I was born in London and moved to Aus in 2010 and then to Tasmania in 2015. I’ve always loved art and I was probably drawing on walls before I could walk. My passion is classic pencil drawings but I’m enjoying experimenting and trying new media’s.

I have always enjoyed being creative in many forms, from playing and recording my own songs, configuring historical exhibits, to painting.  It was during my hobby of card making, whilst experimenting using different mediums, I ventured into producing something on a larger scale using paint.  That painting also just happened to be my first sale, and filled me with such elation and confidence to continue.  I am forever grateful to my first customer Josi.
The mental therapy that is gained through the creative process is quite cathartic.  The word ‘cathartic’ in itself, contains the word ‘ART’, just letting go and having a go!  This mantra is repeated through the support of local established artists such as Shirley, Jillian and John, that there is now a very vibrant art community.  The Geeveston Art Show has been an invaluable outlet in providing a unique opportunity for local artists to showcase their work.  Many thanks to all the organisers and supporters!

Art has always been a big part of my life since l was a little girl. Taken as a subject at high school, I went onto graduating with an Associate Diploma of Art, Craft and Design (University of Tasmania) in 1985.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, I was an art teacher with Adult Education.
I have also held Solo Exhibitions in Queenstown, Tasmania in 2019/2020, was a participant in the Unconformity Festival, Queenstown and a recent exhibitor of Artbox in Geeveston, curated by Henrietta Manning.
I work from my art studio in Strathblane mostly in Acrylics, pastel, pencil and occasionally oils. You can view my work in various exhibitions around the Huon Valley and can be viewed on Jo-Anne Bateman Art Collection on Facebook.

I am a self-taught woodworker and artisan, who has escaped the professions world to embrace the freedom of three dimensional art.

Having grown up on a working farm, I love to be in the great outdoors. Animals are often embraced in my works, especially in caricaure form where features are slightly exaggerated to convey character.

I am available to accept commissions, and love nothing more than a challenge.

Allison is a local artist who is self-taught, but relies on the intuition of her aboriginal heritage. Allison has experimented with many forms while developing her craft, but willow sculpture and pieces from the earth speak to her most. She is a regular collector of beautiful things discarded by the earth, which she encompasses within her art. Allison is a regular at the Franklin and Judbury Markets and also teaches at the Geeveston Community Centre. She is available for commissions and sells her work under her company, Rustic Sanity.

Jack Braudis is part of the grand tradition of en plein air oil painting where artists eschew the camera and take to the fields, coast and streetscapes to make paintings directly from nature. A difficult discipline, plein air painting is complicated by the weather, insects and curious passers by.  Nonetheless it has a grand history with French Impressionism more or less starting the trend. Artists fascinated by the movement of the European middle class into the outdoors for leisure explored a new light filled palette and the textural possibilities of a more abstract brushstroke.

Braudis trained in art at the University of Massachusetts in a time of Modernist abstraction but it was his study under the mentor Maurice Kennedy that allowed him to develop as the master landscape painter he is today.

In 2009 Jack moved to Australia and painted from his studio in Newtown Sydney. In 2018 he moved further South to Geeveston where the Tasmanian landscape acts as a constant inspiration for his work.

Lisa has over 40 years experience in ceramics. She learned the distinctive German Bauhaus style of pottery from Bauhaus master potters while at university in the USA, earning degrees in Fine Arts-Ceramics, Geology and later Interior Architecture. Lisa was introduced to the Japanese style Raku from one of the fathers of western Raku, Paul Soldner, and quickly came to love the freedom it offered. It is an art form that continues to permeate her work today. Lisa worked as an environmental scientist and later an Interior Architect for the Green Building Council of Australia before settling in Glen Huon to open her studio on their farm, Campo de Flori, where they grow lavender, saffron and olives as well as tending their beehives. This eclectic background is echoed in her ceramic work of Raku, functional tableware, and bespoke porcelain art pieces, many of which reflect the environment around her.

This is Kati’s thrid year taking part in the Geeveston Art Show. In the last show, she won the Roy Lehmann Committee’s Choice Award for her mixed media work called ‘Cold Water Swimming’. Each year Kati has taken inspiration from the ocean, and this year is no different. However, as Kati likes to push herself to try new mediums and tecniques, she is entering of her first attempts at oil painting with ‘Roaring Bay’. Her second work is “Osu Kannon”, a digital print on canvas inspired by memories of her time living in Japan. Osu Kannon is a popular Buddhist temple in Central Nagoya where Kati used to live.

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Emma is a photographer and digital artist, capturing nature and the wild places of Tasmania. Using stunning imagery and provoking the internal workings of the imagination to create ethereal and moody dimensions, that belong to the realms of myth and storytelling. Her work merges a creative and artistic interpretation of the world that exists around her.

Helping people to see things differently. A reminder of dreams, beauty and childhood imaginings. A magic mirrored in the beauty of nature. Stifled and forgotten in the quest for convention. Emma hopes to fan the flame of the unique inner light, guiding others to see and believe in their own authenticity and follow the call of their own inner magic.

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I have resided at Big Roaring Beach in the Huon Valley for 18 years, and I continue to be inspired in my printmaking by the beauty and wonderful wildlife I find here.
I work from my photos, in which I try to capture the transience of the play of light and shadow, especially on water. In printmaking, each mark is unique, indelible and must be made with purpose and strength – this leads to freshness, strength and vitality in the images created.
In my images, I hope to express a sense of joy in the living landscape. For me, birds especially embody freedom, simplicity, lightness of being, and a total sense of harmony with their environment.

The Huon Valley has been my home for over 13 years now. It is an inspirational place to live and work…. and in which to paint. I have never had tuition in art, so if something is interesting in it’s colour or form, I examine is and start to put marks on paper in pencil, pen and watercolour. It’s a fascinating and delightful journey.

I am a Christian Artist who loves to explore creative ways with applying the mixing of colours onto canvas. I let my brush dance as I listen to Christian music.
As a descendant of a Wood Carver (John Walter Blake) who did some of the carvings on the Titanic and a Marble Carver (Richard William Fry) who worked on restoring the marble carvings at Westminster Abbey in London, I inherited a gift of being creative in many ways. This has led me, at a late age, to be accepted into Viaual Art for 4 years through TAFE in Queesland where I won Awards for High Achievement. I was a Runner-up student for the year of 1999. Through TAFE I ended up painting mostly Abstracts.
I now live in Geeveston, Tasmania and for the past 11 years my direction of what I love painting has moved into what I see in visions. Then transferring them from the vision to the canvas. It is exciting and this is where my creativity comes in.

 started spinning and weaving in 1975 when I was 41. At that time there was not much
information around on spinning and weaving, however, I found a little book in the local op
shop and this gave me my start.

I joined the NSW Guild in late 70s and did a Tech course in the early 80s to pursue my
training. Have won a few ribbons including Best in the Handcraft section together with Best
in Weaving at the R.A. Society Show Western Australia, Champion at the Campbelltown,
NSW Show and also at Smithton, Tas after moving there in 1993.

I particularly enjoy designing colourful fabrics including scarves, clothing and rugs on my
computer assisted loom. Although my output is now severely limited due to arthritis, my
enthusiasm is as strong and fresh as ever.

My art has always been very private to me; I don’t often share it widely and -like many- find the process confronting. But without it, I feel a shadow of myself. Art connects me to my world and makes me whole again. Primarily self-taught, my explorations and personal studies in technique and various mediums throughout my life have directed my journey.

Much of my work to date is finely detailed and realistic in style, although my work with acrylics has led me over time to a different end, one in which emotion forms the core of expression, which is at a variance to my usual methodology. I have worked in the following mediums:
• Pastels
• Graphite and/or ink on paper and on drafting film
• Coloured pencil on paper and on drafting film
• Acrylic on canvas and found objects
• Fabric
• Digital interface
• Photography
It continues to be a fascinating journey.

Robert Jackson is a visual artist, multi-skilled musician and performer. He has been active since the 1980s. He lives in the Huon Valley, Tasmania after re-locating from Melbourne in 2019. He has been a regular exhibitor at local shows. In 2021 he was a core musician role in the Creek Road Art Orchestra: an Australia Council funded project run by Kickstart Arts in Hobart.

Robert’s main inspiration is the Australian landscape with its sense of space, forgotten and remnant areas, encroaching suburbs and industry, and is an exploration of the concepts of “Presence” and “Absence”: His recent work has focused on a distillation of landscape into its distinctive elements to examine the concept
of identity and place. What makes “Here”, here? What makes a place distinctive?

He has produced many artworks for public and private clients. He has had many solo exhibitions and is an award-winning muralist. His work is represented in public and private collections in Australia, USA and Europe, and he has held numerous Artist-in-Residencies.

Geeveston based Alpaca Farmers, Mossvale Alpacas have been breeding alpacas for over 20 years. They are the largest alpaca owner in Tasmania with about 300 alpacas. Their focus is on fleece and they have won many championships for the quality of their fleece.

I use clay, and the flotsam and jetsam from the tideline, to work collaboratively and intuitively to tell the story of place. The wild underwater worlds, great forests, islands, mountains, and seascapes of my home in the far south.

This work brings the uniquely bio-diverse seaweeds of the Huon and Channel to the surface. My seaweed science and ceramics project aims to record as many species as I can from these underwater gardens that provide the habitat for all our marine life. I want them to sing their song to us, a fossil record of who they are and what we stand to lose if the water temp rises as there is nowhere further south for them to go.

More about this project can be found on my website at joannalawtonart.bigcartel.com

As a child I was blessed to have a mum who nurtured and fuelled the imagination which has greatly helped  my artistic pursuit.  My art is inspired from my childhood memories and those of the stories from her childhood.

I also derive inspiration from the people around me, my bushland home and environment.  I love using vibrant colours where possible as the full pigments give a wonderful glow to the stories.  I try to convey in my art the joy of colour and hope it brings an emotional reaction, then I know I have done my job as a colourist.

mahlimae is an internationally exhibited mixed media sculptor. Her exquisitely simplistic and emotionally driven characters evolve from a world long forgotten; a world hidden in the shadows of imagination. Finding inspiration in ancient ritual and ancestral folklore, Nicole’s melancholic works take you on a compelling journey into the darkness and light of human nature, drawing you in closer to explore the stories hidden within their subtle and fragile expressions.

I have always loved photography, taking photos of people and nature.  Taking photos ensures I take the time to really see.   In the 1980s I began drawing and painting using pen and watercolour.  My style has developed along with my artistic interests in flowers, trees and people using colour, shapes and patterns.

My submissions for this show are both based on flowers.  I have always been fascinated watching poppies open as they unfold leaving a crinkly surface reflecting variations of the beautiful range of colours and shadows. My Mixed Poppies painting is created with mixed medium combining cut outs from my photos with line drawing and watercolour bringing the flowers to vivid life.  My Sunflowers in Blue emphasises the contrasts and bold colours in the flowers and foliage.    Many of my painting have no background allowing the colours and shapes to become the central allure of the creations.

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Since moving to Franklin in the Huon Valley, I am finding there are so many creative people who are encouraging and happy to share their skills and ideas. My art practise has been stimulated in this amazing environment and I now find I’m much more reflective of my surroundings and the people I share this space with. It’s allowed me to think “outside the square” and push the envelope of reality in new ways.

I home educate in our beautiful Huon Valley. I love working with tools and timber and I have a huge interest in my Māori heritage especially our Māori language, traditional weapons and carvings.

home educate in our lovely Huon Valley with my two younger brothers. My passion is drawing, art and piano. Having recently been studying our ANZACs in particular the Aboriginal and Māori Battalion, I chose to acknowledge all of our ANZACs in my piece of art.

Born in Indonesia, Rino left for Singapore where she did her Diploma in Ceramics, then to Melbourne to do her BA in Glass Studies, then worked as a Indonesian Art and Culture teacher. She moved to Tasmania in 2002 . Under the banner of the HR factor, Rino and her late silversmith husband started their art partnership where almost everything can happen. She is now back in the swing to create and produce artwork.

My work evolves from imagery inspired by the world around me. Working in mixed media gives me the freedom to blend spontaneity and control whilst exploring the realms of negative spaces. I particularly enjoy combining the fluidity of inks with dramatic charcoals to capture both emotion and illusion.
These, together with detailed graphite drawings, allow me to portray the beauty of the Australian flora and fauna.

Although having a love and appreciation of art from a very young age, I did not begin my own artistic journey until settling in Tasmania in 2007 age 65. I was introduced to block printing techniques and more specifically, by the physicality and artistic style of linocuts and many other forms of block printing techniques including collagraphs, woodblock printing and lino etching. In my work I like to explore such techniques as traditional black prints on both printing paper and hand made paper, pre-painted linocuts, jigsaw prints, multi-block prints, reduction lino cuts and chine collé linocuts. Although I still enjoy exploring the unique flora and fauna of Tasmania through my art, of recent times, I find myself drawn to story telling through art. At present I am exploring aspects of Tasmanian life both past and present. I am also enjoying the spontanteity of Japanese style GYOTAKU printing.

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Ron is a multiple award winning artist whose paintings are in private collections in Australia, United Kingdom and the USA. His paintings have been exhibited in Tasmania, NSW, Victoria and Queensland. In 2004, two of Ron’s paintings were selected for exhibition at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
His interest in painting began after a school excursion to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1960s.

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I came to Geeveston 7 years ago and worked for HRC as a home carer. Due to health reasons, I had to give up work. A friend suggested I join the art group on Tuesdays which led me to having a few art lessons. To my surprise, I found with the right guidance, I was able to draw. I’m hoping with time I will get better and will produce some eye catching art.

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RT Wenzel is a multidisciplinary artist on Melukerdee country, Tasmania, exploring mythology and ecology from an animist perspective. Instagram @the_quiet_wilds

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am an operating theatre nurse. I dabble in all sorts of arts but a master of none. I enjoy the journey especially creating art from waste giving it new life.

trained as an art teacher for one year and went to a few adult education groups, otherwise self taught. I’ve always had a love of painting and had a go at watercolours, oils and acrylics. Oils are my favourite. I’ve drawn and painted since I was a child and sold my works all over the state.

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