Karol Oakley Master Pastellist,

Karol is a professional Australian Artist living in . South east Queensland.

This artist is known for a strong representation style of painting; with water a recurring theme amongst her favourites subject to paint. She also paints landscapes, portraits and still life with as much attention to detail, whilst retaining that painterly realist style that Karol’s work is recognised for. It is the medium of pastel that remains her first love and the medium from which her many awards have been won.

Karol is a recognised master pastellist of over 12 years standing, and a member of the Pastel Society of Australia. A sought after tutor, Karol travels frequently teaching pastel painting to art groups through out the state and overseas with painting tours to the Greek Islands and Norfolk Island. Karol has taught beginners pastel for two seasons at the Macgregor Summer School in Toowoomba

A multi award winning artist, Karol has paintings held in public and private collections in Australia and over seas. She has been part of twelve exhibitions over the last twenty years There have been articles written about Karol’s paintings in publications which include, Australian Artist magazine, Pastel Artist International, Expressions Magazine and the Pastel Society of Australia Newsletter. The last article about Karol’s work was published in Australian Artist was November 2009

The next exhibition of Karol’s paintings is at Seaview Artists Gallery Moffat Beach Caloundra in October 2010. Her paintings can be viewed all year at the following galleries: Caloundra Fine Art and Framing Gallery, Landsborough Galleries Landsborough, Kenilworth Art Space, Kenilworth and Jenart Gallery and Gallery Beneath at Mooloolaba QLD.

PO Box 651, Nanango Q 4615

Email: Karol Oakley

phone 041 902 3841

Tricia Reust

Tricia Reust is a visual artist working in most media. She exhibits regularly, teaches and is active in the arts community.

Tricia has had work accepted seven times in the Bald Archy National Touring Exhibition, has been published in the Australian Artist and Artists’ Palette magazines, and completes several portrait commissions every year.

Tricia is a Master Pastellist with the Pastel Society of Australia, and is a member of Artists in Redcliffe, Visionaries, the Portrait Society of America and the Moreton Bay Regional Arts Council. Her awards cover many themes and media including pastel, portrait and miniature.

Website: http://www.triciareust.com

More of Tricias work can be seen below

 

Cherie Reynolds

I was born in Werribee, Victoria and moved to Bundaberg when I was ten. Later as a teenager I would spend weekends sketching animals in pencil and charcoal but for the last 24years I have devoted my life to my husband and my three children. About eighteen months ago, through a lot of encouragement from my mother, I discovered pastels and instantly fell in love. My mother gave me a book by Lesley Harrison on animals and away I went. Through this book I have taught myself and have enjoyed the journey each drawing I create takes me. Each drawing is done on velour board which I believe gives my animals a more lifelike texture. Although I love doing landscapes and want to try my hand at portraits, wildlife and pet portraits will remain my first true passion. I am now looking forward to learning more, creating more and fulfilling a dream I've always had. Along with my husband and two of my children, I now live in Edens Landing, Brisbane.

Contact: Mobile 0422585634

Email: Cherie Reynolds

Una Robinson

BACKGROUND:I grew up in South Australia, & have always been creatively and artistically inclined plus have experience in a wide variety of handicrafts and home-crafts. (I currently make semi precious jewellery). I moved to the NT in 1969 and later, to the Maleny Hinterland QLD area in 1998, where long awaited art skills and desires from age 11 came into being. My maternal grandmother learnt art by correspondence in the 1930’s and her works I always admired.

Membership current with:
-Landsborough Art Group
-Maleny Arts & Craft Pastel Group (MACG)
-Collaboration of Maleny Artists (COMA)
-Pastel Society of Australia (from Dec 2007)

TUITION:
Tuition in art has been delivered by accredited artists, workshops and gleaned from numerous art books.

Being mostly a realist painter, favourite subjects come from Mother Nature; pets, native animals or landscape (especially of the Outback). Personal or authorised photographs only are used, to aid correctness of detail and colour, so paintings are all 100% original.

Pastels of all varieties, soft and hard are used on Canson, Colorfix papers, on primed board, Canvas and even on Matt board especially for smaller works and fixatives are rarely used.

I enjoy portraiture and the real likeness, spirit and character of the person is the focus, with most portraits produced with the aid of photographic images of the known subject.

GALLERIES where artworks have been exhibited:
-Maleny Art & Craft Gallery QLD.
-The Hinterland Gallery, Landsborough QLD.
-David Linton Gallery, Maleny
-Maleny Art Space Gallery;
Plus since 1999, works have been exhibited regularly in the Sunshine Coast area.

AWARDS
-1999,Festival of Colour Riot of Art , Maleny
-2007, Caloundra/Maleny 2007 Show.

COMMUNITY DONATIONS
-Landsborough Museum
-Beerwah Lions Club
-Wildlife Warriors animal hospital, Beerwah
-Maleny Community Hospital (together with MACG)

Artworks are with friends & family across Australia & in France.

CONTACT UNA ROBINSON

Email: Una Robinson

Bette Phillips

Bette began pastelling in 2003 after attending a 2 day portraiture workshop tutored by Maxine Thompson. After learning the basic techniques of laying down pastel, she quickly adapted the knowledge learnt for portraiture to still life, florals and wildlife studies.

In the past 6 years Bette has entered and taken out several awards across the Wide Bay and surrounding district competitions for her unique photo-realism style. She has been a finalist in the Australian Artist magazine and has also been featured in the Artist Palette magazine. Bette works at the Wide Bay Gallery in Maryborough where she serves the art community with every kind of art material sales and the framing of all art styles and mediums. Her works are displayed at the Wide Bay Gallery and many works have been sold through this outlet. More of her works are available for viewing at www.bettephillipsartist.com.au

ARTIST STATEMENT

I find nothing more relaxing and exhilarating than to be in front of my easel with my trays of pastels sprawled out displaying their booty of colour. To perfectly reproduce an image that is burning away in my conscious, is a burning passion and obsession. My work environment presents me daily with new and exciting colours, papers, techniques, tools and most of all, the contact with other artists, which I relish.

I have found pastel has the capacity to be applied and used in the same fluid way that oil paint has been associated with for millenium, and it is my life-long ambition to raise the profile of this age old medium. I want to bring it right under the noses of judges and critics and say “What about this for pastel??”