2024 Exhibiting Artists
Thanks to Hayley Zena Poynton, Curator at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre City Art Gallery, for serving as independent judge for this year’s exhibition.
2024 Prize Categories
- 2D Artwork Prize
- 3D Artwork Prize
- Photography
Artist Profiles
| ARTIST | PROFILE |
|---|---|
| Kate Holden | I am a landscape painter based here in Wentworth Falls. After completing a bachelor of landscape painting at COFA, UNSW, I spent many years living and exhibiting abroad. I work in oils on canvas and focus on capturing light movement and energy in nature. |
| Alyssa Aleksanian | I am classically trained in drawing and painting in the Ateliar tradition. An additional university degree in the conservation of easel painting means all my work is constructed with the highest standards of conservation in mind - my paintings will indeed stand the test of time. |
| Katrina Bodey | Katrina Bodey is an emerging visual artist living in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Her ceramic pieces are hand built, with each individual evolving intuitively in order to capture their personality. |
| Desley Brown | I’m a mother of four and an emerging artist, but creativity has always been my lifeline.My first canvas was hair, where I learned to shape beauty with my hands. I've since found my voice through paint, embracing freedom, and I'm driven by a fire to create the beauty that words can't express! |
| Lorraine Brownlee | Lorraine grew up in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, moving to the Blue Mountains 33 years ago. She became a professional artist 9 years ago creating a unique and colourful range of images based on Australian native plants and birds. Her designs feature on prints, cards, tea towels and other products. |
| Fiona Bunton | I am an artist and art teacher based in the beautiful Blue Mountains. My art is inspired by my many bushwalking adventures and my love of the beauty of the place I live. My work is based primarily in painting and printmaking but I enjoy dabbling in any type of art. |
| Linda Callaghan | As an award winning artist Linda Callaghan paints a diverse range of art from her Blue Mountains Studio, drawing inspiration from all things nature. Many of her paintings continue to be held in private and commercial collections worldwide along with commissioned art products. |
| Graham Cam | Research Biologist, Ornithologist, Photographer and Educator. Vice President of the Blue Mountains Photography Group. NSW Federation of Camera Clubs (FCC) judge. Former President and Honorary Life Member of both the Birdlife Photography - Australia and The Bird Study Association of Australia. |
| Megan Campbell-Jubb | I love to portray a sense of love and well being in my paintings whether it be portraits, scenes or wildlife, I love the way simple colours come to life as the painting emerges. I'm always growing and evolving artistically, different fazes of life can influence my choice and outcome of a painting. |
| Di Clark | I'm a local artist interested in capturing the natural world mainly in gouache and pastels. |
| Genevieve Clay-Smith | By day, Genevieve works as a film director and script writer, at night, she paints vivid, vibrant and spontaneous abstracts and expressionistic works inspired by the colours, textures and scenes of her home in the Blue Mountains. |
| Tiffany Coco | Hi I am Tiffany lover of all things creative, I am Artist, florist, Interior Designer, surface designer, crafter. Living in Wentworth falls with my husband and Ava the cat, for the past 14 years. Love living so close to nature, nature is my inspiration. |
| Samantha Lee Curran | Samantha Lee Curran (she/her) is a poet and artist living on Dharug and Gundungurra land. She is the author of the poetry collection 'exposure to existence' (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). She was an Artist in Residence at Chateau d’Orquevaux in 2023, and exhibited her debut solo show in September 2024. |
| Natasha Daniloff | Natasha Daniloff is the recipient of a Masters in Visual Art - Painting U.N.S.W. and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. Her residencies in Tasmania, Hill End, Mildura and Italy have been pivotal in developing the techniques and concepts within the themes in her current work. She is currently exploring various material and aesthetic possibilities in the way ideas about landscape and culture can connect. Her work is held in private and public collections in the U.S.A., U.K., Denmark, Singapore, N.Z., and Australia. She is also featured in various publications: “Artists Observed” C.Hampshire, Art Vault 5th Anniversary catalogue and “The Artistic Time”, D Verducci. She is also a recipient of various awards and art prizes. |
| Jennie Deane | Jennie Deane is a Blue Mountains artist primarily working in watercolours while also experimenting with various other mediums. Her inspiration stems from the stunning natural surroundings, which resonate in her latest book, LOOKOUT: Blue Mountains Lookouts Through the Artist's Eye. |
| Bruce Dingwall | Bruce lives on a farm in South Bowenfells with his wife, Judy. He is a coach/consultant for church leaders. He paints mainly in watercolour but also in acrylics. He has won a highly commended and two commended at local art shows in the past few years. |
| Catherine Elvidge | Based in Western Sydney and Blue Mountains, specialising in captivating a combination of Watercolour and Ink. Drawing on inspiration from our local and natural environment, evoking a sense of wonder and connection to nature. |
| Isaac Fazldeen | Isaac Fazldeen's body of work consists of drawings, paintings and relief prints that take inspiration from pop culture, horror movies and literature, mythology and religion. |
| Finnbarr Fetherston | Born in Dublin and now a local Blue Mountain resident, Finnbarr Fetherston is an abstract artist inspired by the native flora. |
| Jade Forder | I create empowering art for women. I want to remind women to make time for stillness and fun. Self care is a necessity, not a luxury.With the play on words in the title, this artwork is a reminder to go into nature, ground your feet, listen to the birds and let your inner child play. |
| Louise Fox | Louise is a local Blue Mountains artist. She has frequently exhibited at Braemar Gallery and other spaces around the area. She has been an art teacher and art therapist till recently. She enjoys working on paper in watercolour, inks, collage and printmaking. |
| Sophie Fraser | Sophie is not your average artist, in fact she isn’t one. But with a questionable sleep schedule and an interest in astrophotography, here we are. |
| Hayden Fryer | Hayden Fryer is a Blue Mountains based illustrator, writer and graphic novelist. His illustration work draws on influences from traditional Ink Painting techniques through emotive brush work, a focus on minimalism in design and informed by the storytelling elements of sequential illustration. |
| Lisa Giles | Lisa's many years of professional experience is in graphic design and fine art using oil, watercolour, aquarelle pencils, pen & ink & photography. Lisa wants to help raise human consciousness to work in harmony with our planet and all its inhabitants in creative, peaceful and sustainable ways. |
| Debbie Gillmore | I am an abstract/mixed media and resin artist that focuses mainly on art that does not represent an accurate depiction of visual reality, communicating instead through lines, shapes, colours, forms and textures and various mediums. |
| Caroline Giniunas | I am a Blue Mountains artist who loves to paint natural scenes in oils. I like to use recycled materials wherever I can. I enjoy using colour and composition to create moods found in the natural world. I hope to portray beauty in my work. |
| Rob Gordon | Most of the work I create reflects my interest in the unique landscape features in the Blue Mountains and the surrounding areas. Most of the works are acrylic on board but I do try using other materials.One common theme in my work is the water features that are a beautiful part of this area. |
| Paul Gorjan | Paul is an amateur artist based in the Blue Mountains. His work mainly focuses on local landscapes incorporating the built environment alongside nature. |
| John Hallam | John is an enthusiastic artist based in the inner west of Sydney. His celebration of nature has evolved with his mediums, showcasing his journey as an artist - from acrylic exploratory paintings full of colour and vibrancy to intricate monochrome landscapes delicately done with oil and soft pastels. |
| Keith 'Munro' Hanson | Keith 'Munro' Hanson has been painting for over 40 years. Completely self-taught he started with pencils around 5, pastels at age 8, moved to pen and ink at 16, completed his first mural at 17, his first large abstract in 1993, and has developed a reputation for large abstracts with vibrant colours. |
| Melissa Hartley | My depictions of flowers, fruit and other household objects suspend time in an ode to the Golden age of 17th Century Dutch still life painting. Favouring the use of chiaroscuro, I create high tonal contrast between the shadowy charcoal backgrounds and illuminated subjects. |
| Kim Heath | My name is Kim Heath. I am an international multi-media artist where I manage my own studio/gallery. I love to create unique, colourful and individual works of art that inspire the imagination. |
| L.M. Hemmings | L.M.Hemmings is a local artist who loves to try and capture the atmosphere of the upper mountains, the buildings, bush and clouds. She is still working on it. |
| Peter Hickey | I have lived in Faulconbridge for twenty four years with my family and I have been capturing images of the Blue Mountains for around nine years. I try to capture different perspectives away from the usual lookouts in my own way. |
| Christine Hyde | Christine Hyde is an award-winning Blue Mountains Artist and Tutor. She paints primarily in inks and acrylics and many of her paintings are inspired by her local bushland and regional surrounds. Christine is represented by Gallery NWC Katoomba and The Plane Tree Gallery in Tumut. |
| Lisa Jordan | With a strong connection to our natural world, my creative focus is based on the organic, animal life, flora, & beauty in nature. Capturing the colour spectrum in all its vibrancy I feel luminous fluidity is essential in my process to express the transitions of light and texture in the landscape. |
| Fika Karnadewi | I’m a full timer who enjoy to pursue my passions in story-telling through arts. I love to celebrate my adventure in Australia by sharing the love of animals, food & drinks, and the everyday life of Australia. My goal is to bring warmth to your interior, and to bring smiles on your face through arts. |
| Rodney Klajman | Rodney Klajman has been creating art since 2008 in The Blue Mountains and works in the mediums of Wood, Hebel, and Limestone. His ideas have expanded from earlier pieces of completed works inspired by comic book and tattoo art. |
| Jo Kot | My work intricately explores the delicate balance between the seen and the unseen elements within myself and the landscape surrounding me. I draw inspiration from the places I travel to and my local environment in the Blue Mountains of NSW. |
| Leonarda Kovacic | Leonarda Kova_i_ is a photographic artist based in Katoomba, specialising in nature-inspired photography. She has had 18 solo exhibitions and has participated in 25 group exhibitions in Australia and Croatia. |
| Rika Kristall | Rika is a long term resident of the Blue Mountains who is captivated by their beauty and majesty. Also inspired by dance and music, she works in figurative and abstract ways aiming to capture emotional expression via unconscious process. She is currently studying Visual Arts at Katoomba TAFE. |
| Kerrie Lander | Kerrie Lander is a Blue Mountains local, with a deep appreciation of the natural environment. Botanical art is a personal way to honour the beauty that surrounds us. |
| Jane Langley | My mother was an artist and I did Art at School. After retiring I began trying different mediums and I like to draw and paint still life and nature. I have exhibited and sold at various Blue Mountains shows. |
| Sabine Le Tourneau | I have been trained by well-known artists (Nicolas Harding, Bernard Ollis, Judith White, Jo Bertini between others) and in Fine Arts TAFE and National Arts School. My current interest is working on landscape at the edge between realism and abstraction. My reference is Nicolas de Stael (1914-1955). |
| Katie Leavey | Katie Leavey is an artist from Leonay New South Wales. Raised in that region, the natural beauty surrounding her each day has allowed Katie to find a real love of using acrylics and mediums to create works that capture the essence of the local mountains and dreamy skies through texture & colour. |
| Helen Leis | Helen Leis is a Katoomba based artist who specialises in printmaking. Helen's work is inspired by the world around her, the landscape, wildlife, her family and garden. The woodblock prints Helen creates demonstrate a variety of methods including jigsaw, multi block and reduction techniques. |
| Ann Lemon | Ann Lemon is an artist based in the Blue Mountains and has practiced her art for over 40yrs. Ann’s work has primarily focused on painting images of Australian nature, generally using big bold colours of very thick oil paint applied with a palette knife. |
| Vicki Lewis | I love painting portraits especially mother & child images. I also enjoy collage & experimenting with mixed media. After moving to Australia 2 years ago, I have found that I really love the birds here & often make them the subject of my art. I studied art & taught high school art in the USA. |
| Deb Marsh | Deb Marsh is a contemporary fused glass artist whose work reflects her joy of colour, light, and texture. After many years of working with various art forms including painting, drawing, ceramic tile mosaics and stained glass, Deb was eventually drawn to the wonderful possibilities of fused glass - a medium that allows for dynamic compositions alongside delicate details. Deb draws inspiration from living in the beautiful Blue Mountains, her gardens, and travels. She is fascinated by the play of light across glass surfaces and the transformation during the kiln firing process, allowing each piece to tell its own unique story. Her process begins with selecting various colours and textures of glass, which are cut, layered, and carefully fused together in a kiln to achieve stunning visual depth and radiance. |
| Debbie Marsh | Deb Marsh is a self taught, Blue Mountains based, photographer who especially enjoys photographing landscapes, intimate landscapes, and nature. She utilises available light and applies minimal post processing to her photographs. |
| Imogen Maskell | Local emerging youth artist using art to express my feelings about everything |
| Geoff Matthews | Geoff Matthews is a Blue Mountains artist who plays with the colours, textures, shapes and lines of the Australian landscape. |
| Elise McDonald | A mother of three and a new Blue Mountains artist. Using colour and texture to explore landscape and florals with structured acrylics. Constantly trying to find the balance of creativity and chaos of home life with kids. |
| Axel Moline | Struggling with the inner turmoil of 2782 vs 2780 |
| Trudie Ann Moore | My artworks are created using natural beeswax which has been my passion since 2007. Dating back 2,000 years to Egypt and Greece this medium is durable and versatile. |
| Sharon Moroney | I live in the foothills of Blue Mountains at Silverdale. I work mostly in charcoal, pastel and watercolour. My early years were spent as an animator and my portrait work has featured in USA's Art Journey-Portraits and Figures’ as well as several other local and international publications. |
| Debbie Morrison | Deb Morrison is a self taught Painter and textile artist. She has attended many workshops and courses for her art education over the years-both in person and online. Deb's work is generally inspired by the Natural environment. Colour, pattern and texture are important elements. |
| Sharron Mountain | Sharron Mountains’ ceramic practice is influenced by the landscapes of the Blue Mountains. Under the guise of S.Mountain Ceramics, she creates bespoke pieces that harmonise functionality with aesthetics, drawing inspiration from the region's rich textures and the distinct haze of colours. |
| Renata Mueller | Many years dabbling creatively with varied interests including ceramics, mosaics, painting, sculpture and drawing. My main creative expression is in the garden, with a particular interest in medicinal herbs from which I create many things by hand. When painting, I enjoy expression through colour. |
| Louise Oldfield | Making pottery for over forty years. Creating Moroccan cookware and huge Tajines was a great time. Now due to joint disease I can only do small amounts of hand building, I love making wonky houses, cheerful flower cups and the most popular; little chickens. |
| Elizabeth Oski | Studied art at the National Gallery Art School and The Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne Victoria. Participated in numerous group exhibitions over the years including "Out of the Blue" at Parliament House Sydney. Currently live in Leura. Media: collage, acrylics, watercolour and pencils. |
| Greg Pitty | A resident of Wentworth Falls for 25 years, my subjects are the natural forms of the Blue Mountains and the built environment of steel, glass and stone. I search within the common-place for that which often lies veiled behind the literal - the hidden corner, the obscure angle, the chance encounter. |
| Caroline Pullinger | I am a Western Sydney based artist.I paint mostly in a contemporary style using acrylics or mixed media. I gather my inspirations from our Australian bush and nature. I'm attracted to its beauty and its imperfections . |
| Rosie Robilliard | Rosie is a homeschooling mum to 4 energetic kids. She currently enjoys capturing lifes moments through photography but hopes to be able to spend more time on sketching and water colour techniques when her children are older. |
| Susan Rochester | Susan Rochester is a Blue Mountains-based artist working primarily in watercolour and mixed media. Her work shows a fascination with patterns and textures, blending organic forms with experimental techniques, inspired by local artists Owen Thompson, David Wardman, and David Middlebrook. |
| Dominic Santangelo | Dominic Santangelo is motivated by the therapeutic nature of the photographic process, and as a way to connect creatively with nature and people. He is a hybrid photographer often combining film and digital techniques to experiment with different photographic styles and genres. |
| Rebecca Shanahan | Aotearoa-born Australian artist enquiring into materiality, trace, transience, and the emotional registers of distance and intimacy, public and private states informed by a decolonial and feminist framework. |
| Wendy Sheard | I am a novice artist and began my drawing journey this year in 2024. I am still learning how to draw and currently having lessons. My preferred medium dry coloured pencils and watercolour pencils. My drawings are created on quality acid free paper using highly quality lightfast pencils. |
| Garry Sims | Garry Sims is a photo journalist from Katoomba. His images and articles feature regularly in Forty South Tasmania, a Hobart based publication, specialising in images from around Tasmania and articles about the fascinating history of the island state. |
| Betty Smith | This painting, Wentworth Falls is the latest in my depictions of Blue Mountains townships.I paint with acrylics on canvas and my style is described as naive. My influences are Henri Rousseau and David Hockney. Like Hockney, I distort perspective to place elements to convey the overall message. |
| Karen Stevenson | I am a local Blue Mountains artist, finding my inspiration from Blue Mountains scenery and birdlike. I have no fixed medium, but choose to explore art in different mediums, including painting, textile art, woodwork and sculpture, ceramics and wet/dry felting. |
| Lisa Taylor | Lisa Taylor is a local artist from Hazelbrook. Her works created in soft pastel represent glimpses of local scenes less travelled by large crowds and offering a solstice in nature. |
| Sally Ann Thompson | Known for her ability to see what the eye may miss at first glance. Sally brings the devil in the detail to her creativity and exploits the colour and the structure of interlocking shapes to bring a fresh perspective to the movement and colour that nature presents. |
| Aly Thomson | I have a passion for capturing the unique beauty in simple things, moments and places in time that are now gone.The materials I use are BFK Rives cotton paper and repurposed frames which make my work a quality product that is affordable for all to enjoy. |
| Steve Tredinnick | Steve a bird artist, whose meticulously-detailed watercolours, all brushwork-created, are inspired and referenced by a lifetime’s experience of studying the birds directly in the field. His work has been published in books and journals, in addition to participating in numerous exhibitions. |
| Josephine Truman | I am multi media artist who has worked with mixed media including visual, sound & music (radio) and literary media. These days I am trending more toward visual arts. |
| Jennifer Turner | I live in Blackheath and work in acrylics on canvas. My works are mainly still life, capturing everyday objects and moments to elevate their importance. I am inspired by the Dutch Renaissance masters and emulate their chiaroscuro tradition with its gentle interplay of light and shadow. |
| Anastasia Vickers | Anastasia was born and raised on Dharug and Gundungurra Country with her heritage originating from Ngadjuri Country in South Australia. She has always been someone who dabbles in art using many mediums and materials. From weaving, painting and skincare there is always something being created. |
| Jess Warren | Jess Warren has participated in the 'Shelter' Exhibition held at Rex Livingston Gallery in Katoomba. She draws her inspiration from Nature. |
| Rebecca Waterstone | Ethereal atmospheres become subtle, tactile objects communicating physical experiences of being enveloped in mist and sense-memories of immersion in materialities of place. Fleeting moments, captured as veiled landscapes or visual poems, occupy an indeterminate space between painting & sculpture. |
| Anita White | Anita has been painting regularly for ten years. She usually paints local scenes & tries to show connection between people or between people & their animals or individuals in their environment. She paints in oils & looks for contrast in light & dark & colour variations. |
| James A Wilson | James lives in Wentworth Falls, and works in many media types, with art having sold in every country on Earth. |