Exhibiting Artists
Below are examples of the works of artists who have supported Seascape and Beyond Art Exhibition.
Please note that the examples don't reflect relative sizes.
Julie Baigent
Having been a selling artist and photographer for 20 years in the Byron Bay area, I decided to move to Newcastle 3 years ago. In March last year at Back To Back Gallery I had a successful exhibition called ‘Newcastle: A place with character’. Since then I’ve enjoyed selling prints of those 27 paintings at the lovely Olive Tree Markets in The Junction.
Shelley Cornish
Shelley Cornish is a Newcastle artist and has recently completed five years of study in fine arts. She is a prolific artist who works mainly in acrylic and mixed media. Cornish loves to paint people. You will find them in most of her paintings and she hopes their faces, posture and eyes tell you a story of their own story.
Janet De Vries
Janet's joy is to take a blank canvas and watch the work emerge. She paints in watercolour, pastel and acrylics and loves to use the paintings to revisit her favourite scenes from her memory and from beautiful places she has visited. I have been painting in acrylics for over five years and particularly enjoy painting seascapes from the Newcastle area.
John Earle
Born and lives in Newcastle. John has been painting Newcastle’s stunning coastline for over 30 years. He has exhibited extensively and his work is in many collections both here and overseas.
Wendy Lesniak-Godbee
Wendy has been painting seriously for the past 12 years mainly in water colour. She likes to paint local scenes but paints a wide variety of subjects, from wildlife to floral. She is very involved in the art world and has been Secretary to Newcastle Art Society for the past 6 years. Wendy exhibits all over the Hunter Valley
Dennis Hill
Being privileged to have a career spanning 15 years Dennis Hill is represented by collectors in every state. After touring and exhibiting the east coast Dennis feels its time for him to go back to his art school roots and settle here in Newcastle. “To feel the artists energy” has been a powerful motive for the saleability of Dennis’s works.
Daniel Joyce
Daniel is a devoted father, husband, fisherman, surfer and artist from Caves Beach NSW. Self taught Daniel specialises in drawing and painting beachscape panoramas, portrait, caricature, concept illustration and logo design... and murals on everything from surfboards to hotrods, prime-movers and aircraft!
Stephanie MacFarlane
Stephanie works mostly in oils on canvas, but has more recently changed to acrylics on paper, a medium she is enjoying more and more. She is continually evolving, and discovering new things as she paints and looks forward to having a little more time now that she has moved to Lake Macquarie to indulge in her passion.
Kerri Smith
Kerri is an emerging artist in the Newcastle area. The main focus of her artwork is painting and drawing. She interested in exhibiting with other artists in the Newcastle area. Recently Kerri exhibited at the Shopfront Gallery Hunter St Newcastle and the 2011 Newcastle Emerging Artist Prize. She is a member of the Newcastle Printmakers Group.
John Sorby
John lives in Carrington. He renewed a strong interest in art through the Ron Hartree Studio, study in the Advanced Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) at Art School (Hunter St.) and later the Bachelor of Fine Art (New). Mixed media drawing is John’s strength and his painting goal is to develop that ‘drawing quality’. Symbolism, the figure and landscape are constant themes through semi abstract representations of maritime and coastal subjects.
Belinda Street
Belinda's work explores the relationship between representation and abstraction. More interested now in an intuitive approach, the artist is exploring the landscape while moving further towards abstraction. The Australian Landscape is the artist’s subject.
Sharyn Street
Sharyn Street has been painting and exhibiting her work in Sydney and the Hunter Valley for many years. Her works have won numerous regional awards. Sharyn’s primary interest is life drawing and she works in water colour, pastel, oil and various drawing mediums.
Lorraine Tindall
In 1990 Lorraine saw an advertisement for TAFE ART in the newspaper which she applied to and was selected for Seaforth TAFE. With five years of painting, sculpture, photography, visiting galleries, writing assignments and exhibitions she then did an extra year of sculpture at Meadowbank TAFE. In 2001 she attended Hunter Street TAFE doing an extra year of painting. Since then she has worked from her home studio working steadily on numerous paintings and sculptures, exhibiting, selling and occasionally winning competitions.
Colour and movement have always played an integral part in Kate’s art, which often shows expressionist influences and whose subjects include still-life, landscape, plants, wildlife and nude figures. Travel has had a strong influence on Kate’s artwork which can be found in private collections in Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia. Kate has shown her work in Nagoya, Japan as well as Toluca City in Mexico and in Byron Bay, Bangalow and Newcastle in Australia.
Kate Warner
Annie Bourke
“Having lived by the sea for many years, capturing the tension between fear and beauty in my paintings has been a compelling progression”. Annie trained as a graphic designer, she is a self-taught oil painter and has been painting full time for eight years having held several solo exhibitions.
Lyndall Crowther
Lyndall enjoys painting using mixed media and has been painting seriously since 2000. Lyndall spent five years part-time learning the fundamentals of painting at the Willoughby Workshop Arts Centre in Sydney. Preferring local landscapes for subject matter Lyndall spends time photographing local scenes for inspiration and reference.
Eugenia Dunlevie
After art studies at the National Art School and RMIT, and a diverse career, Eugenia has pursued her art full time using diverse landscapes looking both overseas and in Australia for inspiration. She creates her own images ranging from realism to abstract, often using heightened colour.
Christine Finch
During 2000 Christine decided to explore acrylic painting on canvas. She had private lessons in this medium and was encouraged to join the Newcastle Art Society and Society of Artists groups. Over the last 12 years she has attended many workshops with these groups, researching and developing her contemporary style of art. Painting has now become part of her life.
Richard Hainsworth
Richard Hainsworth completed a Bachelor of Arts Visual Arts at the University of Newcastle in 1997. He has held numerous exhibitions here in Newcastle and in Sydney. His works explore the relationship we have with water and in particular the ocean water. Growing up at Merewether meant that his childhood was as much immersed in salt water as it was in the culture around it.
Cliff Hosking
Cliff works mainly in watercolour and on paper. Cliff’s major watercolour heroes are JMW Turner and John Singer Sargent. In fact Turner was one of the main reasons Cliff has specialised in watercolur. More recently Cliff has become interested in figure and portrait drawing and painting but still maintains a steady output of watercolour images – mainly landscapes, seascapes and figures.
Simon Porm
After completing a BA in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in 1994 Simon completed a vast series of nightscapes of Sydney’s ocean pools. His art changed focus when moving to the Blue Mountains where he was immediately drawn to the tall tree forests and their varying lighting regimes with bold shadows.
Stuart Smith
Born 1975, Kent England. BA Hons Fine Art Painting & Printmaking at Bretton Hall University of Leeds. PGCE Art & Design – Canterbury Christchurch University. Art Teacher (5 years). Stuart has often imagined the great masters surfing and how this experience would be reflected in their artwork. The British landscape painter William Turner was obsessive about capturing the sea in turbulent or tranquil mood. He produced many works of the English Channel whilst in the seaside town of Margate, close to my birthplace.
Setsuko Ogishi
Setsuko is one of the few women glassblowers in Australia and, in physical structure the smallest. However, she does have an important advantage and uniqueness - she has a woman's eye. This is why delicacy, softness and simplicity are always present in her work. In 1987 she established her own glass studio in the Hunter Valley region of NSW. The work reflects her Japanese background, strongly influenced by the Australian lifestyle. Setsuko has exhibited her work at major exhibitions throughout Australia and has won numerous awards for excellence in her craft.
Warrick Timmins
Warrick has many awards which include the Mattara sculpture Exhibition, Newcastle – winner 2011and Highly commended 2011; Soho Gallery, Sydney 1996-2010; Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle Artist representative Gallery; Sculpture Society, IBM Building, Darling Park, Sydney – winner IT Avante Prize and purchased by Darling Park Property Committee; Mosman Village Festival of Sculpture – First Prize; Thredbo Art with Altitude Outdoor Sculpture – shortlisted to develop marquette. He is In private collections internationally, including Greece, Singapore, Canada, China and throughout Australia.
Ben Treveton
A self-taught, British photographer, Ben has previously been based in Malaysia then Tanzania, now imported here by his Aussie wife. Alongside landscape and nature photography, he has a passion for capturing people. When not shooting weddings or wandering the beach at sunrise, he can be found splashing with his one-year old daughter at Merewether Ocean Baths.
Jon Wilks
Jon graduated in 1995 from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor ofArts in Visual Arts. Jon optimizes a variety of techniques in his paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Emotional experiences and connective energy are expressed through these mediums. His creative images are manifested symbolically and organically through intuitive processes. He enjoys using a variety of mediums in all areas. He draws upon a successful and evolving creative background along with leadership experiences in a heavy engineering and industrial environment.Jon is Newcastle born and his range of works cover highly intense figurative and landscape content to totally abstracted colourful works.