniqueness of Venice. Paying homage to its history through its style of architecture but also acknowledging its transition into the modern era by the inclusion of gondolas and motorised transportation within the work.

Artist Name: GRACE LILA

Artwork Title: I DON’T GIVE A DUCK

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 50.8 x 35.6cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

8 piece series tells a story of a Duck in Australia in different environments. Why the duck? Because it is a way of disassociating, from our real fate, which is death. Looking at it as a story that can’t really be true. Depending on how these paintings are arranged, you can tell a different story/stories.

Artist Name: SARAH MCDONALD

Artwork Title: THE MURRAY RIVER AT DUSK

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 40 x 30cm

Artist Statement:

The Murray River has inspired Artists and Poets for many years, from early works from Indingenous Artists to 20th Century Australian masters. Seeing anything from flooding, drought and at times tragedy, the River plays host to many family times, leisure and stillness. My time at the River at a family property has had profound impact on me. I experienced absoloute stillness and peace. Sunsets at dusk disguising the usual murky hue of the water with an exact mirror image of its reflection. I feel a strong sense of place because of the surrounding colours and smells. This painting is a reflection of all of those experiences, aiming to capture that same stillness and peace I feel when I am there.

Artist Name: JANIS LANDER

Artwork Title: 2020 BLUES

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 61 x 46cm

Price: $3000

Artist Statement:

Trent Marden plays rock guitar, writes songs, and provides vocals in the rock group The Holy Soul, and in solo performances in Australia and overseas. The title refers to the current unpredictable and unsettling era when Covid restrictions have been so harsh for performing artists. I have paInted Trent many times but never in such a despondent mood.

Artist Name: MICHELLE HENRY

Artwork Title: O, LET ME BE YOUR BEE AND ROVE

Medium: Oil on Gessobord

Size: 36 x 28cm

Price: $848

Artist Statement:

The title of this work comes from Australian poet A. D. Hope. The bee explores the most delicate and intimate parts of the protea, which thrives on the attention. As Kahlil Gibran put it: “And to both, the bee and the flower, the giving and receiving of pleasure is both a need and an ecstasy.”

Artist Name: MICHELLE HENRY

Artwork Title: REACH UP HIGHER NOW AND YES

Medium: Oil on Gessobord

Size: 36 x 28cm

Price: $847

Artist Statement:

The unusual angle of this green kangaroo paw suggested the idea of grasping for something that was just out of reach. It was painted at a time when travel, even between Sydney and Brisbane, seemed an unachievable goal. The title is from the poem ‘First Door’ by John Jenkins.

Artist Name: DOREEN CHUA

Artwork Title: R7A – AN ARST OF E FLOATG WRLD. KI.

Medium: Mixed Medium

Size: 51 x 41cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books – Andrei Tarkovsky.

This artwork from the body of work from the Readers Series, is the artists’ take inspired by books read over the years, unfolding the communication between an author and a reader. As intimate as it is private, the take away across readers to readers varies widely as it communicates with individuals of different lived experiences, suggestive of unique esoteric narratives beyond the written words and its messages.

Artist Name: LENA STUMPF

Artwork Title: THE ATOMIST NOTION

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 40 x 30cm

Price: $370

Artist Statement:

Like a tidal wave, an avalanche that does not cause any noise, it rolls through fantasies and swallows up everything that it encounters on its way - all life, all colour, every scent, every sound and every feeling.
What is lost to nothing disappears as if it never existed. If the longed-for saviour does not arrive quickly, there will be no trace of fantasy and not the slightest memory.
(Michael Ende, The Neverending Story)

This quote applies today more than ever. I interpret "the nothing" as the tech industry taking away our imagination, society getting sucked into their phones, losing our ability to create our own entertainment. We don't read books anymore, we don't listen to vinyl anymore, instead of playing board games we play on our devices. Our brains are changing.
This painting is a digital rendition of a photo of a sunset in an industrial area near my town and was digitally distorted, then painted on canvas, thereby reclaiming the traditional side of art while still making use of technology.

Artist Name: KATE CIVIL

Artwork Title:

Medium: acrylic

Size: 46 x 46cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Laughter is the best medicine. This pair of circus clowns display a variety
poses for us as they turn and take a ball to the mouth for us to take a prize.
Colours are expressionistic as they are played out against one another.
This maybe a work that travels in hyperreality.

Artist Name: KATE CIVIL

Artwork Title:

Medium: oils

Size: 61 x 46cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

When visiting a circus we enter to the bigtop to experience a real show. This
work in oils invites us to see further than just first impressions. The colours
are juxataposed to dazzle the senses and the red flag flies high.

Artist Name: CATHERINE CLARK DOWDEN

Artwork Title: DOORAWARRAH DIAMOND

Medium: oil

Size: 31 x 41cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

Doorawarrah Diamond
Using a vibrant palette of beautiful Australian outback colours, I wanted to capture the innocence and vulnerability of this young brahman calf, a gorgeous diamond in the rough.

Artist Name: CATHERINE CLARK DOWDEN

Artwork Title: POUCH OF HAPPINESS

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 36 x 46cm

Price: $1280

Artist Statement:

Pouch of Happiness
Using a limited palette and knife to capture the stillness of this beautiful moment. The sunlight warming the mother and joey in the late afternoon as they graze on the new shots of grass along the path.

Artist Name: ROSS JAMES HALFACREE

Artwork Title: THE END OF THE ROAD

Medium: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Size: 51 x 51cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

Tahiti’s “Teahupoo” is considered by pro-surfers as the most dangerous wave in the world. The power, speed, and weight of water has led to the wave being called “The End of the Road”. My work shows the images surfers encounter when they wipeout and submerge for up to 3 minutes.

Artist Name: DAMIAN BISOGNI

Artwork Title: VALLEY OF LOST SOULS

Medium: Acrylic on Board

Size: 30 x 20cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

This is an imagined landscape inspired by endless hours driving around the outback and country roads littered with road kill and tyre shrapnel and lined with drought affected trees. There is beauty in every aspect of any landscape if you choose to see it.

Artist Name: DAMIAN BISOGNI

Artwork Title: LOST HORIZON

Medium: Acrylic on Board

Size: 30 x 20cm

Price: $399

Artist Statement:

This painting depicts a landscape with a country road driving through the middle. As the road heads towards the horizon, it reaches a T intersection, at which point the horizon is then lost behind the mountain range in between.

Artist Name: DAMIAN BISOGNI

Artwork Title: DOOLITTLE TRACK LIST

Medium: Acrylic on Board

Size: 30 x 20cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

This is a simple painting of the track list from The Pixies 1989 album title Doolittle. The work depicts the 15 tracks in order with the length of the song on the right hand side. I love this album.

Artist Name: GRANT QUINN

Artwork Title: THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS

Medium: Photography

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $195

Artist Statement:

With a passion for collecting, my obsession started many years ago after being gifted a Wedgwood Gravy Boat by my Grandmother. I still have that gravy boat, sitting front and centre in my display cabinet, but little was I to know that this simple gravy boat would lead to a life time of becoming a ‘mad collector’.

Artist Name: GRANT QUINN

Artwork Title: IT'S SHOW TIME

Medium: Photography

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $145

Artist Statement:

Roll up Roll up...there back. After a year like no other, we saw the annual show's disappear. As a child I loved sideshow alley. The dodgems, the show bags, and even the clowns. Now as an adult, my love of side show alley continues, I still love the dodgems, the show bags, and yes...even the clowns.

Artist Name: GRANT QUINN

Artwork Title: EGRET IN SOLITUDE

Medium: Photography

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $195

Artist Statement:

The Egret is a peacemaker and fisherman. It brings peace, stability, harmony, and good-luck. It is graceful, tactful, and direct. The feathers from these birds are used in healing ceremonies to take away negative energy and anger, and to bring peace and harmony to a situation.

Artist Name: GAY EMMERSON

Artwork Title: ARRIVING AT CENTRAL

Medium: oil stick on canvas

Size: 45 x 60cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

I chanced upon an old photo I had taken at Central Station some years ago. It was very blurred with muted colours, but reminded me of the procession of bodies with suitcases and backpacks hurrying towards the trains or toward the exits. Such an ever-present part of my life at the time, when I travelled between Canberra and Sydney every fortnight.

Artist Name: GAY EMMERSON

Artwork Title: LOBELIA BLUE

Medium: oil stick on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

I love the colour of lobelias! That intense blue! All the brighter when a dark bloom is put next to a paler flower. This painting is all about the essence of blueness.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: TORN EARTH

Medium: Oil and Photographic Print

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

Our Earth is beautiful but in turmoil. This painting depicts the Earth caught in the ravages of a global pandemic, wars, racial tension, global warming, genocide, government greed, domestic violence and sexual discrimination. The Earth is torn but will recover with hope, humility, honesty, and humanity working as one towards a better life for all.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: 3 PLACES, 4 COLOURS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

3 Places:
Panel 1: Urban landscape. Crowded roads, dense housing
Panel 2: Coastal landscape. Spacious, glaring white sand, meandering rivers to the sea.
Panel 3: Outback landscape. Rugged topography, brown winding rivers, sparse and opened.
4 Colours:
Celebrating Australian diversity. Our people's colours, Black, white, brown and beige.

Artist Name: ROBBI NEAL

Artwork Title: GREAT LOVE: NAPOLEON WRITES TO JOSEPHINE

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Size: 46 x 46cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

I am painting a series of paintings about great loves and the love letters written. Napoleon wrote this beautiful, funny, exquisitely passionate, painful, beautiful letter to Josephine whilst he was away at war.

Artist Name: SKAB

Artwork Title: PRINCE PHILIP DECAYING IN THE GROUND AS HIS QUEEN MOURNS AND HE ROTS TO PEARLY WHITE

Medium: acrylic/pen

Size: 60 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

The King is dead. Long live the King!
A Queen mourns her dear departed. In death revealed.

Artist Name: PETER OP'T LAND

Artwork Title: PELICAN ON PHILLIP STREET

Medium: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS

Size: 36 x 23cm

Price: $3600

Artist Statement:

I had seen Pelicans on lamp posts at Callala Beach and banked this visualization for a cityscape painting which is my main subject matter.

Artist Name: ZELA BISSETT

Artwork Title: SPOONBILLS AND WILDFLOWERS

Medium: watercolour

Size: 42 x 32cm

Price: $1550

Artist Statement:

This scene is a real place on the mainland side of the Great Sandy Strait where large flocks of spoonbills gather in the wetlands and take flight across the sky. The foreground features wild flowers which come up in great profusion across the coastal heathlands between August and December every year, including Yellow Bells, hovea, epicrus, banksia and gahnia. K'gari or Fraser Island can be seen in the distance.

Artist Name: KARA WELCH

Artwork Title: STILL LIFE WITH CERAMICS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 20 x 20cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

This workwas an experiment in both painting reflections and in painting with multiple light sources. The original photograph was taken as a storm blew in over the summer.

Artist Name: KARA WELCH

Artwork Title: AUSTRALIANA #3

Medium: Oil

Size: 37 x 48cm

Price: $300

Artist Name: JULIE DWIGHT

Artwork Title: JACARANDA JOY

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $575

Artist Statement:

Should one of the stunning lilac-blue blossoms happens to land on you as you walk beneath the jacaranda tree good fortune will follow!

Artist Name: PROBO

Artwork Title: BROWN HORSE

Medium: OIL ON CANVAS

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Horses represent beauty and strength.

Artist Name: PROBO

Artwork Title: RED CLOTH GIRL

Medium: OIL ON CANVAS

Size: 60 x 51cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Beauty in the girl's beauty, so I painted her.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: SHOOTING STAR

Medium: mixed media in oak frame

Size: 48 x 48cm

Price: $1029

Artist Statement:

"Shooting star"is a visual memory of brisk Western Australian evenings and a sky littered with shooting stars. In this small work, I have applied an energy much like the energy that use to electrify my body as light flashed across the night sky. Using mixed media and mark making, I wanted to achieve a rich passage of time projected from the mysterious depths of our universe.

Artist Name: ELLIOT CROMBIE

Artwork Title: FOLDING WAVE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $3000

Artist Statement:

In "Folding Wave" glazing and layering techniques have been employed to accentuate the cohesion between sky, ocean and sand. The visual focus of this artwork is to capture the oceans power, while the emotional focus has been to use colour and composition to invoke contrasting associations of peace and harmony.

Artist Name: STEPHEN BURDETT

Artwork Title: SWIMMING POOL

Medium: Acrylic gel on glass, acrylic on board

Size: 38 x 33cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

I have difficulty filtering, so I am distracted by light phenomenon such as the light on the bottom of a pool. I tend to understand a medium by moving toward its edge my 'painting'
has moved beyond pigment. A pattern on glass is reflected onto a blue surface.

Artist Name: LYN MERRINGTON

Artwork Title: MATILDA BAY CALM WINTER 2019

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 45 x 61cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

Matilda Bay is one of my favourite places. Its the perfect place to create my Infinity Samplers.
I began creating these after coming to Perth in the early 90s and not being able to capture the sense of scale we have here.
The constantly changing weather (and climate) has been a long term concern for me. It's important for me to have more than a snapshot appreciation of the landscape.
Above all to appreciate it. I hope you enjoy this work as much as I enjoyed making it.

Artist Name: CONNIE POWYS

Artwork Title: SOMEWHERE

Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $390

Artist Statement:

Somewhere.
I normally paint without direct reference or intended purpose. I allow the picture to form itself and then start to guide and pursue the opportunity that presents itself. And this is why, I feel connected in some way to the places that appear. But I feel strongly that there are people out there who know the place and are connected to it too, perhaps more intimately.

Artist Name: JULIA LUCY KENNEDY-BELL

Artwork Title: TESSELLATE #6

Medium: acrylic

Size: 20 x 20cm

Price: $330

Artist Statement:

Exploring the formal realtionships between painting and printmaking through atributes such as process, colour, layers, textures, forms and scale via abstraction and the inherant associations of meanings and well as their absences.

Artist Name: JANE BOOTY

Artwork Title: BLUE ROMANCE

Medium: oil and acrylic on up cycled floorboard

Size: 31 x 20cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

Flowers are beautiful, often intricate, and have a symbolic language recognised for millennia across human cultures. Certain flowers and colours are representative of specific emotions, and soft pinks and purples represent romantic love. I enjoyed the juxtaposition of the soft romance with the hard, vivid blue background.

Artist Name: MAG FEUGA

Artwork Title: RISE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

‘Rise’ is a praise to the human body inspired by ballet dancers.
It celebrates the energy emerging out of the darkness, the light we are holding on to through our life journey and the bright awakening coming out of pain.

Artist Name: HANNAH VAN DER WAL

Artwork Title: THE LIGHT IN THE DENSE.

Medium: Acrylic on 300gsm paper

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

An imagined landscape inspired by the desire to lose myself in the denseness of the bush where I live. I relish the moments where I find myself alone surrounded by this powerful country always looking to the possibility that I might find something greater than myself.

Artist Name: MARRILYN STAHMER

Artwork Title: A COLLECTION OF MEMORIES

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 61 x 41cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

This piece of artwork is all about memories, the things you tastes and smell when in a garden or acquire when travelling. I found the experience of painting these things took me back to a place in time I remembered fondly, I hope my painting evokes the same reaction in the viewer.

Artist Name: GLENIS GRAY

Artwork Title: IF YOU DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY

Medium: Acrylic, found objects

Size: 59 x 51cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

If you go down to the woods today

The title of the artwork brings back memories of childhood and singing to the radio whenever ‘The Teddy Bears Picnic” played.
Mistakenly, aged 6, I believed the line ‘see them, catch them unaware….’meant they were tossing their underwear into the air !

Artist Name: MERRIN EIRTH

Artwork Title: PLUGGING HOLES

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 28 x 35cm

Price: $3000

Artist Statement:

Triple-Donuts?! The taste of success too sweet, too early. See, the dauber wasp is plugging holes with the sugar of discontentment. Don’t worry, pay the spin master and ride with complicity on the roller coaster of opportunity, drink the syrup of arcadian splendour and gaze upon its industrial sunset.

Artist Name: KAREN HOOK

Artwork Title: LAST DAYS OF SUMMER/ RHODODENDRON PARK PLEIN AIR 2021

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

Last Days of Summer/ Rhododendron Park
oil on canvas - Plein Air& studio
My landscape paintings are a response to the sensory experience of colour and light in a specific location. I like to work Plein Air to begin a work, exploring dimensionality and space; I connect emotionally and intellectually whilst physically experiencing the uniqueness of a location.
Ps I’m not sure why the photo has flipped sideways... 😞

Artist Name: LINDA SWEENY

Artwork Title: HADES

Medium: Oil

Size: 45 x 31cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Painting Hades was reminiscent of painting in the renaissance period. I felt transported back to former times.

Artist Name: LINDA SWEENY

Artwork Title: SALLY

Medium: Oil

Size: 41 x 36cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Sally is a modern young Australian women, vital and independent. This work was painted from life.

Artist Name: LINDA SWEENY

Artwork Title: JAHNAVI

Medium: Oil

Size: 36 x 30cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Jahnavi is a young vibrant woman of Jamaican heritage whose family have made Australia their home.

Artist Name: NIL

Artwork Title: DEPRESSION

Medium: oil

Size: 60 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

It expresses the primal emotion of depression. It's finger-painted to express depression's debilitation and accurately depicts the absence of joy. In this sense it reflects the apparent dichotomies of abstraction and complete realism in the eyes and mind of the sufferer as it represents all they actually see and feel.

Artist Name: NIL

Artwork Title: SUCKLING AT THE TEAT OF THE EARTH AND SEA

Medium: mixed

Size: 60 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

Depression eases when this sufferer meets sea and earth. Connections to elemental forces have profound impact on the disease. Shadows recede, concrete reality slowly replaces the abstractive reality of the sufferer. This is finger painted on board and rock, its removal from this context would alter its healing irreparably.

Artist Name: YAO MIKAMI

Artwork Title: HUMBLE ACORN

Medium: natural pigment, egg tempera, oil on canvas

Size: 33 x 33cm

Price: $1230

Artist Statement:

Acorn symbolism is Art of self – sufficient. Art of self-control. Art of self discipline. Art of self – love.
When pandemic happen last year these practice help me stay grounded and be able to keep going day to day life in that situation.

Artist Name: ISABELLA ALLIS

Artwork Title: FIRST COFFEE

Medium: Oils on stretched canvas

Size: 40 x 30cm

Price: $1400

Artist Statement:

Morning light penetrates the beautifully quaint Baker’s Corner in Carina. The barrister cleans out the coffee machine so that she can make my first coffee for today, so eagerly awaited!

Artist Name: ISABELLA ALLIS

Artwork Title: FRANNIE’S LADIES 1

Medium: Oils on Stretched Linen

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $1600

Artist Statement:

Tightly clustered and adorned in their carefully crafted 1920s attire, her ladies work intently on getting her ready for her wedding. Her big sister, coming from afar to be there on this day, experiences this scene through the lens of a camera trying to capture this precious jewel of a memory.

Artist Name: TANIA BURKETT

Artwork Title: DAVY ON HOLIDAYS

Medium: Acrylic on board

Size: 61 x 15cm

Price: $10000

Artist Statement:

I bought Davy the tshirt. I knew he’d love the 70s, fun vibe and he wore it with delight. The painting captures his big-sky optimism and the joy of our south coast holiday... a glimpse into a post Covid world of simple pleasures- sun, beach, nature and good cheer.
I love painting into old board because it has a texture and tone that inspires me to add my personal story to its own.

Artist Name: GLENN VALENTINE

Artwork Title: MANDARINE WITH APPEAL

Medium: Pastel

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

Once a mandarine is peeled, there is no going back

Artist Name: ELWIRA SKOWRONSKA

Artwork Title: KOLOR12

Medium: Acrylic on paper_non-reflective glass_timber frame

Size: 43 x 35cm

Price: $1600

Artist Statement:

Kolor12 is a part of a painting series in which the artist creates fields of minute colour particles. It is based on translating static and moving digital images onto paper surfaces. The resulting pulsating intensities create a cascade of oscillating minutiae that mesmerise our attention and suggest the micro-space beneath. The brush points are minimal yet reveal the meticulous focus of the artist’s hand as it creates a rainbow of points that navigate us into the micro-materiality of the world.

Artist Name: ROYA HALAVATI

Artwork Title: ELEGANT LADY

Medium: Acrylic paint

Size: 19 x 14cm

Price: $480

Artist Statement:

Blending the reality of human figures or feelings with the spice of fantasy is my way to explain myself to share my imaginary inner world with someone. I want to convey the idea of calming down for a second and enjoying the beauty of the moment as each of us lives in our unique imaginary world.

Artist Name: AGI DESIMONE

Artwork Title: ON A SUNDAY

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

“On a Sunday” represents walking in a bush setting during a time of travel and movement restrictions. It symbolises the external complexity of the natural environment and the internal journey of dealing with the challenges of isolation.

Artist Name: JOSIE BIRCHALL

Artwork Title: CHIAROSCURO, THE DROUGHT.

Medium: oil and gold leaf on wood panel

Size: 32 x 32cm

Price: $985

Artist Statement:

If I could make it rain by painting clouds, I would paint a thousand clouds.

Artist Name: CAROL ROWLANDS

Artwork Title: SUMMER PEACE

Medium: Oil Paint on canvas

Size: 25 x 25cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

The seasons pass, just as certainly as the phases of life.
But the beauty of proteas last for such an extended time.
Summer peace settles over the garden and time holds it's breath.

Artist Name: JULZ BERESFORD

Artwork Title: IN SEARCH FOR THE SCENT OF THE SUMMERS DRY FOLIAGE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 48 x 48cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

As an Artist , painting is like a process of liquid thought. It’s a means of story telling, the power to express a particular moment in time in that Landscape. Starting my work Plein Air allows me the ability to be present in the moment so I can deeply interpret the authenticity of the landscape. Questioning what make this pace so unique, later translating its story to the canvas.

Artist Name: MOON RAMONE

Artwork Title: SENSATIONAL (22 HOURS)

Medium: Oil paint on board

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1100

Artist Statement:

My art is a conversation. It represents the neurological pathways forming in the brain. The aesthetic qualities of line are very expressive. I use line as a visual trail of energy, so that it’s a manifestation of life force.

Artist Name: STEPHEN KERNOHAN

Artwork Title: STILL LIFE WITH LANDSCAPE AND NUDE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 47 x 36cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

This study of a still life of the Protea was the inspiration in this compositional challenge to incorporate all the elements of still life featuring a landscape and nude.

Artist Name: LYNDA FAULKNER

Artwork Title: LEAP OF FAITH

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 56 x 56cm

Price: $946

Artist Statement:

Leap Of Faith
Throughout the history of surviving life we have all at sometime taken a leap of faith.
Lynda has depicted her own leap of breaking away from the mundane 9 to 5 grindstone to leaping into a world of art and colour. Leap Of Faith

Artist Name: STUART CARROL

Artwork Title: PIRATE-ZERO-SIX

Medium: Digital Art

Size: 32 x 50cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

A Royal Air Force pilot in the cockpit of a Hawk jet performs low altitude manoeuvres over the coast of Anglesey in North Wales, UK. This is a composition based on several photographic references. The title is taken from a callsign of an RAF jet seen on Flightradar24 app.

Artist Name: PHIL TAMBLYN

Artwork Title: 10 YEARS ON, AFTER THE FLOOD, CUSTOMS HOUSE

Medium: Acrylic, Ink & Coloured Pencil

Size: 46 x 46cm

Price: $645

Artist Statement:

A river that enveloped a city. flooded its streets and buildings.
Its’ far flung suburbs, and changed its’ people forever.
Ten years on and one of the rivers historic buildings, stands
centinal, on its edge. Still, never to be outdone buy its new
sky tower neighbours, it still takes pride of place.

Artist Name: KEAN ONN SEE

Artwork Title: CYMBIDIUM AND TEACUP

Medium: Acrylic on carved woodblock

Size: 59 x 42cm

Price: $2280

Artist Name: JENNIFER PULLMAN

Artwork Title: DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT

Medium: Oil

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

This work features breaking morning light on Mulga trees and earthy ground. Surface scraping with layers of paint and opaque and transparent colours of brown and magenta set the mood of resilience and hardiness of the Australian landscape. Such captures the cool of morning before the heat of day.

Artist Name: ERI YAMAGUCHI

Artwork Title: PROTECT AND GROW WITHIN NATURE

Medium: Graphite Pencil

Size: 56 x 56cm

Price: $2350

Artist Statement:

The mother Kangaroo has a heart filled with enormous nature and uses the strength from within to provide protection. Tipuana Tipu leaves have grown as wings that represent HOPE. A tiny roo inherits the strength and ability to protect and continue to provide HOPE towards a remarkable future.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: LITANY OF COMPLAINTS

Medium: Photography

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $2275

Artist Statement:

This image reflects the disdain and unfulfilled hopes and desires in mediocre, average middle-age relationships. The sum of wilting middle-aged relationships... a litany of complaints.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: LOVE LETTERS

Medium: Photography

Size: 60 x 42cm

Price: $2275

Artist Statement:

Limited Edition

This picture reflects the angst of unfulfilled love.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: SUM OF LIFE

Medium: Photography

Size: 42 x 60cm

Price: $2275

Artist Statement:

Limited edition

This image reflects the transience of life and the dismay at not having gathered enough meaningful karma as life comes to a close. The concept is inspired by a Caravaggio work.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: NAVID

Medium: Photography

Size: 60 x 42cm

Price: $2275

Artist Statement:

Limited edition

'Navid' is a portrait of a young man from an immigrant family. This image reflects the hybrid nature of a young immigrant's journey, the sweet burden of living up to one's parents aspirations, sacrifices, heritage and values and the deep need for 'real' acceptance in his Australian homeland, despite the colour of his skin.

Artist Name: SANGEETA MAHAJAN

Artwork Title: THE LETTER

Medium: Photography

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $2275

Artist Statement:

It is for the viewer to interpret this story behind the letter.

Artist Name: HANS VAN WEERD

Artwork Title: THE SECRETARY

Medium: charcoal and gouache on paper

Size: 54 x 60cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

The Secretary. The result of an online life drawing session organised by Abbotsford Life Drawing (Melbourne) during the lockdown of 2020. A challenging sequence of short poses by models Marija and Daryll based on the 2002 movie The Secretary by Steven Shainberg. A testament to the inventiveness and resourcefulness of the Art Community to continue making art even under the most adverse circumstances.

Artist Name: HANS VAN WEERD

Artwork Title: TIJANA IN THE STUDIO OF THE VICTRORIAN ARTISTS' SOCIETY, MELBOURNE

Medium: Charcoal and water colour on tinted paper

Size: 59 x 42cm

Price: $1150

Artist Statement:

Capturing the essence of a seated pose.

Artist Name: BARBARA GRAHAM

Artwork Title: ROOT FORMS

Medium: PHOTOGRAPH

Size: 36 x 44cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ARTIST'S ORIGINAL MONOPRINT.
PHOTOGRAPH ISSUED AS AN EDITION OF 5.

Artist Name: ANN RAYMENT

Artwork Title: END OF THE DAY

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 29 x 28cm

Price: $844

Artist Statement:

End of the day is inspiration from the many sunsets around the lake on the South Coast of NSW.
This was a quick and free application 'En Plein Air' with acrylic, brush and palette knife. The spontaneous and fresh marks are created through scraping through the paint whilst wet.

Artist Name: RHONDDA SCOTT

Artwork Title: SHE (UTERUS)

Medium: sculpture

Size: 230 x 7cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

This piece was created from beach trash washed up after the devastating bush fires. To me, the driftwood had a very feminine feeling so I created “She – Uterus” with Gold Leaf and burned timber. With so many of my female friends going through the pain of IVF, the burned timber spoke to me as a representation of the fires you have to endure in this process.

Artist Name: GLENISE CLELLAND

Artwork Title: THREADS THAT CONNECT US

Medium: Charcoal

Size: 52 x 54cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

Threads That Connect Us is a celebration and positive statement about the links between all people in Australia in 2021. While we often have different points of view the hope for the future is we will all stand strong together linked by the invisible threads of humanity. Our differences remain but our common humanity that links us matters more.

Artist Name: GLENISE CLELLAND

Artwork Title: LIGHT THROUGH THE TREES

Medium: oil

Size: 41 x 41cm

Price: $600

Artist Statement:

For 23 yeas my studio was adjacent to the Cooloola Wetlands at Noosa North Shore and surrounded by tall Melaleuca trees. I loved watching the sunset through the tree tops making the leaves sparkle and the sky golden.

Artist Name: MATTHEW ARMSTRONG

Artwork Title: PUMICESTONE SPIT

Medium: Mixed Medium on Canvas (acrylic ink and acrylic paint)

Size: 51 x 61cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

Post lockdown I travelled to Kings beach, Queensland and painted this work, plein air. Capturing tidal flows and sandbanks, I have utilised various mark-making techniques and layers of acrylics on canvas. The mountain lines of Tibrogargan oversee my work.

Artist Name: LYN BARTOLO

Artwork Title: KENNY

Medium: Pen and Ink

Size: 61 x 44cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

As Koalas face an ever-increasing threat of extinction, this work aims to highlight the calm demeanour and vulnerability despite the chaos being forced upon them. The purpose of this drawing is to make the observer think about the sentience and future of the species.

Artist Name: TEMPE MACGOWAN

Artwork Title: CLOVELLY SUMMER I

Medium: drawing/screen print

Size: 59 x 42cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

The work is part of an on-going interrogation and fascination with the coastline - its beaches, geology and seas. This series was inspired by Max Dupain's photographs of bathers in the early 20c. Here I show bathers in a less iconic or sentimentalised way.

Artist Name: TEMPE MACGOWAN

Artwork Title: CLOVELLY SUMMER II

Medium: Drawing/colour pencil

Size: 42 x 69cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

The work is part of an on-going interrogation and fascination with the coastline - its beaches, geology and seas, especially my local swimming beach, Clovelly, Sydney . This series was inspired by Max Dupain's photographs of bathers in the early 20c. Here I show bathers in a no less spontaneous way as Dupain, but less idyllic and reflective of the times we live in.

Artist Name: BENJAMIN COLE

Artwork Title: SILENT BLOOM 1

Medium: Photography

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

‘Silent Bloom 1’ explores the process of growth, nurture and development.
Watching one’s child grow and explore their way through life in what can be a chaotic commotion results in moments of watchful beauty and wonder.
This is represented capturing the point of pause and silence to reveal beauty.

Artist Name: BENJAMIN COLE

Artwork Title: CAUGHTSUMPTION 1

Medium: Photography

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

Caughtsumption creatively interprets the impact the fishing industry has on the environment. The artwork looks to graphically show the raw destruction and impact fishing practices (paint and rope) have on our environment (botanical element). This interpretation is shown in a beautiful way to engage attention to the issue.

Artist Name: SAMANTHA GROENESTYN

Artwork Title: START SMALL

Medium: Oil on card

Size: 40 x 26cm

Price: $2000

Artist Statement:

This is a painting about starting again, and growth, and giving yourself time.

Artist Name: JACQUI DRIVER

Artwork Title: VESSEL OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Medium: Woven oil drawing on paper

Size: 48 x 50cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

The Vessel for Collective Memory concept came to me listening to our politicians argue over Covid 19 border closures and contact tracing methodology. There seems no room for memory to be used as a source of knowledge, as they bumble onto more pronouncements over the Indian outbreak. I thought of a thicket being a metaphor for such discussions and have woven it into a leaky open weave basket to capture our wisdom.

Artist Name: ERIKA SORBY

Artwork Title: RAW FORM

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 30 x 20cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

During the COVID-19 lockdown, I spent a lot of time painting self-portraits, due to the forced isolation of the period. I enjoyed this time, as I find self-portraiture a space where you can explore persona and identity while also developing technique and pushing the artwork medium. This portrait was an experiment with a more neutral palette, hence being a 'raw form'.

Artist Name: ERIKA SORBY

Artwork Title: MIMCO HEART EARINGS

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 20 x 20cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

This artwork is one in a series where I depicted a significant pieces of jewellery from my life. These Mimco heart earrings were a gift from my sister for my 25th birthday.

Artist Name: ROBYN CARR

Artwork Title: GEORGE AND THE DRAGON

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 38.5 x 33cm

Price: $475

Artist Statement:

A little man with a big attitude. This little guy is taking on seemingly insurmountable obstacles to get his way. I have a feeling many parents have had a little George in their life ;)

Artist Name: ROBYN CARR

Artwork Title: MY PRECIOUS

Medium: Oil

Size: 26 x 26cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

A Red-tailed black cockatoo finding a tasty treat in the treetops. He is shyly savouring its delights and I don't think he wants to share.

Artist Name: ROBERT CHARLES COATES

Artwork Title: THE OCEAN SWIMMER

Medium: mixed media, paint, resin, on plywood

Size: 28 x 54cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

My day job, they call me Bob Plumb.
Straight up and down as the moniker implies, plumb bob.
Can he fix it?
Bob the builder
if I can’t fix it… it cant be fixed.
There was one particular job, I don’t have the skills to do the description justice without a string of expletives inappropriate for the situation… a level of incompetence that is illegal and sees the owner, being taken without consent.
The same character in the position of disadvantage, stopped to tell me his story of swimming the English Channel.
11oC water temperature for 15 hours, a storm blew in, thrush in his mouth from salt water, vomiting for three hours… he didn’t say anything the entire swim, just got on…
He told me, there was a point where he asked for a sign from god, emphatically stressing he wasn’t a bible basher or happy clapper, I laughed and assured him he was safe as I’m an atheist who meditates.
There in the English channel in a puddle of piss and spew, three dolphins turned up on cue and swam with him three kilometres.
I liked the story so much I painted this

Artist Name: TAMARA PAVLOVIC

Artwork Title: INTERCONNECTION 1

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 43 x 55cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

My work often depicts inner minds, memories and female identity. The series of the dreamlike images that explore unconscious, are at the same time classic and timeless, and they guide the viewer to the edges of the imagination and they encourage them to dive into it.

Artist Name: TAMARA PAVLOVIC

Artwork Title: ATTACHMENTS

Medium: Mixed media on paper

Size: 43 x 55cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

My work often depicts inner minds, memories and female identity. The series of the dreamlike images that explore unconscious, are at the same time classic and timeless, and they guide the viewer to the edges of the imagination and they encourage them to dive into it.

Artist Name: DEBORAH MARKS

Artwork Title: THE DIVIDED SELF 2

Medium: Ink and acrylic on wood

Size: 35 x 45cm

Price: $3495

Artist Statement:

The subject of my painting relates to the idea of the self in the world...the tension between personas...our authentic, private identity, and the other, the self we present to the world.
The painting concerns abstraction and representation…spontaneous mark making and gesture entwined with creating the illusion of forms in space.

Artist Name: MICHAEL SARKIS

Artwork Title: BETWEEN NATURED DIFFERENCES

Medium: Nautilus Shells, Borax Powder and Wooden Stand

Size: 26 x 20cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

Mother of Pearl Nautilus Shells crystallised in Borax Crystals and coated in resin. I wanted this piece to convey a story of nurture, a connection of foundation and growth fused together. A precious piece, Nautilus' growing more endangered by the day, frozen and cut off from the dangers of society.

Artist Name: MICHAEL SARKIS

Artwork Title: DEEP, SUBMERGE DEEPER, MUFFLING ORCHESTRAS, EYES OF TERROR

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

Sinking deeper into the depths of the water, your body motionless. The sirens of the material world, a distant memory, silence. The light turning away from you, the waves tearing at you, into the terror of darkness. You are no longer a person, but now a part of the ocean.

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: YOU OWE ME SOME KIND OF LOVE

Medium: Mixed medium on canvas

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $580

Artist Statement:

This artwork is influenced by my latest visit to Sri Lanka. Although there were many Buddhist temples the mindfulness and material detachment of the Buddhist philosophy I was looking for was hard to find.

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: SOLITARY ALTHOUGH TOGETHER #4

Medium: Mixed medium on canvas

Size: 51 x 41cm

Price: $420

Artist Statement:

This artwork is influenced by my last visit to Sri Lanka. I felt overwhelmed by the overcrowded cities, people turning into things consuming endlessly. Mindfulness, material detachment of Buddhist philosophy I looked for was hard to find. We are becoming a collective, changed by the system we often don’t want.

Artist Name: MARIJKE LAMBREGTSE

Artwork Title: OUTSIDE IN, THE FOLKS ARE FINE

Medium: Collage and acrylic paint on canvas

Size: 51 x 61cm

Price: $580

Artist Statement:

This artwork has been inspired by the recent state of isolation we are placed in by no free will. We might find we have to start moving more inward, to the vast inner space of our thoughts and imagination, a place we have perhaps neglected for a long time.

Artist Name: PENELOPE OATES

Artwork Title: HAWKESBURY VISTAS

Medium: Soldering ion on board with ink,acrylic

Size: 17 x 50cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

This free standing curved painting is double sided and is made of 3 vacuum pressed pieces of timber that have been glued to together and pressed to form a curve.
I love working in a horizontal format and have found working with a convex and concave shape gives the viewer the opportunity to read each image in a heightened way as the curved surfaces nicely mirror the contours of the landscape.
I have gently burned into the surface of the timber with a soldering iron which has become an integral part of my practice in the last few years.

Artist Name: DEANN CUMNER

Artwork Title: “OLD SOUL “( SIZE IS UNFRAMED)

Medium: Acrylic and ink

Size: 25 x 20cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

My work always evolves from marks made randomly on the surface. In this case I could not ignore an image breaking through those marks , of what seemed to me to be an “old soul” from another era.... I decided to allow her to come forward .... “Old Soul” was released to the ethos.

Artist Name: DEANN CUMNER

Artwork Title: TYRANNY OF TEARS

Medium: Acrylic and oil on board

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

This pair of tearful characters appeared while I was listening to world music including from the “Cirque du Soleil” series . I wanted them to be joyous circus characters but there was too much sadness in their faces... so I followed that instinct and they became a pair of beautiful performers , my own ‘sad clowns’.

Artist Name: NICOLE E MCPHERSON

Artwork Title: ISOLATION #11

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

Looking at the COVID world from the POV of the adolescent, of which I have 2. Often solitary, unpredictable and lonely - but things are 'looking up'.

Artist Name: REBECCA PIERCE

Artwork Title: EARTHED

Medium: Digital Photograph, Aqueous Pigment Ink on Metallic Photo Paper, Framed

Size: 42 x 55cm

Price: $690

Artist Statement:

I photographed this highly noxious fungus when at its full potential and watched it over the ensuing three days fade, waste and entirely decompose, becoming earth.
This accelerated demise contrasted starkly with a relatives protracted existence with dementia, five years before their passing we to them were no longer recognisable.

Artist Name: REBECCA PIERCE

Artwork Title: LIMITATIONS AND CONTROLS 2

Medium: Digital Photograph, Aqueous Pigment Ink on Metallic Photo Paper, Framed

Size: 42 x 55cm

Price: $690

Artist Statement:

From waking to sleeping everyday we all face quandaries and challenges. These are often set within societal, cultural, familial and our own personal parameters. Minute by minute we face the question to race, to mitigate, to stop or to cease. Nothing is ever still.

Artist Name: REBECCA PIERCE

Artwork Title: BELLS WITH BRAS

Medium: Bras, window rubber, resin, ribbon, paint rollers, paint, buttons recycled and found objects

Size: 47 x 44cm

Price: $2500

Artist Statement:

This mixed media work is a reflection of my constant companion a fruit salad (bitsa) rescue dog called BELLS. My children are now less dependent and I love that Bells needs me just as much as I need her. Loyalty, trust and protection are innate and I am safe.

Artist Name: CAROLE ADAMSON

Artwork Title: SHEDDING

Medium: oil on board

Size: 58 x 30cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

It belonged.
Each day it danced.
Branches waved through the sky.
Reaching.
Body Firm.
Translucent grey skin.
Revealed.
Bark Dripping into the earth
back to where it belonged.
I felt my feet on the concrete
but my eyes welled.

Artist Name: ROBBI NEAL

Artwork Title: WHERE THEY TALK

Medium: Acrylic and Pencil on Canvas

Size: 41 x 51cm

Price: $390

Artist Statement:

Each painting is earthed in Country in some way. This is about the places that become sacred to us, where we meet with others.

Artist Name: MICHELLE COMTE

Artwork Title: MIKE DOES PLEIN AIR?

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

When things make me smile, I sometimes like to capture the moment in a painting. This painting, reflecting a beautiful, bright day and natural subjects in the countryside, includes Mike who wanted to paint in the outdoors, but not necesarily paint the outdoors itself.

Artist Name: MOREEN WELLINGTON-LYONS

Artwork Title: SUN AND MOON

Medium: ACRYLIC/OCHRE/COPPERPAPER

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $680

Artist Statement:

Elders of The Wotjobaluk People are knowledgeable understanding the deeper meanings of solar systems. Recounting their knowledge during story telling. My paining is one story of Sun and Moon

Woman (Sun) Carries Bark Torch to Light her Way as she Travelling Across the Skies. Knowee The Sun is Women. Her Torch Became Known as The Sun. Moon Is Male. Aboriginal Culture Is More Than 100,000 Years and the Oldest Culture on the Planet.

Artist Name: MOREEN WELLINGTON-LYONS

Artwork Title: WEIRGA

Medium: ACRYLIC OCHRE

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $680

Artist Statement:

SPIRITUAL ANCESTORS PRIMARY TEACHINGS IS THE PROTECTION AND CARE FOR CHILDREN ,ELDERS AND VULNERABLE BEINGS. WALK AND STAND IN YOUR TRUTH, DEFEND THE SACRED

Artist Name: MOREEN WELLINGTON-LYONS

Artwork Title: WOMENS MEETING PLACE

Medium: ACRYLIC

Size: 55 x 55cm

Price: $680

Artist Statement:

WOMENS MEETING PLACE WAS A FINALIST IN THE 2020 WYNDHAM CITY COUNCIL ART COMPETITION
THIS PAINTING SPEAKS TO THE IMPORTANCE OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN MEETING TOGETHER FOR YARNING, SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER, STORY TELLING, POSSUM CLOAK CIRCLE AND WOMENS BUSINESS. TRANSFERRING KNOWLEDGE STRENGTH AND WISDOM SHARED FROM ELDERS, LEADERS WITH IN OUR COMMUNITIES, WE CONTINUE TODAY WHAT AS OUR ANCESTORS DID 80,000 YEARS AGO

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: LIGHT BULB MOMENT

Medium: Sculpture: Metal, plastic, enamel, glass.

Size: 40 x 35cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

Lightbulb Moment
Blue the dog who just remembered where he buried his bone from two months ago. It should be well ripened by now and full of flavour. Blue is a dog full of mischief, style, and attitude. He loves his punk look and wears it well.

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Medium: Sculpture: Metal and old bike parts, plastic figurine.

Size: 35 x 30cm

Price: $1000

Artist Statement:

I am a Brisbane-born and based, self-taught contemporary artist. An enthusiastic and long standing member of Art Street, http:www.artist.com.au/artist-marianne-grigore.html., I also have my own boutique gallery, Blind Dog Gallery, http:www.blinddoggallery.com.
Although I mainly paint in oil on canvas, I have recently experimented with sculpture and was a finalist in the 2021 Lethbridge Landscape with my work "Jacks Shovel".

Artist Name: MARIANNE GRIGORE

Artwork Title: YOU WAIT

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 50 x 60cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

You Wait
He brings you beautiful flowers. He says he’s sorry and it won’t happen again. You wait.
The tension builds again until the yelling, name-calling and pain begins. A quick slap and a fist to the face, hair pulled viciously. Blood, fear, anger, shame.
He brings you beautiful flowers. He says he’s sorry. It won’t happen again. You wait.

Artist Name: AART GROOTHUIS

Artwork Title: AFTERNOON LIGHT

Medium: Photography

Size: 40 x 15cm

Price: $560

Artist Statement:

The image was made in the Entally House Chapel near Launceston, Tasmania. Photographers have been called light chasers and the light in this image captured me as I walked into the chapel. I have chosen to print it in monochrome to accentuate the shapes and textures in the room.

Artist Name: NATASHA JUNMANEE

Artwork Title: FIGS AND SILVER CUP

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 25cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

Figs and silver cup is part of my painting series ‘Simply Beautiful’ which celebrates the beauty of everyday objects and things we find in our daily life. This painting series is focussing on capturing the beauty and simplicity that we normally overlook and rarely appreciate.

Artist Name: JUDE HOTCHKISS

Artwork Title: STILL STANDING

Medium: Acrylic on card

Size: 49 x 36cm

Price: $280

Artist Statement:

Plenair sketches at Balls Head reserve in Sydney aimed to capture the forms and spiritual energy of this ancient place. It is powerful reminder of nature long before white settlement. The Black Summer bushfires brought home the sacred nature of our bush and it’s resilience.

Artist Name: JUDE HOTCHKISS

Artwork Title: EVERLASTING

Medium: Acrylic on card

Size: 41 x 31cm

Price: $279

Artist Statement:

Plenair sketches at St Stephens Churchyard in Newtown Sydney aimed to capture the forms and spiritual energy of trees in this unaltered place. It is a powerful reminder of the bush long before white settlement. The Black Summer bushfires brought home how sacred and resilient our trees are.

Artist Name: SUE MEYER

Artwork Title: RESONATING HARMONY

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Resonating Harmony portrays my experience of the sea and its mesmerising effects. The ebb and flow of the painting reflects the changing tides of everyday life.

I create depth with an illusion of movement. As in life so in art, seeing alternative possibilities is an intrinsic part of my work.

Artist Name: CATHRYN MCEWEN

Artwork Title: GOOD FOR WHAT AIL'S YA

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $2200

Artist Statement:

I find it fascinating that still life can act as a trigger for social comment, portray a another time and place (and culture), and mirror everyday life through the simplest of objects. "Good For What Ail's Ya" covers all three.

Artist Name: PETER KOWALENKO

Artwork Title:

Medium: Oils

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $1750

Artist Statement:

This work was inspired by the Russian War Memorial in Kiev which, like most war memorials, depicts the victors as patriotic, noble, strong and brave. As time passes, our interpretation of these monuments often changes.

Artist Name: JANE BARTRAM

Artwork Title: RED FOX

Medium: Ink line & Pastel

Size: 40 x 60cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Capturing a fox in three different postures, encompasses the animal's charismatic personality in stillness and motion. Despite the negative reputation of the fox, with it's threat towards domesticated animals, in it's natural surrounds, the fox is a stealthy and acrobatic hunter. Ink line and earthy pastel colours, on darker toned paper, creates a quiet softness, in still portrait, as well as in action. Framed together in a sequence of continuity, the fox hunts its prey.

Artist Name: MARGARET FROST

Artwork Title: REGENERATION

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 49 x 39cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

New growth explodes as rain brings Regeneration from the devastation of drought and the landscape lives again.

Artist Name: MARGARET FROST

Artwork Title: TREASURE HUNTERS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 41 x 51cm

Price: $875

Artist Statement:

Hunters scour through the sediment litter and flora of the ocean floor searching for Treasures lost to the power of the sea.

Artist Name: JANE KANIZAY

Artwork Title: UNHURRIED IN NATURE

Medium: Oil & collage on board

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

For me, life drawing has always been a way to understand the human form and to relax in a safe space to create art. In this artwork I am highlighting the freedom of the female form in nature. I welcome conversations on the perception of our own bodies and judgements created through the media and pop culture that continually call us to question our own perfection. We are all perfect as we are.

Artist Name: FRANCI HEPBURN

Artwork Title: OPHELIA IN THE TIME OF COVID, A MEDITATION

Medium: oil and ink on wood

Size: 61 x 46cm

Price: $3900

Artist Statement:

Underneath the image thousands of points in circles stand for every life lost. A few months ago, my dad died. However, unlike Ophelia, I have not been overcome by the grief of loss. This is a temporary state. Strelitzia was my father's favourite flower and is a symbol of immortality.

Artist Name: JESSICA GUTHRIE

Artwork Title: ESSENCE

Medium: Oil on Belgium linen

Size: 37 x 32cm

Price: $1350

Artist Statement:

This portrait was painted from life aiming to capture the sitters vulnerability and essence.

Artist Name: GEORGE ROWBOTTOM

Artwork Title: GODS, MYTHS AND MORTALS

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $3200

Artist Statement:

Gods, Myths and Mortals.
Zeus, ruler, protector and Greek God of The Sky is besotted with the Princess Io (pronounced eye-o).
Disguised as a cloud he seduces her.
In an act of vengeance Hera, his betrayed goddess-wife, turns Io into a cow to forever roam the world alone.

Artist Name: KATE QUINN

Artwork Title:

Medium: Oils

Size: 53 x 53cm

Price: $890

Artist Statement:

An abundant bunch of poppies catch the light on a kitchen table.

Artist Name: KYM BARRETT

Artwork Title: TOUCHED AND TENDER 1

Medium: oils and cold wax medium on board

Size: 50 x 60cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

TOUCHED AND TENDER 1 is an internal landscape, tethered to a visible landscape.
My abstract vocabulary expresses my loving connection to place, as well as the tenderness I have for my granddaughters … a traversing of the mysterious terrain in the process of both painting and living.

Artist Name: CELIA FERNANDEZ

Artwork Title: I CAN'T TOUCH YOU BUT I SENSE YOU THERE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 30 x 38cm

Price: $790

Artist Statement:

A tribute to those relationships that don't succumb to distance and time, because they believe that having in each other's life, even if for a fraction of time, its infinitely better than not having in each other's life at all.

Artist Name: BRUCE BUCHANAN

Artwork Title: “NIGHT WALKER”

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 42 x 52cm

Price: $1900

Artist Statement:

This nocturne seeks to interpret the mood and atmosphere of a Sydney backstreet at night.
The elusive figure adds mystery and is perhaps the story to this work.
I wanted an eeriness to the urban streetscape at night - under the street light.

Artist Name: LEA HAWKINS

Artwork Title: MOUNTAIN ENERGY (THE FALL)

Medium: Charcoal and oil on canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

A mountainscape I am a part of. On a first visit- so tranquil, sublime, yet as you get to know it and try to paint it, it’s visual busyness becomes very loud. This landscape never sits still, is never truly quiet, constantly dances in the micro through to macro.

Artist Name: BRUCE BUCHANAN

Artwork Title: GHOST GUMS, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 46 x 30cm

Price: $1450

Artist Statement:

These colours and shapes explore the essence of Central Australia.
It’s about the “spirit of endurance” in an ancient landscape.
The twisted white Ghost Gums seem to resonate against the earthy reds and ochres of the rocks.
This work was selected to represent Australian Watercolours for the 2020 Fabriano in Acquarello Exhibition in Italy. Now in artist’s collection.

Artist Name: ANALISE HUGHES

Artwork Title: ONE VAPE FROM HAPPY

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas paper

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

This work marks a pinnacle realisation of the artists painterly and illustrative style as she depicts her housemate Olivia during the Sunday sad's. A moment of contemplation, rest and gearing up for the week to come off the back of yet another heart break and Deliveroo feast. Perhaps for now, all any of us can do is to sit in the sadness and really feel it.

Artist Name: SONALI PATEL

Artwork Title: I AM THE UNIVERSE

Medium: Ceramic, acrylic paint

Size: 47 x 28cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

‘We are made of star stuff.’
Carl Sagan
This imaginary exploration of deep time and space examines humanity’s connection with our Universe. As sky gazers, we impose order and pattern to the intangible and evanescent. These poetic reflections explore our Cosmos; how we read the sky and stories we tell.

Artist Name: JUDE TULLOCH

Artwork Title: CLOUD DRAGON

Medium: oil

Size: 51 x 61cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Dragon paintings
The genesis of the Dragon paintings was an aerial shot of receding water in Queensland’s Channel Country. There were extraordinary shapes formed on the landscape from the water left after the area flooded. One shape this particular reminded me of a dragon so I painted a series of totally different ‘Dragons’ with two connecting aspects, their shape, derived from the landscape, and the use of dots in their outline, a tribute to how indigenous artists create places and tell stories in their art.
The amazing part about the shape is that it can be turned upside down but still retains its dragon form.

Artist Name: JUDE TULLOCH

Artwork Title: POP ART DRAGON

Medium: oil

Size: 51 x 61cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Dragon paintings
The genesis of the Dragon paintings was an aerial shot of receding water in Queensland’s Channel Country. There were extraordinary shapes formed on the landscape from the water left after the area flooded. One shape this particular reminded me of a dragon so I painted a series of totally different ‘Dragons’ with two connecting aspects, their shape, derived from the landscape, and the use of dots in their outline, a tribute to how indigenous artists create places and tell stories in their art.
The amazing part about the shape is that it can be turned upside down but still retains its dragon form.

Artist Name: TAH-NEE HOOPER

Artwork Title: RAINY DAY WOMAN

Medium: Oil

Size: 55 x 41cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

Painted at a time when we were all restricted to our home towns with COVID lockdown. This image aims to depict the quiet struggle we all adjusted to. Looking at our world from behind a window or screen. Yearning for the freedom to move about and explore, yet only conscious of that yearning once the privilege was taken away from us.

Artist Name: GREG HUGHES

Artwork Title: PLACE OF CONTEMPLATION

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 29 x 42cm

Price: $790

Artist Name: GREG HUGHES

Artwork Title: BROKEN LIMB

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 29 x 42cm

Price: $790

Artist Name: KATHERINE BOLAND

Artwork Title: FIREFLOWER #30

Medium: Wood stain, liming solution, acrylic, pokerwork and scorching on timber panel

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $1850

Artist Statement:

I live in a region which was severely impacted by the 2019/20 bushfires. This work was made with fire itself and speaks to the renewal of native flora and resilience of the Australian bush. An abstracted flower emerges from the charred landscape to flourish and give hope.

Artist Name: ILONA KOVACS

Artwork Title: MOSAIC ON MINT GREEN

Medium: Acrylic unframed

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $390

Artist Statement:

This piece came out of my love of squares and colours. I had fun playing with the contrasting colours against the mint green background. It is a fun piece, a splash of colour for many different interior spaces. I hope you love it as much as I do.

Artist Name: ILONA KOVACS

Artwork Title: UNDER THE COOLABAH TREE

Medium: Acrylic unframed

Size: 45 x 45cm

Artist Statement:

This piece was inspired by Tim McMonagle's trees, also by my affection for Guinea Fowl and whimsy. It is a bit of fun in these serious times.

Artist Name: ILONA KOVACS

Artwork Title: INTO THE ROLLING HILLS

Medium: Acrylic unframed

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $350

Artist Statement:

This piece was inspired by Dorrit Black's work "Into the Foothills".

I included a road that meanders through the landscape and invites the viewer to take a journey with me. The colours and shapes repeat pulling the eye up and into the strikingly colourful rolling hills.

Artist Name: HILARY WARREN

Artwork Title: PAINTED LADY

Medium: Printmaking

Size: 20 x 20cm

Price: $560

Artist Statement:

The Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa Kershawi) is frequently seen on Everlasting Daisies. I captured this image as a photograph and translated it into an etched plate using the Photopolymer Photogravure process. The etched plate was inked intaglio and colour was introduced during the printing process using the chine colle method.

Artist Name: LINDA HOUGH

Artwork Title: ISLAND DANCERS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 20 x 25cm

Price: $120

Artist Statement:

This artwork captures the movement and joy of the dancers.

Artist Name: GLENDA MARKWELL

Artwork Title: SNOWGUM

Medium: mixed media

Size: 22 x 21cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

This piece is a study for a larger painting, capturing the strength and defiance of this Snow Gum to grow and thrive in harsh, torturous conditions.

Artist Name: SAMANTHA BLACKMORE-SMITH

Artwork Title: WHITE LAKE

Medium: Acrylic paints

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $560

Artist Statement:

My eyes capture the beautiful imagination of nature’s creations.
My eyes give me descriptions of nature rather than my ears.
My eyes explore and feel cold, freshness air, icy water, peaceful serenity and solidarity without any interruptions.
I feel removed from a muddled and stress mind about everything behind me.

Artist Name: MELLISSA READ-DEVINE

Artwork Title: GYPSY STONE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 36 x 28cm

Price: $660

Artist Statement:

Rocks and boulders are like precious uncut gems set into place in their natural settings of earth, rock and moss. I spend a lot of time admiring my local geology during local bushwalks along the Hawkesbury River.

Artist Name: JULIE MCCURRY

Artwork Title: VINTAGE CARAVAN AT SHELLHARBOUR

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $650

Artist Statement:

Prior to Covid, a group of vintage caravan enthusiasts met annually at Shellharbour Caravan Park. Using photographs, sketches and conversing with the owners I completed this painting to capture the individual personality of this vintage caravan.

Artist Name: CECILY SLADE

Artwork Title: FROSTED

Medium: oil

Size: 61 x 61cm

Price: $895

Artist Statement:

Roses found on a morning walk. Sumptuous colours built through transparent layering and the flower shapes are key elements in this work. The story built from the background garden flowers and leaves adds charm and context and the morning dew crusting the blue green leaves gives this painting its name.

Artist Name: JOHN MARTIN

Artwork Title: ISOLATION DIARIES ON DRIPPING PEACH

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 23cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

The subject, Ebony Hart, is a digital creator who draws over photos of every day moments with whimsical and otherworldly imagery. This painting captures a mirror selfie taken in isolation, the first step in her creative process.

Artist Name: NICOLE DE LA MAR

Artwork Title: GRIZEDALE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 46 x 56cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

Grizedale is the land of wonder and magic, always green and full of memories.

Artist Name: ANTONY DENSHAM

Artwork Title: C14.2020

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 45 x 35cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

I've been looking for a working process that is rich in implication. Where the marks are both independent gestures but also acknowledge the brain's tendency to search for representation. I’m looking for this middle ground, to confound the space somehow through the interchange of revealing and concealing.

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Artist Name: VERA ZAMMIT

Artwork Title: MURWILLUMBAH LOOKING LUSH AFTER RAIN

Medium: oil

Size: 30 x 40cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

This image was taken near the Tweed Coast Art Gallery one rainy day after the clouds broke and shows the brilliance of lush greenery.

Artist Name: VERA ZAMMIT

Artwork Title: GARDEN AT VACY HALL, TOOWOOMBA

Medium: oil

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $850

Artist Statement:

This garden view was taken when staying at Vacy Hall in Toowoomba in 2020. A table with a potted succulent and seating provided an inviting area to sit and admire all the colorful foliage in the garden.

Artist Name: LISA LAWSON

Artwork Title: NATIVE SENNA BLOSSOM BABY

Medium: Oil on MDF board

Size: 47 x 41cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

This is the first in my series integrating elements from illustrators and artists I admire, into surreal situations. These situations have personal meaning to me. I have placed a May Gibbs’ blossom baby on my hand, a favourite character from a favourite book from my childhood. The composition implies the progression of my life, nourished and sustained by domestic love and laughter, even when the world is grey, gloomy or threatening.

Artist Name: CATHY YARWOOD - MAHY

Artwork Title: CURIOUS AND CURIOUSER

Medium: oil

Size: 51 x 61cm

Price: $1800

Artist Statement:

I used my grandmother’s teacup as a reference in this whimsical painting about a picnic that takes a strange turn with a bit of Alice in Wonderland magic. The genre of a traditional still life is challenged by the movement of the leaves and water.

Artist Name: DEBBIE PARKER

Artwork Title: TENDRILS AND PEARLS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 51cm

Price: $890

Artist Statement:

This work explores the play of light on Australian Landscape and Natural Forms. Australian flowers are often so very small, although, intrinsically beautiful. This painting uses Chiaroscuro effect to exploit the tender fragility of the stamens of a grevillea emerging from shadow, resembling pearls on the end of wispy tendrils.

Artist Name: DEBBIE PARKER

Artwork Title: KINGFISHER

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 31 x 31cm

Price: $490

Artist Statement:

Since it’s so hard to capture Birds going about their activities with the amateur photographic skills that I have, I focus my compositions on multiple photos that I have taken or that friends have given to me. I call it expressive intuition.

Artist Name: MARY THI NGUYEN

Artwork Title: DAY DREAM

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $647

Artist Statement:

I used to do lots of life drawings and paintings. In this 30-minutes sketch, I was trying to capture my youngest daughter Kelly Nguyen thoughts within that short timeframe.
Her mind seemed to escape the present moment and drift away to an unknown space … I still wonder what she was actually thinking about?

Artist Name: PAULINE ROBERTS

Artwork Title: AN EYE ON THE WORLD

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 60 x 45cm

Price: $650

Artist Name: PAULINE ROBERTS

Artwork Title: ORGANIC DRIFT

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $550

Artist Name: LYN LEECH

Artwork Title: THE MAN IN THE BAND

Medium: Arylic on canvas

Size: 60 x 46cm

Price: $1250

Artist Statement:

This is a painting of a man in the band at the local show.

Artist Name: MARGUERITE DE MOSA

Artwork Title: PHILEMON AND BAUCIS

Medium: gesso and pigmented ink on marine plywood

Size: 44 x 33cm

Price: $860

Artist Statement:

This work is inspired by the fable of Philemon and Baucis in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Metaphorically it represents the dance of balanced relationship. The materials in this piece are worked and assembled to reveal and be true to their essential nature. The forms speak of entwined unity.

Artist Name: BARBARA CAPUANI

Artwork Title: BATTLEFLY

Medium: Color pencils and pencil

Size: 42 x 297cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Leaving home. I wish I were the butterfly who secretly goes through stems, landing safely on leaves without clashing. I bump on branches instead, bending axils, hiding behind leaves whose transparency unveils myself and all my struggles. I keep going looking for my life’s nectar and I am a battlefly.

Artist Name: CAROLE KOMPENHANS

Artwork Title: THE NARCISSIST: SHE'S THE WHOLE PACKAGE.

Medium: Corrugated Cardboard, acrylic paint, mirror.

Size: 19 x 25cm

Price: $2475

Artist Statement:

I never think of skulls as being female. This work represents a real person who is a fake and has no substance to them. Her motivation is fame and money. Her words cannot be trusted. Her outward beauty is of no consequence because what lies underneath is lies.

Artist Name: KHOMKRIT TOM PHAPKAEO

Artwork Title: GOLD CRYSTAL

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 59 x 59cm

Price: $2190

Artist Statement:

I love to play with colour and nature to make art.

Artist Name: RUTH BOSVELD

Artwork Title: LONG SHADOWS

Medium: Gouache

Size: 25 x 19cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

The Cleveland church is the burial place of two notorious killers from colonial days. They took their nefarious inspiration from the Kelly gang. The shadows of sunset cover the graveyard and the light makes the little church beautiful. Time passes; we forget our history and fail to learn from it.

Artist Name: REBECCA WING SZE LAM

Artwork Title: MOTHER AND CHILD

Medium: Acrylic on Heavy Weight Acid FreePaper

Size: 42 x 60cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

A One Line Drawing Artist strips away the unnecessary complexity of the human face and body. A single line is used to create intimate connections between the body and the face. Pastel is added to create mood of love and melancholy. This piece was inspired during the Artist's personal hotel quarantine experience with her child at the peak of Covid19.

Artist Name: BRITTNEY LU

Artwork Title: HUTONG

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 40 x 40cm

Price: $1500

Artist Statement:

Beijing's alleys are a unique feature in China. It gives me a sense of pride and makes me miss my hometown where I had lived for a really long time.

Artist Name: GLENDA KENT

Artwork Title: REALITY CHECK

Medium: glass

Size: 50 x 40cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

2020: Deaths were being reported daily, faceless people, a number. Wreaths represent Australian states/territories containment of the invisible killer. The placement of individual black beads was a somber task as they represented a death, a grieving family and the reality of the pain and suffering of loved from February to October.

Artist Name: JENNIFER LONG

Artwork Title: ALL THAT REMAINED 1

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 30 x 30cm

Price: $520

Artist Statement:

My work is about memory and place. I collect objects from the landscape, broken fragments, use recurring motifs(nests, towers, boats, tangled and weathered forms) to hint at calm and turbulent narratives. Images can be in flight, afloat, immersed or scattered but are chosen to evoke past and present history.

Artist Name: LAURENCE O'TOOLE

Artwork Title: I WAS LOST, BUT NOW I AM FOUND

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $2800

Artist Statement:

I was wading out, one very low tide, examining all that was exposed when, along came two dogs, darting and chasing, splashing and playing.
This guy, would fly through the shallows and then suddenly stop, as if to see where he was, lost, uncertain of where to go next. Then he would see his buddy and off he would fly again, a hydrofoil through the water, four paws as one fin and then….stop……lost again.
This is how I find my life, I charge along , full of gusto and energy and desire, to race down my chosen path…… and then….. i stop, or am stopped, by another project, a new path, or just a speed bump….the speed bump that is life, and I have to reassess, get my bearings …….. and then I am off again…..like a tireless inventor, seeing possibilities in everything.
Reacting to everything…..even if I don’t know why.

Artist Name: KATE BARRY

Artwork Title: CHRYSALIS

Medium: Oil in canvas

Size: 42 x 52cm

Price: $1590

Artist Statement:

This painting represents quiet emotional awakening from a nestled and dormant state. Multi layered strokes slowly unfold and move around enclosed and organic shapes. Glowing, optimistic colours form a gentle camouflage of this transitional state. Something beautiful emerges, radiates and spreads across the canvas. Ideas and emotions are set free.

Artist Name: TIM NOLES

Artwork Title: TO EAT OR NOT TO EAT

Medium: Oil

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $690

Artist Statement:

This piece of artwork was something that l wanted to challenged myself with and l absolutely enjoyed doing it. l saw a photo of a pear, and this and pear sitting at home and thought, you know what, l think l will paint it or eat it, l did both.

Artist Name: CHRISTINA WALKER

Artwork Title: SWIMMING ALONG

Medium: Paper

Size: 29 x 21cm

Artist Statement:

A whimsical approach to nature, climate change and conservation of wildlife.

Artist Name: CHRISTINA WALKER

Artwork Title: VARIETY OF CATS

Medium: Paper

Size: 42 x 29cm

Price: $200

Artist Statement:

A different approach to cats. Mysterious, whimsical and always cattish.

Artist Name: TRACEY LENNON

Artwork Title: AT THE BLOCKS VALLEY POOL

Medium: Collage

Size: 54 x 44cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

The Fortitude Valley Municipal Swimming Bath, designed by city architect AH Foster opened in 1925. Generations of locals have used the pool for swimming carnivals, club meets,Commonwealth and Olympic trials, swimming classes and water polo matches. I enjoy using mixed media- poured watercolour paper and flat areas of colour to explore our swimming culture.

Artist Name: DEBORAH HUNTER MILLS

Artwork Title: SOFALA SUNDOWN

Medium: acrylic on board

Size: 27 x 35cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

This work is using new techniques after attending a painting workshop in the country and is a departure from my usual way of painting

Artist Name: JULIE REES

Artwork Title: A CALL IN DECEMBER

Medium: Digital print on acrylic mounting

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

'A Call in December' (2021) represents a phone call that activated a hope of something new approaching, however, it led to an unfortunate set of events that caused conflict and chaos. The symbolism of the stream of light denotes controlling the aftermath while the stormy clouds represent the transient nature of balancing such emotional experiences.

Artist Name: GRACE CROSS

Artwork Title: AND THE SUMMER BECAME THE FALL, HOLOGRAPH

Medium: Digital Image, Holograph

Size: 44 x 34cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

The softness and yet strong textural quality transcends the original image and brings out the elements of the story for the viewer. This digital image is printed on gold leaf and metallic acrylic with a silk organza overlay emulating the shimmering of a holograph.

Artist Name: KAREN SEDAITIS

Artwork Title: GLEBE LAGOON (TRIPTYCH)

Medium: mixed media on 3 x birch boards

Size: 25 x 60cm

Price: $1100

Artist Statement:

I walk around Glebe Lagoon in Bega every day, fascinated by it's raucous energy and resilence through drought, flood, blazing heat and freezing frosts. Bats, birds, insects and mammals (like me) live in it or alongside it, all of us in a state of trust and cooperation with each other.
For me it symbolises the interconnectivity I think all of us on planet Earth yearn for. It's a tangled, smelly, richly populated place which speaks to my core and it's become my emblem of hope and wonder in a world which often seems as if its forgotten we're all in this life thing together.
For better or worse.

Artist Name: KAREN SEDAITIS

Artwork Title: SIERRA'S CUP ON STRIPES

Medium: Oil on birch board

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

Sierra is a local potter who was inspired by one of my paintings to make a cup, which she later gave me. I wanted to continue the collaborative riffing and so I painted Sierra's Cup On Stripes, which is a composition including Sierra's cup - and within it, a portion of my original painting - as well as the plate she and I both love and the shirt I usually wear when painting.
This kind of creative collaboration is one facet of what makes life shine for me; inspiration, mutual respect, creativity, freedom of expression, humour, love and beauty.
This painting symbolises all of that for me.

Artist Name: BRENDAN NICHOLL

Artwork Title: OUR EXOTIC LANDSCAPE

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 40 x 50cm

Price: $900

Artist Statement:

Looking for an Autumn scene to paint recently, I noticed this and was struck by its subtlety. Not the yellow and red I was expecting, it depicts an overcast day at the end of April, in Castlemaine; with a harmonious blend of foreign and indigenous plant species.

Artist Name: KIRSTY MARTINSEN

Artwork Title: SUNSET 18 JANUARY 2021

Medium: Pastel and watercolour on paper

Size: 18 x 24cm

Price: $800

Artist Statement:

In the middle of a pandemic I moved into an apartment on the 11th floor, looking West. During the year of self-isolation I began doing a daily painting of the setting sun. I endeavoured to capture the constantly shifting colour and light as the sun arced across the sky.

Artist Name: WENDY ( EZRA) POUND

Artwork Title: KATAJUTA DOG

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Size: 50 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

This painting us about the camp dogs & wild dogs that slink through the landscape like lost souls in the Katajuta landscape.The vastness & silence can feel a little eerie. If one sits quiet enough you may suddenly be aware that you are not alone & then you are.

Artist Name: ELSPETH MERRIMAN

Artwork Title: DULCIE (SWEET)

Medium: Graphite on 300gsm Arches Paper

Size: 22 x 18cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

Born of a renewed commitment to her craft and her identity as an artist following motherhood, her explorations of Toowong Cemetery have yielded a collection of intricate sketches that resonate with a deep humanity, expressing the connection between the ephemerality of human existence and the inevitable triumph of nature.

Artist Name: SARAH LARSEN

Artwork Title: WINTER NIGHT DRIVING

Medium: Cold wax medium on paper

Size: 17 x 12cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

I am peering through the windscreen, searching in the sleet and driving rain, the scratching thud of the ineffectual wipers is drumming on my brain.
Break lights flicker reflecting their warning
I breathe
Not far now, I'll be ok. I'll be home.

Artist Name: KHOMKRIT TOM PHAPKAEO

Artwork Title: POWERFUL CRYSTAL BLUE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 59 x 49cm

Price: $2190

Artist Statement:

I love Light, Water and Mindfulness

Artist Name: ROBBI NEAL

Artwork Title: BEAUTIFUL SMALL THINGS

Medium: Acrylic and Pencil on Canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

Price: $590

Artist Statement:

This painting is about the tiny things we find that make life worth living

Artist Name: PETER FITZPATRICK

Artwork Title: DERIVED OF CHAOS

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $775

Artist Statement:

From the darkness of chaos is a transition from the spirit world of mythology to a future of the unknown. The turbulence and transition between order and disorder.

Artist Name: RACHEL HANNAN

Artwork Title: CLOSE UP ON THE EDGE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 51 x 41cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

After the extreme bushfires had raged across the Blue Mountains where I live, the rare pink flannel flowers emerged after decades of dormancy. That such beauty could come from so much loss gives me hope.

Artist Name: BEN BLICK-HODGE

Artwork Title: APOPHONY SERIES - ANEMONE 1, ANEMONE 4, ANEMONE GYNOECIUM 1, ANEMONE GYNOECIUM 5

Medium: UltraChrome print on Hahnemühle rag

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $1200

Artist Statement:

So the story goes, Anemones arose from the union of Aphrodite’s tears and the blood of Adonis. Here it is the union of geometry and biology; the ethereal and the muck.

Quartet of works.

Artist Name: CHRIS ANTICO

Artwork Title: LEST WE FORGET

Medium: acrylic on paper

Size: 30 x 42cm

Price: $950

Artist Statement:

there is alot of discussion at the moment about our shared history (and for the most part our lack of understanding about it)...my series of works "LEST WE FORGET"..takes inspiration from Henry Reynolds book "the other side of the Frontier"

Artist Name: DANIELA CRISTALLO

Artwork Title: WINTER GAZE, FOWLERS GAP

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 39 x 47cm

Price: $920

Artist Statement:

Through my travels into Mutawintji Country, Fowlers Gap outback NSW, comes this work which responds to the deep memories of ancient ochre cliffs, reflective waterholes, flat spindly open spaces and dry river beds. ‘This Place’ is vast, arid and diversely stunning and my painting draws upon its natural forms not to imitate but connect in a more inventive way to the raw wilderness of desert Australia.

Artist Name: CRAIG PARRIS

Artwork Title: ST PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, GLENROWAN VIC

Medium: Pastel / Pencil

Size: 29 x 40cm

Price: $12700

Artist Statement:

I came across St Paul's Anglican Church whilst visiting the site of Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan. I love the shape and form of small churches, as well as the textures that come with stone materials, allowing opportunity for lots of fine detail.

Artist Name: CRAIG PARRIS

Artwork Title: UNITING CHURCH, PENGUIN TAS

Medium: Pastel / Pencil

Size: 57 x 41cm

Price: $17900

Artist Statement:

I was really attracted by this church, at Penguin, on a recent family trip to Tasmania. I took a different interpretation than some previous works, still incorporating the realism of the scene, but focussing on the "stoutness" of the building and over-exaggerating the unusual stained-glass elements.

Artist Name: CRAIG PARRIS

Artwork Title: MOUNTAIN SCENE, CANTERBURY PLAINS NZ

Medium: Pastel / Pencil

Size: 29 x 41cm

Price: $9600

Artist Statement:

This scene is a memory from a family trip that I took to NZ with my wife, children and my father (an NZ native). I chose a deep textured paper for this work, as it lends itself well to the textures of the scene, while still allowing a softness to be maintained in the mountains, trees and paddock.

Artist Name: BRETT SPERLING

Artwork Title: CHEZ TANTE LOUISE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 31 x 30cm

Artist Statement:

The painting is of an old matchbook form a Parisian restaurant 'Chez Tante Louise' which I found in a collection of match boxes from around the world, we have lying around at home. It evokes memories and senses form a past time in a far away place.

Artist Name: PAM FINLAY

Artwork Title: THREE COMING TOGETHER AS ONE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 24 x 22cm

Price: $1050

Artist Statement:

This painting expresses oneness in creation. All the flowers in the plant are connected, yet all remain individual. They have that close relationship and they don’t compete against each other. Their combined purpose is to raise their heads to the sun and bloom. The three become one.

Artist Name: PAM FINLAY

Artwork Title: GREEN PASTURES

Medium: Gouache

Size: 25 x 25cm

Price: $1050

Artist Statement:

Busyness fills the day. Time seems to be moving so fast. I can lie down in green pastures where my soul is restored and refreshed. A sanctuary from the outside world, it’s a place of serenity where I can be nourished again and again.

Artist Name: LYN RAYMER

Artwork Title: FLINDERS STREET CROSSING L

Medium: charcoal, conte on canson

Size: 56 x 41cm

Price: $980

Artist Statement:

There is a constant rhythm in the to and fro of crowds on Flinders Street crossing; even the shadows become lost in the movement. I erase laid charcoal to reveal the light. Working lines tell the history of the drawing and the recent movement of these figures through the space.

Artist Name: LYN RAYMER

Artwork Title: WORRY BEAD HALO

Medium: charcoal, conte on fabriano

Size: 55 x 33cm

Price: $890

Artist Statement:

The drawing of beads served to sooth, as worry beads should in difficult times, and whilst the disquiet may still be there, the practice of drawing small, repetitive shapes served well as my worry bead. Charcoal and conte are my chosen medium, and erasers reveal the hard place.

Artist Name: JESS LEONARD

Artwork Title: ROSIE AND ROSAMUND - CHEEK TO CHEEK

Medium: Archival pigment print on 220gsm textured paper, framed

Size: 25 x 25cm

Price: $230

Artist Statement:

My subjects although deceased possess a life and personality of their own. ‘Cheek to Cheek’ attempts to capture the beauty, affection and playful nature of these two Australian Rosellas named Rosie and Rosamund.

Artist Name: JANE PARK

Artwork Title: DREAM A LITTLE

Medium: Oil

Size: 36 x 265cm

Price: $750

Artist Statement:

Using lush oil brush strokes, Jane likes to generate a sense of immediacy with her work. Working quickly in an expressive and gestural style with a limited palette she captures light, shade and form.

Artist Name: BOWANY PUGH

Artwork Title: CATCHING FALLEN STARS

Medium: Oil paint

Size: 42 x 9cm

Price: $1750

Artist Statement:

"Catching Fallen Stars" celebrates the magic of childhood. The curiosity of a child, and the wonder they find in their world, creates a beautiful perception that only a child knows how to access. Only a child can grow wings, and catch a star. The beauty of a child's view of the world is lost with time.

Artist Name: BOWANY PUGH

Artwork Title: WATER DRAGON

Medium: Oil Paint

Size: 42 x 9cm

Price: $1400

Artist Statement:

When you look at a marvellous creature, intrigued by his form and curious to his intentions, and he looks back at you. You are his marvellous creature.

Artist Name: CLAIRE STAPLETON

Artwork Title: GIRL WITH A PONY TOO

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 52 x 40cm

Price: $2700

Artist Statement:

A portrait of a girl with a pony.

Artist Name: DAMIAN TALBOT

Artwork Title: THE FIRST HOME OWNER'S NEW HOUSE

Medium: Oil paint

Size: 30 x 24cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

I stood outside and painted this beautiful old edifice in Golden Point Ballarat which was recently brought by a first home owner, who happens to be my brother, Ned, who used to refer to himself as ‘Neddy James Talbot Batman Suit’ in his primary school days.

Artist Name: DAMIAN TALBOT

Artwork Title: VIEW OF BROUGHTON HALL

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 38 x 50cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

I have walked through Callan Park many times and have always been drawn to this building, pardon the pun, which is why I chose to paint it. For better or worse, many patients have received treatment at this facility. I tried to capture the stormy clouds over the top of the building and kept in mind what may have transpired between it’s walls.

Artist Name: DAMIAN TALBOT

Artwork Title: SPRING HILL, CRESWICK

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 14 x 35cm

Price: $450

Artist Statement:

A beautiful panorama of Creswick can be seen from the top of Spring Hill, a fact not lost on the great colonial artist S. T. Gill who created many lovely depictions of Creswick from Spring Hill. Homage to S. T. Gill and Spring Hill.

Artist Name: DAMIAN TALBOT

Artwork Title: SUN RISING OVER CRESWICK

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 18 x 38cm

Price: $400

Artist Statement:

If you stand in front of the Creswick Train Station and look towards Spring Hill in the morning you will catch the glorious sun rise over the township of Creswick.

Artist Name: DAMIAN TALBOT

Artwork Title: BALLARAT EAST FIRE STATION

Medium: Oil pastel on cardboard

Size: 42 x 30cm

Price: $550

Artist Statement:

I painted a front view of the Ballarat East Fire Station in 2017 on a blistery winter’s day. My hands were about to fall off because it was so cold! Half-way during the painting a white car pulled up, which helped balance the composition.

Artist Name: JORDAN ANDREOTTA

Artwork Title: TEACHING DURING THE PANDEMIC

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 41cm

Price: $1600

Artist Statement:

My artwork represents the mental and emotional fatigue of being a school teacher during the outbreak of COVID-19. The challenging and surrealistic nature of the experience has been captured using limited negative space and a distorted monochromatic colour palette.

Artist Name: MINAL KARIM

Artwork Title: WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS

Medium: mixed media collage with gouache, watercolour, gesso and acrylic

Size: 30 x 23cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

This piece is based on the phrase when it rains it pours. Life is a roller coaster and when things are bad they can get really bad and you feel like you're struggling just to get through the storm.

Artist Name: MINAL KARIM

Artwork Title: HELPING HANDS ON THE WAY

Medium: gouache and watercolour on paper

Size: 30 x 23cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

The flooding that occurred in New South Wales during March was devastating. In the midst of the chaos at hard-hit Windsor, were the SES volunteers making their way through the flood waters to help the community. This artwork depicts that poignant moment.

Artist Name: MINAL KARIM

Artwork Title: CAFFEINE HIT

Medium: charcoal and pastel on paper

Size: 30 x 23cm

Price: $300

Artist Statement:

Like most people, I cannot start or survive my day without a caffeine hit. The splash effect is also so mesmerizing.

Artist Name: LISA SMITH

Artwork Title: HINCHINBROOK LAYERS

Medium: Lino Print and Ink on Stonehenge paper

Size: 57 x 27cm

Price: $470

Artist Statement:

I see landscapes in layers, and this is my working approach. The littoral zones and tangled mangroves of Hinchinbrook Island are ever changing, slightly threatening but compelling. Although a printmaker, my lino-print provides a base for further layers of drawing, ink wash and linear pattern. Each print becomes unique.

Artist Name: LISA SMITH

Artwork Title: BLUE LAKE

Medium: Lino Print and Ink on Stonehenge paper

Size: 57 x 27cm

Price: $470

Artist Statement:

Stradbroke Island’s littoral zones are important to me. The deep shadows and looping, liquid lines of the tannin lakes also provide still, quiet enjoyment. Although a printmaker, my lino work is not an end point, rather it provides a base for further layers of drawing, ink wash and linear pattern.

Artist Name: JASSY WATSON

Artwork Title: VIEW WEST

Medium: Charcoal, Ink & Acrylic

Size: 45 x 45cm

Price: $490

Artist Statement:

This mini landscape is inspired by a view looking West of Bundaberg after rain, when the grass is at its greenest and the clouds were moving off onto the horizon revealing a blue sunny sky. A study for larger works this piece has been kept loose with charcoal, ink and acrylics.

Artist Name: NATALIE LORENTZEN

Artwork Title: ON THE ROAD, SOMEWHERE NORTH OF ROCKY

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 30 x 21cm

Price: $1100

Artist Statement:

I recently moved to Cairns with my young family. We drove up in a campervan from Sydney in the early stages of the pandemic. A strange and tentative time.

On the road, I saw the landscape of our new life changing before my eyes.

These glimpses are an ongoing process of spatial perception and orienting myself within environments.

Artist Name: TANIA FRANCES MASON

Artwork Title: WHERE THINGS FLOW IN BETWEEN SPACES

Medium: Watercolour and Gouache on plaster-board

Size: 27 x 57cm

Price: $500

Artist Statement:

'Where things flow in between spaces' is concerned with drought, fires, and flood! I was on a bushwalk through a national park and noticed my favorite waterfall normally a trickle, was now running again! It was beautiful to see the running water, to smell and hear it run. It made me think about our uncertain future where drought, floods, and bush fires impact on nature constantly lately. The vacant and suggestion of the water and trees within the painting exemplifies how easily they can vanish!

Artist Name: MING HOW CHAN

Artwork Title: SELF PORTRAIT

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 50cm

Price: $2000

Artist Name: ANN HOUNSLOW

Artwork Title: THE AUNT

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Size: 32 x 24cm

Price: $700

Artist Statement:

The work is an interpretation of the novel “The Committed”. The French are represented by the Matisse inspired portrait of the Aunt .Vietnamese flags cover the wall and the Rose’ sits on the table.

Artist Name: SAMUEL MASSEY

Artwork Title: THERMOMETER

Medium: oil on aluminium

Size: 50 x 50cm

Price: $1320

Artist Statement:

Thermometer is a painting I wanted to make for a while. I love to play with symbols and allusions. The upside down vase being worn like a crown amuses me. As a painter, the various textures, harshly illuminated, offer a real treat to engage with.

Artist Name: SALLY BROWNE

Artwork Title: STILL LIFE WITH LEMON AND SUNSHINE

Medium: Oil

Size: 30 x 23cm

Price: $680

Artist Statement:

This painting features simple objects from my home and some Eucalyptus foraged from the road side. It was painted outdoors in my sun filled courtyard. I am interested in composition and capturing the unique Australian sunlight in a painting.

Artist Name: JULIE ANNING

Artwork Title: CORAL RENEWED

Medium: Copper wire

Size: 28 x 22cm

Price: $550

Artist Name: LACHIN GHAVAM

Artwork Title: FORTUNE

Medium: oil on Canvas

Size: 51 x 51cm