Table of contents for Issue 14 in Creative Artist

In the Willandra Three Rivers project, a selected group of regional artists from Wiradjuri Country, an area bounded by the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Macquarie Rivers, created a vibrant, diverse and thought-provoking exhibition responding to the many layers and landscapes of the Willandra National Park. The project is a partnership between Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Western Riverina Arts, and the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, with sponsorship by S&S Creativity Unlimited. This project involved the artists working together through a series of intensive residencies at the National Park during 2015/16, creating works for a collaborative exhibition. The artists were chosen for diversity of practice and approach, and include both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists: Gabriella Hegyes, Robert Moss, Treahna Hamm, Kerri Weymouth, Cory McKenzie, Melanie Baulch, Jack Randall, , Chris Kunko…

I like to paint in a loose, impressionistic style. A style I've always admired. I love paintings that make no sense when viewed up close, but come to life and mean something as you move away. Our imagination is stimulated by these painting as our minds bring the colours, shapes and brush strokes into something that makes sense. Painting is a great way to unwind, and escape from all your worries. There is a sense of creation and achievement. As artists, it should not be our aim to reproduce what we see, but to create a painting. I have to remind myself constantly of this. We shouldn't be frightened to deviate away from the subject, even to the point where it is unrecognisable from the original. We are out to…

I have always known that I had creative side, but wasn’t sure which direction to take. I’ve tried many different artistic avenues, from calligraphy, silk painting, painting stage props, and graphic design, but was still unable to satisfy that artistic itch. My primary inspiration and artistic desire has been fuelled and nurtured by my self-taught, artistic mother, who now at 89 years-of-age, is still painting. She inspires me every day. You would be forgiven to think that you had stepped into an Art Gallery when you enter her house, with every inch of wall space adorning her paintings. She gave me such a wonderful gift - “imagination”. When growing up, I remember her with us outside on a big rug and being encouraged to make out animals, faces and people…

From childhood, drawing was one of the ways I spent my free time and used to escape boredom at school. In my adolescence, I developed a keen interest in science, especially biology. My Grandpa’s garden was the place where I used to spend quite a significant amount of time playing with plants while carrying out some experimental projects from my biology classes. At that time, my artistic inspirations were not fuelled by nature, since most of my time was spent at school or studying, however, I always used to sketch and draw what I observed around me. I spent two and a half years attending the School of Arts, learning mostly drawing from life. Drawing from life improved my observational skills, including seeing the detail of colour and form in…

The 2017 ISSA International Exhibition is coming to Australia, to the Stump Hill Gallery, McLaren Vale Visitors Centre, South Australia. The exhibition runs from Friday, Feb 10th – Thursday, March 16th with an Artists’ reception on Friday, Feb 10th from 6 - 8pm. See world class scratchboard art at the exhibition. During the reception, you will have the rare opportunity to meet some of the artists who have created them, many of whom will be visiting from other countries just for this occasion and we might even have someone demonstrating this one of a kind medium. Awards will be presented during the reception. McLaren Vale is a beautiful part of South Australia and one of the world’s premier wine growing regions. The gallery is also part of the Fleurieu Peninsula…

The Gippsland Eleven is a Meeniyan Art Gallery touring exhibition showcasing the talents of eleven Gippsland artists whose works cover a wide range of media and techniques. Inspired by the wonderful place in which they live and work, the exhibition includes machine embroidery by Chris Beehag, wood fired pottery by Zak Chalmers, metal sculpture and welding by Laurie Collins, sculptural felt works by Marion Dawson, photographs by Trevor Foon, calligraphy by Anita George, pyrography by Sue Guilford, linocuts by Janet K Howard, drawing by Kim McDonald, paintings by Gary Miles and multi-media works by Ann Parry. This initiative started in 2014 when Jacqueline Taylor OAM curated an exhibition of 14 Gippsland artists at the Media House Gallery in Melbourne. This exhibition then toured the Meeniyan Art Gallery in Gippsland. Taylor…

Materials List • Good quality deep edge stretched canvas, 610mm x 760mm • Matisse white gesso • Mediums – Matisse spreader medium, Atelier liquefying medium, Atelier retarder • Matisse structure acrylic paints – Australian Blue Gum, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, Dioxazine Purple, Green Grey, Phthalo Green, Phthalo Blue, Antique White, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna, Primary Yellow, Yellow Deep • Atelier Interactive acrylic paints – Titanium White, Naples Yellow, Alizarin • Atelier Free Flow acrylic paint – Titanium White • Art Spectrum Acrylic Inks – Turquoise, Phthalo Green, Burnt Sienna • Brushes – Flat bristle, some filbert, sizes 16, 4, 2. Taklon round brushes, ranging in size from 0 to 8 (use the larger brushes for larger areas, and the smaller ones for detailed areas) • Small sponge, either…

Materials List • 40cm x 30cm Gesso Stretched Canvas • Acrylic Atelier Paints – French Ultramarine Blue – Phthalo Blue – Cerulean Blue – Paynes Grey – Burnt Umber – Burnt Sienna – Titanium White – Atelier water mist bottle – Rexel Derwent watercolour pencil • Brushes – Art Basics IMIT Sable No 12 – Prome Art Golden Taklon No 10 – Art Basics Golden Nylon Short Flat 1/4” – Art Basics Badger No 0 – Art Basics Golden Nylon Flat No 3 Step One In this demonstration I started by marking in the horizon line with some Ultramarine Blue. I made a mental note to divide the sky into thirds. Step Two Starting on the sky, using Ultramarine Blue, I quickly blend it one third of the way down.…

Materials List • 10oz Caravaggio Italian cotton canvas stretched on 101 X 66 cm stretchers • A selection of Art Spectrum and Art Basics flat brushes sizes 12, 8, 6, 4, 2 • Media • Odourless solvent (Art Spectrum) for underpainting • Art Spectrum medium number 1 • Langridge Oleogel • Paints: – Titanium/Zinc white mix 50:50 (Art Spectrum) – Phthalo Blue (MasterClass Extra Fine Artists’ oil) – Cadmium Orange (Old Holland) – Cadmium Scarlet (Winsor and Newton) – Payne’s Grey (Maimeri Puro) – Lemon Yellow (Michael Harding) – Cobalt Blue Light (Schmincke Norma) – Cerulean Blue (Art Spectrum) – Raw Sienna (Art Spectrum) – Alizarin Red (Art Spectrum) – Burnt Sienna (Langridge) – Ultramarine Blue (Winsor and Newton) – Quinacridone Magenta (Langridge) – Sap Green (Art Spectrum) – Yellow…

The Gallery is home to the State Art Collection of Western Australia, which features works from 1800 through to today. Alongside the State Art Collection, AGWA runs a dynamic program of exhibitions and public programs showcasing the best of local, national and international art. Flanked by a community garden and reclaimed swampland and embedded in the hustle and bustle of some of the city’s best hotels, shops, bars and restaurants, the Gallery is a must-do for any art lover in Perth. The Gallery spans three heritage buildings on the south-eastern corner of the Perth Cultural Centre. While the foundation stone for the Beaufort Street wing of the Gallery was laid in 1901, the modernist main Gallery building was not opened until 1979. The Centenary Galleries were formerly the Perth Police…

I know it’s not feasible for every artist to travel the world in search of good material, but I believe if you want to paint elephants or lions, it’s at least very helpful to see them in their natural environment, better still to spend quite a bit of time with them. Zoos and parks are great places too, but as we hear repeatedly, they should really be used for additional knowledge gathering only, since these animals live quite artificial lives, depending on humans for their food, not following migratory patterns, and other differences. This makes them quite different from their wild relatives. A zoo lion is fatter and more sedentary, and the males usually have magnificent manes which aren’t torn and tattered by thick wild thorn bush. Their faces are…

Any locals driving along the beautiful West Coast Highway to Perth’s northern beaches, with the restless Indian Ocean to your left, know it is a memorable experience at just about any time of the year, with endless and seductive white foaming petticoats breaking across the rocky outcrops or settling in a spent force across the silver sand in summer, while in winter beach life is restricted to the wet-suited surfers or seagulls flying along the coast, hanging with the breeze while working on some unknown agenda. All this then, is in the backyard of today’s My Space artist Kale Miller. Kale and his wife Lucille spent many years as art teachers, mostly in our TAFE college system. Kale eventually became the TAFE coordinator for art studies in diplomas and certificates…