Workshop - Beautiful Backgrounds & Sensational Sunsets

Acrylic Workshop with Lesley Perk

Learn a simple and easy way to create amazing backgrounds for your favourite subjects. Every one colourful - everyone different. Also paint a beautiful sky with acrylics is IS possible.

Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 9am to 4pm at Youth Activity Centre, Tirroan Road Gin Gin.
Cost: $25 per day.
Contact: Gwen Field 0402 573356

"Colour My Country"

This exhibition is about color, design and landscape. The theme of the project is a variety of Australian landscapes inspired by Dorathea MacKellar’s poem “My Country” and images I have collected while traveling around the Country. The use of dots and lines in some of the paintings is to add to the aesthetic and to hint at the way the art and culture of our indigenous Australians is an integral part of this beautiful land of ours. I love the vastness, remoteness and the amazing scope and richness of the colours ranging from the brilliant blues and greens of the oceans to the deep reds of the interior and the browns and ochres of the Channel Country. The patterns found in the landforms and on the ground have a randomness about them which really appeals to me and the way I like to express myself in my art. Over the past 10 years, the focus of my artwork has been on developing an individual style which reflects my own thoughts and feelings towards the world around me. Lesley Perk

"The Colour Of Dreams"



The Gin Gin Regional Courthouse Gallery is proud to present "The Colour of Dreams" by Gin Gin artist, Lesley Perk and Waterloo artist, Jenny Neubecker.



Lesley Perk

Lesley has been involved in art since her high school days and has taught art to grades 4 to 12.  She paints mostly in acrylics but also uses pastel, watercolour and graphite.

She takes her inspiration from anywhere and everywhere - places, people and things that have caught her eye.  Sometimes she starts from scratch and develops an idea, which becomes an all-consuming adventure as it evolves.  Her favourite themes are subjects that have a design element to them like mandalas, and she loves the Australian Outback.



Lesley says, "As I worked on these paintings I drew energy from the shapes and colours and let my imagination flow as they took form.  It reminded me of how our dreams connect us with our subconscious where the suppressed issues of our life are stored.  Like a puzzle that makes no sense, they are random pieces of imagery which invite us to look into ourselves and discover the cryptic messages of memories, emotions and conflicts waiting to be resolved."



Jenny Neubecker





Jenny has made a wonderful and unexpected discovery in beading.  After many years producing 2D art works with painting, drawing and collage media, beads have given her a new way to indulge her love of small, precious, sparkly things.



These latest works are based on the colours of Waterloo, where she has a grazing property, and reflects the changes of colour, in the landscape, from season to season and throughout the day.

Jenny says, "The process itself is quite meditative and it is both a pleasure and challenge to manipulate colours, shapes and textures through a new but very accessible medium.  Many jewellery pieces are also inspired by hand made, wound paper beads from Uganda.  Every time I hold a bead from Uganda, touched by someone living in very different circumstances to me, I am reminded of the abundance in our lives and am grateful to these women for so generously sharing their small treasure."



For Sale in the Gin Gin Gallery

 

TITLE:    'Winter Pasture"  - Acrylic    750mm x 570mm
ARTIST:    Lesley Perk

CATEGORY:  Landscape

PRICE:     $320

For more information contact the Gin Gin Courthouse Gallery on (07) 4157 2154

TITLE:    'Bugs Mania"  - Acrylic    600mm x 500mm
ARTIST:    Lesley Perk

CATEGORY: Contemporary

PRICE:     $230   SOLD

For more information contact the Gin Gin Courthouse Gallery on (07) 4157 2154

TITLE:    'Owl under the Moon'

          One-of-a-kind necklace with handmade focal 
ARTIST:    Greer McNeill

CATEGORY: Jewelry

PRICE:     $45 SOLD

For more information contact the Gin Gin Courthouse Gallery on (07) 4157 2154

TITLE:    'A Little Bird Told Me'

          One-of-a-kind bracelet 
ARTIST:   Greer McNeill

CATEGORY: Jewelry

PRICE:     $40

For more information contact the Gin Gin Courthouse Gallery on (07) 4157 2154