Kinglake Ranges Visual Art Alliance and Marysville Artists – 44
Yarra Valley Open Studios is proud to host our friends from the Kinglake Ranges Visual Art Alliance and Marysville. At one location in Healesville, six artists are showing and producing artworks in response to the bush fires. Michelle Bolmat – Realist, Pastels, Acrylics & Sketches Kate Jones – Acrylics Paintings Marlyse Carroll – Silk Paintings Linda Hagger – Acrylics – Abstract John Sharp – Etchings Tanya Moncriess – Pastels, Chicken Wire...
Read MoreJena Bedson, Ceramist – 40
I began my career by completing a Diploma of Ceramics in Queensland. I then spent the next 22 years living in Queensland and NSW producing a wide range of unique homewares. I now live in Warburton and create a distinctive range of whimsical, brightly coloured ceramics, each piece lovingly handcrafted and individually decorated. My work balances functionality with creativity and reflects the environment in which I live. Surrounded by magnificent forests and watched over by the mysterious and magical Mt. Donna Buang, I use colours I see daily – the beautiful King Parrots, Rosellas and the...
Read MoreSioux Dollman, Painter/Sculptor – 43
I believe our imagination is the key to creation and manifesting our magical realities. When I create, I am reminding us of the beauty and the journey in learning truth and love to understand life. Live love and enjoy, activate your rainbow ray, remember – beauty is everywhere.
Read MoreMalcolm Peel, Painter/Sculptor – 42
It is about people and place, about my sense of reality, about the realities of others, in time and place, about the nature of the universe we find ourselves living in, In sculpture: about form, texture material, In painting: about form, colour, surface appearance, boundaries, shape, mind, body, In drawing: about texture, form, exploration of ideas, explanation of events. The place we occupy in this vast universe constantly astounds and terrifies me. By the light of day I see the warmth and comfort of the present and the familiar. By night I see the vastness and the violence of the rest of...
Read MoreLinda George, Jeweller – 41
I have been creating unique jewellery for 20 years using silver, gold, boulder opal, pearls, gemstones and Japanese washi paper. I work from home most days and supply shops and galleries across Australia. Each piece is made by hand and many of them are ‘one offs’. I am influenced by nature, tribal cultures and faeries. I offer a postal stone setting service, custom made pieces just for you, remodelling old jewellery and I will also come to you and a group of friends for a private showing of my latest range in your home or office.
Read MoreEmber Fairbairn-Ramsay, Painter – 39
To me, creating art is a communion with creation, it is a meditation where one “loses” self and merges into all that is and all that is yet to be. The artwork can also be a contemplation, rather than a mental, conceptual idea of artmaking. To a large degree it is the process and the form which shapes the content of the work, employing colour, mark making, symbol and shape through oil paint, and texture via the encaustic process. Trained in Queensland, I have been exhibiting since 2000, selling work and completing commissions. My works have sold in Australia, USA and...
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