Three artists , one venue. Pixels & paint cohabitat to present a diverse collection of work. Eleni showcases acrylic and watercolor paintings …
We are 3 artists working in 3 different syles and mediums. James is a photographer and printer, Serena is a sculptor, primarily …
I like the discipline of making mid fired Porcelain and Terracotta Tableware but also enjoy the freedom of making one off pieces. …
I make ceramic cups and plates. Everything I make is intended to be used, with each cup being slightly different so people …
Three artists , one venue. Pixels & paint cohabitat to present a diverse collection of work. Eleni showcases acrylic and watercolor paintings abstractly referencing nature and botanical subjects. Damian continues
Delicate watercolours, colourful mosaics, exquisite ceramics and brilliant abstract paintings.
Contemporary Artist Dale Cox works across a diverse range of visual media including Film, painting and sculpture, often appropriating found objects as materials for alteration and reinvention. Cox enjoys blurring
Bev Lewis makes works on paper presenting the natural world in novel and contemporary ways. I want to encourage the viewer to observe closely and wonder at nature and to
Sandra Dean is a realist painter working and living in Central Victoria. Her work honors traditional oil painting techniques and materials. Formal art studies include Diploma of Visual Arts and
Paul Cavell was born in Melbourne in 1946 and studied architecture in the mid-sixties at the University of Melbourne. He transferred to the RMIT to complete a Diploma of Illustration
Painting and drawing I am an abstract artist and my paintings are influenced by the world around me. I reference the High Plains where I often walk, my garden when
My art practice is centred around the flow of energy, whether this is in everyday life, nature or spiritual influence. I use acrylics creating my own blends of colours, adding
Ah but your land is beautiful. Alan Paton was talking about South Africa our homeland. This is what we feel about our home now in Australia. It is this land
A fascination with wilderness, both local and remote, underpins Jane Rusden’s work. Combining Zoology and art she immerses herself in the landscape by walking, sketching and recording bird lists. Working
Playground My studio is a place of research and development, where I am exploring the formal elements of line, form, space and colour. Sometimes I find myself at a dead
Walking in Campbells Creek There is a curious uncertainty, a wondering, a stillness, and yet, in the atmosphere of the bush as the wind ripples through the leaves, creating various
In creating alternate worlds in different mediums there is perpetual tension between the real and the imagined. Portal invites you to experience the mysterious and enigmatic vision of four creative
RedShed Arts Workshop is a facility for artists both professional and amateur and for those who wish to learn new skills or enhance existing ones. It is a place where
Melinda’s current body of work is about discovery and returning. It’s about excavating what it means to be human, to be fallible, to be achingly here, having traversed life until
I am a printmaker, with a practice which also includes painting, cyanotypes and artist books among other things. I returned to Australia in 2011 after living away for decades (four
I am a Fine Art graduate from Monash University. In 2012 I left Melbourne for the central goldfields in Victoria, to set up home and a studio from which to
Jane McKenzie’s ceramic sculptures have evolved from a life-long preoccupation with making art and a parallel architectural career. She completed a Master of Fine Art at the National Art School
Having moved in a few different trajectories I spent time working on colour and painting technique in the last few years with oil-painting. This body of work is shown salon-style.
After the success of my previous exhibition at the Taproom, I’m grateful for the opportunity to exhibit my new paintings in this natural and flowing space. My paintings combine the
I paint anything, but mainly landscape using Gouache, Oil and occasionally Acrylic. My studio is a wholly, present time, functional artist space full of examples of my art practices including
This prolific international Scottish Artist has won numerous prizes, both overseas and in Australia for his impressive landscapes and is one of Scotland’s best-known painters. These include first prize, The
As a visual artist – painting and printmaking – Betsy looks for form and shape from which to build a platform for colour – whether landscape or still life. For
Explore Newstead and surrounds by following our Art Trail. See the works of printmakers, painters, sculptors, jewelers, potters, and more – at home in their own studios. Download our Pocket
Leslie Thornton has lived and worked in Castlemaine for 50 years. His body of work includes paintings of local icons‚ bridges, shops, buildings and mountains. His practice also encompasses clocks,
Wild Parterre I am questioning the categorising of flower‚ to paint the weeds on our roadside, the grasses lying with their individual kind of beauty. Instead of stopping to smell
As a painter and sculptor my main focus has always been on the environment. I grew up in ‘Dunmoochin’, an artists enclave on the outskirts of Melbourne, surrounded by bush.
Artpuff is a groovy new little showing and making space, launched in late 2021. Run by artists Kir Larwill and Melissa Proposch, and located at the Mill in Castlemaine, Artpuff
I’m inspired by the real Aussie Bush which has not been desecrated by the European Invaders. I don’t mean the grass paddocks and occasional gumtrees which are now called the
From the East India Company, to Anthropocene. Utilising visual narrative, textual investigation and historical journeying, I unpack a more realistic understanding of our colonial past. As Artist and Expeditioner, I
Graeme has been a professional artist for fifty years, recently retiring to the Castlemaine area. Painting small intimate panels, en plain air, chasing the many moods of the surrounding countryside.
Painter in oils. Born Essendon Victoria 1932 Began painting at age 15 and is self taught. Exhibitions: since 1971 AMP Building, Emerald Gallery, Young Originals, Olinda Gallery, N.T Museum of
My studio is up in the clouds with splendid views of Castlemaine’s woodlands and its landscape of rocky shapes, and ever-changing light & colour. I will be exhibiting works made
The Spirit Bottles of Giovanni Baptista It is 1630s Florence and Giovanni Baptista, a man in lockdown due to a ravaging plague, believes that he can see into the future
I’d like people to see my new studio right in the heart of Castlemaine. I will have oil paintings and gouache for sale. I enjoy depicting the local landscape and
My work is contemporary realism. Still life is my primary passion and focus however, I am working more and more with birds which I paint either in their natural habitat
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