AMY RAYMOND
Sydney, NSW
AMY RAYMOND is a Sydney-based LANDSCAPE artist creating unique seascapes that focus on the ever changing colours and textures of the ocean, beaches and rock pools that surround us. With a strong emphasis on the coastal lifestyle of Sydneysiders, Amy seeks to capture the movement and energy, often not only of the landscape but those who inhabit it. Amy’s art practice blurs the lines between realism and abstraction, with elements such as her unique figures representing life within the landscape rather than the individual. Colour and vibrancy are a recurring aesthetic that is used to spark a joyous and nostalgic response by the viewer.
AMY RAYMOND BONDI BATHERS, 2023 Acrylic and Ink on canvas 103x103cm
AMY RAYMOND SOMEWHERE I’D RATHER BE, 2023 Acrylic and Ink on canvas 103x103cm, framed
AMY MATHIE
Woolongong, NSW
AMY MATHIE is an emerging artist from the Woolongong Coastal region who works full time as an art teacher. When she has time, she enjoys painting landscapes on discarded stretcher frames she happens upon and immersing herself in the world of digital art.
AMY MATHIE KIAMA COASTAL WALK Oil on Canvas 94x94cm, float framed in Tasmanian Oak
Donald Keys
Balgownie, NSW
DONALD KEYS is not a narrative painter, but more a chronicler of Australian life—his works are figurative, and delineated in a contemporary realist style. Keys paints using vibrant colours that are quintessentially Australian. Early works displayed quite visible brush strokes to enhance texture which gave them a tactile quality while later works focussed more on light and shade for depth and emotion. Donald's works generally feature people enjoying their leisure time surrounded by a mix of man-made structures, and the natural beauty of the Australian landscape. Keys has featured in over sixty exhibitions—twenty-one of those being solo shows.
“I tend to see things with a colourful, more positive outlook, and have no desire to create images that depict ugly, sad situations. Hopefully, when one views my paintings, they will see a moment in time in an optimistic light.”
DONALD KEYS WALK OR SWIM
38x23cm, framed or 15x9”
syntetic polymer on wood panel
DONALD KEYS THE SHOW OFF
DONALD KEYS DIVE OVER IT
AMY RAYMOND
Sydney, NSW
AMY RAYMOND is a Sydney-based LANDSCAPE artist creating unique seascapes that focus on the ever changing colours and textures of the ocean, beaches and rock pools that surround us. With a strong emphasis on the coastal lifestyle of Sydneysiders, Amy seeks to capture the movement and energy, often not only of the landscape but those who inhabit it. Amy’s art practice blurs the lines between realism and abstraction, with elements such as her unique figures representing life within the landscape rather than the individual. Colour and vibrancy are a recurring aesthetic that is used to spark a joyous and nostalgic response by the viewer.
AMY RAYMOND BONDI BATHERS, 2023
AMY RAYMOND SOMEWHERE I’D RATHER BE, 2023
AMY MATHIE
Woolongong, NSW
Amy is an emerging artist from the Woolongong Coastal region who works full time as an art teacher. When she has time, she enjoys painting landscapes on discarded stretcher frames she happens upon and immersing herself in the world of digital art.
AMY MATHIE 'KIAMA COASTAL WALK'
DONALD KEYS
Balgownie, NSW
Donald Keys is not a narrative painter, but more a chronicler of Australian life—his works are figurative, and delineated in a contemporary realist style. Keys paints using vibrant colours that are quintessentially Australian. Early works displayed quite visible brush strokes to enhance texture which gave them a tactile quality while later works focussed more on light and shade for depth and emotion. Donald's works generally feature people enjoying their leisure time surrounded by a mix of man-made structures, and the natural beauty of the Australian landscape. Keys has featured in over sixty exhibitions—twenty-one of those being solo shows.
“I tend to see things with a colourful, more positive outlook, and have no desire to create images that depict ugly, sad situations. Hopefully, when one views my paintings, they will see a moment in time in an optimistic light.”
DONALD KEYS WALK OR SWIM
Synthetic polymer on wood panel
38x23cm, framed
DONALD KEYS THE SHOW OFF
Synthetic polymer on wood panel
38x23cm
DONALD KEYS DIVE OVER IT
GRAHAM SINCLAIR
Thirroul, NSW
Graham Sinclair has a specific passion for reconstructing the landscape and still life through painting or sculpture. He seeks inspiration from the typical such as the sea and the bush, as well as the nuances of the natural and built environments not always apparent but always around us. Graham is a Thirroul based artist, and active member of the visual arts community in the Illawarra and Southern Highlands, he is proud to have his works held in the collections of a number of galleries in Australia, as well as in private collections both in Australia and overseas.
GRAHAM SINCLAIR AUSTINMER
GRAHAM SINCLAIR WANIORA
GRAHAM SINCLAIR LITTLE AUSTI
IAN FLEMING
Gundaroo, NSW
Ian Fleming is an emerging artist who focuses mainly on painting landscapes that are inspired by his bush surrounds and using his painting techniques to create digital art & virtual reality environments. Having just completed an honours degree in visual art from the ANU School of Art, Ian now works full time out of his home studio in Gundaroo,NSW. "Illuminating the world with his painting", Fleming creates his atmospheric landscapes from photos rather than ‘en plein aire’ as he takes up the challenge of transforming paint into light, form and texture, his interest is to "create art for arts' sake (and to make a living)".
IAN FLEMING PORTO LOUTRO BAY, CRETE 2023
IAN FLEMING PORTO LOUTRO BAY, CRETE 2023
JACKIE ANDERSON
New Lambton, NSW
Jackie Anderson’s art practice explores new ways of interpreting both built and natural landscapes into abstract form. Naturally drawn to the surrounds of her hometown in Newcastle NSW, Jackie thrives on its daily source of inspiration.
"I am endlessly inspired by the coastal surroundings here in my home of Newcastle, and the constant state of flux that the changing tides bring to the shoreline and beach environs."
JACKIE ANDERSON OCEAN BATHS AT DAWN 2023
JACKIE ANDERSON MARKERS IN THE SAND 2023
JACKIE ANDERSON TIDE LINE 2023
JENNIFER BAIRD
Canberra, ACT
Jennifer Baird is a mid-career, multimedia artist, working across painting, collage and printmaking. Baird trained as a textile designer screen printing on fabric, igniting a passion when she began screen printing on paper at Megalo Print studios in Canberra, where most recently she has been exploring lithography printing. The move to the ACT over ten years ago saw Baird move away from her well known gouache seascapes to exploring the urban and rural landscapes around her new hometown, her style and colour palette also evolving, taking on a more minimalist approach through simplistic shapes and hard edges. Seascapes still strongly feature with regular trips to the South Coast expressed through oil paint and screen printing. "coastal content keeps me in touch with her coastal origins"
JENNIFER BAIRD FROM CURRARONG
JESSICA OLPP
Melbourne, VIC
JESSICA OLPP grew up in the beautiful bushlands of Warrandyte, and has lived and worked in France. A self-taught artist, Jessica began painting in 2020 as a means of self-expression and creating moments of calm in her busy life as a French teacher. Finding inspiration in ‘quiet’ colour palettes and the landscapes of both Australia and France, Olpp has recently begun to explore still life in her art practice, she is currently based in Caulfield North, Melbourne.
JESSICA OLPP TOMBÉE de la NUIT DANS la BAIE 2023
KATE CARRUTHERS
Braidwood, NSW
KATE CARRUTHERS CALALA BEACH, 2023
KATE is a landscape painter from Scotland, living in Braidwood, NSW. Kate is one half of Braidwood Clayworks, who have been running pottery workshops and creating wheelthrown stoneware and one-off ceramic pots out of their back garden pottery in Braidwood for over 5 years..
KATE CARRUTHERS WIMBLE BEACH, 2023
KATE CARRUTHERS MALUA BAY, 2023
MICHAEL WARNER
Braidwood, NSW
Michael is one half of Braidwood Clayworks, who have been running pottery workshops and creating wheelthrown stoneware and one-off ceramic pots out of their back garden pottery in Braidwood for over 5 years.
ROBYN BOOTH
Sutton, NSW
Robyn has been working as a ceramicist over many years - Robyn's practice is refreshingly varied, evidence of her skill and confidence in the medium is her continuous experimental approach with form and application. After years of teaching and working out of various spaces Robyn has set up her own kiln & ceramic studio on her rural property in Sutton, NSW.
ROBYN BOOTH WHALE GIRL POD
VERONICA O'LEARY
Tathra, NSW
VERONICA'S landscape and still life paintings are informed by her dedication to the act of drawing from the natural world. She has an extensive collection of artist books kept from travels in Australia, Brazil, Samoa, Sri Lanka and Jordan and these often become the source for further developed paintings.
O’Leary’s base is now her coastal studio in Tathra NSW where she teaches art classes and paints out of. Initially trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Veronica later went on to complete a Masters in Visual Art at Charles Sturt University and lectured in Creative and Visual Arts at TAFEs and colleges around Australia. Her interest in painting landscape is a response to the environment in which she lives and works. In recent years she has explored the impact of fire on Australia’s changing landscape in a series of large oils which capture a fierce intensity and energy. She has been a multiple finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize and the Mosman Art Prize. She was also a finalist in the NSW Countryscapes Landscape Award, the Noosa Gallery Art Award and the Meroogal Historic Trust Award.
In 2020 she was shortlisted as a finalist in the Glover Prize and awarded the Hangers Choice Award and the People’s Choice Award. She was also selected as a finalist for the John Leslie Landscape Prize. Her concertina book 'A Surfeit of Tastes' was Highly Commended in the works on paper section of the Tastes of Art, Rutherglen Art Prize.
VERONICA O'LEARY STORM OVER TATHRA
VERONICA O'LEARY STORM OVER TATHRA
VERONICA O'LEARY BACKWASH
VERONICA O'LEARY STORM OVER TATHRA
VERONICA O'LEARY STORM OVER TATHRA
Senga Peckham
VIC, Australia
From The Garden Series
The Kanji symbol for the Japanese concept of ‘Ma’ combines ‘door’ and ‘sun’, together the two characters depict a door through the crevice of which the sunlight peeps in. Lockdowns and restrictions have made us pause in our regular activities, it is an interval in time, a silence almost between the beginning and the end, uncertain and unpredictable but also a space/an emptiness full of possibilities, the door slightly open for change and the sunlight peeping through. These cyanotype prints in the ‘from the garden’ series made during covid restrictions in Victoria explore this concept of ‘Ma’. Using resources close to hand at home, some Japanese paper left over from another project, converting my laundry to a dim-room and working with plants from the garden and the sun, this meditative process with uncertain and unpredictable results, is full of hope and possibility.
Bio
A late arrival to image making, Peckham uses photography to explore the impermanence and interconnectedness of all things, encouraging the viewer to pause and see beyond what is immediately present. During covid restrictions in Victoria she chose to experiment with the slow-paced, unpredictable alternative photographic processes, recycling available material close to hand and honouring nature, to create unique one off prints of lumens, cyanotypes and botanical contact prints. Peckham’s interest in photography was nurtured through an MA in Museum Studies, several photography courses in London and enhanced as a board member of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale for several years in addition to assistant to the Festival Director and curatorial responsibilities. Peckham has exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally.
Maxine Salvatore
VIC, Australia
Senza Protezione
I have named this unique state cyanotype of a knight’s cuirass, Senza Protezione (No Protection). All’s well and good on the fighting front until a new breed of virus launches itself into existence. While the exquisitely etched breastplate may protect the chest against violent physical assaults, it is rendered useless upon the inspiration of a minute viral organism.
Eva Schroeder
ACT, Australia
By the end of Canberra’s first Lockdown in 2020 I felt the need to discover something new – a deep craving to learn, to create by hand, and to be surprised! Simultaneously, my passion for photography remained the stable foundation from which I wanted to spring into this new discovery. In this frame of mind, I decided to take part in a Cyanotype Workshop held by PhotoAccess here in Canberra. Whilst relatively simple in technique, the minimalistic quality of the Cyanotype, the beauty of the blue, and nature’s printing potential were all responsible for rekindling my creativity!
Kim Sinclair
Sutton, NSW
Skull & Blooms, 2021
Throughout the recent lockdown, Kim has turned her focus on her surroundings, exploring the flora & fauna that exists on the NSW rural property she lives at with her family. Living on a property means living closely with nature and being real witness to the evolution of life. Skull & Blooms is both a reference to this cycle of life and a response to the tension felt during lockdown; while spring bursts into life, the psyche still feels a 'dormancy' from ongoing lockdown that persist as a result of the health pandemic gripping the world and ending lives.
Aritst Bio
Kim Sinclair obtained a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada, majoring in Photomedia. At a time when photography was entering its’ digital revolution, Kim continued her work utilising traditional silver gelatin and film print methods, telling stories through multiple imagery, layering techniques and sequencing methods. Largely influenced by her drawing & painting background, her loose brush work, painterly application and hands-on arrangements became integral components to the final aesthetic and common characteristics recognised throughout much of her early work. Sinclair’s considered composition, cropping, and inclusion of fragments of information within an image are all intentional components of the narrative, significant to the story she is conveying. Since moving to Canberra in 2001, Kim has tutored many classes in traditional darkroom and alternative photographic practices and continues to produce, exhibit and contribute to art projects including, more recently, her investigations in printmaking practices.
Ian Skinner
ACT, Australia
‘Simple as a flower’ series
“… simple, as a flower, blooms …”
The title of this series refers to the 1968 poem Auto Wreck by Karl Shapiro in which he tries to makesense of senseless death. In the appalling analogy of this line of the poem Shapiro is referring to cancer, however the analogy could apply to any disease. When preparing for this exhibition I noticed the physical similarities between the radial inflorescence of Acacia flowers and the corona-like structure of the Covid virus. I have arranged individual blooms in ways to express the process of infection through proximity.
Distancing Years Cyanotype collage
This collage explores not only the idea of our preventative physical distancing during the pandemic,
but also the divisions that have been increasing in our politics, friendships and associations as the
views of science and emotion tear at our civility.
The offset grid is fragile and slightly haphazard, set against a whirling and confused background.
Carolyn Young
Eliza and the Satin Bowerbird
During the first Covid-19 lockdown I felt there was more time for observing birds. Just prior to this period, I had been researching John Gould, the 19th century English naturalist who was nicknamed ‘The Birdman’, and who travelled to Australia to research his book, “The Birds of Australia”. In researching the life and work of John Gould, I began to learn more about his wife Eliza, also his illustrator, and who accompanied him to Australia. Apart from her legacy of drawings, not much else remained of Eliza in the public domain. Wanting to celebrate Eliza’s life, I created an artwork that features a portrait of her sitting inside the outline of a male Satin Bowerbird (derived from one her illustrations). In the background is an extract from one of her letters home, to her mother in England, which includes descriptions of the birds encountered.
A Lunata & A Rubida
These wet cyanotypes are of wattle collected off my property in the past 2 weeks. Nature learning has been a big covid-lockdown focus (for me and a bunch of my friends anyway).
Artist Bio
Carolyn Young is a visual artist based in the Canberra Region, who specialises in photography. Her artworks engage in ideas around land stewardship and the relationship of human beings to the environment, and often involves collaboration with ecologists. Carolyn holds a PhD in Visual Arts from The Australian National University (2017), and honours degree in Natural Resources. Carolyn has exhibited extensively, been the recipient of several grants including the Friends of the National Library Creative Arts Fellowship 2018 and photography prizes including the 2016 CCP Salon Pat