To complete the year I was one of only 11 artists whose paintings were selected from over 80 entries, for the inaugural Newcastle Club Foundation Art prize. Our paintings were hung in the Newcastle Club and we were all treated to a spectacular dinner where the winner was announced our paintings were put up for […]
In November I entered one of my large charcoal drawings, ‘The Paterson River’, into the Frensham Fellowship Art Prize ( Old girls) and much to my total shock and delight I won! I always find it an odd feeling returning to school…it is so familiar yet it seems like a life time ago. I was […]
In August I received notification from the Newcastle Art Gallery that my painting ’Superheroes – a blank Canvas’ was selected for the 2016 Kilgour Prize for Figurative and Portraiture Painting. I was one of 35 finalists, selected from a field of more than 200 entries across Australia. I was so thrilled and excited! My painting […]
My painting ‘Golden Gully – Hill End” was short listed for the 2016 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize. Unfortunately, it was not selected in the group of artwork to be judged for the $20 000 art prize but I was happy to be part of the Salon des refuses group of artists who still […]
In July I had my second solo exhibition – ‘The gentle Light of Day’ at ASW Art System Wickham, Newcastle -. The exhibition was a series of landscape drawings ranging in size from small intimate 10cm x 10cm graphite pencil drawings to large 70cm x 100cm charcoal drawings. I was overwhelmed by the number of […]
In late September, Linda Greedy and I headed down to Cooma, NSW to attend a 4 day painting workshop with Lucy Culliton. We stayed in a beautiful old farmhouse on a sheep property, Kelton Plains. It was a fabulous couple of days painting en plein air with the guidance of Lucy. The workshop was organised […]
In April, Linda Greedy and I headed inland to the historic village of Hill End to do a weekend workshop with the very funny and talented Luke Sciberras. The weekend was organised by Beryl Miles from Art Workshops Australia. Luke took us out to several spots in the bush to paint and then it was […]
