Diana Watson
“What inspires me to make art? Everything. It is a complete way of life, never far from my thoughts. Seeing beauty all around me, colours, shapes, shadows, nature and the challenge of putting it on canvas.” Diana Watson. Australian artist Diana Watson’s elegant still-life paintings have earned the Sydney-based artist great repute locally, and now […]
Mela Cooke
Mela Cooke, a sculptor and former physiotherapist, has always held a fascination with the human form. Her artistic process involves using family and friends as models, capturing their essence through a series of photographs taken from different angles to accurately depict the lines of a pose. Cooke’s medium of choice is bronze, which she finds […]
Michael Davis
Michael Davis: Michael Davis’s most recent series of works blend together the realms of abstraction and landscape. For his larger works, bold colours flow across the canvas, making visible the figures of trees and the contours of river banks before slipping seamlessly back into abstraction.We are invited into an image of a landscape, yet not […]
Jane Hoggard
Residing in the Northern New South Wales region of Fingal Head, artist Jane Hoggard is deeply connected to the natural surroundings around her. The rolling hills meeting the water, crisp air and bush birds calling from a crop of trees outside her studio. With an ancestral upbringing in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, Jane […]
Rosetta Santucci
Having spent over a decade experimenting with applications like jewellery and textile design, it was a natural progression for me to start painting. My background in costume for film and television and a passion for textiles – primarily tribal and ethnic designs – has influenced my painting style. I’m self taught, and it has only […]
Jorna Newberry
Jorna Newberry is a Pitjantjatjara artist, was born around 1959 at Angus Downs. Jorna divides her time between Warakurna, Irrunytju and Alice Springs where she has family, living between the traditional culture of her indigenous background and a contemporary one. When visiting her lands she regularly goes bush with the women of her community for […]
Tjungkara Ken
Tjungkara Ken was born in Amata (SA) in 1969 and was one of the first young artists to begin working with Tjala Arts (in 1997). Ken said, “I do paintings about my country. That’s ngura: rockholes and the land, the hills and big creek beds. Sometimes I do stories about the Seven Sisters and about […]
Tanya Brady
Peter Smets
Peter Smets is the man of the moment in the Australian art world. He is the country’s young Old Master. For this exquisite example of his eloquent and highly finessed painting style, it is the old master he has most assiduously emulated. If bright is a thing, he has the advantage early of being born […]
James Ainslie
James Ainslie was born in South Australia in 1950, graduated in art from the South Australian School of Art and has exhibited throughout Australia and overseas since 1975. Harking back to his childhood in South Australia, spent playing around the Coorong and exploring the huge sand tracks around the Murray River, sand and water have […]