Salon des Refusés

Artist Name: TANYA OGILVIE-WHITE

Artwork Title: FIRESTORM

Medium: Photographic encaustic

Size: 42 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Tanya Ogilvie-White is an encaustic artist and fine art photographer from Byron Bay, NSW. She uses a modern adaptation of the ancient technique of hot wax painting to transform her landscape and wildlife photographs into ethereal, archival-quality dreamscapes.

Artist Statement:

Bushfires occasionally burn with such ferocity that they create their own weather, raining embers and incinerating everything in their path. In this triptych, layers of molten wax and raw pigments have been burned into hardwood panels using a live flame, echoing the dramatic firestorms that tore through Australia in 2019-20.

Artist Name: LEE WILKES

Artwork Title: GUTHEGA TO BLUE LAKE (CONTRAILS)

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 102 x 72cm

About the Artist:

Lee Wilkes is a Brisbane based painter and photographer working primarily with landscape, as a blurring of time, space and memory. Utilising traditional oil paint, Wilkes uses repetition, reflection, and abstraction to express the impermanence and transformation of his rugged landscapes, with ambiguous horizon lines blending the boundaries between land, sea and sky. Alternative materials such as aluminium panel, mirror, Epoxyglass and found items, challenge the tradition of his oil paintings.

Artist Statement:

My current body of work combines my interest in the natural landscape with memory, using my own experience, history and nostalgia in combination with an exploration into memory degradation and frailty. Guthega to Blue Lake (contrails) was painting entirely from my memories of an expedition to the Snowy Mountains of NSW in late 2019. Using memory allows me to create the painting from a purely emotional recollection rather than pre-existing imagery, allowing the work to take on a life of its own.

Artist Name: SUSAN GOURLEY

Artwork Title: TOOLS FOR REGENERATION

Medium: salvaged materials including gardening implement, cardboard, paper, wire, plus twine, and adhesive

Size: 100 x 15cm

About the Artist:

Susan Gourley is an interdisciplinary artist currently living on Jagera and Turrbal Country (Brisbane). With a self-reflexive approach to her colonial heritage, Gourley’s current practice is informed by ecology, colonialism, the cross-cultural, and ecofeminism. The recipient of a Griffith University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Gourley graduated with a Doctor of Visual Arts in 2019.

Artist Statement:

This land cannot be reverted to the way it was prior to British invasion. Nor can it flourish under continuing colonial ideologies and practices. These hybrid objects symbolise the regenerative possibilities offered by the different knowledge systems existing within Indigenous and non-Indigenous culture, coming together to reimagine the Australian landscape.

Artist Name: FELICIA ARONEY

Artwork Title: BAREFOOT GRASS

Medium: mixed media in oak frame

Size: 63 x 63cm

About the Artist:

Represented by several Australian Art Galleries, Felicia Aroney is recognised as a "textural artist". Felicia draws inspiration from her environment. Her mixed media abstracts incorporate oil, acrylic and collage creating depth and light and shade. Felicia has been a finalist in the "Mosman" Art Prize, "Waverley" Art Prize, "Hornsby" Art Prize, "Blacktown" Art Prize and small works exhibition "Lethbridge" Art Prize.
She has had over 50 solo and group Exhibitions. Exhibited in Hong Kong, Singapore and Florence (Italy).
Felicia work has been sourced from Design Houses, and has collaborated with Designer Rugs to create the exclusive "Aroney" Collection. She has collectors world wide.

Artist Statement:

"Barefoot grass" is a piece based from memory. Growing up in Western Australia`s heat I found much joy and comfort running under the sprinklers to cool my little body. The texture, spontaneity and mark making in this work resemble the grass between my toes and the tracks in which I danced, feelings of connectedness to the earth. By using oils and dry recycled paint, this painting recycles existing life and in doing so, is reminiscent of the cyclical continuity of nature.

Artist Name: MOREEN WELLINGTON LYONS

Artwork Title: THE BLOOD PITT WHYTE BROTHERS MASSACRE 1842

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 40 x 80cm

About the Artist:

Aboriginal Women Wotjobaluk Native title holder.
Seven pieces of my artwork is currently on exhibition including submission
Emerging mature Artist working in Acrylic, Ochre, Sands, on Canvas

2020 Finalist in the Wyndham City Council Art Competition "Womens Meeting Place".

Artist Statement:

In 1842 the Whyte Brothers road up on my Aboriginal Ancestors and massacred every man, women and child they could find, Arthur Wellington a child hid in a cupboard of the recently vacated doctors accomodation located and renamed Wellington Station in Central Victoria. The main street of Coleraine is named after the Whyte Brothers.

More than 500 massacres have been identified as taking place in the years following invasions, the genocide with no name.

Artist Name: ANNE YANG

Artwork Title: SAVANNAH COUNTRY

Medium: Oil

Size: 100 x 80cm

About the Artist:

I paint representational artworks in both oil and soft pastel, having gained Master Pastellist Status with the Pastel Society of Australia in 2014. My joy of being immersed in nature, and the challenge of exploring and recreating her subtleties and many moods is what inspires me to paint.

Artist Statement:

Gulf Savannah Gums, is a painting inspired by a camping trip to Queensland's Gulf country, after a road journey of over 2000kms. The harsh outback country is largely flat, and dry, but here near Lawn Hill Gorge, the countryside changes and undulations lead towards the lush Lawn Hill Creek. These twisting gums are characteristic of this region, like miniature ghost gums, seemingly stunted by their challenging environment. I enjoyed painting the cool, bright green of their foliage, which was in contrast to the hot reds of the earth and dry grasses.

Artist Name: LUPA BRYANT

Artwork Title: DREAMS OF THE BAY

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 66 x 82cm

About the Artist:

I am a Tasmanian artist that specializes in fine detail art drawing, typically of animals, fantasy, and nature. Recently I have explored more traditional artistic portrayals of animals and landscapes with a touch of fantastical flair, be it an ostentatious sunrise or sunset, or transforming my figures into nature guardians.

Artist Statement:

In this piece, the rich colours of ink markers atop the pen work serve to make a realistic depiction of the unique flora and fauna of the bay with a more surreal style for the sky and sea. I wanted to capture the beautiful intricacy of nature and its inhabitants.

Artist Name: MICHELE NEWMAN

Artwork Title: APPLE TREE BAY

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 68 x 48cm

About the Artist:

-Bachelor or Fine Art completed 1991
-Received some Awards at art school
-Worked as independent freelance artist in residence in the community and schools
-received 3 residencies with Arts Victoria
-exhibited regularly solo and group shows
-some work collected
-Finalist in the Hornsby Prize October 2019

Artist Statement:

Apple tree bay
Hawksbury river
camping
fishing
She won my heart

Artist Name: CLAUDIA HUSBAND

Artwork Title: LITTLE ITALY, NSW | CHRISTMAS DAY, 2019.

Medium: Foraged charcoal on handmade Khadi paper, charcoal remnants (Little Italy) – dyptich

Size: 130 x 123cm

About the Artist:

Claudia Husband is a Brisbane-based artist, trained in printmaking in both Australia and the United States. Claudia’s work explores notions of nostalgia and personal familiarity to natural environments, through a detailed exploration of material and mark making in printmaking and drawing.

Artist Statement:

While driving from Brisbane to Northern New South Wales on Christmas Day 2019, I passed through the recently burned town of Little Italy. The ground still smoking from the recent fires, I walked through the decimated bushland to collect charcoaled remnants. As I waded through the ash, it suddenly began to rain.

Artist Name: GREG NUNN

Artwork Title: RISE AND SHINE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 90 x 150cm

About the Artist:

Creating art, more specifically painting and sketching, takes me to my happy place, a place where I feel more centred and relaxed. It fuels my soul and enhances my senses, I’m at peace when creating art.
Apart from attending painting workshops and receiving tutoring from some well-known master artists; I am self-taught. I have sketched and painted on and off for most of my life. My artistic career took off in 2005 after moving to Brisbane.
I create art because I love the journey, the challenge and obviously the final outcome. The more complex and detailed the subject the more I enjoy it (a sucker for punishment you might say). I don’t do it to make money, although that helps. I do it for the sense of achievement I get out of finishing a beautiful and admired piece of art.
I try not to box myself into a corner and focus on a single theme or subject matter. I love painting landscapes and iconic urban scenes from my travels. More recently I have been doing portraits and that has proved quite fulfilling also. I do love scenes that somehow incorporate water, that’s always a good challenge.
My medium of choice is predominantly oils on canvas. I typically adopt a 3 or 4 pass technique. First blocking in the large forms, shapes and shadows followed by a couple of translucent modelling/contouring layers to get a better sense of depth. Then the final detail and highlights layer to finish off.
Continuous improvement is important to me. The next painting needs to be better than the last. I’m not looking for any notoriety or becoming wealthy from my pursuit. But I do enjoy sharing my work with others and having them admire something I have put so much effort into. I find that really rewarding.
I get inspiration from all the great masters. It is not so much about their subject and their magnificent finished works, but more about their technique. I love trying to understand what technique they may have employed to achieve a particular outcome. Wherever I can I will visit art galleries to explore the wonderful paintings they exhibit.

Artist Statement:

Magic happens during the early morning minutes of a day as the sun rises and paints the sky with its luminescent colours. This scene is made even more special as it comes up over our beautiful Moreton Bay, paired with the iconic Redcliffe Jetty. Clouds in the atmosphere present the sun with a canvas to express what a magnificent day is to come. I call this painting Rise and Shine.

Artist Name: ROSY LLOYD

Artwork Title: HOUSEBOAT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON

Medium: Oil on wood

Size: 40 x 30cm

About the Artist:

Rosy Lloyd is a painter born in the UK and living as a citizen in Australia since 2004. Rosy paints impressionist landscapes that aim to capture the mood and atmosphere of a location through precise tone and retain a very painterly quality through loose brushwork.

Artist Statement:

Iluka, at the mouth of the Clarence River in New South Wales, is a beautiful spot - especially late in the day. The boats, water and sky glow in the golden illumination. A time of day where colours merge and harmonise. This painting aimed to capture the feeling of warmth from the late afternoon low sun.

Artist Name: ZAC MOYNIHAN

Artwork Title: STORM OVER DALBY

Medium: Oil

Size: 15 x 35cm

About the Artist:

Zac works exclusively on landscapes in oil. The connection of the human condition to the landscape is something he believes everyone should explore. By painting outdoors, he is able to convey not just the visual, but the full experience of what it means to be connected to nature.

Artist Statement:

A recent trip to the Bunya Mountains revealed an elevated oasis in regional Queensland. The recent rains brought green to the landscape and the afternoon storms were a daily occurrence. We sat and watched as they birthed themselves just by Dalby and marched their way toward us, dropping temps up to 15degrees and visibility to 2m.

Artist Name: DALE LEACH

Artwork Title: MITCHELL HILL

Medium: Acrylicon canvas

Size: 122 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Dale Leach is an artist,illustrator and teacher based on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. She loves colour and patterns and spends most of her time thinking up ways to include both in her art work

Artist Statement:

When I first saw David Hockney’s Bradford Landscapes I felt that someone had finally made landscape paintings sexy and interesting for me. His use of bold design and colour, and the introduction of patterning seemed to introduce a new way of editing and describing both the man-made landscape and the natural world.

Artist Name: SARAH JENNIFER DUTE

Artwork Title: OVERGROWN OPERA HOUSE AND SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE

Medium: Acrylic and graphite on deep edge stretched canvas

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Sarah Jennifer is a Sydney born artist who lives in Australia. She has been practicing art in various forms from her youth, and completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNSW Art & Design in 2019. She has exhibited her work in 3 exhibitions; 2 group shows and one solo.

Artist Statement:

The focus in this work by Sarah Jennifer is on exploring the dichotomy between the man made and the natural environment. She leaves it up to the viewer to decide if this is a harmonious relationship or if nature is reclaiming its environment post human era.

Artist Name: ZAC MOYNIHAN

Artwork Title: AMAMOOR MORNING

Medium: Oil

Size: 34 x 22cm

About the Artist:

Zac is an outdoor painter with a passion for nature and the beauty one can find almost anywhere. Beginning en plein air and working further in the studio from memory, his method infuses visual truth with personal, providing a complete representation of his experience.

Artist Statement:

We camped out in Cedar Grove, along the creek bed, for 5 nights and endured incessant rain the entire trip. As is typical with the weather, it cleared on our final morning and I managed to capture some of the early light before we packed up. The forest was so fresh after the downpour, the light hung around that little bit longer in the air.

Judge’s Comment:

Difficult to tell from a small image, but I think the light in this might be quite nice in reality.

Artist Name: AARON BUTT

Artwork Title: NINGI CREEK

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 30cm

About the Artist:

My work draws on personal experiences with people and places, recontextualising them within objects that explore the relationship between image, object and surface.

Artist Statement:

As a result of limitations on travel, 'Ningi Creek' addresses my relationship with my local context. Using a long format canvas, the work exploits the foreground and background to create a deep sense of space.

Artist Name: DONNA MALONE

Artwork Title: BRISBANE RIVER - YELLOW

Medium: monoprint and mixed media

Size: 42 x 102cm

About the Artist:

Donna Malone is a Yuggera Country (Brisbane) based artist, who has been represented by Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery for 15 years. Her practise depends on the persuasion and engagement of available materials and the environment. The interplay of breath/spirit through drawing informs her practise.

“For me Drawing is not just the art of measuring and putting down it is also the act of receiving. When the language of Drawing is open, I experience and respond to an energy coming from behind the given set of appearances."

Artist Statement:

I've spent many hours at my friend Judes place, in her river facing studio, drawing and looking out the vintage louvre wimdow panels onto the Brisbane River. On this day, it was sparkling in the sun and the water - a dreamy yellow colour. This artwork was made using an oiled plate and drawn with a biro. Several monoprints were made in sections, for ease of execution. The jigsaw effect is lively and quirky.

Artist Name: ANGELA WILSON

Artwork Title: AFTERMATH

Medium: Acrylics

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

Angela is a Brisbane painter of landscapes, waterways and marine themes. She uses vibrant and translucent acrylic paints and inks on canvas or linen. Her paintings can be delicately brushed, layered and glazed or scraped with a palette knife to obtain a loose, less exact and impressionistic result.

Artist Statement:

From a background palette of stormy colors, emerged an atmospheric and luminous sky typical of a tropical cyclone in our ever changing climate. Stripped and broken, the trees depict the aftermath of natures fury.

Artist Name: ZORICA PURLIJA

Artwork Title: NATURALIS

Medium: Fine art digital image

Size: 62 x 45cm

About the Artist:

Zorica Purlija is a Sydney based photo media artist, her current practice has been focused around attachments, the psychology and space around our primary relationships and how it impacts our future self. Her art is informed by feminist values and hopes to tap into our universal longings for equality.

Artist Statement:

Naturalis is part of a series of photographic images, Into Silence which meditate and reflect natures forces residing in our consciousness. The characteristic individuality of trees invite us to touch hug, dance among the tree spirits.

Artist Name: KARENA WYNN-MOYLAN

Artwork Title: LANDSCAPE OF MISERY DISSOLVING TO ORIGINS (UNDERSTORIES#12)

Medium: Oil

Size: 95 x 102cm

About the Artist:

Karena Wynn-Moylan is a highly accomplished environmental artist , winning numerous awards, and exhibiting both nationally and internationally. Her work is in Local Government and Federal collections,and hundreds of private collections. She is regularly commissioned by private collectors. She lives and works in Bangalow Northern NSW.

Artist Statement:

The remains of sandstone prisons on Plunkett Point .
An exploration of the beauty of decay; the point in which depiction becomes abstraction' solid lines melt and become unrecognisable as definable forms.
Transparent oils on smooth polycotton canvas in which no white paint is used creating luminosity.

Artist Name: STEVEN GORMAN

Artwork Title: JUSTIN PARK, BURLEIGH HEADS

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 46 x 91cm

About the Artist:

Steve studied for a short period at Julian Ashton’s School of Art in Sydney. His current focus is on landscape and figurative compositions. He has won a number of first prizes including the Royal Queensland Art Society annual art prize, the Marymount College Art prize, highly commended in the Darcy Doyle Art prize, highly commended in the Gold Coast Art prize, shortlisted finalist in the Dust Temple portrait prize and most recently a finalist in the 2020 Lethbridge 20000 art prize.

Artist Statement:

This a early morning scene of a local carpark which is normally throbbing with life and cars. I thought it looked so peaceful and seemed to be resting in its own silence,...having a breather of sorts, and on this rainy evening, the light and dark appealed to me as always.

Judge’s Comment:

Something about the ordinary-ness and familiarity of this subject just hits a nerve.

Artist Name: GRANT QUINN

Artwork Title: FOGGY EVENING

Medium: Photography

Size: 48 x 67cm

About the Artist:

Photography has the ability to capture the ‘real world’, whether it be through natural disaster or through courage and victory. Grant uses his photography as a way to record life, to record ‘as it is now’. Grant believes his photography can be something that can bring happiness, joy, and possibly even sadness, by capturing ‘the moment’. There is a split second between a good image and a bad image. Whatever the naked eye can see, is a form of art, and the camera has the ability to capture that moment forever.

Artist Statement:

As the fog settles in on a cool winters night, the urban landscape changes with the ghostly silhouettes of people in the distance giving a sense of mystery. Vintage shop signs frame the image while the bench seats wait for their next occupants.

Judge’s Comment:

This really captures the ambience of this type of scene with great subtlety.

Artist Name: DE GILLETT COX

Artwork Title: BOULDER CASCADES

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 101 x 153cm

About the Artist:

Portraying landscape with transparent, negative painting techniques defines De's current painting practice. De is particularly interested in portraying movement and sound using the silent, static medium of painting.

Artist Statement:

The quick transparency of pure water is here compared and contrasted with the obdurate opacity of boulders. Over millennia, through erosion and direction, each disciplines the other.

Artist Name: DAMIAN LEE

Artwork Title: RUSH HOUR

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 61 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Damian is emerging artist on the Adelaide art scene. He has spent most of his life living and working in Queensland outback and Mount Isa and is inspired by the dramatic nature of it's landscape, weather, and it's people.

Artist Statement:

A lazy, warm afternoon in the Gregory in the build up to the wet season.

Judge’s Comment:

A simple subject but the tongue in cheek title helps.

Artist Name: KEAN ONN SEE

Artwork Title: VALE JOEY

Medium: Acrylic on carved woodblock

Size: 80 x 130cm

About the Artist:

Vale Joey, is an eulogy to the baby kangaroo that died face down, in what left of the septic tank at our Lake Conjola house after the 2019 NYE fire. The fire razed everything.

Finding Joey dead in our backyard was the saddest of all terrible moments.

Artist Statement:

Kean Onn See's paintings are drawn, carved, and then painted on woodblock. Every stage of this creative process requires a different set of skills. They must come together technically and creatively, to form the finished work. It's labour intensive, painstaking, and exacting.

Primarily self-taught, Kean Onn See started painting as a hobby, and pursued this interest while working full-time. Over the years, he has experimented with different media and genres before fInally adopting painting on carved woodblock as his preferred medium.

Artist Name: JUDITH LAWS

Artwork Title: SUMMER GLAZE

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 101 x 101cm

About the Artist:

I work intuititively, not always with a theme in mind but see where my imagination takes me as the painting progressess. Quite often I am surprised t o find my paintings relating to some forgotten happening or visual experience. I believe in pushing the boundaries of my imagination and creating works meaningful to myself and hoping others my involve themselves in my journey.

Artist Statement:

Simmering reds and pinks take on a glow in the summers heat, a yellow pool in reflected. Storm clouds bring rain leaving puddles and waterfalls and little green shoots appear. All vibrant to the eyes.

Artist Name: SEAN CROOKES

Artwork Title: DEALING WITH IT, PLAYING THE HAND THAT IS DEALT YOU.

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 84 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Emerging artist Sean Crookes graduated with first class honours from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in 2020. He is interested in how painting can communicate experiences of domestic life and familial relationships across generations. Recorded through the slow process of painting, his domestic landscapes often take on nostalgic qualities.

Artist Statement:

While many of us experienced life constricted to the home during COVID lock down in 2020, for aged persons suffering from infirm bodies and dementia, life often becomes confined to the domestic landscape indefinitely. Games with Granny are treasured moments.

Artist Name: DEBBIE PARKER

Artwork Title: AUGUST WIND – MOUNT COOT-THA SERIES

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Debbie's experimentation in dry and water based medium continues, applying it to the movement and light on Australian Forms.
Most of her subjects come from her walks around the Mount Cooth-Tha National Park and Botanical gardens as well as scenes, birds and flowers from her travels around Australia.

Artist Statement:

The Mount Cooth-Tha series I have been working on for a number of years now has led to the investigation of the ridges of the mountain and the slope as it drops away from either side. In late winter the wind moving the dry grasses shot with morning light is a subtle but poignant visual.

Artist Name: MAX BUTLER

Artwork Title: MY COUNTRY #465

Medium: OIL

Size: 90 x 60cm

About the Artist:

For seven years, Max Butler and his wife Pam traveled all over Australia in their van, Morrison, taking hundreds of photos of the countryside as they passed through. He now selects some of these to paint and calls them all "My Country" and numbers them in order of execution.

Artist Statement:

This is typical of the country around The Pilbara district of W.A. with its spinifex, saltbush and distant mountains.

Artist Name: PETE ROSS

Artwork Title: FIRESTORM: ARTHUR STREETON. GOLDEN SUMMER, EAGLEMONT. 1889

Medium: photo montage

Size: 81 x 153cm

About the Artist:

Pete Ross is a contemporary artist living in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Hw works across multiple mediums in portraiture and interpretation of landscape.
He is a past finalist in the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture and Semi finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.

Artist Statement:

This image is part of a series created in response to the horrors of the unprecedented firestorms that were raging across Australia in late 2019.
A composite of iconic Australian landscapes and actual news photographs representing the impact our activity has been having in our community, country and planet in the past 100 years.

Judge’s Comment:

Nice idea juxtaposing early paintings with contemporary photo.

Artist Name: ELANOR SHEWRING

Artwork Title: THE DUCK POND

Medium: Oil paint

Size: 92 x 183cm

About the Artist:

Informed by her study of Psychology and love of the Australian bush, Elanor examines art through a contemporary, philosophical lens, guided by an inquiry into what fundamental principles are able to immediately capture the attention of viewers, drawing them in to connect with art on an emotional and metaphysical level.

Artist Statement:

'The Duck Pond' is an inquiry into the ‘liminal space’, all those sublime in-between places although arbitrary leave lasting imprints on the mind. Intended to draw viewers in immediately by taking them on a journey through depth, light and colour, to construct dreamlike reflection and personal story rich with metaphor.

Artist Name: PENELOPE OATES

Artwork Title: THE FINAL CALLS

Medium: Soldering ion on board with ink,acrylic

Size: 80 x 120cm

About the Artist:

I live and work as an artist on a property in the Hawkesbury area of NSW with my furniture designer maker husband Darren Oates and our little dogs.
I have taught Visual Arts to students for the past 15 or so years and previous to this have trained at NIDA as stage and costume designer and completed a B.A of Fine arts previous to this at COFA in NSW.
I have taken up painting in the last 7 years and have been exploring and developing my practice as an artist on a full time basis in the last 3 years.
My cues as a landscape artist are taken directly from my surrounds in the lower Blue Mountains and wider Hawkesbury area. I see myself more as a mark maker that a painter in the traditional sense as my use of a soldering iron to gently burn marks into the surface of the timber has become such an integral part of my process.

Artist Statement:

At the end a scorching summer day the moon comes slowly into view and white Sulphur Crested cockatoos make their final calls before settling into the gum trees as a cool breeze begins to make its way across the Hawkesbury River.

Artist Name: JORDAN ANDREOTTA

Artwork Title: A GATEWAY TO OUR PAST

Medium: Graphite and Pencil on Paper

Size: 43 x 65cm

About the Artist:

Jordan Andreotta is an artist and teacher of the Visual Arts. He specialises in a range of mediums including drawing, painting, digital and mural art. Jordan’s tonal drawings take my influences from many of the great masters including Da Vinci and Caravaggio.

Artist Statement:

My artwork aims to capture the way the Reckitt & Colman Building Facade, like many historical buildings scattered around Fremantle, are a snapshot into the past history and culture of our nation. I have worked in black and white to place emphasis on the building’s shapes and textures.

Artist Name: SALLI SIXPENCE

Artwork Title: LEAVING HOME

Medium: video

Size: 100 x 60cm

About the Artist:

My art practice revolves almost exclusively around abstract macro photography. Any bit of flotsam Jetsam - petals, coffee grit, salt, leaves are reconfigured so to morph from one entity to an unrecognisable other. A complete transformation. Best explained at sallisixpence.net
This looped slow mo' 30 minute video of flower petals in Kedron Brook is a departure from my usual M.O. Though the subject matter - petals and landscapes hasn't strayed too far from my usual fare.

Artist Statement:

LEAVING HOME
All frocked up. Vibrance of youth. Cautious egress. Slow burn builds.
Distant adventure. Rough and tumble. Turbulence. Angst.
Forged. Framed. Fermented.
Uniquely formed for pastures far.
Farewell my child.
I see this work as a 'still' landscape - that just happens to move a little bit. The thirty minute slow mo' loop of the invasive African Tulip Tree flowers floating along Kedron Brook, will be on a 'framed' standalone Samsung 43" QLED vertical TV. The work could be a representation of any number of desperate emigration scenarios. However, I've chosen family friendly warm and fuzzy over the bleedingly obvious dread and despair that the visuals could suggest. Meditative, hypnotic, tranquil, soothing, graceful, calming. A gentler fit for the now. The audio is crucial. Low and subtle - mustn't swallow the room. Therein lay the Zen.

Artist Name: CHRISTINE READ

Artwork Title: SUMMER AFTERNOON

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 64 x 92cm

About the Artist:

My artistic practice is constantly developing, I am an artistic late developer, having come to being a full time artist after a career as a medical practitioner. Both occupations have led me to a contemplative practice of trying to capture the energy of nature at its most robust. I aim to delve below the surface, to find that which lies beneath and to express that artistically in lively colour and somewhat broken brush strokes. I like to work fast and if possible, on the spot in the case of landscape painting.

Artist Statement:

My primary aim is to immerse myself into the subject of the painting. In this landscape, painted en plein air, I tried to capture the sense of being within an ancient land, populated by native bush, but with the sense of man's curatorial nature in viewing the planted line of trees in the distance. Broken brush strokes reflect my desire to capture a fleeting moment light and in time

Artist Name: LINDA HUNTER

Artwork Title: TIMBOON RAIL-TRAIL

Medium: Ink and Pen

Size: 79 x 97cm

About the Artist:

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated and excited by the natural world and all that it offers. Being the quintessential observer, I am rewarded by inspiration from the landscape around me to fuel my creative vision.

Artist Statement:

In Timboon Rail Trail I have captured the essence of being surrounded by the forest. Gentle light and texture add to the feeling and character of the piece which is reminiscent of a carefully stitched tapestry. Small flashes of complimentary colours have been overlaid to maintain a freshness and lend a hint of vibrancy to the work.

Artist Name: PETA-JAYNE SMITH

Artwork Title: MOOD INDIGO

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 50 x 70cm

Artist Name: ADAM GALIC

Artwork Title: KARLOO REFLECTIONS

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 91 x 91cm

About the Artist:

Adam Galic is an artist working out of Helensburgh, NSW. He completed his BFA at the National Art School in 2011; majoring in oil painting.
Adam finds his inspiration in the natural world, from the bush to the coast the Australian landscape is a common subject in his work.

Artist Statement:

There is something magical about the waterways that run through our bushland. Karloo pool is a waterhole just south of Sydney in our Royal National Park and was my inspiration for this work.
In the afternoon light, the warm tones of the Australian landscape reflect across the glassy water; creating a beautiful scene that is picturesque.

Artist Name: CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN

Artwork Title: HEAVY, HEAVY, HEAVYSCAPE (WOOLLOOMOOLOO)

Medium: screenprint, digital, collage, expanded print

Size: 88 x 108cm

About the Artist:

My works perform the interplay between past and present, tangible and conceptualised, lost and remains. I try to understand and capture the nature of the human condition and the broader cultural and social arrangements that make up human lives and hint at but not reveal human drama and psychological tension.

Artist Statement:

This exterior/ interior landscape with screenprinting, photography, digital printmaking and collage also recycles found objects discarded around my home environment of housing in Woolloomooloo, such as an old frame, discarded cardboard boxes and other personal material collected and saved over time such as the hand-made Aboriginal paper and packaging tapes.

Artist Name: PHIL TAMBLYN

Artwork Title: IN, OUT OF APPROACHING MORNING STORM. THE FORMER ETA PEANUT BUTTER BUILDING, EAST BRISBANE

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Having a keen interest in architecture and discovering that Brisbane and Its’ surrounds has a wonderful selection of unusual and diverse structures, The Former ETA Peanut Butter Building, East Brisbane, forms part of the series ‘Urban City’. A journey through fragments of our historic and civic structures.

Artist Statement:

One door closes, another door opens.
An approaching summer storm moves us to take shelter.
From the fragility of the present, into the security of the past.
The solitude of a quiet back street, to a refuge of safety.
Looking for a cocoon of history, to save us from the future.
It’s a forever changing landscape.

Artist Name: BRONWYN DOHERTY

Artwork Title: POCKET OF WILDERNESS, BURPENGARY

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 61 x 121cm

About the Artist:

I studied art at the National Art School, 1975, Sydney Teachers College, 1976. I have taught art in High Schools and exhibited in exhibitions as well as art awards over the years with some successes with art prizes. I am currently working both in painting and sculpture.

Artist Statement:

This is a portion of land, wild and woolly tucked in behind the McDonalds at Burpengary. I love unkempt pockets of land found holding on for survival in our ever-expanding suburbs before developers come, in the meantime I am keen to paint freely the sense of activity expressed by nature.

Artist Name: JEANNE COTTER

Artwork Title: MALENY MAJESTY

Medium: Soft Pastel

Size: 83 x 66cm

About the Artist:

My favourite subject to paint is landscapes, I get so much joy from beautiful views and endless greens. Constantly challenged to find the lightest lights and the darkest darks, I adore mixing and layering colours and emulating textures with soft pastels.

Artist Statement:

This painting is inspired by my view of the Glasshouse Mountains on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland where I lived for many years. I think it's one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Artist Name: KATHERINE BOLAND

Artwork Title: RESPIRE #1 (1 OF LIMITED EDITION OF 10)

Medium: Digital image

Size: 67 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Katherine Boland lives on the Far South Coast of NSW which was devastated by bushfire in 2019/20. She was recently selected to participate in OUTPUT: ART AFTER FIRE - a pilot project initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to support artists making artwork about their bushfire experiences.

Artist Statement:

This work was made after a drive through hundreds of hectares of burnt bushland in the Bega Valley. It depicts the decimated native forests and their desperate struggle to come back to life following severe drought and horrendous firestorms - the xray-like imagery and threatening skies a portent of ecological extinction.

Artist Name: KEVIN MARRIAGE

Artwork Title: INDECISION 1

Medium: Erasure Drawing on plaster

Size: 120 x 80cm

About the Artist:

My aim is to make people think about how WE interact with the planet. It is the only one we have. We cannot all go to live on Mars. We have to drag the politicians along with us, we cannot wait for them to rub the money from their eyes and make the right decisions.

Artist Statement:

Erasure drawing on Plaster. This was produced by beginning with a thin layer of white plaster over a sheet of Gyprock, coating with a red tinted layer of egg tempera and then covering all with black boot polish. Erasure is done with various shaped steel implements, different grades of sandpaper and pencil erasers.

Artist Name: ELIZABETH DUGUID

Artwork Title: JACARANDAS 2

Medium: Watercolour on 600g.Arches paper

Size: 35 x 75cm

About the Artist:

After a lifelong interest and dedication to painting and teaching the arts; my life was hit with osteoporosis and broken bones. My painting arm and shoulder most.
This has interrupted my painting, but not my desire to be more involved again.
This work is not recent but too good to sit in the garage.

Artist Name: KAY KANE

Artwork Title: SAPPHIRE

Medium: Oil on Board

Size: 32 x 160cm

About the Artist:

Kay completed her undergraduate degree in Fine Art in London, and her Doctorate at QCA Brisbane after returning to Australia.
Her work, influenced by artists such as Degas, and Sydney Long, is representational but not a form of ‘realism’. She has exhibited in major exhibitions in Australia and internationally.

Artist Statement:

Sapphire


On viewing this landscape from the 7th Floor of a building named ‘Sapphire’, at Hervey Bay QLD, I determined to paint it. The compositional opportunities and panoramic view afforded were irresistible. Entitled “Sapphire” for the brilliant colour of the sea but also for the building from where the idea came.

Artist Name: TINA BARAHANOS

Artwork Title: CONVERGENCE

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 100 x 118cm

About the Artist:

Tina, a multi-disciplinary artist, received her BFA and MFA from UNSW. Tina shows extensively and was awarded the Wyndham Art Prize (2017), She has been a finalist in national and international art prizes and commissioned for a public art project. Her work is held in public and private collections.

Artist Statement:

During road travel, I am frequently transfixed by incidental scenes and patterns created as the roads edge moves along with me. A visceral response to this allows for simplified gestural marks exploring a more emotive and experiential connection to the landscape, where feeling and vision are intertwined.

Artist Name: SALLI SIXPENCE

Artwork Title: HOMELESS - (THE BRIDGE DWELLERS)

Medium: photography

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

My art practice revolves around abstract curve and colour - light and shade combinations.
The 'universal artistic constant' so called. Slot the appropriate splashes of colour in and over the right waypoints on a canvas and the eye turns. The subject matter is incidental.
The narrative conjured with this work is just a convenience after the palette is delivered.

Artist Statement:

HOMELESS
(the bridge dwellers)
Nowhere to go . That cold dark void
Into the abyss . Pools of blue-black . A fiery hell within
Needled shame my only friend
Vibrant life and sunshine . So near yet far
Beyond the mud of nothing . A distant hope
The hidden now . A mire of self-loathing

I don't see the work in any other light other than an abstract splashing of colour in all the right places.
If there is to be a narrative to the work then it's about the number of people living under bridges in Brisbane this past Covid year. Devastating. Dark, cold, lost. A bright, colourful future but a distant seemingly hopeless visage.

Artist Name: JOHN AMSLER

Artwork Title: WALKING AMONG GAINTS

Medium: Charcoal

Size: 100 x 65cm

Artist Name: SUZANNE GHENT (JOSEPH)

Artwork Title: TIME CAPSULE

Medium: Monochromatic Photograph

Size: 47 x 60cm

About the Artist:

My work is an extension of me. It is intended to be a “truth” that tells a human story. Nothing is off limits… how the world actually is… unfiltered… unbiased… in all its glory and despair. Through the examination of this truth, repair or restoration is then possible.

Artist Statement:

The image depicts a frozen moment, or time capsule of human comings and goings of a busy Wynyard Station entrance. The constantly shifting and changing light and shade contrasts against the monolithic glass, concrete, steel and stone urban landscape creating a moody tension between two very different time-frames.

Artist Name: DENNIS MCCART

Artwork Title: THE GROVE

Medium: oil and resin on canvas on hardboard

Size: 110 x 110cm

About the Artist:

Dennis McCart is an Australian artist working in the discipline of painting and digital media.
Dennis is a graduate of the Queensland College of Art. McCart has had his work represented at a number of regional galleries in Australia. During 2020 his practice incorporated machine learning framework into his practice.

Artist Statement:

The Grove is the collaborative between the artist and a machine learning framework. This technological tool allows me the opportunity to create something unique and beautiful that is both thrilling and challenging. The painting expresses my anxiety about the condition of landscape focusing on the temporal aspects of fringe landscapes.

Artist Name: KAREN STANDKE

Artwork Title: COONDAMBO LANDSCAPE II

Medium: Oils on Canvas

Size: 85 x 110cm

About the Artist:

Karen Standke, born 1973 in Munich, Germany.
Living and working in Melbourne, Standke has had a career in the arts spanning over 25 years, with exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and with her work being listed as a finalist in several of Australia’s most prestigious Art prizes.

Artist Statement:

Coondambo is located just off the Stuart Highway in Outback South Australia, and on my frequent travels, this is possibly one of my favourite overnight campsites.
This painting was inspired by a morning walk, catching the early light and listening to the birds announcing the dawning of a new day .

Artist Name: SALLY WEST

Artwork Title: PACIFIC STREET

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 90 x 120cm

About the Artist:

I work predominantly as a plein air painter, however, I also work in my studio to produce still life, portraits and street scenes.

Artist Statement:

I have been exploring street scenes for most of my career. My Mum lives in Pacific Street, in the same apartment that we holidayed in as children. I grew up on a farm so holidaying in the city was always exciting and this street has many memories for me.

Artist Name: YVONNE BOAG

Artwork Title: CATHERINE FIELD

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 91 x 146cm

About the Artist:

Yvonne is an artist with an international reputation, having exhibited regularly in Australia and South Korea as well as exhibitions in Japan, Europe and Scotland. Her work deals with her relationships with her environment, depicting its state as seen from her perspective, her interaction with it and the effect it has on her.

Artist Statement:

In outer Sydney new housing estates are being constructed. The natural state of the landscape changes: the natural flow and harmony is broken, filled with manufactured shapes, cuts in the earth, building materials are scattered making a pattern. They transform the flow and curves of nature into geometric harshness.

Artist Name: ANITA WEST

Artwork Title: BLUE MOUNTAIN BANKSIA

Medium: acrylic on linen

Size: 150 x 150cm

About the Artist:

I have been painting the Australian landscape in various forms for the last 35 years. I paint because it is the only visual language that I know where I can share my love for this vast and wild landscape that continually challenges my perceptions and my technical skills. Making art about our landscape fills me with hope and deep respect for life and love.

Artist Statement:

I am an optimist at heart and when the bush fires destroyed much of the Australian landscape, I couldn’t quite comprehend the extent of the devastation. When I visited the Blue Mountains recently my heart sang because everywhere around me there was new growth and new life.

Artist Name: BLAIR GARLAND

Artwork Title: POSTCARDS FROM REDCLIFFE SERIES NO.17

Medium: Photography

Size: 40 x 50cm

About the Artist:

Blair Garland is a multifaceted visual artist whose current practice explores photography, digital animation and painting. Blair focuses on the domestic suburban experience, which she reflects back with insight, playfulness and wit.

Artist Statement:

“Postcards from Redcliffe” is a series of photographic portraits of houses with personality from the city of Redcliffe. The essence of Redcliffe is reflected in these images and they speak to a sense of place. The homes have been selected for their quirkiness, quaintness and their nostalgic stirrings.

Artist Name: SARAH HICKEY

Artwork Title: BACKYARD UTOPIA (TROPICAL QUEENSLAND DREAMS)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 153 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Sarah Hickey is a Brisbane-based visual artist and designer.

A Griffith University QCA Graduate, her work has been a finalist in The Percival Portrait Award, The Kennedy Art Prize, Redland Art Awards, Clayton Utz Art Award, Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize, The Mandorla Art Award and SBS Portrait Prize.

Artist Statement:

The Landscape genre is a new subject matter for me. I often paint over old paintings as a catharsis – there is a figure, an old self, buried beneath the undergrowth in this painting. The Mt Gravatt East palms and tropical plants capture our backyard sanctuary; both real and imagined.

Artist Name: LEAH THIESSEN

Artwork Title: THE SUN'S WARMTH

Medium: oil on poly canvas

Size: 123 x 148cm

About the Artist:

Leah continues to paint and explore abstraction and the emotional gravity of place in her studio which is situated on the water’s edge in Northern NSW. Her work is a constant investigation about capturing the pulse and rawness of the land she is immersed within.

Artist Statement:

My work taps into the emotional gravity of a place, its memory, its pulse, its rawness and power. For me the paintings communicate a deep felt relationship with the earth, embodying a spirit of place and its atmosphere.

Artist Name: ELISABETH LAWRENCE

Artwork Title: THE LONG WEEKEND

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 95 x 140cm

About the Artist:

Elisabeth’s paintings largely talk about people and life. Her imagery can at times be slightly whimsical with added touches of humour. Her work aims to visually connect people’s memories with emotive feelings.

Artist Statement:

“No worries!” is probably the best phrase used to sum up this painting.
Family holidays and long weekends were basic, easy and so much fun. These are the wonderful memories of our youth.

Artist Name: CAITLIN REILLY

Artwork Title: CROSSING WILSONS CREEK

Medium: Oil on wood

Size: 50 x 58cm

About the Artist:

Caitlin Reilly is an Australian born multi disciplinary artist living on Bundjalung Country in northern New South Wales, Byron Bay, Australia. Caitlin has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in China and Australia. Her works have also been exhibited at the Shanghai Museum of Art; the Xuhui Art Museum, Asia Contemporary Art Hong Kong 2014 -15-16; Singapore Art Fair and 'Faces & Traces' retrospective at The Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China.
Caitlin's visual arts practice spans international platforms and is represented in collections throughout Australia, Europe, America, and China.

“My work is an expression of my love for the area in which I live. It is the intention that this feeling comes to life through my painting. Sculpture and drawings. In the last decade my understanding of home has been shared between Shanghai, China 2009-15 and Byron Bay, Australia 2015-21”

Artist Statement:

Crossing Wilsons Creek

This study in painting water and reflections is a challenge to and a meditation for me. The transience of this scene belies the delicate beauty of nature. Serene yet ever changing, the floodwaters always recede.
My deliberate choice to emphasise the contrast of light is intended to evoke the movement of water as it flows through Wilsons Creek.
Using a reclaimed timber drawer as a surface to paint on is a choice to remind myself to use what’s at hand, while also speaking back to the history of place.
Even after many years living in the northern rivers area, I am still enamoured by my surroundings. This painting is a testimony to the endless inspiration I find in this landscape.

Artist Name: ELAINE GREEN

Artwork Title: ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN NORTH WEST TASSIE

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 60 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Rather than 'Framing Nature', my work has always resonated the 19th century Romantic notion of elevating landscape painting to a metaphysical level. It is the ephemerality of clouds that capture my attention and like all artists I am drawn to the light.

Artist Statement:

The North West Tasmanian landscape offers up picturesque scenery. However, this terrain hides secrets of the past, land that has been ravaged by farmers and loggers and has seen the original custodians of this land slaughtered. Through all this and the relentless wind it endures its beauty will always prevail.

Artist Name: MATT JAMES

Artwork Title: WATER'S EDGE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 54 x 54cm

About the Artist:

I am a Brisbane–based artist primarily interested in contemporary landscape painting and drawing. I am interested in exploring the shape of the landscape, the movement of the sky, the perception of distance, and the shifting of the light. My work aims to balance figurative representation with abstract mark-making.

Artist Statement:

Our impressions of places are initially formed first-hand, when we are there. Once we leave, our memory takes over to form new impressions. Water’s Edge – like much of my work – originated from pencil and oil sketches created in situ. Once back in the studio the work was developed from my recollection of the place.

Artist Name: KEVIN CHIN

Artwork Title: GREEN SPACES

Medium: Oil on Italian linen

Size: 113 x 174cm

About the Artist:

Based on a collage development process, my disorienting paintings connect distant lands and cross cultural references - to question how we find our place in the world. Having migrated from one colonised country to another, I reframe landscape conventions, to interrogate how land rights and belonging are constantly contested.

Artist Statement:

Green Spaces subverts the desert/ bush imagery ordinarily associated with Australian landscape. White snow acts as metaphor for colonisation and the spread of ‘white’ culture. While pieced together from across continents, the image remains cohesive, since snow looks the same everywhere. This subtly references cultural homogenisation, in Australia and globally.

Artist Name: GREG HUGHES

Artwork Title: DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 29 x 42cm

Artist Name: TAMARA BEALE

Artwork Title: THE LONG WALK HOME

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 51 x 61cm

About the Artist:

Tamara Beale is a Brisbane based artist whose work references her experiences with objects and landscapes. Her paintings play with colour to capture moments and document her sense of presence in the moment.

Artist Name: STUART BOGGS

Artwork Title: BLUE HOLE DEPTHS

Medium: Acrylic on Paper

Size: 70 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Stuart, based in Armidale (Northern NSW), originally studied & worked as a Geologist. After completing art at TAFE Armidale in the 1980’s, he travelled & lived in France for 2 years. Upon returning to Australia in 1993, painting the landscape of the New England region has been his focus.

Artist Statement:

This painting is about the Blue Hole, which is part of the gorge county of the New England area NSW and the effect of recent rains following prolonged drought. Blue Hole Depths is about water flow and the subsequent pools formed.

Artist Name: KA MO

Artwork Title: PURPLE FALLS

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 92 x 92cm

About the Artist:

Born in Hk , now live in Melbourne self taught artist Ka
Artwork mainly Inspired by australia landscape and botanical , expression via using bond colour and confident brush strokes

Artist Statement:

This work inspired by falls creeks landscape.

Artist Name: JUDITH DALOZZO

Artwork Title: MOUNT WARNING

Medium: Oil

Size: 101 x 122cm

About the Artist:

As a contemporary artist, transformation is the biggest rule of my creative process: the altering of reality so that my expression can exist as something new all together. With subtle use of colour I try to create paintings which evoke a sense of tranquility and balance. Oils have always been my preferred medium. I aim to travel every year to learn more about art and be inspired by places, people or scenes I only dreamed about.

Artist Statement:

Having climbed the Wollumbin National Park summit, formerly known as Mount Warning many times I never saw it as a subject matter until Covid and the idea of it being permanently closed to the public. Wollumbin is a sacred place to the local Bundjalung people. All these factors insoired me to one day take a blank canvas and paint it how I saw it, in oils.

Artist Name: EDWARD INCHBOLD

Artwork Title: TWO GREAT SHAGS

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 100 x 148cm

About the Artist:

Australian artist. Lives and works in Sydney.

Artist Name: JULIE SIMMONS

Artwork Title: AND SO IT CONTINUES INTO THE DISTANCE

Medium: oil/charcoal/oil pastels

Size: 124 x 124cm

About the Artist:

Julie Simmons is an artist who paints en plein air using the studies produced to develop larger, more intricate work in the studio. She works in a number of mediums including watercolour, oil, acrylic charcoal. Her work is constantly developing finding new ways to express herself.

Artist Statement:

This painting was produced from a study painted on site on the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The study was developed in the studio to produce a work which portrays the distant land formations. The use of various mediums and mark making provides for a dynamic landscape.

Artist Name: CATHERINE SIM

Artwork Title: WOLLUMBIN

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 50 x 50cm

About the Artist:

My practice involves getting out into the landscape , painting en plein air and returning to the studio to complete work. I explore and celebrate the fleeting effect of light and weather on the land and sea.

Artist Statement:

This quiet painting was completed on the Veranda of the Nancy Fairfax artist in residence studio at the Tweed Regional Gallery as the light dimmed and played on the distant hills and lit up the waterhole below me. The beauty of such a residency is that the artist becomes very familiar with the landscape in all its moods.

Artist Name: ALISON MURPHY

Artwork Title: ASHES-REGENERATION-HOPE

Medium: Oils

Size: 60 x 76cm

About the Artist:

A love of family, this country and nature inspire me to capture people and places in art form. I am especially passionate about painting our unique landscape.
My work has been acquired by Shire Councils, City Councils and Regional Government Departments as well as by private collectors nationally.
I have been selected as an exhibiting finalist in the prestigious Brisbane Rotary Art Spectacular each year since 2013, with multiple sales at these events.

Artist Statement:

This painting was inspired by the Australian landscape and it's ability to regenerate. I feel that this is also reflected in the Australian people. We have a country that can be harsh, and nature can be brutal.
But people band together and support each other and keep faith that better times are ahead. And sure enough, the cycle of natural beauty, destruction (whether by bushfire, flood or some other natural disaster) regenerates leaving beautiful fresh new growth, flowers and saplings among the charred remnants of fire.

Artist Name: TRISH TAIT

Artwork Title: THE OFF SEASON

Medium: oil on board framed

Size: 16 x 26cm

About the Artist:

Trish practices art full time in her studio in the Byron Hinterland, painting in a realist style using oils.
Trish was selected to hang in the 2020 Salon des Refusés, at the S.H. Ervin Gallery. Trish was also a finalist in the 2020 Portia Geach Memorial Award. Trish received a highly commended award in the 2020 Border Art Prize.

Artist Statement:

Trish draws her inspiration from 'daily life’ creating a painted record of her observations, from the mundane to the extraordinary. ‘The off season’ captures a solitary moment, a calm and motionless pool lounge floats, patiently waiting for the summer pool party revellers to return.

Artist Name: LYN BARTOLO

Artwork Title: A NEW DAY

Medium: Ink

Size: 62 x 80cm

About the Artist:

Lyn Bartolo creates her art in Cairns, Australia, surrounded by nature, mountains and water. A self-taught artist, Lyn's style is of fine composition in black and white or colour. Working in Pen & Ink, her creations encompass timeless fragments of life in intricate lines captured by the human hand.

Artist Statement:

Our planet has been exploited by the human race and is crying out for help. I like to capture the atmosphere and underlying message of the environmental global crisis we are facing in my landscapes. When all may seem lost, a glimmer of hope shines in the rising of a new day.

Artist Name: TRACEY LENNON

Artwork Title: CENTENARY POOL 1959

Medium: Collage

Size: 87 x 116cm

About the Artist:

Tracey has studied Art, Interior Design and Illustration and worked as a retail designer and scenic artist. She’s written and illustrated a children’s book, Bad Hair Days. Her work is exhibited in Brisbane art shows and she won First Prize Mixed Media Brookfield Art Show in 2017. She has been a finalist in the 2019 Moreton Bay Art Awards, the 2019 Rotary Art Spectacular and the Art Room Gallery Black and White Competition 2021. Two joint exhibitions: Two Locals at Paddington, Brisbane in 2013. Bris Vegas and Beyond, 2019.

Artist Statement:

Swimming pools are in my DNA, and Centenary Pool designed by James Birrell, has graced the Spring Hill skyline since 1959. My work is an homage to the futuristic Olympic and wading pool. Paper collage creates the graphic qualities of old posters and simplifies form through shadow and shape.

Artist Name: NARELLE CARTER-QUINLAN

Artwork Title: DIGITAL TIDE

Medium: Photography

Size: 30 x 90cm

About the Artist:

My work is an embodied ecology. As an anatomist, yoga-scoliosis therapist, dancer, photographer and filmmaker, my practice is an ecosystem of body-landscape; the body as felt, known, poetic Place. My images contain codes of consciousness - direct transmission of knowing - via fluid-fascial systems. Language without sound; Saltwater Songlines.

Artist Statement:

Both Images are A4 Prints (I shall email you the second image as instructed)

Both Images were made on Turrbul Country;
Image 1, on Nudgee Beach, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, February 2021.
Image 2, on North Pine River, Moreton Bay, Queenland, Australia, December 2020.

Image 1; Stingray Luminum
Oozing from the sand, her body, a Circle.
Out on the fields of dark ripples,
She listens her way into time ~
Remembering form ~

Image 2; Beyond The Binary
Water drip sizzles electric
New in-formation in the shifting saltwater planes, etching the landscape of time-nerve: a Map
Beyond the binary, a molten matrix rewiring consciousness
Dimensions: Unknown.

Artist Name: JILL DUNKERTON

Artwork Title: THE VALLEY

Medium: Mixed media on canvas

Size: 51 x 51cm

About the Artist:

I studied Painting at StMartins Art School, London and returned to Sydney to study for the MFA at COFA in 1993. I have had many solo and group shows in Sydney and in the UK. My paintings are essentially abstract landscapes. I work from memories of a particular landscape and am continually inspired by how a landscape can provide a spiritual connection with place and the memories of such a place can lead to connections with other places.

Artist Statement:

This painting started as a thick encaustic work but I have peeled back the layers to reveal the etching resulting from working into the wax.
I have always worked with layers and love the texture and history that is built up in a work but with this I have bared it back to simple lines and colour. It illustrates the gentle colours returning to the landscape after the drought and fires of 2019-2020.

Artist Name: TAH-NEE HOOPER

Artwork Title: IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL HOUR #2

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 61 x 61cm

About the Artist:

My artwork is a mix of impressionistic brushstrokes and expressionistic movement. I am drawn to landscapes, seascapes and people simply because these all both inspire me and confuse me at the same time. Painting for me is a way of attempting to understand and portray the enigma of life.

Artist Statement:

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter”
– Rachel Carson “Silent Spring”.

Artist Name: MICHELLE CAITENS

Artwork Title: WHAT'S YOUR BRISBANE STORY?

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Michelle is a Brisbane-based artist represented by the Lethbridge Gallery since 2014.
She largely uses heat-set oil paints and enjoys dramatic lighting and the technical challenge of realism. Michelle has won many awards, is a life member of the Qld Wildlife Artist Society and has been awarded Medal of Excellence from the international Artists for Conservation in Canada.

Artist Statement:

I lived for a while just across the Story Bridge at Kangaroo Point. It was around this time I met my husband.
Many years later, we used to travel across the bridge to watch Lions games at the Gabba with our three kids. This continued for fourteen years. The post-match trips back across the bridge were a mix of sombre lows and exultant highs and shall always remain part of our family’s Brisbane story.
What’s yours?

Artist Name: ROBYN BAUER

Artwork Title: AGED FIG TREE - BEAUTY IS TRUTH

Medium: Charcoal on gesso on card

Size: 85 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Robyn Bauer is a Fellow of the Royal Queensland Art Society. She is a Brisbane based artist known for her paintings and drawings of the urban landscape. She was artist-in-residence of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in 2019. She is a former Education Officer at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Artist Statement:

I am captivated by the body language of urban trees. Limbs have been amputated and buildings have stolen their light. Even surrounded by bitumen they struggle and survive.
Charcoal on gesso is the perfect medium, providing a combination of stark tonal contrasts and sensitive gradations to tell the story.

Artist Name: FRANCES CULL

Artwork Title: GUNGGUYAYA

Medium: Fabric, metal glomesh, mirror, blackened wood

Size: 45 x 135cm

About the Artist:

As an assemblage artist, everything I find has a purpose, nothing is wasted. I love to find and assemble soft and hard textures to create a sculptural thing of beauty with nature as my prime source of inspiration.

Artist Statement:

The under layer of this snake hides a shimmering rainbow skin, a creative force of optimism symbolising life and renewal. A mythological being, guardian of all life. Natures energy has a remarkable way of rejuvenating. The scorched earth becomes fertile ground for lichen and moss and a new cycle of life.

Artist Name: ANGELA HAWEY

Artwork Title: GARDEN WALK

Medium: Oil

Size: 79 x 79cm

About the Artist:

My paintings use an abundance of paint – I can’t have too much paint on the canvas. Thick, buttery paint layered on with a palette knife gives it that extra dimension. People often like to touch my art, and I love that.

Artist Statement:

A landscape that you feel and breathe. Immersed in the garden amongst the rambling roses. Feeling the gentle brush of the leaves, roughness of branches, scent of the crisp aromatic air and sound of wind dancing through foliage creating a gentle song.

Artist Name: STEPHEN BURDETT

Artwork Title: TIMES NEW ROMAN

Medium: Mixed media (oil and acrylic)

Size: 80 x 96cm

About the Artist:

I work in the mediums of photography, painting, and sculpture. As a person living with mental illness I know the act of seeing is never passive. We give something of ourselves to what we see. My work explores the dance between external and internal reality.

Artist Statement:

My work shows a natural setting through the eyes of a person who only understands reality through the filters of language and intelect. We can have a genuine concern for the environment but that is not to say our personal response to nature matches our ideology.

Artist Name: JENNY BLAKE

Artwork Title: AFTER THE FIRES

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 90 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Blake tackles the most pressing issues of our times. Climate change, global warming and sustainability is a common theme throughout her work.
Blake lathers paint directly onto the canvas, moving it around with non-traditional tools, creating layers, scratching, peeling back re-working the surface as if she is replicating the damage to the landscape.

Artist Statement:

Like most summers I would visit the South coast from my home in Canberra. This year I was braced, my heart sank to see our beautiful National Morton Park now unrecognisable. The landscape charred as far as the eye could see. The fire so hot leaving no trace of life in its path.

Artist Name: KIRSTY GAUTHERON

Artwork Title: AFTERNOON LIGHT ON AN ANCIENT LAND

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 95 x 126cm

About the Artist:

Kirsty has an affinity with vast landscapes, finding that space and isolation impart an impression of freedom. Her hope is that viewers will sense the atmosphere of her paintings and feel present forming their own interpretations. Kirsty's figurative work is infused with memory and the inherent mysterious beauty of nature.

Artist Statement:

This painting is about feeling the warmth, in a physical and emotional sense, from the afternoon sun on an ancient land form, together with the atmospheric long shadows and heightened colours generated at this time of day. The work forms part of my current series of landscapes around Sydney harbour.

Artist Name: ALISON BINKS

Artwork Title: STRATHBOGIE RANGES

Medium: oil on board

Size: 25 x 50cm

About the Artist:

My practice revolves around being in wild places. I begin with palette knife on board, amid whatever nature has to thrown at me.

Often plein air works are pushed to larger scale, other directions, in the studio. But sometimes the life in the first works calls out to be shared!

Artist Statement:

This diptych is the result of two days’ painting in the Strathbogie Ranges, on land I’ve painted several times. It’s messy, tangled country, without clear focal points. But wonderful, and I paint it to treasure it.

Artist Name: JUDE HOTCHKISS

Artwork Title: SCRUBLAND

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 138 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Early childhood experiences of powerful natural energies such as hailstorms are the basis of my painting content and technique. A sense of movement, disturbance and upheaval infuses the work, as current issues such as catastrophic bushfires and the impact on our way of life are referred to.

Artist Statement:

This work came from plenair sketches of trees at Balls Head Reserve Sydney. I aimed to capture the forms and spiritual energy of the place, an area of powerful bushland that evokes the Australian landscape before white settlement.

Artist Name: FRANCIS CLOAKE

Artwork Title: CAPE BYRON

Medium: Digital Photography

Size: 140 x 96cm

About the Artist:

Francis Cloake is an Australian photographer based on the North Coast of NSW. Her work has sold to collectors in Australia, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Francis has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in London and Australia.

Artist Statement:

I spend a lot of time roaming around Cape Byron on wet stormy days. Most people stand at the top of Cape Byron looking down. This shot was taken from the bottom looking up. My favourite view of The Cape.

Artist Name: MIKE STANIFORD

Artwork Title: SHADOWS HOLD THEIR BREATH

Medium: Acrylic on paper

Size: 58 x 76cm

About the Artist:

I don’t want to give you a formal view but moreover to re-envision the shapes and forms I see before me; actions that are deliberately spontaneous and to make shape and colour paramount in my work. To distill down the complexity of a scene and abstractly express the unfolding landscape.

Artist Statement:

My painting is a result of engaging in a dialogue with the landscape. Refiguring the geographical elements, playing with the compositional structure and keeping the geometry rich and varied, regardless of the literal proportion of form.

Artist Name: MELISSA GUEST

Artwork Title: CITY WALK & BRIDGE LANE, SYDNEY

Medium: Acrylic & Mixed Media

Size: 94 x 79cm

About the Artist:

I take my surroundings and life experiences as inspiration for the creation of a composition full of colour, line and shape. Included within this configuration is text and old newspaper references to the subject which juxtaposes the current known experience and the historical context of times gone by.

Artist Statement:

This piece depicts a walking journey through the colourful streets and back lanes of Sydney CBD. One can feel the history of another time but also experience the resurgence of many new restaurants and venues which will become the icon of our day.

Artist Name: DARREN TREBILCO

Artwork Title: THE GROUNDING

Medium: MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS

Size: 77 x 200cm

About the Artist:

The paint boils through my veins and there is a constant call. I find myself addicted to all the turmoil, the passion. As the journey draws to a close, punctuated with exhilaration and relief, only then can it be fully appreciated for all its glory! If I have done my subject justice, the universe has had one more outlet for exploring another aspect of its true nature.

Artist Statement:

In the storm's wake, dazed survivors scavenged the shore. Lives had been lost and many found themselves picking up the pieces of their own existence. As the churned up, silty waters still settled, those that remained standing dug their toes into wet earth, grateful for its solid, grounding presence.

***Special Note***
I spoke to Simone from the Gallery (25th Mar) about the size being slightly over the required measurement. Simone advise me to send the full sized image as it is. If selected the image width can be reduced from the right hand side if required to meet the size requirements for the competition. Thank you.

Artist Name: JOHNANDREWBLACKWELL

Artwork Title: COLMS

Medium: mixed media

Size: 92 x 92cm

About the Artist:

Conceptual artworks from the 70's,found objects art became Enviro Art once encountering masses of brightly coloured plastic debris on beaches in the 90's.

Artist Statement:

The riverscape at Colmslie was known as Little Tahiti by the local children in the 20 s/30 s, namely the blue river & sandy beaches.
Through lack of an engineered built environment, plastic debris from society's living(since the 50's) has overflowed into the marinescape, and its global oceans.
The medium displayed is from the Brisbane River during the 90's.

Artist Name: PHILIP GOUGH

Artwork Title: THE SUNLIT PLAINS EXTENDED

Medium: Watercolour on paper

Size: 60 x 120cm

About the Artist:

As a retired architect, Philip Gough was taught watercolour medium at architectural school as a medium to portray architectural designs. Combining this with observation and creativity he has entered and won prizes in regional art shows. He also teaches watercolour medium.

Artist Statement:

This landscape represents a view from a mesa or jump-up near Winton Western Queensland, from where Banjo Patterson (of Waltzing Matilda fame) was inspired to write the lines in his poem 'Clancy of the overflow'... "And he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended".

Artist Name: JULIE MCCURRY

Artwork Title: ROAD TRIP BATHURST

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 60 x 80cm

About the Artist:

Practising artist and art educator. Qualifications include Diploma in Education, Master of Creative Arts, Bachelor of Creative Arts with Distinction. Recent finalist in the Zart National Teacher Artist Prize and the Ravenswood Australian Womens Art Prize. Winner of the Traditional Section Fisher's Ghost Art Prize (2016,2017) Campbelltown. Finalist in numerous regional and interstate art awards that include: Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, FLOW National Contemporary Watercolour Prize, 9 x 5 Landscape Prize, My Highland Home Art Prize, A4 Art Australia, Postcodes from the Edge, Waverley Art Prize, Locals on Board, Fisher's Ghost Art Award - Contemporary Section, Meroogal Women's Art Prize.

Artist Name: NICK COULSON

Artwork Title: SUMMER GREEN

Medium: Synthetic polymer paint and Mixed media on Board

Size: 50 x 50cm

About the Artist:

Nick's practice draws inspiration and content from daily observations.
He uses a process of layering and revisiting.

Constant throughout is an attention to detail, surface qualities and process.

Artist Statement:

'Summer Green' was based on a photo I took a few years ago. It is a composition and image I continually like to return to. Sky meeting the sea and the sea meeting the Land. A captured moment.

Artist Name: IAN CHAPMAN

Artwork Title: DEFIANCE- DOUBLE DRUMMERS, LAKE CONJOLA,. THREE DAYS AFTER

Medium: ACRYLIC

Size: 40 x 75cm

About the Artist:

I work in Oil, Acrylic, Pastel. Watercolour, have had 15 one man shows and multitudes of group exhibitions both here in Aus and in France where I have a studio, a three time finalist in the Moran Portrait Prize and Featured Artist in the French Pastel societies annual show 2018. My subjects are wide ranging but the human figure and composition are my passions

Artist Statement:

After the 2020 fires that destroyed much of Lake Conjola, in the devastation, at the lake entrance around our village, Cunjurong Point, I was placing water and seed for birds and was astounded to see Double Drummer cicada chrysalises climbing out of the ground up the charcoaled trees and bursting singing into adulthood. This work is of place, destruction and renewal.

Artist Name: K D DESILVA

Artwork Title: MORE THAN WHAT YOU SEE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 61 x 45cm

Artist Statement:

Since 1936 the Walter Taylor Bridge is an iconic and unique bridge in Indooroopilly Brisbane, as it accommodated the original toll master’s family in both of it’s two towers, until 2010.
The artist has explored, highlighted and captured this unknown historical feature.

Artist Name: LOUISE GRAYSON

Artwork Title: PROJECT DWELL: DAWN STUDY 2

Medium: Inkjet print on canvas

Size: 45 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Dr Louise Grayson is an Australian photographic artist whose work explores notions of cultural juxtapositions, with an emphasis on similarities of the human experience, across culture, race and region.

Artist Statement:

Project Dwell is inspired by the challenges of drought, bush fires and, then Covid-19 isolation for Australians living on rural properties.
During those early months of social distancing restrictions, I felt the need for human connection and a desire to share my individual experiences of this unprecedented time.

Artist Name: LOUISE GRAYSON

Artwork Title: ICE COHABITATION

Medium: Inkjet print on canvas

Size: 76 x 115cm

About the Artist:

Dr Louise Grayson is an Australian photographic artist whose work explores notions of cultural juxtapositions, with an emphasis on similarities of the human experience, across culture, race and region.

Artist Statement:

A visual exploration of the shadow of human intervention, and a warming environment, beginning to stretch across the ice continent, Antarctica.
I was deeply shaken from the drought, and then bush fires, threatening our farm in NSW when I joined an expedition to Antarctica in late 2019, early 2020.

Artist Name: KEITH BETTS

Artwork Title: THE MOUTH OF THE HUNTER

Medium: Oil

Size: 50 x 40cm

About the Artist:

While all of my paintings are representational, they are faithful only to the impressions places have made on me rather than to the particular physical elements they comprise. So that familiar, recognisable landscape features are arranged in such a way as to recreate a unified feeling for a place as though seen from a single perspective when in fact they may have been gathered from multiple perspectives.

Artist Statement:

This painting is a free interpretation of the mouth of the Hunter River, just north of Newcastle, NSW, just as the river ends its long course from timbered mountains, through a prism of pastures, vineyards, crop lands, open cut mines and industrial areas, then flows into the sea. The painting, like the river itself, carries something of all these elements.

Artist Name: MADELYNNE CORNISH

Artwork Title: VILLAGE LOOP

Medium: Audio Visual

Size: 80 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Madelynne Cornish is an audiovisual artist. She documents the effects of climate on natural and constructed environments. Her work employs duration, landscape and stillness as a means of responding to the temporal and spatial morphology of place. Madelynne’s multi-layered artworks are reflections of how humans mediate their environment.

Artist Statement:

Village Loop: an audio-visual installation exploring psychogeographies of a remote alpine village during covid lockdown. Left nearly alone in the village, the artist documents her daily tracing of the landscape in search for signs of life that might break her sense of isolation, most days finding only the landscape.

Artist Name: MARK CIRNS

Artwork Title: BAYSIDE

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 122 x 112cm

About the Artist:

Barwon Heads artist, Mark Cairns, has had 16 solo exhibitions in the Melbourne and the Geelong Region. He has twice been selected as a finalist in ‘The Waterhouse Prize’ a national art exhibition, and won the 2013 Queenscliffe Art Prize.

He is represented in public and private collections in Australia, Hong Kong,
the Netherlands and the USA.

Artist Statement:

‘Bayside’ is part of a series of works I have experimented with over the past decade. I'm interested in creating symmetry by using no perspective with the pier structure. It has been aligned with the horizon and the currents of the blue water to simplify the composition of the painting.

Artist Name: GEORGES PETIT

Artwork Title: SUNSHINE COAST THREESCAPE

Medium: acrylic

Size: 100 x 130cm

About the Artist:

Georges is a versatile Artist working in many styles and mediums to best capture the emotion of his subject. Georges has sold and exhibited extensively both locally and internationally. Several entries in the Archibald notably his portrait of author Colleen McCullough .
Georges worked for 8 years 1975 - 1982 in conservation at the Australian National Art Gallery gaining valuable observation of many notable artists and artworks .

Artist Statement:

A Sunshine Coast Threescape Sky Land and Sea

The blue sky is a certain blue ...it took several blues , Australian Red Violet and white to get it just right.
From different angles and light the colour moves and changes complementing the coast and sea. It reminds you of a beautiful crisp clear Autumn day.

Artist Name: LINDA ZUCCO

Artwork Title: MEANJIN - CITY LIVING

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 100 x 76cm

About the Artist:

Linda Zucco constructs intimate streetscapes around architecture, the human figure as well as scooters and old cars. Her strong, simple compositions place beautifully designed buildings and fashion in familiar urban and suburban settings. The forms are inherently appealing and the palate rich but restrained; the moods are nostalgic, and on occasions, whimsical.

Artist Statement:

Brisbane City Hall is a colonial icon – our traditional custodians call this place Meanjin and I pay my respects to them.

Travelling outside Australia is an adventure, there’s nothing like coming home. At present our world is unpredictable - life is topsy-turvy. Home is safe and familiar.

‘Meanjin – City living’ continues my musings on a body of work called 'Postcards from Home’.

Artist Name: DAVID FENOGLIO

Artwork Title: LANDSCAPE INFERNO

Medium: Oil on Panel

Size: 55 x 57cm

About the Artist:

David Fenoglio (b1986) is an artist based in Brisbane, Australia. A 2011 graduate of Queensland College of Art, David has exhibited nationally and internationally. David is currently focused on pursuing a representational art practice through oil painting and drawing. While situated in a contemporary context, he draws inspiration from the natural world and art history.

Artist Statement:

Landscape painting can be used to express awe and the sublime which we feel when surrounded by such eminence and beauty as nature. This painting is an attempt to merge this awe for the natural world with uncomfortable realities we face about our impact in this world.

Artist Name: KAREN BLOOMFIELD

Artwork Title: STOP ON RED SIGNAL

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 100 x 100cm

About the Artist:

With 2 artworks in the collection of the Australian Embassy in Kabul, Bloomfield (FASMA, RAS) is selected to represent Australian Art in International Embassies.
Creating Industrial oil paintings on canvas and Wildlife in charcoal & ink on plywood, her recent melding of the styles has been termed ‘Reductionist Pop’.

Artist Statement:

Gentrification is forever changing the urban landscape. The once gritty industrial silhouettes that dominated Newcastle are quickly dwindling, being replaced by homogeneous and, frankly, dull abodes. I pay homage to the remaining industrial landscape and share its nostalgia.

Artist Name: CYNTHIA BREUSCH

Artwork Title: 'ENCHANTED WANDERER'

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Award winning artist with 40 years of exhibiting around Australia and overseas. Finalist in: 2018 Salon des Refuses; 6 time finalist in Portia Geach; Mosman Art Prize; Paddington and Tattersall Landscape Prizes. Represented in public collections of Tweed River Gallery, Ipswich City Council and Rockhampton Art Gallery as well as numerous corporate collections.

Artist Statement:

Landscape exists as much in our imaginations as in reality since it gathers our memories and dreams of it, and the history and stories of its inhabitants and travellers passing through it - one could argue we are all 'enchanted wanderers'. Landscape is transformed by these elements into something we feel, not just something we look at.

Artist Name: JANE LOUISE ALIENDI

Artwork Title: FROST REMEMBERED

Medium: oil on panel

Size: 36 x 26cm

About the Artist:

Jane Aliendi an artist, living and working on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia, on what is traditionally Yuin Country.
She has a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University, majoring in Philosophy and History, and worked as a high school teacher until 2014 when she left teaching and began painting every day.
Her love of stories and storytelling informs both the subject matter and design of her work. Her paintings explore the narratives made by pattern. She collects items such as fabric, ceramics, tiles, and clothing as established sources of decoration. But she also explores how pattern is part of the landscape, where fence lines and subdivided paddocks intersect with space to decorate the surface of her paintings.
Jane works predominately in oil on panel but also plays and experiments with other mediums.

Artist Statement:

This painting is of a memory. Last year we moved inland, during the drought. One morning I walked down to the creek where a frost had engulfed everything. The experience of the dry, crispy coldness was new. The drought was a time of concern and a continual reminder of the fragility of our climate. But the frost was exciting and beautiful. The recent rain has brought back this memory, and I realise that remembered landscapes change as our narratives evolve, and the present creates a nostalgia for new experiences - often tainted with fear and sadness.

Artist Name: SAM SUTTIE

Artwork Title: CONNECTION OF TWO WORLDS

Medium: Oil

Size: 92 x 92cm

About the Artist:

My work has mostly been focused on creating still life arrangements that discuss social and environmental subjects. More recently I have moved into larger landscapes that capture the glory and might of nature and our effect on it.

Artist Statement:

Connection of two worlds shows the energy of a storm cell moving quickly over a landscape. The storm appears to have rested above what could be seen as a hole in the earth. The graphic element of orange markings emphasises the connection and exchange between heaven and earth.

Artist Name: KATE PITTAS

Artwork Title: A PLACE NOT FAR

Medium: Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas framed in ash

Size: 92 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Kate Pittas is a Brisbane based artist painting contemporary Australian landscapes. Her work is expressive, colourful and references both present and past experiences in the Australian bush. Kate wishes to always acknowledge and respect the traditional owners of the country she interprets.

Artist Statement:

A Place Not Far is both a physical interpretation of the artists surroundings and an expression of her emotional connections to the land. Kate often feels the energy of the earth pulsing and has expressed this with gestural marks and vivid colour.

Artist Name: DONNA GOLLEDGE

Artwork Title: JACARANDA FEVER

Medium: Oil

Size: 120 x 150cm

About the Artist:

For over 20 years I have been capturing Brisbane events live on canvas. From painting with the community at Southbank for Riverfire, to painting on stage at Gala events, to capturing the atmosphere of a wedding on Canvas. My inspiration is everywhere in our River City.

Artist Statement:

Every October the fever sets in. I am surrounded by the jacaranda blooms on trees and in carpets.
I am a danger on the road, as one will take my eye when driving and I gasp loudly scaring my passengers. This beauty had the afternoon light shining through in Grange.

Artist Name: DONOVAN CHRISTIE

Artwork Title: CORNER BOUYS

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

Donovan demonstrates a deeper understanding of the present sign of times and creates thought provoking narratives within the landscape. His oil paintings document and immortalise these scenes of today, capturing the character and charm of these modern day relics as we are on the verge of a dying era.

Artist Statement:

This particular piece highlights the iconic corner store milk bar, capturing the nostalgia of many Australian's childhoods. A place where children of all era's frequented, a place where you would once run in with a handful of shrapnel and return with your pockets full of lollies. Fading are the days.

Artist Name: CHRIS JUST

Artwork Title: RIVER CITY

Medium: Digital

Size: 80 x 60cm

Artist Statement:

The manifestations of man’s structural input on the landscape forms a dialogue with the river and its natural beauty.

Artist Name: LARS VESTER

Artwork Title: TRANSIENT TIDE #1

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 76 x 152cm

About the Artist:

Lars Vester is a Danish born artist living in Brisbane, working predominantly in the medium of oils.

Lars has had a number of successful exhibitions in both Europe and Australia, including various solo, group and Finalist's exhibitions. Some of his career highlights include winning the Artworld Landscape Prize, Best Oil at the Rotary Art Spectacular and taking out First Place in two seperate Painting Categories at the worldwide Light, Space & Time Art Exhibitions.

Lars’ work is represented in several private and corporate collections around the globe.

Artist Statement:

My landscapes generally seek to convey a sense of place, peace and serenity through the emotive and ephemeral qualities of colour and light - sometimes they are real, sometimes they are re-imagined.

Transient Tide is a contemplative seascape, reflecting on the momentary convergence between turbulence and tranquility after a thunderstorm.

Artist Name: MARION RODGERS

Artwork Title: SCATTERED LIGHT

Medium: Infrared photograph

Size: 420 x 594cm

About the Artist:

Marion Rodgers experimented with most art forms until she discovered the magic of photography, about 20 years ago.
She processes film in her wet darkroom but now uses digital capture for infrared images because IR film is no longer available

Artist Statement:

This is an Infrared image which uses a different light spectrum and results in ethereal beauty, especially in soft light.

Artist Name: CRISTINA METELLI

Artwork Title: BEYOND THE RIDGE

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 100 x 100cm

About the Artist:

My paintings investigate the extent to which human lives are entwined with the natural landscape. From the perspective of a migrant to Australia, I explore subjects relating to the perception of the spirit of a place and a sense of belonging, generated through an emotional and sensorial response to nature.

Artist Statement:

Beyond the Ridge is depicting with contrasting textures and colours, the way that water and air currents move through the rocks. It expresses a sense of dynamic energy, but with a light, uplifting and refreshing mood.

Artist Name: JAMES STEPHENSON

Artwork Title: UNDER THE TOWERS, REDFERN

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 61 x 92cm

Artist Statement:

Painted 'en plein air', this work is part of a series of paintings executed in and around the housing commission areas of Redfern and Waterloo.

Artist Name: JULIA ROBERTS

Artwork Title: CRISP, CLEAR, WINDY DAY

Medium: Acrylic on MDF

Size: 60 x 90cm

About the Artist:

My painting practice focusses on trees in the Australian landscape. I am looking to find new ways to express the emotional response that they conjure in us and the essential essence of them. I have exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions in London, Singapore and Sydney.

Artist Statement:

'Crisp, clear, windy day' explores distorted realism and looking at the process of how we see and focus in on things. It attempts to capture the fleeting glimpses and movement of a beautiful eucalyptus tree as it blown about on a bright glarey day.

Judge’s Comment:

Certainly captured a feel of a windy day

Artist Name: ALAN MORRISON

Artwork Title: SOME VELVET MORNING

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 76 x 76cm

About the Artist:

I relocated in 2007 to Brisbane from London where I worked as an Illustrator, Muralist, Scenic Artist, Painter and College Sessional Tutor.
I continue to paint and tutor in the Brisbane area.
I enjoy dynamic work whether it be figurative or landscape using mixed media to create a broad variety of work.

Artist Statement:

The emotions, ideas and concepts created when drawing En Plein Air have been brought to life whilst spending the past 6 months in Toohey Forest, Brisbane. The beauty and power of nature controls your mark making. The spontaneous light in the forest changing the identity of the trees and boulders forming hybrid creatures bringing a sense of film noir to the atmosphere. This particular painting was produced whilst my mother passed away in Scotland and she was very much in my thoughts while I was stranded here.

Artist Name: J VALENZUELA DIDI

Artwork Title: JUST PASSING THROUGH

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 76 x 152cm

About the Artist:

J Valenzuela Didi uses urban spaces and metropolitan landscapes to explore the transience of life. His works portray the detached sense of unease, impermanence and isolation that inhabits modern life.
J Valenzuela Didi has been a prize winner or finalist in several renowned art prizes and is represented in galleries in Brisbane, Sydney and Palm Springs.

Artist Statement:

This artwork is a reflection of my time in California in early 2020. The huge vistas in the Californian scenery were inspirational. The pandemic hit shortly after this trip and the transition from limitless landscapes to lockdown, bustling cities to isolation, made me reflect on life.

Artist Name: HEIDI KAUFMANN

Artwork Title: CLOSED FOR BUSINESS

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 30 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Having grown up in Switzerland surrounded by mountains and winter Heidi truly enjoys to paint what Australia's nature has on offer. Very drawn to the beaches and the quieter places which give her such a calmness and peace in this very uncertain times we are living in at the moment.

Artist Statement:

I started this painting during the 2020 pandemic where everything truly was closed for Business. The colorful beach huts gave me such joy to paint and a great confidence that one day the beaches will be filled with laughter and joy once again.

Artist Name: JANINE DELLO

Artwork Title: MY INTERIOR LANDSCAPE

Medium: Oil on board

Size: 51 x 41cm

About the Artist:

For her figurative oil paintings, Janine derives inspiration from both lived experience and what she sees in female consumer culture, exploring the search for perfection.

Artist Statement:

The view from the other side of my bed is the interior landscape that I pass many times, every day. Indentations, marks, and objects left behind add to the story of my interior life.

Artist Name: SAMANTHA GROENESTYN

Artwork Title: MARGARETEN (DAISIES)

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 62 x 45cm

Artist Statement:

Against a cascading tapestry of colour, our tanned gardener surveys her handiwork, her blonde hair bobbing like a daisy top.

Artist Name: KEVIN MCKAY

Artwork Title: MAST DOWN - SOUTH HEAD SIGNAL STATION

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 50 x 75cm

About the Artist:

Kevin McKay is an urban landscape painter who exhibits through May Space, Sydney. Plein air studies inform his work, where the stillness of classical form and the drama of light is found in the everyday and in the midst of urban transience.

Artist Statement:

There is a stoic aspect to the Sydney Signal Station with a history of maritime communication, dating back to settlement. A radar replaces the prostate Semaphore mast. I chose to make the watch keepers cottages more prominent as the home has become our bastion in these perilous times.

Artist Name: LACHIN GHAVAM

Artwork Title: PADDINGTON SUMMER

Medium: Oil on Linen

Size: 91 x 61cm

About the Artist:

I have always believed in the power of art and how a painting can change our view about life. As an emerging artist, my paintings are interpretations of a subject or a moment that has captured my attention. They echo my passion for capturing the light, shadows, and reflections.

Artist Name: LACHIN GHAVAM

Artwork Title: RAINY RUSH HOUR IN BRISBANE

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Size: 46 x 92cm

About the Artist:

I have always believed in the power of art and how a painting can change our view about life. As an emerging artist, my paintings are interpretations of a subject or a moment that has captured my attention. They echo my passion for capturing the light, shadows, and reflections.

Judge’s Comment:

Unfortunately I don't think this image shows the full work.

Artist Name: DAVID KELLY

Artwork Title: THE DIG TREE UNDER THE MILKYWAY

Medium: Photograph

Size: 90 x 60cm

About the Artist:

David Kelly is a career photographer with broad experience in documentary, magazine photography and portraiture. He has long standing networks in Queensland’s artistic community as a result of many exhibits and collaborations. David has traversed the Australian landscape since the mid 1980's recording it's people and their environments. He has been a collaborator with the Queensland Ballet for 23yrs, documenting their rehearsals, backstage and season program photography.
He is a multi Walkley award finalist, winner of many Clarion awards, and press awards. Finalist in the National portraits and Olive Cotton portrait prize on a number of occasions. He is the 2020 winner of Brisbane Portrait Prize, Arts and Entertainment cat.

Artist Statement:

It was as if the tree had found its own way to the stars. Like its veins and arteries. It had stories to tell, this tree. I found myself lying on my back looking at the cosmos through the same branches of the Coolibah Burke and Wills would have seen nearly 140yrs before, trying to imagine their thoughts.

Artist Name: MELISSA ANDERSON

Artwork Title: MANSCAPE

Medium: Hand Printed Silver Gelatin Archival Fibre Print

Size: 80 x 80cm

About the Artist:

Melissa is an accomplished artist with over two decades of experience working across many genres. Her works are held within public and private collections. She studied photography at QCA and has received numerous awards throughout her career for her imagery, ethos, and cultural contributions. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held within National and State galleries, Australian War Memorial, and her publications and images are held in National Library Australia.

Artist Statement:

This work reflects the delicate and complex relationship between humankind and environment.

Artist Name: HELEN COTTLE

Artwork Title: A WESTERN VIEW WITH BLACK COCKATOO, MOUNT GISBORNE VICTORIA

Medium: Acrylic (tryptic)

Size: 79 x 156cm

About the Artist:

I am passionate painter who enjoys a vast variety of subjects. I paint in an impressionistic style in various mediums. I am particularly drawn to the allure of our Australian landscape and am strongly influenced by seasonal contrasts, climate and atmosphere following the intuitive flow of line and shape.

Artist Statement:

A moment in time where you can feel the energy and the momentary magic that has been captured. I am drawn to the allure of our amazing Australian landscape. My painting echo's the mood and atmosphere of a places I connect with, my inspiration is strongly influenced by seasons and climate.

Judge’s Comment:

Unfortunately this image does not show the full work.

Artist Name: MELISSA ANDERSON

Artwork Title: VISITING HOUR

Medium: Metallic Print

Size: 80 x 60cm

About the Artist:

This work creates a visual place where heaven and earth connect and coexist in harmony. Clouds reflect against the reaching roots submerged in a Mangrove forest, and link the physical and mental in one plane. Heavens visiting hour.

Artist Statement:

Melissa is an accomplished artist with over two decades of experience working across many genres. She studied photography at QCA and has received numerous awards throughout her career for her imagery, ethos, and cultural contributions. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held within National and State galleries, Australian War Memorial, and her publications and images in National Library Australia.

Artist Name: JACKY CHAN

Artwork Title: SUNSET OVER ROCKHAMPTON

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 50 x 80cm

About the Artist:

I am an oil painter trained in the classical atelier method, painting predominantly from life. I'm interested in exploring how my paintings can capture moments of time beyond a single snapshot within a perceivable still image.

Artist Statement:

The painting has been painted over several weeks at the same time and location. As a result, I tried to capture that dialogue, which naturally develops over any large amount of time spent with the same moment or object every day.

Judge’s Comment:

Nice handling of the light

Artist Name: KATE BARRY

Artwork Title: GUM HOUR

Medium: Oil on canvas Framed

Size: 93 x 182cm

About the Artist:

My art is driven by instinctive and emotional responses to landscape and energy of human interconnection. Spontaneity and nostalgic emotions animate the painted surface. Compositions arise from balancing opposing angles, via distinct gestural mark making with vitality of colour. As defiant marks wander the canvas, layers build and textures emerge.

Artist Statement:

Peering into a eucalyptus forest, this painting explores feelings of space, light and synchronicity between nature and paint manipulation. The chance of built-up layers that charter a rough course across the canvas, finding a voice, and the dance of organic movement, encourages an almost primitive connection and emotional reaction.

Artist Name: JAMES ILLING

Artwork Title: COONAWARRA BY NIGHT

Medium: Acrylic Paint & Digital

Size: 80 x 55cm

About the Artist:

I grew up on a cattle and sheep station in Western Queensland, Cunnamulla. Enamoured with the idea of travel and being inquisitive by nature has resulted in me living around the world. In my most recent works I am drawn to landscape inspired by my roots and capturing the characteristics of what makes home uniquely special. I am currently studying a Bachelor in Fine Arts and have been selling commissions for over twenty years.

Artist Statement:

Influenced by the symbolic calligraphy of forms produced by some of our national twentieth century landscape artists, I love how they translate the environment to become uniquely Australian. My most recent journey connected me with the Coonawarra community and highlighted concerns amongst primary producers on how international trade relations are impacting their livelihoods. In the Coonawarra Series I found shapes within nature that took on anthropomorphic forms that had many interesting and lively characteristics that tell a story.

Artist Name: SCOTT J BRETON

Artwork Title: DELUGE, LAKE EYRE

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 60cm

About the Artist:

Scott is interested in how traditional plastic composition can be reimagined but honoured by the contemporary artist. This endeavour seems to closely mirror a more general exploration of how our contemporary experience relates to, and can be informed by, insights about the human condition from the past.

Artist Name: CHRISTINE BOURCHIER

Artwork Title: LURKING, NOT LOST

Medium: Archival pigment print on canvas

Size: 40 x 71cm

About the Artist:

My work explores our connection with and impact on the natural environment, meditating on the push and pull between humanity and natural forces, pondering when we stop noticing, what we ignore and what we value.

Artist Name: DONNA GIBB

Artwork Title: BRUNY ISLAND TIDAL MOVEMENTS

Medium: Oil

Size: 120 x 150cm

About the Artist:

I enjoy exploring the roads less travelled, and the best way for me to remember these places is to capture them on canvas. Nature is my eternal inspiration, and I am constantly mesmerised by the diversity of the landscape.

Artist Statement:

The classic Australian gum tree comes in many forms. "Look at that tree" are words that often escape my mouth. Add a Bruny Island tidal creek, reflecting the pristine blue Tasmanian sky, and the scene is complete. Perfect inspiration for this artist.

Artist Name: ANITA HOCHMAN

Artwork Title: THE ROAD TO THE MOUNTAIN

Medium: Oil on linen

Size: 91 x 122cm

About the Artist:

Anita has held 21 solo exhibitions and been represented in over 100 curated group shows. She has won awards in Australia and overseas, including an Australia Council New Work Grant and the Fondation Ténot Award, France. She has been resident artist at: The Gunnery Studios, Sydney, at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon, at The Centre d’Art Marnay, France, at the Nancy Fairfax studio at Tweed Regional Gallery and at the Baer Art Center, Iceland.

Artist Statement:

'The Road To The Mountain' developed from my time as resident artist at The Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah. Developed first as a digital drawing inspired by my watercolours and sketches done on sight, I then translated these to an oil painting capturing an abstracted vision of my accumulated impressions.

Artist Name: AI SHAH

Artwork Title: INCOMING TIDE

Medium: Oil

Size: 76 x 152cm

About the Artist:

Brisbane based artist who loves painting tranquility of water in Australian nature.
Represented at Lethbridge Gallery for 12 years.

Artist Statement:

Capturing the quiet energy of earth pulling water back to the shore, the painting shows the abstract patterns of reflected morning sunlight and trees, allowing one to meander between the real and unreal. By showing transparent layers of subtle multi colours, I hope to welcome viewers to this ephemeral moment and invite them to stay longer.

Artist Name: MARCEL DESBIENS

Artwork Title: ON THE WAY TO CRADLE MOUNTAIN

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 102 x 106cm

About the Artist:

Marcel was born in Quebec, Canada living and studying in the French speaking region. His research for the ultimate oil painting technique leads him to the Old Masters in the renaissance period. Marcel has been painting and teaching those methods for the last 40 years, winning prestigious art prize and public art projects.

Artist Statement:

Water has always been a subject I love to paint and more recently it has been the source of a new series on reflections, transparency, and movement. Everywhere I go, especially near water, I am finding inspiration for new paintings.

Artist Name: JACKIE ANDERSON

Artwork Title: MAPPING THE JOURNEY: 2305 TO 2800

Medium: Mixed media

Size: 158 x 98cm

About the Artist:

Jackie Anderson paints intuitively from impressions of moments from her life and blurs the timeline between past and present, real and imagined. Jackie's work is characterised by her confident use of colour and abstract shapes and marks. She uses visual imagery to build abstracted and re-arranged landscapes.

Artist Statement:

This work records a road trip taken between Newcastle and Orange

Artist Name: GABI MIKA-MCNAUGHTON

Artwork Title: A TAPESTRY OF TWIGS

Medium: Acrylic on Cotton

Size: 100 x 160cm

About the Artist:

Someone often wants me to write a fabulous artists statement about my practice. Well! there are many facets to my practice. But the nuts and bolts of my practice is to urge within me to create. I’m a self-obsessed artist just wanting to deliver something to my audience.

Artist Statement:

Girraween National Park in South East Queensland is my go to place to zone out. I am drawn to the flora and fauna in this mesmerising landscape. I can spend weeks here and always find something new. Girraween and indigenous word for "Place of Flowers" as a landscape painter never ever fails to deliver.G

Artist Name: BECC ORSZáG

Artwork Title: HOPE (ALIGN YOURSELF WITH ME)

Medium: graphite pencil and 24kt gold leaf on 600 gsm watercolour paper

Size: 52 x 75cm

About the Artist:

Becc Ország is a Melbourne based artist working predominantly within the medium of drawing. Ország’s practice is primarily an investigation into sacred space and religious experience, in which she explores the practice of idolatry, the relationships between the man-made monument and concepts of the holy, sacred and divine. Her work addresses the fine line between Utopic and Dystopic ideals by critiquing widely accepted political, religious and social belief systems.

Artist Statement:

Orszag’s drawings are a meticulous exploration and meditation on Utopic lands. This work illustrates a metaphysical landscape of an axially symmetrical Rorschach inspired dreamscape, creating an immersive and meditative natural environment that transcends beyond the physical. The illusionary nature of the landscape invites the viewer into a state of self-reflection and contemplation.

Judge’s Comment:

A nice piece of work. Almost made it to my 10 list

Artist Name: PAUL WHITE

Artwork Title: MINES SILVER LINED (BROKEN HILL BACK TRACK)

Medium: pencil on paper

Size: 140 x 100cm

About the Artist:

Paul White's art practice explores the everyday through pencil work on paper. He has an MFA (Art) from California Institute of the Arts and is a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholar. He has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Metro Art Award and is a two time winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize works on paper.

Artist Statement:

‘Mines Silver Lined (Broken Hill back track)’ an image of mining town Broken Hill taken from a light plane, depicts the effect of human intervention on the landscape.
I am interested in the breakdown of the contemporary landscape and relish in pausing this moment through obsessive investigation, interrogation and mark making using coloured pencils on paper.

Artist Name: ALAN INNES

Artwork Title: TRESSPASSERS WELCOME. ED 2/25

Medium: Digitally assembled hybrid drawing on polyester fabric.

Size: 50 x 50cm

About the Artist:

Alan Innes has a 50 year design background in architecture, urbanism, landscape and graphics. His work includes sketches and hybrid drawings depicting Brisbane and Ipswich street views including many heritage sites. He was invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2020.

Artist Statement:

The Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm Park is a fascinating subject due to the current arts use focus set against a highly industrial past which gives rise to a striking old/new architectural juxtaposition. The unusual built form, arts events, Saturday markets and the dog park combine to make a very vibrant people precinct.

Artist Name: ALESSANDRO BELLOMUNNO

Artwork Title: EVOLVING INTEGRATION

Medium: Oil

Size: 81 x 101cm

About the Artist:

My name is Alessandro bellomunno.
I went to Academy art in Naples, Italy.Where i started my studies in Architecture. After one year, I had to stop the university for money reason. Fortunatelly, I found a different way to express my art by becoming a Chef. This new passion gave me the opportunity to leave my home town and visit the world. I started travelling in different places and found my new home in Australia, where i have spent my last 7 years. I established an Italian restaurant in Darwin that i have been running for four years with my family.

Artist Statement:

Parliament House is one of Darwin’s landmarks and its whole existence was studied to integrate with Darwin’s nature and co-exist along with it.

I have always looked at it with fascination and curiousness as if I could almost look through it. As if the sunlight would help my mind shaping its columns and by cross it, allowing me to see thought it.

For me it is all about courage and kindness.

It takes a lot of courage to stand fierce facing Darwin Harbour and cope with the Top End’s wild tropical climate. The heat, the humidity, the rain, the cyclones!

And it takes kindness to be harmonious with your surroundings. Its vertical elements try to fond with the nature, like a continuous leap of faith to be accepted by the tropical environment around it.

Its meticulous shaping diffuses the direct sunlight, to protect who is inside from the heat, but not from brightness. A kind gesture that invites the light to pass through it instead of just blocking it.

Artist Name: JAYNE CURLE

Artwork Title: SHIT GOT REAL

Medium: Oils on Canvas

Size: 76 x 152cm

About the Artist:

Please see wwww.Bluethumb.com.au/jayne-curle

If I am fortunate enough to be considered may I please submit another photograph as this was taken at night twenty minutes prior to deadline?

Artist Statement:

If I am fortunate enough to be considered may I please submit at a later date as I am right on the deadline. Thank you

Artist Name: LISA TAYLOR KING

Artwork Title: WALGI MIA MORNING

Medium: Mixed Media

Size: 120 x 150cm

About the Artist:

Lisa creates large format impressionist and abstract paintings. These paintings are all about depth and warmth.
Lisa’s background includes professional studies in painting and visual art. Her style is born from big landscapes. Like them, her paintings are wide open, elemental, and scuffed through with the burnished colours of life.
Lisa exhibits in Queensland, nationally and internationally. Her works have been finalists and award winners. Lisa has also donated works to major charity events and permanent collections.

Artist Statement:

The great outback inspired this work. Walgi Mia Morning has a dual nature. First, a remembered landscape. A distant misty vista of sea, land and sky. Second, an allegory. The golden island through the sea is the goal, the aspiration, the nirvana close enough to reach. This soulful painting is all about depth, perspective and emotion.

Artist Name: CAROL LEE BECKX

Artwork Title: ROCK POOL MOOLOOLABA

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 60 x 76cm