Allan English has an eye for beauty whether crafted by God, or manmade. The joy of transferring these images onto paper using the medium of watercolour is what drives him to paint.
Allan began experimenting with painting following a premature retirement caused by the effects of infantry service in Vietnam in the late 1960’s. In the years since he has fulfilled a lifelong dream, by learning to paint. He is grateful to have been inspired by his friends, Lisbet Heath (a talented UK artist) and tutored by the prominent watercolour artists Nick Canosa, Christine Porter and Jenny McNaughton. More recently, as a member of the plein air painters of Australia group, friends including Ray Hill, Kasey Sealy, Phil Budge and Kim Robertson, have been a great encouragement.
Holidays have always been an important part of Allan’s life, so travel events and related subjects represent a significant section of his work. Early memories of beautiful beaches and tramp steamers sailing into the unknown off Caloundra are vividly etched into his mind. More recently, trips in Australia and overseas have provided him with fascinating material. His landscape depictions are derived from personal visits to the painted locations. The majority of his work is en plein air. Striking colours and effective detail are strong characteristics of his work.
Allan moved to the beautiful four-seasonal town of Stanthorpe with his wife, Heather, in 2001 after more than 20 years on the Sunshine Coast, and more recently to the hinterland town of Kilcoy. He has two adult children who follow his career with interest and hang his paintings proudly in their homes
Allan hopes that viewing his paintings will give you as much pleasure as he gets from composing his art. Allan moved to the beautiful four-seasonal town of Stahttps://www.spendwithus.com.au/product/original-watercolour-painting-river-gums-trilby-station-nsw/nthorpe with his wife, Heather, in 2001 after more than 20 years on the Sunshine Coast, and more recently to the hinterland town of Kilcoy. He has two adult children who follow his career with interest and hang his paintings proudly in their homes. Allan hopes that viewing his paintings will give you as much pleasure as he gets from composing his art.
Christine Boughen is a watercolour artist born in 1962 in Brisbane, Queensland, now living in the Crow’s Nest area. She spent her early life in the beachside suburb of Margate and spent many hours on craft and art projects, as art materials were always readily available as was tutorage from her father, an architect who began one of the first architectural rendering businesses in Brisbane. She has various qualifications and work experience in universities and other administration, invigilation, architectural rendering and aged care. Her love of plant life and environment which features in the majority of her artwork, evolved through her geographical studies at University. Her work has been exhibited at a few local shows, galleries and Floressence, the annual art exhibition of the Botanical Artists’ Society of Queensland. In 2015 she received an Emerging Artist Award and in 2018, an Honorary Mention at the Daphne Young Watercolour Art Exhibition in Armidale.
Noela lives in the small, picturesque country town of Kilcoy, Queensland, which is rich in culture and history. A descendant of five pioneering families, I am very involved in our local Historical Society, being the research and publishing officer with 15 major local books successfully published to date, from 1992 to 2013, along with the Kilcoy History Trail establishment. This brings about my aspiration to paint local and historical scenes, combining my interests of history and art. Having painted since 1994 and very busy with work, family and other hobbies, I concentrate on painting in oils, have exhibited with success at district shows and my work can be viewed at local venues.
Oil painting on canvas, timber, metal and other surfaces.
Pencil work; Watercolour; Pen & Wash; Pastels;
Acrylics; Calligraphy; Floral Art; Photography
Subject areas include: Landscapes, Buildings, Water scenes, Still Life, Portraits, Animals, and Modern.
Kilcoy District History is of particular interest, so there is always a desire to capture the past in historical paintings of street and landscapes scenes, as well as portraits and Inspired by the beauty of the Australian landscape.
Always living in our rural district, there is a special interest in travelling through our range of beautiful Australian landscapes, using varieties of colours and techniques to portray them on canvas.
Involvement in painting of the popular fiberglass cows for the Leukemia Foundation cause in 2001. Coordinator of the Annual Wood, Wine and Art Festival 2000 to 2013
Exhibition in Nanango in 2009; Maleny 2017; Rosalie Gallery 2018; Glen Rock Gallery 2019 and more Attending professional workshops in various mediums.
Tom McAulay was born in Innisfail, 1946 North Queensland and as a youth studied under Arthur Evan Read and Andrew Sibley, He now resides in the North of Brisbane. It was his own observations of life around him that has inspired most of his work. His early rural life and later travels around Australia laid the foundations for his portrayal of subjects such as the Outback, vast landscapes and birdlife, characters of the Bush and from the Far North or country race tracks. Years of Brisbane living brought new material from the suburbs and especially the sports of football cricket and boxing which started to feature in many paintings. But it is still for his wonderful portrayals of stockyard characters that Tom is probably best known.
In a career that has spanned nearly 50 years, Tom McAulay was won innumerable awards including Warana Brisbane (1969), Caltex Award Toowoomba (1973) and the Heritage Art Award conducted by the Queensland Historical Society. He has been a professional artist his entire life and works in most mediums including oils, acrylics and gouache and has become well-known for his pen and wash or charcoal studies of the bush and stockyard characters.
He has travelled extensively throughout the Australian Outback collecting subject matter for his art, especially on more remote stations with stockmen. As a young man he played football, water polo, badminton & swimming. His enjoyment of sports added boxing and horse racing to his portfolio and in 1990 Tom completed a series of paintings of Australians in sport commissioned by the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke. In 2000 he was the selected Queensland Artist represented in the “Sports in Art” exhibition held in Adelaide.
In a career that has spanned nearly 50 years, Tom McAulay was won innumerable awards including Warana Brisbane (1969), Caltex Award Toowoomba (1973) and the Heritage Art Award conducted by the Queensland Historical Society. He has been a professional artist his entire life and works in most mediums including oils, acrylics and gouache and has become well-known for his pen and wash or charcoal studies of the bush and stockyard characters.
He has travelled extensively throughout the Australian Outback collecting subject matter for his art, especially on more remote stations with stockmen. As a young man he played football, water polo, badminton & swimming. His enjoyment of sports added boxing and horse racing to his portfolio and in 1990 Tom completed a series of paintings of Australians in sport commissioned by the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke. In 2000 he was the selected Queensland Artist represented in the “Sports in Art” exhibition held in Adelaide.
Tom, like most artists, paints as an expression of feeling about a subject, but he continues to work had at his chosen profession. He does not seek the limelight, despite hugely successful exhibitions over the years in major galleries in Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns, Toowoomba, Sydney and Darwin.
His quintessential Australian paintings and drawings are to be found in public and private collections in Australia and worldwide.
His works are best known for his ability to capture light. Of the tonal school with an impressionist leaning, he is fascinated by the fall of light on objects and the subsequent forms and shapes that arise from that momentary relationship. Artistically it was inevitable that the landscape would become a primary source of inspiration for Simon as it provides all the visual splendor enchantment and atmosphere he endeavours to capture on canvas. He aims to begin each work with a great composition and then leaves the light to pull the strings.
Most of the stockmen series are studies in pen & wash or charcoal, but Tom is equally adept at working with oils, acrylics and gouache and has always risen to the challenge of a new medium, His journeying has taken him across many areas of Australia to meet all manner of people. During the sixties, seventies and eighties he frequently went on art safaris with other artists including Rex Backhaus-Smith and on to areas as diverse as Kakadu and the Kimberley region of WA, both of which continue to provide inspiration. He recalls these two regions with much fondness.
In a career that has spanned nearly 50 years, Tom McAulay was won innumerable awards including Warana Brisbane (1969), Caltex Award Toowoomba (1973) and the Heritage Art Award conducted by the Queensland Historical Society. He has been a professional artist his entire life and works in most mediums including oils, acrylics and gouache and has become well-known for his pen and wash or charcoal studies of the bush and stockyard characters.
He has travelled extensively throughout the Australian Outback collecting subject matter for his art, especially on more remote stations with stockmen. As a young man he played football, water polo, badminton & swimming. His enjoyment of sports added boxing and horse racing to his portfolio and in 1990 Tom completed a series of paintings of Australians in sport commissioned by the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke. In 2000 he was the selected Queensland Artist represented in the “Sports in Art” exhibition held in Adelaide.
Born in Adelaide in 1927, his passion for immortalising the land began when as a small child he wandered his beloved Adelaide Hills, sketchbook I hand. He gained his early training at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts and had the advantage of being tutored by returning official war artists. This study involved intensive drawing and painting and he believes that this period has contributed enormously to his success.
On his painting trips to Hahndorf he received invaluable guidance and encouragement from Sir Hans Heysen. But Hal shunned the traditional sweeping landscapes o Heysen and the Heidelberg School, to which he has been compared, to uncover the unique beauty and character of the bush at eye-level, with his fine focus revealing the organised chaos of nature on the forest floor. He mainly painted outdoors and his pursuit of subjects has taken him to many remote areas of Australia. Hal later found that he preferred to paint in the comfort of his studio.
Hal was by no means limited to bush scenes. He also paints still life and after moving to the Sunshine Coast in 1972, also painted beach scenes often including banksias and grass trees. In 1992 he demonstrated his versatility by becoming a finalist in the “Doug Moran Portrait Competition”. In 1996 Hal claimed yet another major prize to add to his collection. Chosen from thousands of entries, he won the prestigious Camberwell Rotary Art Prize for the second time (the first was in 1990). No other artist has achieved this distinction. Hal painted well into his eighties and was named as one of the legends of the century of his region.
Hal had over 20 solo exhibitions both in Queensland and in other states, many of which were sell-outs. His works feature in private collections across Australia as well as New York, London and Ireland.
Todd, the son of professional artist Eric Whisson, was born in Brisbane in 1963.
Inevitably, Todd was immersed in the art world from childhood. Todd has progressed swiftly as a professional artist. He also had a business framing art works since 1980 until becoming a full-time artist in 2003.
Todd travelled extensively in Europe during 1985, sketching the landscape and visiting the art galleries where the French Impressionists fascinated him.
He has studied under such notable tutors as Kenneth Wenzel, Dale Marsh, Kasey Sealy and Robert Lovett. He also attended Robert Wilson’s Summer Art School in Bathurst in 1995. He has further developed his style by attending life-drawing classes with Peter Donnelly.
Todd thrives on painting outdoors and has become known for his landscapes and beachscapes.
In 1997, Todd was one of three guest artists at the Indooroopilly St. Peter’s Lutheran College Art Show. He sold seven paintings and gained one commission during the period of the show, the greatest success of any of the artists and a phenomenal result for this up and coming artist.
In 1998, Todd made the final list of applicants for the McGregor Summer School in the UK and he was also accepted for the Florence Academy of Art. At the McGregor Summer School in Toowoomba, Todd studied under the guidance of tutor Gary McNicol, spending a week drawing and painting figures and another week of landscapes.
The Redcliffe City Council and Pine Rivers Shire Council have purchased a number of Todd’s paintings for their permanent art collection.