Profile Category: Painter

Ian Parry is a Tasmanian artist born into a seafaring family. The maritime world, ocean and water permeate his work.

Lyrical painter are inspired by the natural environment, from the Victorian coastline all the way to the Western Desert.

From his mud brick studio in the middle of the central Victoria forest, Philip Adams has been creating amazing artworks that capture the Australian landscape environment in all its forms.

The essence of Rimona's art is the colour, the textures, the compositions, the flowing rythm and sensuality, the touch of whimsy, the sheer joy and celebration of life combined with the vague feeling of threat , often hidden and covert.

Richard is not afraid to follow his instinct, to take risks with paint and medium, leaving traces of layers and remnants of marks to describe a romantic connection to the ocean, rivers and sky of the Victorian south west coast.

Arguably Australia’s foremost living force in the world of Surrealism. Embracing societal scars and whims of fantasy, rampant and verdant nature and the flames of the apocalypse, James Davis takes no prisoners with his paintings.

I found that marking 2 points in a painting created a space to work in. This was an epiphany for me. The realization that I could create a space to work in within the painting, that was changeable propelled me forward.

Surfcoast visual artist Susan Sutton is well known and highly regarded for her representational coastal images. I paint best what I know and understand in the region I have lived most of my life ... familiarity and research for detail form the basis of my created images.

Sisca Verwoert's paintings bring elements of the Otway Ranges with a heightened colour palette and simplification of landmass, vegetation and ocean that presents the atmospheric buzz of a region that is close to our hearts.