Taylor Galleries
SEVEN ARTISTS IN PASTEL
Greg Hansell, ‘Strawberries’
An exhibition featuring recent works in pastel by
Jan Ashby, Ann Cape, Margaret Gibson, Greg Hansell,
Greg Hyde, Anne Kearney and Lexie Thiele
Official Opening and Meet the Artists
Friday 4 February 2005 at 7.30pm
Preview
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
The exhibition continues until Sunday 20 February 2005.
JAN ASHBY
'White Poppies’, 11 x 11cms
'Paper Daisies', 11 x 11cms
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2001 Lars Knudsen Gallery, Hampton
‘John Caldwell & Friends’, Delmar Gallery, Ashfield
‘Wilderness, Gardens & Spring’, Mt Tomah Botanical Gardens
2000 ‘State of the Waratah Exhibition’ RBG, Sydney Olympic Arts Festival
‘Waratah Blue’ Exhibition, Royal Botanic Gardens, Mt Tomah
1998 Sanda, Japan: Blue Mountains Artists’ Exhibition
1998 Gallery Lane, Leura, NSW
1999 - 2003 Mosman Regional Gallery, Sydney
Moulton Galleries: Gallery Six
1995-1998 Moulton Galleries, Gallery Six,
1994-2004 Sydney Easter Show Royal Agricultural Society of NSW
1993-2002 Delmar Gallery, Ashfield
1991-2001 Royal National Association of Qld
1997 Waragil Studios, Blackheath
Lilianfels, Katoomba
1996 Breewood Editions Gallery, Leura
Miskin Gallery, Brisbane
Gallery Pentimento, Bathurst
2004 ‘Tonic’ - Brisbane Grammar School
2003 Hawkesbury Waratah Festival, RBG Mt Tomah
Taylor Galleries, Summer Hill
2002 Hawkesbury Waratah Festival, RBG Mt Tomah
‘Ceramic Connections’, Penrith Regional Gallery & Lewers Bequest
‘Dimensions’, BGS Brisbane
‘Storehouse: Ceramics at BRAG’, Bathurst Regional Gallery
2001 ‘Terra Firma’, BGS Brisbane
Lars Knudsen Gallery, Hunter Valley
1995 Old Bakery Gallery, Lane Cove
1994 Marsden Gallery, Bathurst
1994 Shipley Gallery, Blackheath
1993 Wentworth Falls School of Arts
1992 Imagery Gallery, Brisbane
AWARDS
2001 Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
2000 First Prize, Native Flowers, Sydney Easter Show RAS
1998 Finalist, Fleurieu Prize for Australian Landscape, SA
1998 Drawing Award Royal National Association of Qld
1995 Finalist, Bathurst Art Purchase Award
1994 Second Prize, Native Flowers Royal National Association of Qld
ANNE KEARNEY
‘Sea Fantasy’, 34 x 84 cms
‘Grieving Woman 2’, 60 x 80 cms
Anne Kearney has been exhibiting in oils, pastels, collage and ceramics since the early 1980s. The expressionists, including Klee, Bonnard and Fairweather, have profoundly inspired her work. Anne has an Honours degree in Visual Arts.
Lexie Thiele
Lexie first studied Art at the National Art School, East Sydney Tech., then studied Pottery at East Sydney with Peter Rushforth and Mollie Douglas. Then followed a Certificate of Horticulture and Landscape Design at the Ryde School of Horticulture. For some years she found an outlet for her art in this field, making living pictures designing gardens. After this she returned to painting, studying with Leslie Rippon. Later, Watercolour classes with Frederic Bates have made this medium her main interest. John Passmore at East Sydney Tech., with his great sense of colour, and Frederic Bates, with his mastery of watercolour, have influenced her work. More recently, Lexie has been printmaking.
Lexie is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society and an exhibiting member of Ku-ring-gai Art Society, Ryde Art Society, Peninsula Art Society, Australian Society of Miniature Art, Elouera Group and Open Bite Printmakers
Recent Exhibitions
1995 Group Show - Hamersley Range Painters
1998 Pine Bluff Exhibition - Delmar Gallery
2000 Prints & Paintings Group Show - Royal Art Society
2000 Impressions of Seven - Willandra Art Exhibition
Represented
· Australian Watercolour Institute Annual Exhibitions
· Royal Easter Show Art Exhibitions
· Sydney Morning Herald City Heritage Painting Exhibitions
Prizes
· The Margaret Fesq Special Prize at the Royal Easter Show Art Exhibition in 1990
· Awarded `Artist of the Year' in 1990 by the Combined Art Societies of Sydney.
Major Recent Awards
1999 Watercolour Prize - H.C. Currabubula Art Award
Special Prize Traditional - Ku-ring-gai Art Award
2000 Best Painting in Show - Castle Hill Show
Small Paintings Prize - Drummoyne Art Award
First Prize - Traditional - Fisher's Ghost Exhibition
Champion - Open Prize - The Rock Show
First Prize - Local Scene - The Rock Show
2001 First Prize - Watercolour - The Rock Show
2002 Best in Show - Orange Blossom Festival
First Prize - Miniatures - Ku-ring-gar Art Award
First Prize - Watercolour - The Rock Show
Special Prize - Warringah Art Prize
2003 Watercolour Prize, Cheltenham Girls High School
2004 Watercolour Prize, Hornsby Art Award.
GREG HANSELL
‘Strawberries’
Earth Pastel Painter*
* Earth pastel medium: handmade from rocks and clays only, with no commercial pigment, binder or additive used in manufacture. Permanence has been tested with the ultimate rating.
Born 1949 Goulburn NSW
Art Education 1976 -1980 Art Certificate Course at St George Technical College
Study Tours of Europe: 1982 and 1985
Fellow and Council Member of The Royal Art Society of NSW
Life Member of the Friends of the Hawkesbury Art Collection Awarded Centenary Medal for Services to Community Art and Library
Greg began painting full time from 1980
He has been teaching pastel painting from private studio from 1995, plus organising student exhibitions
He is a Pastel teacher at the Royal Art Society of NSW, and holds regular pastel workshops.
Greg has had 35 Solo Exhibitions.
He has been represented as a finalist 19 times in the Archibald and Wynne Prizes, Art Gallery of NS W and was represented three times at the Salon de Refuse, S.H. Ervin Gallery
Awards and Prizes
1977-1979 Postal Institute Art Prize
1979 Nepean River County Council Art Prize
1980 Cronulla Leagues Club Art Prize
1984 Tumut Art Prize
1984 Mosman Art Prize
1985 Camden Art Prize
1990 Mosman Art Prize
1995-96 Hawkesbury Food and Wine Fair
1998 Royal Easter Show: First Prize, Still Life
1999 Shirley Greathead Award, Royal Art
Society of NSW
2002 Royal Easter Show: First Prize, Still Life
2004 Medal of Distinction, Royal Art Society
of NSW
Represented
· Nepean River County Council,
· Hawkesbury City Council,
· Camden Council,
· Jeffrey Smart Collection,
· (the late) Mervyn Horton Collection,
· Commonwealth Art Bank,
· Coles Myer Collection,
· ANZ Bank Collection,
· Prime Ministers' Collection,
· University of Western Sydney Hawkesbury and Parramatta Campus,
· New England Regional Art Museum,
· Mosman Regional Art Gallery and private collections worldwide.
Commissioned in 2001 to paint three major pastel paintings for the University of Western Sydney representing the 1813 Female Orphans School in its pre-restoration state.
GREG HYDE
‘Preaching to the Choir’
After studying drawing and sculpture in London, Ann returned to Sydney and graduated from the National Art School, Sydney in 1974.
Ann has taught in High Schools, TAFE colleges and Community Art Centres, including the Workshop Art Centre and the Royal Art Society.
Ann has had several solo exhibitions and exhibited extensively in group shows. She is among the finalists of this years Archibald Prize, presently on tour around Australia. Ann has also been selected twice for the Salon de Refuse, four times for the Portia Geach Portrait Award, Blake Prize, Jacaranda Drawing Prize, Kedumba Drawing Prize and the Redlands Art Prize exhibition, among others. She has won over fifty prizes for drawing and painting, completed many portrait commissions and is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.
<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font
Proudly supported by ARTnews.com.au.