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Fiona’s love of  landscape was shaped by years travelling in Australia and West Africa – driving through the bush, sleeping under the stars and living amongst nomads. Returning to her childhood love of drawing and painting seven years ago, she is enjoying exploring a variety of subjects. As a self taught Melbourne artist she strives “to capture something of those moments of beauty that are so arresting and, for me, so filled with hope and joy.”

Janice is a professional artist working on the Mornington Peninsula. She has completed a Diploma of Management and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and has written a 9 week Introduction to Drawing course for small groups of beginners who want to cover the basics of drawing. She is currently completing a Diploma of Visual Art and is intending to go on to an advanced diploma in 2014.

Janice has been a member of the McClelland Guild of Artists since mid 2005. She has won several prizes including third place for Artist of the Year for 2006 and 2007, co-winner for 2008, equal second place for 2009 and winner for 2010 and 2011. She is also a member of the Peninsula Artists Society, Berwick Artists Society, the Pastel Society of Victoria, the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, the Victorian Artists Society and Oakhill Gallery.

She has had articles published in newsletters on a regular basis in the past few years. Janice does commissions covering a variety of subjects including canine pets as well as cats and of course horses and welcomes new clients locally, interstate and overseas. She often attends workshops with several respected local artists to increase her fine art skills and exhibits in over a dozen high profile exhibitions around Melbourne each year.

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Kerry Anne is  one of  Melbourne’s  well known artists, painting in oils, acrylic, pencil and pastel and  teaching art for the last 30 years. 

She is highly regarded for her impressionistic work in both realist and contemporary genres. 

Giorgio Faggioni was born in the year 1931 in the island of Elba, Italy. In the field of the visual arts, he has produced works in the following mediums:

Oil, tempera, pastel, water caolour, print making, engraving, mezzo tint, intaglio, sculpture, bronze casting and carving (marble and wood).

The entire process of bronze casting is always carried out by himself. With print making, the construction of the press was made by himself. Powder pigments are used in oil and tempera painting.

His work is narrative, with a thematic humanistic contest. He is represented in the Department of Secondary Education, Melbourne and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Full-time professional artist working in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, mixed media and installation.

Qualifications: Diploma of Arts (Visual Arts), Victoria University, South Melbourne.

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (with Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne.

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A graduate in Arts from Monash University and a qualified secondary teacher, Annee has been teaching watercolour since 1992, in addition to conducting demonstrations and
workshops in various art groups and societies throughout Victoria and receiving countless commendations and awards along the way. Her works are exhibited in renowned galleries and her sought after paintings are found in corporate and private collections both within Australia and overseas. She pursues a multitude of subject matter in a fluid and competent manner imbuing the subject with her own interpretation.

Annee is an exhibiting member of The Victorian Artists Society, where in 1999, she was elected as a Signatory Member of the Society in recognition of her contribution and services to the Arts. She is also an exhibiting member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, The Watercolour Society of Australia, The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, The Mentone Mordialloc Art Group, The Beaumaris Art Group and The Sherbrooke Art Society.

She has had ten successful solo exhibitions in addition to numerous joint exhibitions both within Australia and overseas, in Canada, The United Kingdom, The Peoples Republic of China, Italy and in Greece where one of her paintings is in the permanent collection of the Municipality of Heraklion, Crete. She enjoys painting on location and is constantly seeking new inspiration and challenge. Annee conducts annual painting workshops in Europe, alternating between France and Italy. Her articles have featured in the Australian Artists Magazine and she was selected for inclusion in volume 1, “Fifty Australian Artists”.

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Margaret Gurney is an Australian Artist whose love of painting and drawing has been a natural part of her life. Her contemporary style emphasizes shape, form and spontaneous, sensuous line.

Her art practice has always included working with the nude.

Winner of the 2010 Australian Watercolour Society commended prize, 2008 Isabella de Soyres Life Drawing Award and the Isabella de Soyres General Drawing Award, Margaret is represented in collections around the world. Her career includes 20 Solo exhibitions and numerous Selected Group Exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2009 Margaret was invited to exhibit in the Florence Biennale in Italy.

A teacher with the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Societies she has worked as a Graphic Designer, Art Director, Lecturer and Arts Education Manager.

Margaret paints with a deep passion out of love for her creative process. Working directly from the model, her nudes are bare of pretensions, spontaneous, sensuous and beautiful.

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Ev Hales is an artist who works in a variety of three mediums each one challenges the artist. Her artistic life is a journey each step leading to the next, never standing for too long in the one place. You will find works which celebrate our natural world and the never ending magic that changing light creates daily. As well as this you will see an artist who is keen to view the everyday aspects of her life, fascinated by the spaces we build for ourselves and how we navigate our way through them.

Solo Exhibitions:
1977 Gruppo Artistico Gallery, Fitzroy
1982 Hawthorne City Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Reconnaissance Gallery, Fitzroy
1990 Italian Historical Society, Carlton
1992 Clocktower Complex Carlton, Lygon Street Festa
1993 Dellbridge on Brunswick Gallery, Fitzroy
2004 Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne
2008 QDOS Gallery, Lorne – Paintings of the Otway Coast and the Great Ocean Walk
2008/09 Warrnambool Art Gallery – Great Ocean Walk – Paintings of the Otway Shipwreck Coast

Collections:

Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
Australian Print Council Archives, Melbourne
The Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
Italian Historical Society, Melbourne
Institute of Education, University of Melbourne
Family Birthing Centre, Mercy Hospital, Melbourne
Firestation Print Workshop, Melbourne
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Don has studied oil painting with Ms Shirley Bourne OAM and Alan Martin. He developed an abiding interest in realism and portays light falling on surfaces of objects of differing textures, colours and tones. Don paints portraits, figures, landscape, still life and flowers, only from life. Has held 7 solo exhibitions since 1988 and been involved in several joint exhibitions.

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Terry Swann is a contemporary watercolour artist. She has had some 20 solo exhibitions both in Australia and abroad.

Her passion is ‘painting on location’ and her work takes her to remote parts of Australia. She explains, “I find inspiration by being ‘in’ the subject and use my emotional response to capture the essence of the surrounding landscape.”

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Greg’s works are well known and need no further introduction. Highly regarded for his landscapes and still life studies. He is also a teacher and council member of the VAS. His works excel in his use of chiaroscuro and traditional oils.

Meg Davoren-Honey has been painting for many years. She paints still life and has a great love of the outback Australia, particularly Arnhem Land and Kakadu in the Northern Territory. Meg paints in oils and runs a portrait art group in East Malvern Victoria.

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Pat McKenzie began painting seriously after moving to live permanently in Aireys Inlet about 18 years ago. She loves painting the variety of scenes around the Great Ocean Road, You will find an artist willing to have a go at anything and in all mediums. Pat has held several solo exhibitions and has been a part of many joint exhibitions and her work is held in private collections both here and overseas.

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Barbara McManus needs little introduction, being one of Australia’s very well known and sought after pastel and oil artists. She is highly regarded for her impressionistic work in both figure and character studies which feature prominently in her work.

Born Melbourne 1951. Clive commenced serious art training in 1973 with John Lennox followed by a further 12 months with Max Casey in tonal realism. Clive’s “Minimal Landscapes” have evolved through tonal realism and traditional painting techniques that allow him the liberty of “Capturing a sense of luminosity of light” in what are fleeting instants. His is a more liquid and gestural approach to the subject of landscape as object – a peripheral view.

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Manwel has been a professional artist/teacher, over the last 30 years and creates his works with a vigorous fauvish-expressionist style, coupled with his energetic involvement in representing artistic images derived at first hand. He is a Bachelor of Arts (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and has many other qualifications. His works are well represented in Australia and overseas.

Nell constantly maintains the dignity and composure of her subjects with a remarkable sensitivity and yet so bold in colour  and size as to take your breath away. What is immediately engaging about her rose paintings is the sensual romance and rhythm of these powerful yet delicate works – perfect rhythm in dancing petals capturing a great sense of movement joyously cavorting on the canvas taking us along for the ride.

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Master of Art Curatorship The Art Historical studies faculty at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Master of Graphic Arts St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin, Russian Federation

Advanced Diploma with the title of Painting, Drawing and Drafting Teacher Dnipropetrovsk’s State College of Arts, Ukraine

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Carole Milton is a multi-award winning artist, experienced art judge, teacher and demonstrator of her craft. The National Gallery of Victoria and the Women’s Art Register both include Carole Milton on their respective registers. Galleries in London, Paris and New York have exhibited her work.

Carole’s work was in a touring exhibition of Australian art in China, where her painting of camellias received favourable comments.

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The images on this site are examples from three recent series. ‘The forest’, ‘The suburban landscape’ and ‘The figure’

I am interested in making images from the man made environment, the human presence and the natural landscape. I look for structure and order in transforming the ordinary and transient into flat formal monuments that give the illusion of solidity and permanence.

Drawing is very important to me, it is the initial responsive contact with the subject, before I begin to analyse and dissect in orchestrating the painting.

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Born in Melbourne Helen’s love of the creative has been a driving force for most of her life. Over the last thirty years she has thrived on discovering her unique approach to a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, seascapes, florals, still life, bird and animal studies. Pastel and acrylic have emerged as her most used mediums. Living near the Great Dividing Range affords Helen a myriad of painting possibilities. During operating her successful gallery in Melbourne in the early 1990’s Helen showcased her work along with some of Australia’s most well known artists. Helen has taught painting professionally and privately over many years and is a member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, Victorian Artists Society, past Secretary and President of the Kilmore Art Society Inc, a member of the Seymour and District Art Society Inc, the Heathcote Artists Inc., Woodend Art Group and is a committee member of the Mitchell Shire Arts & Cultural Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the organizing committee of the Kilmore Art Expo which held its inaugural show in 2008. She has entered and sold her works at numerous art shows over many years and to date has won over 70 awards and prizes. Images, demonstrations and articles of her work have been published in the Australian Artist and Artist Palette magazines. Helen’s work hangs in private collections throughout Australia, Japan, USA, New Zealand Denmark and Scotland; and she exhibits regularly at the Dragonfly Gallery, Hurstbridge; Hobson’s Studio, Queenscliff; Art & Frames Gallery, Benalla; U Can Doo Gallery, Kilmore; Old Courthouse Gallery, Seymour; Victorian Artists Society, East Melbourne; Australian Guild of Realist Artists Gallery, Camberwell ; MAD Gallery, Lancefield, and Kilmore Hospital.

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