| Archive of Featured Artists |
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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 Cathy Lawley crafting masterpieces from the Earth. |
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| How long have you been creating clay art? My earliest memories was when I was six, playing with mud pies at my parents dairy farm, my father bought me a wheel for my 23rd birthday, which reunited the passion, I have been professional potter for over 20years. |
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| How have you developed your skill in this area?
I attended numerous pottery workshops where the desire to discover unusual and unique styles of firing the clay pieces, until I discovered Raku, I became hooked on the traditional Japanese style of Raku firings. I had found my niche as a potter |
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in art? I take my inspiration from the wonders of nature, and the Australian wildlife that surrounds my property in the beautiful countryside of Maleny. Memories of the old barn on the farm filled with treasures, mostly rustic pieces and all the old relics of yesteryear fill me with inspiration I then reproduce in clay.
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| What do you hope to give with your art?
It is my desire to inspire others to search for their creativity within, for it is inspiration that gives us energy to create and it is in creating that we transform our lives |
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| What do you get from your art?
Peace, contentment and pleasure! My art has become a large part of my life, a gift within its self, to that I am forever grateful. |
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| What has been your greatest moment with your ‘mudd creations’?
There are so many, the most rewarding is seeing my customers faces when they are holding their precious pieces, it gives me pleasure in knowing that my pottery makes people smile |
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| Where would you like to take your art?
Travel! conducting workshops in Australia and overseas. I am forever discovering new ideas; I would also like to explore more on line work. |
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up clay work?
What have you been waiting for, its fun rewarding and sets your spirit on fire! It’s a life long journey of self discovery you’ll learn more about yourself that you ever thought possible. |
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? My child like spirit, the one who’s just having fun in the mud, who dreams big, gets so excited about the little things, who’s pottery pieces become friends…. |
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| Who do you know that is a ‘spirited’ woman?
My mum, she is a strong independent woman and is the source of my encouragement, support and love |
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| Is there anything else you would like to let us know about you?I am a divorced mother of 4 beautiful children; I have three sons, and a daughter. I work from my home in my gorgeous sandstone studio that sits beside my beautiful 125 yr Queenslander, I love what I do, from the whimsical to the sleek modern |
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