Following on from her sold out solo exhibition at our Northern Beaches gallery in 2022, we are incredibly excited to share Kate Vella’s latest body of work STILLNESS here in the place she lives and work, the Southern Highlands

Continuing with her favoured subject matter of kitchenalia, vintage tableware and objets, Vella brings these tablescapes to life with a rich and coloured loaded palette along with her very distinctive mark making

Largely self-taught Vella paints from life, her focus is on depicting florals, fruit and vessels. Working with acrylics, Vella’s work is intuitive and spontaneous with an emphasis on reimagining the still life genre. From a very young age she had a vision to be a painter, but it wasn’t until 2018 when Vella began pursuing her creative career. 

Vella held her first solo show “Antidote” in Sydney in 2019. Since then she held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows and collaborations.

Vella was awarded First Prize in the Agency Still Life Bowral Art Prize 2022 and has been two times finalist in Ravenswood Australian Women Art Prize Emerging Category 2022, 2020, Goulburn Art Award 2022, Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 2020 and Kangaroo Valley Art Prize 2020. Vella was also awarded Highly Commended in The Blue Square Competition 2019 and Commended in Belle Property Bowral Art Prize.

Vella’s work is held in private collections in Australia, Internationally and in The Osborn Boutique Hotel in the Southern Highlands.

Following on from her sold out solo exhibition at our Northern Beaches gallery in 2022, we are incredibly excited to share Kate Vella’s latest body of work STILLNESS here in the place she lives and work, the Southern Highlands

Continuing with her favoured subject matter of kitchenalia, vintage tableware and objets, Vella brings these tablescapes to life with a rich and coloured loaded palette along with her very distinctive mark making

Largely self-taught Vella paints from life, her focus is on depicting florals, fruit and vessels. Working with acrylics, Vella’s work is intuitive and spontaneous with an emphasis on reimagining the still life genre. From a very young age she had a vision to be a painter, but it wasn’t until 2018 when Vella began pursuing her creative career. 

Vella held her first solo show “Antidote” in Sydney in 2019. Since then she held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows and collaborations.

Vella was awarded First Prize in the Agency Still Life Bowral Art Prize 2022 and has been two times finalist in Ravenswood Australian Women Art Prize Emerging Category 2022, 2020, Goulburn Art Award 2022, Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 2020 and Kangaroo Valley Art Prize 2020. Vella was also awarded Highly Commended in The Blue Square Competition 2019 and Commended in Belle Property Bowral Art Prize.

Vella’s work is held in private collections in Australia, Internationally and in The Osborn Boutique Hotel in the Southern Highlands.

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.”

Following on from her sold out solo exhibition at our Northern Beaches gallery in 2022, we are incredibly excited to share Kate Vella’s latest body of work STILLNESS here in the place she lives and work, the Southern Highlands

Continuing with her favoured subject matter of kitchenalia, vintage tableware and objets, Vella brings these tablescapes to life with a rich and coloured loaded palette along with her very distinctive mark making

Largely self-taught Vella paints from life, her focus is on depicting florals, fruit and vessels. Working with acrylics, Vella’s work is intuitive and spontaneous with an emphasis on reimagining the still life genre. From a very young age she had a vision to be a painter, but it wasn’t until 2018 when Vella began pursuing her creative career. 

Vella held her first solo show “Antidote” in Sydney in 2019. Since then she held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows and collaborations.

Vella was awarded First Prize in the Agency Still Life Bowral Art Prize 2022 and has been two times finalist in Ravenswood Australian Women Art Prize Emerging Category 2022, 2020, Goulburn Art Award 2022, Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 2020 and Kangaroo Valley Art Prize 2020. Vella was also awarded Highly Commended in The Blue Square Competition 2019 and Commended in Belle Property Bowral Art Prize.

Vella’s work is held in private collections in Australia, Internationally and in The Osborn Boutique Hotel in the Southern Highlands.

Following on from her sold out solo exhibition at our Northern Beaches gallery in 2022, we are incredibly excited to share Kate Vella’s latest body of work STILLNESS here in the place she lives and work, the Southern Highlands

Continuing with her favoured subject matter of kitchenalia, vintage tableware and objets, Vella brings these tablescapes to life with a rich and coloured loaded palette along with her very distinctive mark making

Largely self-taught Vella paints from life, her focus is on depicting florals, fruit and vessels. Working with acrylics, Vella’s work is intuitive and spontaneous with an emphasis on reimagining the still life genre. From a very young age she had a vision to be a painter, but it wasn’t until 2018 when Vella began pursuing her creative career. 

Vella held her first solo show “Antidote” in Sydney in 2019. Since then she held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows and collaborations.

Vella was awarded First Prize in the Agency Still Life Bowral Art Prize 2022 and has been two times finalist in Ravenswood Australian Women Art Prize Emerging Category 2022, 2020, Goulburn Art Award 2022, Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 2020 and Kangaroo Valley Art Prize 2020. Vella was also awarded Highly Commended in The Blue Square Competition 2019 and Commended in Belle Property Bowral Art Prize.

Vella’s work is held in private collections in Australia, Internationally and in The Osborn Boutique Hotel in the Southern Highlands.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.