From Dreamtime to Masterpieces, let’s embark on a journey through Australian & Aboriginal Artistry.
Patrick Carroll, painter, moved to Sydney in 1968 from Bathurst, NSW and began his career as an artist in 1973. For the subsequent decades his paintings have captured the heart and soul of his surrounding landscape, consistently returning to Sydney for his subject matter and inspiration. The intimacy and complexity of the beautiful city of…
James Gleeson is recognised as one of Australia leading and most important surrealists painters. During the 1960’s and 70’s he produced a series of small paintings depicting his distinctive imagery, that of an abstract, organic landscape, the percussor to the ‘psychoscape’ and the use of male nudes – well muscled men, in their prime, ideals…
Donald Friend is considered one of the most gifted draughtsman in Australian art. He studied at the Royal Australian Art College (Sydney) under Datillo Rubbo, and the Westminster Art School (London). Donald Friend was widely traveled, visiting Nigeria in 1938, then serving in Morotai, Borneo and Laubuan in 1945 as an official War artist. He…
Judy Cotton (or Judith Cotton) is an Australian born artist who has lived and worked in New York since 1971. Judy’s work is represented in: Metropolitan Museum of Art NY; Getty Trust of Los Angeles; New Orleans Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Phillips Collection of Washington; National Gallery of Australia. Judy’s father…
Patrick Shirvington spent 2001 as the Artist in Residence at the Arthur Boyd Studio, Bundanon. He works with both oil on canvas and watercolour / mixed media. Being loyal to the landscape, Patrick is always moving into new territory from the subtle studies of a fragile microcosm of his environment to the large symphonic interpretation…
Background William Boissevain (often known as Wim) was born in New York in 1927. He studied at L’Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London. He has lived in Australia since 1947. William (Wim) Boissevain enjoys a world-wide reputation as one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. His paintings…
Jan Senbergs is an Australian artist of Lithuanian origin. Jan was born in 1939 and was forced to flee a war-torn Lithuania with his family at a young age, and having resided temporarily in Germany, came to finally settle in Melbourne, Australia in 1950. During the 1950’s Jan took up an apprenticeship in Silk-Screen printing,…