commercialart4you
commercialart4you
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Creating people on canvas has always been rewarding especially when Julie Oliver, a renowned portrait artist was teaching me in Oils.
In 1999 I set up an art school for children in Redcliffe. My school went on to win the award for Best Children’s Art School for two consecutive years.As well as running my own classes I continued to teach children art voluntarily at the local school. During this time Eric Whisson introduced me to landscapes in Oils and spent more time later in the year with Catherine Sullivan-White.
In 2001 I began to explore Watercolour and worked under Isabel McIvor. As I was very heavy handed with delicate Watercolour painting, an unforgiving medium, decided to dabble in Acrylics.Wow loved this medium it suited me down to the ground .Since thenI have t aken off in Abstracts using mixed mediums creating as much texture as I can.
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to win several art awards namely:
Highly Commended Redcliffe Art Show 2002
2nd prize Redcliffe Art Show 2003
1st prize Redcliffe Art Show 2004
Highly Commended Redcliffe Art Show 2004
2nd prize in the Gold Coast Art Awards 2005.
Highly Commended Gold Coast Art Awards 2005.
2nd prize in the Cleveland Gardens Art Awards 2006.
1st prize Redcliffe Art Awards 2007.
Best Emerging Artist at Immanuel Art Festival 2008.
Highly Commended Rotary Club of Murgon 2010.
Commended Rotary Club of Murgon 2010.
My paintings have attracted interest on an international scale with clients in Japan and the U.S.A. I am currently exhibiting my work throughout New Zealand and Australia.
More recently I have drifted into and out of Action Art and Fluid Art which truly excites me, especially when I watch the fluid swirl around, interact with other additives and then finally find its own position……..then I watch in amazement as it dries into its own creation….truly wonderful and exciting.
In closing art is my life and I feel the words spoken by Francis Bacon sums up exact how I feel when he quoted: “I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I Don’t in fact know very often what the paint will do and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.” – Francis Bacon, 1963. Then we have this statement that is very close to my heart: “Creativity is …seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.” Michele Shea.
Victoria
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