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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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PO Box 1846 . Buderim . Queensland 4556 . Australia
Tel: +617 5453 4785 . Mobile: 0402 508287 . email: saffron.drew@gmail.com
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| Meet Saffron Drew, capturing the texture, colour, and dynamic pattern of nature in her art. |
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| How long have you been creating your prints? For about six years now. Art in the forms of print-making and sculpting were a natural progression for me, and something I had been wanting to pursue for many years. |
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| How have you developed your skill in this area?
I studied design during my arts degree in London, and then gained experience in colour, texture and balance working as a Fashion and Textile designer for many years in Europe and the Far East. More recently I returned to college to learn the age old etching and lithography techniques as well as contemporary print-making processes. From there it became a lovely exploratory journey developing my own style and colourings. |
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| Who or what has been a major inspiration/influence in your art? The abundance of the natural world around us; feathers, plants, the ocean etc; how they affect our senses and make us resonate emotionally, and also the impact of the elements on natural forms…fronds in a breeze, tactility, movement. Also, the textures, tastes and colours of faraway places feed my soul and imagination
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| What do you hope to give with your art?
The pure pleasure of intimacy with an image of beauty, that seeks to soothe the spirit and feed the soul. A chance to experience equilibrium and peace in our hectic lives. |
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| What do you get from your art?
I feel a profound sense of tranquillity when I have created something that seems to speak to me on an emotional level. As I am hand mixing my colours the work seems to take on a life of its own that often surprises me. I have also trained as a colourist and colour therapist, so the final print is just what I am needing [often unconsciously] at that point. |
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| What has been your greatest moment with your art?
Well, I am pretty young, so have a long journey ahead of me, but being asked to be part of the Sydney Sculpture Show a few years ago, realized a long held dream of mine and validated my work, as its always slightly nerve-racking putting yourself out there. Oh, being asked by an overseas art publisher for the license to print several artworks. Also, a lovely Doctor thanking me for a large commissioned piece for the family living room. She was convinced that the calm it brought to the household was responsible for all arguments and disharmony vanishing! |
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| Where would you like to take your art?
In a purist sense, I have the vision of a huge space and the time to develop my thoughts and images in the form of sculptural installations, with some print work and writing….possibly accompanied by sound sculpture as an emotional response to our conscious and subconscious emotional responses to our surroundings. On a commercial level, I like the idea of taking some of the work into product. |
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| What would you say to someone who is interested in taking up print art?
Well it’s a huge subject once you dip your toes in….There is so much to learn about, historically and globally. From intricate Japanese linocuts, to the Illustrative Indian plates, to street art from Banksy. Dig in and enjoy. |
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| What part of your spirit adds to your success as an artist? Mmm, I think it’s the gentle, nurturing, yoga loving part of me. [Just wish she was in evidence 24/7.] |
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| Who do you know that is a ‘spirited’ woman?
A beautiful friend of mine; Sam Mill who works in the film business. She defines spirited by being dynamic and good-natured under pressure. Her down time is yoga in Sri Lanka and authentic living. |
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| Photo of Saffron courtesy of Profile Magazine. |
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