Profile Category: Artist

Halpern is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the mediums of sculpture, painting, pottery, glass blowing and printmaking. Her work can be exuberant and whimsical but is also imbued with a deep artistry.

I have always been drawn to trying to depict landscape, accompanied by a fascination with the Ordnance Survey maps of Britain and the mysteries they contain.
The flattish land with views to the declining end of the Great Diving Range is an ideal landscape subject, a stage for the theatre of the harvest, and the spectacular light shows nature provides.

Steve Sedgwick's abstract landscapes are inspired by the smells, sounds and sights he experiences outdoors.
“I don’t like predictable. It’s got to be an exciting process,” he said.

Whitson has refined a technique reminiscent of pointillism stemming from the Impressionists of the 19thCentury, where layered paint and therefore different colours are applied using dots to create abstract landscape imagery with figurative and narrative dimensions. The choice of palette and pointillist gestures extend on the typically calming pointillism landscapes of the Impressionists and invite the viewer to imagine and see what lies below the surface of dominant Australian mythic landscapes.

Peter Gardiner has an innate connection with forests. "I paint pictures of forests mostly. I like the mysterious stage of the deep woods. Sometimes I burn it; fire is a character that looms large in the Australian experience. No point in ignoring it.."

Sisson’s style reflects her genuine love of the natural world and possess a playful sense of inquiry, exploration and joyfulness.

Over the last 12 years Julie Andrews has explored the psychological terrain of landscape painting, as an in-between space, ambiguous, sublime and mysterious.

An abstract & figurative expressionist artist , Veronica O Hehir's paintings are executed with an immediate & untethered energy.