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Bob Abrahams

Exhibiiting at Art Melbourne 2010

Paintings by Bob Abrahams are impressionistic in style. Essentially a tone and atmospheric painter, Bob searches for the light, using creative colour and painterly brushstrokes to enhance the effects. Since retiring from a successful business career in 2000, he has painted full time. Read more here....

Ken Allen

Cartoonist, community artist, carnival drummer, band manager, festival float builder and event organizer, Ken has worked to bring visual and performing arts into people's lives for many years. Ken is founder and band member of Junkadelic Percussion Group and the City Farm Chameleon Brass Band.

Helen Ansell

Helen Ansell's work is the creative and eye-catching result of her life-changing shift from living as a painter in Edinburgh - one of the art capitals of Europe - to a remote Aboriginal community in the arid heart of Western Australia. Helen now divides her time travelling around outback Western Australia to teach art in remote Aboriginal communities and being at home working on her own paintings. Giclée fine art prints of her work are available for sale

Alexandra Bazetoux

Alexandra, known as her artist name "Yaya”, is a young French contemporary artist born in 1987.

She spent her youth in Paris surrounded by animals mostly horses, a life-long passion. Even as a young child, Alexandra was forever throwing off the constraints of society in her continual search for freedom. Painting, which began as a child's distraction, quickly became not only a means of expression, but also a means of escape from the oppressive conventions of society.

Alexandra uses many different themes in her painting to communicate her need to fight anything that can dampen the human spirit.

Andrew Brown

Born in Perth, Andrew began his interest in the visual Arts from a young age, drawing inspiration from illustrated encyclopaedias, nature & from his immediate gold mining environment in the Goldfields of Western Australia where he spent most of his childhood.

In 1978, he enrolled in a water colour painting course held in Boulder by the artist Walter Terrell. His paintings were sold to local citizens and tourists, looking for representations of local landmarks such as goldmine headframes and rustic buildings. Many of the structures were being ‘progressively’ demolished as part of the expansion of open pit mining around the Kalgoorlie-Boulder area.

Carmen Cilliers

Originally from South Africa Carmen now resides in Perth, Western Australia. Her main inspiration is drawn from the transpersonal, nature and experiences of her life both past and present. Carmen’s work is recognisable by the forces of bold colour, raw brushstrokes and the often quirky twists, subtle symbols and unusual titles.

Maryann Evetts

Maryann Evetts lives and works in Perth, Western Australia. She has lived in Australia for 20 years and originally from New Zealand.

Maryann trained in art at the Central Metropolitan college of TAFE in Perth in the late 80's. She studied ceramics and worked as a potter for a number of years. She had a solo exhibition in ceramic sculpture in 1992 and won a couple of awards for sculpture during that time.

Carolyn Griffiths

Carolyn’s painting techniques, explorethe imagination and inner self. She employs abstract techniques – connecting many layers of paint with strong and light brush strokes to generaterounded, linear, sliding, textured, evocative forms on the canvas.

Tom Griffiths

Tom uses an intuitive approach to his artworks which results in his ideas about his life and the idea of being human transforming into imaginary portraiture. Tom is currently an arts student and has recently won the Student Art Award at the Metro Community Awards in 2009.

Carol Hazel

With a passion for natural beauty Carol gets her inspiration from nature, adventure and travel. The world to her is an open canvas. For many years Oils was her preferred Medium, painting interpretational projects like portraits or land/sea scapes. In the past 12 months Carol has been exploring Abstract art painting with Acrylic, she found this experience liberating. The ability to create something from nothing is extraordinary.

Jackie Hoeksema

Jackie has always had a love of colour and she is able to express this well in her Artwork. In the years that she has been painting she has held a number of Exhibitions and she has had the opportunity to help others to also have the chance to display their art. Jackie also holds Abstract Art Workshops for Adults and Children at her Home Studio in Roleystone.

She uses acrylic paints and finds that they are easy to use and very forgiving and you can paint over them and use it to your advantage. Materials I use are canvas, linen , masks, texture painting, pastels and melting wax crayons, rollers, brushes anything and everything if it works use it.

Nicole Hull

Nicole Hull is an emerging artist who specialises in abstract expressionist action painting. For this new artist, painting is an addictive, thrilling ride. Art is a visual language; and through art, she hopes to inspire others.

Nicole’s creative journey started some 8 years ago when she was given a blank canvas and invited to ‘paint’. She let her imagination run wild and has never turned back. Nicole has attended art courses in oil painting and colour techniques, however, she is mostly self-taught. A stint painting at Kidogo Arthouse Studios in 2006 opened up a whole new world for her, culminating in her successful joint exhibition called ‘Emergence’ in March 2009.

Nicole works on large canvases with metallic and coloured pigments; paint ebbs and flows over the surface creating its own unique energy oft described as frozen movement.Through the use of colour, texture and innovative techniques her pieces demand attention and push artistic boundaries.

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Ruth Jeffery

Artist, dancer. Ruth has recently returned to the visual arts after expressing her creativity through dance; she has been invited to teach in Sweden at the world’s #1 international Swing dancing camp ‘Herrang’. A fine arts graduate of the University of Western Australia.

Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson is a commercial photographer and graphic designer based in. Perth, Western Australia.

With a bachelor degree in Design (Photography major) from Curtin University, and a diploma of education in Communications from Edith Cowan University, Paul has over 30 years experience working for direct clients, often on site in remote regions of Australia and South East Asia, and for advertising agencies and public relations consultancies.

“Whenever I’m on a commercial photographic assignment, or anywhere with a camera for that matter, I always try to keep an eye out for the unexpected – most times there’s something quirky or aesthetic ready to be snapped.”

Torsten Knorr

Biography coming soon....

Ann Land

Exhibiiting at Art Melbourne 2010

Fremantle artist, Ann Land, moved from Canada in 1970 and settled in Sydney, Australia where she worked as a Physiotherapist. She began studies in the visual arts “after hours ‘, leaning towards Life Drawing. Her love of charcoal and pastels continued when she moved to Darwin in 1983. While continuing her career as a Physiotherapist, she completed her BA (Fine Arts) Degree majoring in Printmaking (1994). Soon after, she settled in Fremantle to immerse herself in the arts full time. Her studio sits perched on the cliff of Arthurs Head Reserve close to the Roundhouse. 2008 she received a Highly Commended in the Acrylic section of the Melville Art Awards.

Narelle Manser-Smith

Exhibiiting at Art Melbourne 2010

Narelle’s background is in education. Having spent 13 years in the pre-primary classroom, she has had plenty of time to experiment with large scale murals whilst encouraging children to express themselves through colour, line, texture and form. Narelle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Education majoring in Art, and a Bachelor of Education. She has completed The Extraordinary Mind Project portrait drawing classes and is currently a master class student with David Giiles. Read more....

Kay Merrin

Over the years Kay has experimented with a wide variety of materials and methods including – gouache, acrylic, oils, water-colour, textiles, jewellery, ceramics, pastel and photography. Read more here....

Myra Mitchell

Exhibiiting at Art Melbourne 2010

Myra started painting after designing and making jewellery for 10 years, inspired by her love of colour, fashion and texture she works intuitively with palette and brush using the spectrum to create an experience of emotion and movement.

Lorna Murray

A practicing visual artist most recently exhibiting in the International Textile Festival, Stroudwater Textiles in UK. Her interest in costume design has seen her involved in design roles for theatre, television, and the catwalk. She has exhibited locally and nationally, worked on numerous commissions and designed small retail collections. Over the past few years her work has moved away from the body and onto the walls of galleries.

More information at Harrison Galleries

Samith Pich

Samith Pich was born in Cambodia during a terrible civil war, his name is literally translated as ‘Run Diamond’. His family fled to Australia as refugees in 1985 and worked hard to deserve the gift of freedom that they found in Perth. Samith found from a young age that he told his stories best in pictures, and his talents were nurtured in school. Today Samith continues to nurture the talents of high school students as a Visual Arts Teacher after completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Major in Painting) and a Diploma of Education (Specialisation). Teaching mainstream students and those from a refugee background is a constantly inspiring process but Samith also believes it’s important to show by ‘doing’. His art journey is characterized by a love of colour and the beauty, strengths and fragilities of the human form. Samith’s Art is a continual exploration and a dialogue between the things he wants to express in his heart and the skills he requires to tell those stories properly.

Carollyn Rhodes-Thompson

Exhibiiting at Art Melbourne 2010

It is the vast open spaces of the lakes and the effect of the sun on the landscape that have become an integral part of her work. Colour, texture and the use of light are very important elements of her paintings as they create the sense of space, atmosphere and mood. Preferring to work predominantly in acrylics and mixed media, Carollyn enjoys layering the paint to gain a 3D effect so that one is able to enter and move through the painting.

Julie Sutherland

Biography, Julie Sutherland, Born in 1971 in South Perth, W.A. Currently based in Bullsbrook W.A. Trained as a Woolclasser and Teacher Assistant. Woolclassing gave Julie a chance to work and travel to the outback and coastal areas of Western Australia, South Australia and New Zealand. This has been her main influence in her paintings with her Seascapes, Landscapes and Figurative Painting. Julie works with Acrylic paints, Oil paints, Mixed Media and Collage.