Ongoing exhibition
Since 2014 I have exhibited at the Hastings Valley Fine Art Association (HVFAA) Gallery in Port Macquarie. The exhibition artworks are changed every three months, and showcase the work of local artists. Details of HVFAA can be accessed by the link www.hastingsvalleyart.net.au
2020 Exhibitions
Because of Covid virus, many of the exhibitions for 2020 have been cancelled. Our bi-annual HVFAA exhibition entitled “Food for Thought” will commence at the Glasshouse on 26 October and be on show until 6 December. My entry is an acrylic “Lessons in Life” (based on an old photo of my mother in law Norma and my daughter Andrea at the kitchen bench possibly making pikelets in 1985)
12 December 2020 to 21 February 2021: “Snowline to Sandune” – an exhibition of 9 artists at the Glasshouse, Port Macquarie. I have twelve paintings for that exhibition, including the one shown below titled”Snowgums of Crackenback”. this is a quadriptych (4 canvas panels) each 30cm wide x 91cm high painted in acrylic
2019 Exhibitions
March Port Stephens Art Prize: exhibited “The Wreck becomes the Landscape” (4 paintings montage from Pt. Hicks)
April: Port Macquarie Art Society Easter exhbition: “Trees in the Glen” (awarded 1st Prize $750 Acquisitive in Contemporary Section and “Sentinel Rocks Dalgetty”)
June: Pacific Palms exhibited PS Ballina – Morning Dawns and Drag Racing Crowdy Head.
July Taree Open Art Exhibition exhibited “Heart of the Artichoke” and PS Ballina
2018 Exhibitions
from May to present time, exhibiting 3 pieces at Psychology Practice Moss Vale (Garden Delight, A Moment of Peace and View from the Ghan.
March: Uralla Rotary Club 41st Art Exhibition: exhibited Garden Delight & a Moment of Peace
March: Great Lakes Open Art Exhibition exhibited Heart of the Artichoke, Just Posing
March: Comboyne Show exhibited Outback Tree, Old Shack at Gum Scrub, Headland PMQ and Rock Wall
March: 2018 International Womens day art exhibition Gladstone: Looking through the wreck (large); Heart of the Artichoke and Mossy Tree.
Port Macquarie 43rd Annual Easter Art Prize: exhibited Mossy Tree, headland Port Macquarie and drawing of John
April: Art in the Vale (Hannam Vale) exhibited Heart of the Artichoke & Just Posing (which sold for $375)
May-July: Gaolhouse to Glasshouse exhibition by HVFAA members to celebrate bi-centenary of John Oxley’s discovery of the Hastings from the top of Mt Seaview. paintings were based on finding a reference and then representing some aspect of the hastings in the past 200 years. My research with the Maritime Museum led me to paint the sunken P.S. Ballina with an interpretation of how it would have been the day after the sinking, which occurred right at town green. my reference was a pen drawing which appeared in the sydney illustrated herald in March 1879 showing the Ballina sinking. this is one of my largest works to date, 1100 wide. I gave an artist’s talk and my photo was featured with two other artists in the local Focus Magazine. I have also painted a smaller version of this painting which I am donating to the Port Macquarie Maritime Museum to use in their upcoming fundraising event.
October 2018: 1st Place Open Section Adelaide Swift Memorial Art Prize presented by Rotary Club of SW Rocks
An unexpected win! Entered my painting of the PS Ballina as Mid North Coast Shipwreck 1879. The judge, Christine Porter (Lismore Artist) commented that the colour, perspective and originality of the work had appeal.
2017 Exhibitions
HVFAA Summer Showcase – exhibited 2 wreck series dyptich, Sarah & Mossy Tree
Port Stephens Art Exhibition : Exhibited “the Red Shoes”
Port Macquarie 42nd Annual Easter Art Exhibition: 3rd Prize Contemporary Section with “Garden Delight” oil sticks/oilpaint on paper, also exhibited “the Red Shoes”
Great Lakes Art Exhibition: exhibited “Yellow Skies” and “View from the Ghan”
2016 Exhibitions
HVFAA Annual Summer Showcase Exhibition, Laurieton (Dec)
KRAP (Kundabung Regional Art Prize)
Adelaide Swift Memorial Art Prize, South West Rocks: 1st Place Oils/Acrylic Section with “The Red Teapot” – Oil Sticks /oil paint on paper insert image of painting & me accepting prize from Isobel Hermann (Sept)
Pathways to Abstraction: Glasshouse Port Macquarie (March). The exhibition also included an artist talk.
2015 Exhibitions
HVFAA Annual Summer Showcase Exhibition Laurieton (Dec) awarded Emerging Artist for Contemporary painting Garden Delight (Oils & Oilsticks on paper)
Comboyne Spring Fair theme: 4B3 : Let there be light. Two paintings – lighthouse at moonrise, and surfer waiting for waves at sunrise.
KRAP (Kundabung Regional Art Prize)
Taree Open Art Exhibition
Camden Haven Show: exhibted abstract faces and chicken painting
Comboyne Show: where the nude on the tractor, originally titled “Life on the Farm” had an anonymous name change to “Woman on Top” and received a good deal of comment from the locals. To the right of the “woman on top” are two other entries, “the Hen’s Brood” and “Abandoned and Forgotten”
2014 Exhibitions
HVFAA Annual Summer Showcase Exhibition Two portraits exhibited in open section. “childhood fascination” #1 & #2″ these paintings have been subsequently renamed “childhood fascination”
Solo Exhibition: Bendigo Bank, Port Macquarie (invitation to exhibit as part of their 10th anniversary party). Nine paintings were displayed for two days.
Comboyne Spring Fair theme: 4B3 :Spring on the farm. exhibited children playing on tractor “happy days on the farm”
Adelaide Swift Memorial Art Prize South West Rocks – exhibited “off to Market”
Taree Open Art Exhibition exhibiting “Rowing on the Manning”
KRAP (Kundabung Regional Art Prize)
Portrait Prize North Haven: exhibited portrait of John Nolan & small painting of Terri Maddock
Port Macquarie 39th Annual Easter Art Exhibition Exhibited “John Nolan Portrait” and “Truck Wauchope”
Under the Influence Glasshouse, Port Macquarie (Feb-March) This was a curated exhibition by HVFAA members who had to submit their entries for the exhibition. The brief was to copy the work of a famous artist (for copyright reasons, the artist had to have been dead for at least 70 years) and then create a painting influenced by the famous artist’s style. My choice was the work of Kirchner, a German Expressionist who painted “Street Scene Berlin 1913”, and the influenced painting was “Street Scene Sydney 2013”.