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Listed below are our past Featured Artists. To read their story click on the story title. |
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| » | Art for Heart's Sake | | Meet Raelean Hall, inspiring and healing others through her art and art therapy. | | |
| » | The Art of Spirit | | Meet Meloney Steyl, expressing her passion and faith through paint and pen. | | |
| » | Magic Music Mamma | | Meet Kath Willams, a talented performer and teacher, touching others through the magic of music. | | |
| » | Jewellery Gems. | | Meet Pauline Murray, decorating women everywhere with her exquisite jewellery. | | |
| » | Market Art Magic | | Meet Adrienne Parker, blending pattern and colour to create inspiring works of art. | | |
| » | Glamorous Glass | | Meet Glenys Fentiman shining a light on the diversity and beauty of glass art. | | |
| » | Inspiring Images | | Meet Tracy Woolley a photographer and business woman inspiring people all over the world. | | |
| » | Outback Artist | | Meet June McCotter, promoting and painting the essence of the outback experience. | | |
| » | Soulful Singer | | Meet Delany Delaney, a mesmerizing and magical performer, weaving her magic through song. | | |
| » | Natural Beauty | | Meet Saffron Drew, capturing the texture, colour, and dynamic pattern of nature in her art. | | |
| » | Forming the Female | | Meet Lindi Birnie – ‘Body & Soul’ – celebrating the female form sculpturally. | | |
| » | Funky Females | | Meet Denise Daffara, celebrating the light and joy of women in her funky, fun, colourful paintings | | |
| » | Captivating Ceramics | | Meet Shannon Garson, a porcelain artist inspired by nature and history, blending them into magical pieces. | | |
| » | Painting Pleasures | | Meet Natalie Dyer, diversely expressing the beauty of life in sensational works of art | | |
| » | Sensational Sistas | | Meet Louise and Sarah, sisters in life, string and song, creating beautiful music together. | | |
| » | Alluring Abstracts | | Meet Christine Maudy, French born abstract artist creating soulful abstracts and striking colours. | | |
| » | Sculpting Sensations | | Meet Anne-Laure Demene, superbly sculpting form and fauna in a variety of mediums. | | |
| » | Mayan Magic | | Meet Heidi Woodman, ceramic artist blending ancient wisdom with intuitive impulses, expressed in earth material. | | |
| » | Divine Drawing | | Meet Francie Griffin, using her artistic and intuitive gifts to contact and draw your spirit guide | | |
| » | Quintessential Quilts | | Meet Cynthia Morgan, creating tantalizing textile art, specializing in art quilts. | | |
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| Meet Raelean Hall, inspiring and healing others through her art and art therapy. |
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| How long have you been painting? My mother said I was drawing faces on walls with crayons by the age of two. With an extensive history of creative pursuits, I have painted professionally for about 15 yrs and painted as a hobby artist for 7 yrs. In between all these years I have had a life-long appreciation for all the arts of the world. |
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| How have you developed your art?
I am mostly self-taught with a high level of creative inspiration and motivation. My artistic development has been graced by many great art teachers from Australia and overseas who have kindly imparted their skills and knowledge so that I can continue to refine mine. |
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in your art? There are too many teachers to name here who have influenced to my art, however, my most interesting and influential teacher was master artist Mr Chiaki Kato an 80 year old man from Japan who only spoke one word of English - being “hello”. Our painting sessions were conducted with great awareness of watching the teacher paint so the student can follow. My Japanese friend Tomi assisted with these sessions by interpreting Mr Kato’s instructions into English for me. His teachings have enhanced my understandings of the Eastern ways of watercolour painting. Additionally, I absorb so much inspiration from art galleries, art books, and life experiences that there is just not enough time to paint all the works that tempt my mind. In fact, I get influenced so easy I tend to divert greatly in my style and approach to art. This diversity keeps me going and keeps everyone guessing!
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| What do you hope to give with your painting?
The joy of creating something others will enjoy. I want to engage the viewer into an emotional moment of reflection and contemplation with my artwork. |
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| What do you get from painting?
MEDITATION!!! The more I paint the easier it is for me to relax into different states of awareness. On the flip side (as there always is to work), I find it hard to let go of the tension that comes from having to please others while doing a difficult commission. I am lucky I don’t have to rely on commissions for a living, and I only take on works that I feel I can relate to. |
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| What has been your greatest moment with your art?
It was the moment I realised how to let go of controlling the process while painting. The freer I paint my traditional paintings, the more real they appear to be. This also goes for my abstract work too. |
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| Where would you like to take your art?
I am taking my work on a new road yet again while I complete my Doctorate in Art Therapy. My dissertation will be a personal creative inquiry into ways of ‘Letting go in Process’. A major exhibition will unfold during this 4 year journey and I will be assessed on both the writing and practical work. This will be a huge undertaking and a great celebration will ensue. |
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up painting?
JUST DO IT!! Don’t hold onto the negative when it comes to self-assessment of whether you’re good enough to paint. We all are… we just don’t give ourselves the chance to explore this way of being. Be kind to your self and find someone who inspires you in their style and approach to art. Art workshops are a great way to get into the spirit of creating. Art therapy can also help unlock any creative blocks. |
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? My passion to paint is eternal – of which I am eternally grateful.
From the tender age of 2, I put a lot of time into my creative pursuits and this way of being has created the success I receive now. Words that come to mind to describe my creative spirit are: willingness, allowing, self-trusting, patient, observing, focused, and loving.
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| Who do you know is a ‘spirited’ woman?
The woman who created this website Natalie Hennessey! Nat is one of the most spirited, nurturing and understanding persons I know. She has a wonderful sense of humour, a searcher of a higher truth, and loves this adventurous life she has been given. She doesn’t hold back and lives her life to the full. She sits well with the ups and downs of life with open arms.
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| Is there anything else you would like to let us know about you?Although most of my art is traditional for the art market, I also paint personal pieces that are deep in meaning and mystery. These works are more abstract and ambiguous, venturing into the unknown territory of what we think, see and know about ourselves and our experience in this world. These are my more elusive works that reveal something about my being and the more I explore these works with an arts based inquiry, greater self-understanding unfolds.
On occasion, I hold workshops in Dream Therapy and Art Therapy so that others can experience this exciting way of self-exploration and creative processes. The next one- day workshop is held at the Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, in Caloundra on 14th September 2008, where we will explore our responses to the amazing artworks hanging for the annual art competition or ‘SCAP Prize’.
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