Creative
My painting “Abandoned in the Forest” has been selected as a finalist in the Remagine Exhibition which will take place at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, 25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby, and run from Friday 13 June to Sunday 29 June 2025.
Remagine Art Prize is an environmental art prize dedicated to bringing awareness of environmental challenges such as waste and consumption. Held in partnership with the Hornsby Art Society since 2009, Remagine Art Prize is delivered and sponsored by Hornsby Shire Council.
This year’s theme ‘RE:THINK TO RE:PURPOSE’ refers to the decisions we make each day about how much waste is created, and how materials can be reused to help save precious natural resources. The extraction of raw materials, production, transport, and consumption directly affects the environment, including native wildlife, aquatic species, and birdlife.
Artist Statement: How often do we see abandoned furniture, cars or rubbish on the road side or in paddocks lying around even supermarket trolleys. In my oil painting on canvas "Abandoned in the Forest “ is a view depicting a piece of furniture in decay that I noticed while traveling through a regional country town. The armchair could have been recycled and taken apart and refurbished to become piece furniture again, instead of slowly disintegrating in the forest. Not all abandoned rubbish/furniture disintegrate
Ghost Nets and Sea Turtles, selected for the Southern Ocean Art Prize Award
Exhibition Dates
Friday 1 - Sunday 10 November
Robe Institute, Robe SA
The dangers of ghost nets on sea turtles and other marine life are well documented but there remains the problem that the unwanted nets are often still floating around causing problems. “This is especially concerning, as Northern Australia and the Torres Strait are a feeding and nesting ground for six of the seven turtle species in the world (from Sea Museum)” My acrylic painting is about bringing awareness to the dangers of discarded and unwanted nets.
EXHIBITION DATES: 26th of July - 23rd of August 2024, Before the Disappear & Moths, Magpies and Lace
I started painting "Remember" in 2015 and finished 2023. Selected for the International Prize Botticelli on January 20th, 2024 at the Borghese Palace - Florence,
What a lovely event held on Sunday at the Centennial Vineyards in the Southern Highlands NSW, many couples enjoyed the day and there was a variety of vendors where I displayed my bridal painting portraits from commission.
Recent Bridal paintings showing sketch and final acrylic painting on canvas. This Painting was selected as a finalist award Art pavilion in Miami, Florida art exhibition to be held in December 2023. The painting was also displayed at the Bridal Fair in Canberra held at the Convention Center on the 30th July 2023
Narooma Path Wagonga
Selected for the SNoA Out of Wagonga exhibition
I joined a group Nature Art Lab, Canberra on line social media platform in with a theme "Reflections on Nature"and uploaded my mixed media painting called ‘Before they Disappear’
By participating in this project I visualized an art piece in the environment relating to my natural surrounding at Narooma. I started to develop an art piece multimedia with a subject theme of moths/butterflies I noticed at a beach that had been stranded there and died. They were beautiful in my eyes and I wanted to capture that moment before they disappeared for ever and so painted the moths/butterflies in the art form of mixed media using watercolour and inks - a textured sand background gave the moths a chance to live on through my painting. By participating in online social media my artwork (Before they disappear) was chosen for a group exhibition held at the Old Barn Gallery, Pialligo ACT. Exhibition Dates:Thursday 2 February to Sunday 5 February 2023 and Thursday 9 February to Sunday 12 February 2023 10am - 4pm
https://www.pialligooldbarngallery.com/natureart-lab
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nal.reflectionsonnature/posts/1131129763982640/
