Gallery Spotlight: Terry Jarvis
If you’re the kind of person who thinks travelling the world while painting and holding exhibitions is cool, then you’re going to LOVE Terry Jarvis. His water colour paintings are created while he tours new and familiar lands, capturing beautiful scenic landscapes and settings. I am turning green right now just thinking about the life [...]
Swiss Italian Landscape Prize
It’s all happening at the gallery this week! Tomorrow night, Wednesday 19th, is the opening of the Swiss Italian Landscape Art Prize. Come into the gallery from 7pm to enjoy the fantastic landscape works submitted, along with a glass of bubbly of course! The Hepburn Springs Swiss Italian Festa is entering its 19th year and works [...]
Gallery Spotlight: Chris Kandis
This week we are immersing ourselves in the beautiful landscape works of Chris Kandis. Chris’s inspiration is drawn from nature; its forms, colours and beauty. A single leaf on the ground or a distant mountain range. It’s his connection to the land and environment that has allowed his style to evolve into a less traditional [...]
THIS WEEKEND (Nov 26 & 27): Meet Victor Pugatschew
Back by popular demand, Victor Pugatschew is ready to treat us to another “Meet The Artist Weekend” where he will spend a couple of days in the gallery meeting people and discussing his incredible photographic pieces. Victor reflects on his subject matter: “Landscapes appear to be something I do a lot of but not by [...]
Gallery Spotlight: David Lu
David has an incredible ability to create mystical, detailed mountain scenes that make you feel as though you are standing right in amongst them. This piece, “Yellow Mountain”, is a great example of this traditional Chinese style of painting . Beautiful depth of colour and amazing textures combine with soft, wistful cloudscapes to create [...]
Gallery Spotlight: Peter McGlinchey
Peter McGlinchey started out as a painter, and in the last decade has moved across into the world of sculpture, constructing a variety of works using found materials. Peter prefers the “hands on”approach to creating sculpture compared to the two-dimensional nature of painting. He feels less limited by his materials as “natures seems to throw [...]
Gallery Spotlight: Vanessa and Jan Neil
If ”kitch” is your thing then you had better get into the gallery to check out the print collection by mother-daughter team, Jan and Vanessa Neil. The girls have taken familiar scenes and icons and reproduced them in a variety of styles and colours, to the delight of lovers of vintage style.
Current Exhibition: Wayne Elliot
We have a special showing of Wayne Elliot’s work this week so come in to the gallery and have a peep! To sum up Wayne’s work, Stephen Naylor, lecturer in art theory at James Cook University stated: “Much of Elliott’s work has a chaotic dynamism; many of the works use central/circular compositions that radiate the [...]
Words In Winter…With a Twist.
We have received some very special little sculptures just in time for the annual Words In Winter Celebrations in Daylesford town. Rosie Miller creates exquisite paper sculptures using the pages of old books. They’re enchanting, comforting and inspiring all at the same time. Words in Winter runs in CLUNES – CRESWICK – DAYLESFORD – NEWSTEAD [...]
Gallery Spotlight: Llael Shannon-McDonald
Born with paintbrush in hand and an amazing ability to capture beauty in the most ordinary of scenes, Llael Shannon-McDonald is a welcome addition to the gallery. We love the depth of the colours she uses, her combinations of textures, and the simplicity of her work. Llael grew up in Spotswood, Melbourne and sold her [...]
