| 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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mccotter1@westnet.com.au
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| Meet June McCotter, promoting and painting the essence of the outback experience. |
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| How long have you been a painter? My artistic skills go back to my school days. I was making mud pies and cooking them in a 44 gallon drum in my father’s fuel depot. Yes I did get into big trouble. Marrying and having a family and working on the land took a lot of my time but I used to draw in the molasses as I was feeding the cattle or whenever I got the chance. I started an art group on my local town with a population of 350. I travelled for 2hours to go to art school in Bundaberg once a week and attended numerous workshops around the ridges. Now I am retired and living on the coast and living Art – it is my whole life. |
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| How have you developed your skill in this area?
Since retiring to the Coast I have studied an advanced diploma in ceramics and visual arts. I am dedicated to promoting the outback artist. |
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in your Art? Firstly my husband and family for allowing me the time to study in the early years and do workshops. My father and mother for giving me the drive to do something 150% and the ability to realise opportunities. Peggie B one of my agents who has become a friend.
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| What do you hope to give with your painting?
Recording yesterday and today for tomorrow..
I determine the defining point between creation and completion of art, to utilise the process of creation and completed work in itself. I will play within this darkened abyss, assembling, creating, interacting and responding to my inner peace and artist realm. I have focused on accumulation and release through areas of detailed intensity, conflicting with space. Emptiness and the abyss through organic growth. It is about elation, frustration, the yearning of hope. It is the unfolding of oneself, the start of one’s professional development. The greatest art is that which moves the viewer in a positive way, which touches perhaps dormant sensibilities, inherent nature and awakens and/or fortifies the artist’s better qualities
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| What do you get from your art?
God’s beauty is all around us, even in the ordinary. As an artist, my greatest joy is to be blessed with the ability to interpret that beauty on canvas. I love to capture on canvas what is close to people’s hearts. My style has been described as abstract expression, but how I render a piece depends upon the subject matter and how I feel about it at that particular time. I come to my easel as a culmination of all that I have experienced up to that moment in my life. The sense of being able to touch people by what I create is a huge hunger that needs to be filled to the deepest part of me. That hunger will never be satisfied completely. My work, therefore, I always changing and growing, just as I am. I prefer to work in mixed media , the flexibility of that medium best to express the wide range of subject matter and emotion in my painting. I love to paint all subject matter and emotion in my paintings but my favourites are landscapes and florals. My goal as an artist is to give the viewer a painting that will invite them in, make them feel good and five their eyes a safe place to rest. |
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| What has been your greatest moment?
Testimonials from buyers and students.
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| Where would you like to take your art?
To every Australian home. The word passion comes from the latin patior, meaning to suffer or to endure. These days, losing it uncomfortable roots, passion is a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion toward a subject, idea, person or object. Here’s how to get it –
• Revisit and repossess your core dreams and fantasies.
• Consider your dreams to be private, unique and sacred.
• Get help from and watch the actions of the already passionate.
• Indulge, honour and live in your own imagination.
• Don’t talk about it, do it.
• See your passion manifested into action or production.
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up painting?
If one is to be truly alive he or she must have passion – passion for life, for love, for family, for work, for interesting experiences, and for fine things. Passion runs deep through one’s veins and soul as well as expresses itself intensely in it. |
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? My art is the immoral flow of energy that nourishes, extends, preserves. Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of peace. |
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| Who do you know that is a ‘spirited’ woman?
Myself. |
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| Is there anything else you would like us to know about you?Abstraction is an esoteric language, it is a language unique to the individual artist. In a way, it can be more unique than the similarly legitimate language of realistic work, because no matter how realists pull nature’s reality this way and that, they still have nature’s reality, however nuanced. The more modern idea, however it may be seen by some as flawed, is to be the inventor, creator and patent holder of nature. The beauty of nature never ceases to amaze me. I am awed and humbled whenever I stand in her presence. I select my painting locations on the basis of their sheer beauty, sensuality and above all, their inexplicable call to my soul. |
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