Artists

Name
Allison Orton

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Preferred Media
Oil Painting, Printmaking (colour woodcut)

Themes explored
Landscape in a gestural and abstracted form

Inspirations
The natural world, History of art including American abstraction and Renaissance landscape imagery, books etc.

How did you get into making art?
I have been painting in some form for as long as I can remember.  I think it’s in my DNA.  Despite breaks and forced interruptions in this process I have always kept a studio and am never very far away mentally or physically.

What are you currently working on?
Abstract gestural works that reference the urban landscape in terms of colour, gesture, light movement and energy.


Allison Orton is a Melbourne artist who has been exhibiting in and around the city for almost 20 years.  Orton is primarily an oil painter yet has investigated the colour woodcut as a parallel medium throughout her career.  Her paintings are expressive and gestural, influenced by Abstract Expressionist style yet steeped in The Renaissance in terms of landscape reference.  Within Orton’s work, images are disclosed through a complex layering of paint. Colour is bold and contrasting, applied in blocks or through linear activity linking areas, over which images are drawn or painted.  Orton’s imagery references the natural world, sourced through our surroundings, artworks and media documented over history manifesting themselves on the canvas in a variety of guises.

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Name
Judith Leuenberger

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Preferred Media
Oil Painting, Acrylic Painting, Pastel, Watercolour

Themes explored
Landscape, Light, Shadow, Nature, Still Life

Inspirations
The atmosphere created by light and shade in nature

How did you get into making art?
I have been an Art Teacher for 30 years in secondary schools around the world, including England, Singapore and Australia.  I retired from teaching four years ago and now paint and draw full time.  

In 2000 I had my first show in Australia.  The show was titled Pastel Works of Rock Pools and was held in Williamstown.  I have had three shows over the past three years at the Louis Joel Gallery in Altona.

What are you currently working on?
I have recently started introducing tree silhouettes into my paintings.

All of my work revolves around light.  How light falls in the landscape or through windows onto interiors and still lives.  The sky at dawn and dusk is my constant inspiration.  The clouds and all the colours of light in the sky.




















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Name
Kate Buttery

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Preferred Media
Drawing, Printmaking, Installation, Assemblage, Performance

Themes explored
It’s hard to pin it down.  I explore the human condition and our relationship to each other and the world around us, more than I do any particular issue.  Whatever it is that fires me up or makes me sit up and take notice that will find its way in to my work.  I can sometimes work in ‘anti-art’ mode.

Inspirations
The everyday.  Life is full of uncanny and absurd happenings, when you look at it in a certain way.  The work of my favourite artists also helps sometimes …sometimes it doesn’t.

How did you get into making art?
In 1974, at the age of 5, I saw the Melbourne Theatre Company perform Godspell at the Russell St. Theatre.  Ever since then, the creative drive has been there in one shape or form.

What are you currently working on?
I’m currently working on a series of light hearted lino prints, performing theatre in schools and some web and graphic design.  Future projects include a multimedia outdoor projection installation, more theatre and further development of my visual art work.

My main practice so far has been music and then theatre.  Lately I have found myself gravitating to performance art, and in particular visual art.  I don’t have one art form, and don’t settle well when I do.  A couple of years ago Michael Leunig declared “wonderful!” when I told him what sort of artist I am, so I decided that making art out of any medium – rubbish, performance, sound, lino, light, theatre, voice, paint, found objects, design and so on and so forth – works best for me.




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Name
Larissa MacFarlane

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Preferred Media
Drawing, Printmaking

Themes explored
Much of my work is inspired by the urban industrial landscapes of Melbourne’s West.  I am interested in exploring ideas of how we relate to the world in a local way and connecting this within a global context, particularly from the perspective of social and environmental justice. 
But my love of handstands keeps popping up as a theme as well!

Inspirations
At the moment my past visual diaries are proving my inspiration but generally it is the research I do around ideas that uncover direction.  I am also inspired by visiting exhibitions.

How did you get into making art?
I am a latecomer, as I didn’t discover an interest in visual art until after a head injury and long rehabilitation in my 30s.  I discovered my passion for printmaking whilst studying for a Diploma in Visual Art.

What are you currently working on?
For the past few months I have been working very hard on the process of lithography, which is the alchemic method of drawing onto special large stones.  I hope to build a collection of lithographs for an exhibition later in the year or early next year.

I am primarily a printmaker, which includes linocuts, etchings, collographs etc. but I also make artist books including zines.
The Paths of our Future are made not found





Looking for the urban point of balance


What's behind me and what's infront of me keeps me fighting for the future

























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Name
Leah Lux

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Preferred Media
printmaking, painting, drawing, mixed media, photography and collage

Themes explored
For the past several years I have been exploring surfaces. These have included upholstery, mosaic, painted surfaces and brickwork.  Last year I was working with the theme of antiques and heirlooms and the idea that whilst these objects and items change hands and families may change their surfaces, their energy or essence remains.

Inspirations
Usually inspiration comes in the form of a visual stimulus.  Something I see that I want to replicate, for example a collection of colours.  I am currently inspired by Art Nouveau and more specifically Spanish Modernisme and Antoni Gaudi.

How did you get into making art?
I’ve been drawing and painting forever!


What are you currently working on?
I am continuing to look at surfaces but I am now examining the energies in historic architecture and interiors.

In the future I am planning to establish a website for pet portraiture – watercolour and pencil works.  I need more examples …so for a portrait at a discounted rate, email me with a photo of your favourite pet!

Gaudi - Blue & Yellow

Grandpa's Chair

Tortuga
































































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Name
Nicola Pickworth

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Preferred Media
Oil Painting

Themes explored
Landscapes (both urban and natural), Animals, Birds

Inspirations
I am most inspired by two NZ painters, Graham Sidney & Freeman White.

How did you get into making art?
Attending the Learning Connexion International Art School in 1998 in Wellington NZ was where my artistic journey began and where I gained an understanding of the technical fundamentals of painting and drawing.

What are you currently working on?
Skill-wise, I feel I still have a long way to go and, where I can, I attend drawing and painting classes to further develop my painting abilities.

Born and raised in Christchurch, NZ I was heavily influenced by my father, Charles Pickworth, who is a full-time professional Landscape oil painter.  Emigrating to Australia in 2001, I was inspired by the colours of Australia and have completed a few commissions of the Australian Outback. If I was to sum up my painting style I would say that it is primarily figurative.


Cow

Distant Mountains

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Name
Rafael de la Paz

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Preferred Media
Painting, Drawing, Poetry, Sculpture

Themes explored
Bodies, Figures, Beauty, Still Life

Inspirations
I don’t have any particular inspirations, I just feel like painting most days!  Often drawing exercises I do evolve into paintings

How did you get into making art?
I remember doodling during class at school in Cuba, where I grew up.  After I came out to Australia I decided to give painting a try.  With encouragement and guidance from others I decided to keep painting and eventually completed my Diploma of Visual Arts at Gordon TAFE in Geelong.  I have been painting ever since!

What are you currently working on?
I am now going through a “challenging” phase where I am trying out new techniques and experimenting with more saturated colour.  I am trying to discover a new, more colourful style.






























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Name
Karen Sandon

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karenvsandon.com.au

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karenvsandon.blogspot.com.au

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Preferred Media
Visual Art, Photography, Printmaking

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Name
Dr. Bob McCaffrey

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Preferred Media
Photographer; Camera Technician

Contact me for ANY of your photography and imaging needs!


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Name
Kerry Herrmann

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Preferred Media
Painting:  Oil, Encaustic/Wax

Artist Statement
Looking at the land psychologically, in this case, the inner city landscape of materialism, real-estate and cars with Nietzsche’s concept of masks and more masks, and people treating each other as means to further their ends.  From large billboard advertisement, control, telling us what to buy, watch and wear.  Instrumental rationalism and sub-systems of buildings, institutions and cars dominate the city, whereas, the real people fade into insignificance.

The real people protest about the state of the land through the street graffiti, in which they desire for transcendentalism of the Ideal, for something better, for Kant’s Kingdom of Ends. 
For people treating each other as ends in themselves rather than means to further their ends.

My technique
The wax mixed with oil allows me to create an interesting texture which is important to my “urban impressionist” style in expressing a feeling of the modern city, since for 80% of Australians, this is the land in which they live.

Click here to view Kerry's Artist Resume

Alfred Crescent Nth Fitzroy 
Argle Place from Lygon st

Clifton St
Cornish Arms 

Fiery Brunswick

Top End Brunswick St from Gertrude

US OUT!


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Name
Carla Murray

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Preferred Media
Drawing: Ink, Permanent Marker
Painting: Acrylic, Watercolour

Artist Statement
Having grown up on the edge of the Little Desert and Wimmera River, my work tends to draw upon themes of landscape, open space and spiritual attachment to place. 

Currently I am interested in the relationship between place and human identity, in particular whether people still identify with a physical place or feel "at home" somewhere.

Commissions
I am available for commission work.

I can make a painting of your car, truck, motorbike, boat or bicycle.

I am also open to painting larger scale works including murals, signs and shop windows.



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