Julz holds a Bachelor Of Fine Arts UNSW Art & Design (COFA). She was a finalist in the Hornsby Art prize (2019), Finalist Northern Beaches Art Show (2019), Finalist Mosman 2088 (2019) Finalist Mosman 2088 (2020).

Describing herself as an expressive artist Julz is always working towards capturing the ‘essence’ of the landscape. Prolifically painting her chosen subject again and again, completely emerging herself in it. Julz strives towards gaining a deep understanding of the landscape. Often returning to the same place at different times of the day, with its different light and in all weather. Her artistic process begins “Plein air” where she collects gouache colour paintings, drawings and photos. Working towards capturing that one moment in time.

Her insatiable love of the Australian landscape, its unique colours constantly pull her outdoors and feeds her desire to capture its beauty. Her works are an expressive piece of the whole process as well as a manifestation which embodies the feeling of actually being there. “It’s all just a snapshot of my memory, of what I see and how I feel in the landscape”.

“As an Artist, painting is like a process of liquid thought. It’s a means of story-telling, the power to express a particular moment in time in that Landscape. Starting my work Plein Air allows me the ability to be present in the moment so I can deeply interpret the authenticity of the landscape. Questioning what make this place so unique, later translating its story to the canvas. This recent body of work is a representation of the conversation I’m having with myself and the canvas. The physical painting itself is a process of liquid thought. A story telling where I convey my reflections through expressive mark making with a particular fascination of communicating the authentic light and colour of the place in time. Completely assimilated into the countryside and open to discover the landscape in front of me. Through deep consideration of what I see and feel while immersed in the Australian Landscape I begin my process with drawing and gouache colour paintings, hoping to capture the essence of the place. Seeking to communicate the story of the place at that exact moment in time”.

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

Steve Tyerman paints the places with which he is most familiar – the landscapes surrounding his home in the  hinterland of the Gold Coast, as well as the coastal areas of SE Queensland and far northern NSW. Using rich impasto technique, his paintings are an attempt to create a synthesis of his visual sensations and lived experiences, and reflect the artist’s emotional responses to these places tempered by his keen interest in gardening, wildlife, literature and the natural world.

As a means of countering the ubiquity of the cropped and filtered digital image, Tyerman seeks to portray the perspective of viewing with ‘two eyes’ – looking up and down,  adjusting the focus to near and far, and peripheral vision. The human experience of the brain combining all our other senses, memories, expectations, fears, preferences, preconceived ideas and other thought processes to create every lived moment is what he hopes to render in his paintings.

“I’m interested in the passage of time through the landscape, the changing light conditions, the journey of water, the flora and fauna that are so crucial to the environment, the life cycle of plants, our human presence, symbiotic relationships and the connectedness of all these elements in a beautiful and complex ecosystem”.

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

Julz holds a Bachelor Of Fine Arts UNSW Art & Design (COFA). She was a finalist in the Hornsby Art prize (2019), Finalist Northern Beaches Art Show (2019), Finalist Mosman 2088 (2019) Finalist Mosman 2088 (2020).

Describing herself as an expressive artist Julz is always working towards capturing the ‘essence’ of the landscape. Prolifically painting her chosen subject again and again, completely emerging herself in it. Julz strives towards gaining a deep understanding of the landscape. Often returning to the same place at different times of the day, with its different light and in all weather. Her artistic process begins “Plein air” where she collects gouache colour paintings, drawings and photos. Working towards capturing that one moment in time.

Her insatiable love of the Australian landscape, its unique colours constantly pull her outdoors and feeds her desire to capture its beauty. Her works are an expressive piece of the whole process as well as a manifestation which embodies the feeling of actually being there. “It’s all just a snapshot of my memory, of what I see and how I feel in the landscape”.

“As an Artist, painting is like a process of liquid thought. It’s a means of story-telling, the power to express a particular moment in time in that Landscape. Starting my work Plein Air allows me the ability to be present in the moment so I can deeply interpret the authenticity of the landscape. Questioning what make this place so unique, later translating its story to the canvas. This recent body of work is a representation of the conversation I’m having with myself and the canvas. The physical painting itself is a process of liquid thought. A story telling where I convey my reflections through expressive mark making with a particular fascination of communicating the authentic light and colour of the place in time. Completely assimilated into the countryside and open to discover the landscape in front of me. Through deep consideration of what I see and feel while immersed in the Australian Landscape I begin my process with drawing and gouache colour paintings, hoping to capture the essence of the place. Seeking to communicate the story of the place at that exact moment in time”.

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

There is great power in simplicity, and with an economy of stroke so much can be said of the landscape Stacey Mrmacovski conjures. Based in Melbourne/Wurundjeri, Mrmacovski is inspired by the colours and lighting of the Australian landscape, and her works are purely emotive depictions influenced by both impressionism and expressionism.

“With my latest work, I am inspired by memories and scenes from my own life amongst landscapes that coloured the fleeting moments of happiness, beauty, and harmony. Memories that I can’t get back, but I can revisit through paint. These landscapes are a fusion of places and memories and join together into one scene. As an artist, my hope is that through my artwork the viewer can turn each stroke of paint alive and be guided to a place of memory or dream, where they can revisit anytime they choose.”

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to welcome Ray Monde to the upstairs gallery with The River.

It’s the simple joy of a river in summer that Ray Monde captures in these new works which thread a connection along the Shoalhaven River between Riverbend, Ray Monde’s home and studio, to Riversdale, part of Arthur Boyd’s estate at Bundanon.

Ray Monde is renowned for his collage technique called ‘ghostworking’ where he overpaints paper from magazines allowing the print to ‘ghost’ through the paint, adding depth and complexity to his work.

For this Special Release we bring you a selection of four works by still life painter Angie de Latour. Featuring hellebores, nasturtiums, violets & cactus: each flora specimen is displayed in a vessel that allows the botanic to retain its organic form & in a pose that represents its natural habitat.

Angie is a Melbourne-based artist. Although she has worked across a range of genres, the still life has become the main focus of her painting practice. She says “the process of choosing and arranging objects to paint has a pace of its own and has become a ritual which is constant, unpredictable but increasingly synchronistic.”

Julz holds a Bachelor Of Fine Arts UNSW Art & Design (COFA). She was a finalist in the Hornsby Art prize (2019), Finalist Northern Beaches Art Show (2019), Finalist Mosman 2088 (2019) Finalist Mosman 2088 (2020).

Describing herself as an expressive artist Julz is always working towards capturing the ‘essence’ of the landscape. Prolifically painting her chosen subject again and again, completely emerging herself in it. Julz strives towards gaining a deep understanding of the landscape. Often returning to the same place at different times of the day, with its different light and in all weather. Her artistic process begins “Plein air” where she collects gouache colour paintings, drawings and photos. Working towards capturing that one moment in time.

Her insatiable love of the Australian landscape, its unique colours constantly pull her outdoors and feeds her desire to capture its beauty. Her works are an expressive piece of the whole process as well as a manifestation which embodies the feeling of actually being there. “It’s all just a snapshot of my memory, of what I see and how I feel in the landscape”.

“As an Artist, painting is like a process of liquid thought. It’s a means of story-telling, the power to express a particular moment in time in that Landscape. Starting my work Plein Air allows me the ability to be present in the moment so I can deeply interpret the authenticity of the landscape. Questioning what make this place so unique, later translating its story to the canvas. This recent body of work is a representation of the conversation I’m having with myself and the canvas. The physical painting itself is a process of liquid thought. A story telling where I convey my reflections through expressive mark making with a particular fascination of communicating the authentic light and colour of the place in time. Completely assimilated into the countryside and open to discover the landscape in front of me. Through deep consideration of what I see and feel while immersed in the Australian Landscape I begin my process with drawing and gouache colour paintings, hoping to capture the essence of the place. Seeking to communicate the story of the place at that exact moment in time”.