d’Arcy Doyle (1932-2001) Bibliography d’Arcy Doyle was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1932. He was the youngest of nine children and his father was a train driver. He left school at the age of 13 to become an apprentice sign-writer and this represented his only training in brushwork. d’Arcy Doyle has publicly stated “I’ve never had an art lesson in […]
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Biography Barry Back was born in Brewarrina New South Wales, Australia in 1959. He was introduced to art from an early age, painting his first landscape at the age of fourteen. His paintings have been influenced by the “Heidelberg School” Australian Impressionist masters such as Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts and Elioth Gruner. He had also been influenced by more modern-day […]
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Biography Born Innisfail 1946 Resides North of Brisbane Queensland Tom McAulay was born in Innisfail, North Queensland and as a youth studied under Arthur Evan Read and Andrew Sibley, but it was his own observations of life around him that has inspired most of his work. His early rural life and later travels around Australia laid the foundations for his […]
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Keen quilter for 20 years
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Marilyn has recently retired and moved from the Gold Coast to the Lockyer Valley with her husband Ken. An artist for over 30 years, Marilyn trained in the fundamentals with oils including structure, colour, perspective etc and has now branched out into other mediums including acrylics and pencil, and is inspired by Australian landscapes, bird life, wildlife and historical buildings. […]
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ON BEING A POTTER…After 30 years I have been working with clay over a time span of 30 years. Clay is of the earth, as am I. It is as magnanimous in its gifts as it is tortuous in its lessons. The love of both brings me continuous joy. It’s a journey you take by yourself. You travel alone, but […]
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Allan English has an eye for beauty whether crafted by God, or manmade. The joy of transferring these images onto paper using the medium of watercolour is what drives him to paint. Allan began experimenting with painting following a premature retirement caused by the effects of infantry service in Vietnam in the late 1960’s. In the years since he has […]
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NOELA LOWIEN I live in the small, picturesque country town of Kilcoy, Queensland, which is rich in culture and history. A descendant of five pioneering families, I am very involved in our local Historical Society, being the research and publishing officer with 15 major local books successfully published to date, from 1992 to 2013, along with the Kilcoy History Trail […]
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A rare opportunity to purchase original paintings from the collection of Ron & Anne Grant
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