With the end of the financial year approaching this is a good time to brighten up your workplace, help a local artist and lighten your tax burden!
A collection of works selected from our web-site categories Contemporary Art and Contemporary Art Under $1000
illustrated Jeff Ferris Between Sadness and Joy
Gallery hours: Tues - Fri 11- 5 pm,
Sat & Sun 12 - 5 pm during the exhibition
Among the important works still available are a terrific drawing by George Lambert of his 16 year old son Maurice wearing boxing gloves - Maurice went on to become a famous English sculptor. Another family portrait is the woodcut by Ethel Spowers whose niece Cora was the model for After Dark 1927 which is inscribed as an invitation.
There are two, almost life-size National Gallery School model drawings by Jean Sutherland.
Among the Maritime works in our exhibition are Frederick Garling's depiction of the Schooner Eclipse, which was involved in...
View Exhibition about Early Australian Watercolours and Drawings
The gallery is open Tuesday and Thursdays, 10-5 pm, and intermittently at other times while we prepare our next exhibition which will be Early Australian Watercolour and Drawings.
Contact Bridget on 0419 306593 or email the gallery for an appointment at other times.
100 framed works priced under $2,000
This exhibition opens on Thursday 3rd December from 5.30pm
Until 23rd December 2020
When I was a child my contented father showed me the mystery of painting with water-colors. It was revelatory the way in which he swished the red sable Windsor and Newton purest camel-hair or red sable brushes into a freshly rinsed Pura milk bottle and diluted my holiest colors such as Veridian Green and Alizaron Crimson and the most remarkable one of the whole spectrum - French Ultra Marine.
I sat so peacefully with him wherever I went, which was everywhere there was to go in Whittlesea, and I, at ten years of age would watch him blend in the...
"... At the end of the Soviet system the professional artists were given ownership of their apartments, and those with studios got them as well, and although they no longer had the State support, they retained the studio contents ...however, their work was completely out of fashion. The lifeline was interest from abroad. The studios were full of preparatory sketches. These immediate impressions of life by these highly trained artists were a revelation. They were certainly the basis of the interest I have maintained over the last twenty eight years of buying them." extract from "Art in Russia", John Barkes, London
I visited Mary recently and was rewarded with the opportunity to look through a box of drawings I hadn't seen before. Delighted, It took me an hour to select a collection to take away. Here they are.
25 unframed watercolours and drawings from between 1971-2015 depicting Melbourne life as observed by Mary Hammond while shopping in Richmond, Northcote or Fairfield and while watching the local golfers.
Bridget McDonnell 2020
Continuing our theme of the Small Wall, here is a collection of pictures by our contemporary artists. Included are new works by Jan Senbergs, Glenda Fell Jones, Kevin Foley and Peter Brown and some we found hidden away by Peter Trusler, Nick Botting, Lucy Boyd and Mary Hammond. Also some favourites by Jeff Ferris, Celia Perceval, Barry Dickins, Don Heron and John Gollings.
After watching a Masterclass by American interior decorator, Kelly Wearstler, we were inspired to put together a wall of small pictures. We have at least 300 in stock ....
In this selection there are 26 paintings, watercolours, drawings and etchings - a mosaic of colour, texture and subject. All favourites of ours. If you don't want a whole collection of pictures, each of these would be just as happy on its own small wall.