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 […]
Stephen Phibbs
Sydney-born Stephen Phibbs is a visual artist residing in the Northern Rivers region. From 2002 his art practice evolved through seeing the landscape through a multi-dimensional approach. He says “these works are about the metaphysical and physical elements of a site. The relationships and juxtapositions discovered in these chance objects signify multiple options of interpretation, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Freda Brady
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 […]
John Santucci
Moving to Byron Bay a few years ago my work was mainly focused on surreal cityscapes and whimsical caravans, new surroundings launched thoughts of new directions. I didn’t want to pursue seascapes and lighthouses, instead I chose a subject that was quite literally staring me in the face. Our garden was somewhat basic, but Byron’s […]
Kylie Elkington
These paintings represent a collection of memories and manifestations of the way in which the exquisite beauty of nature appeals to me. The result of a layering of sensations and knowledge about a place, the role of the species of natives and others in that place, and in turn, the ways in which all elements […]