Seaview Gallery - queenscliff
Saturday 29 October - Meet the Artist Evening
showcasing the latest works of
Seaview Gallery's Artists
5:00 – 7:00pm RSVP 5258 3645
(Melbourne Cup long weekend)
&
Opening of a special exhibition
Moments Remembered -Hugh Guthrie & Charles Moodie
Saturday 29 October – Sunday 6 November
Charles Moodie
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Charles has been painting professionally for 10 years. He commenced his early art training at the Gordon Institute, Geelong. Between 1970-72 Charles travelled overseas and furthered his studies in fine art at the Sir John Cass College of Art, Whitechapel, London, and the City Literature Institute, London. Charles travelled around Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and it was during this time abroad that he became interested in the French impressionist style and English watercolour, notably Turner, Girtin, and Bonnington. On returning to Australia, he began painting on a more serious basis, concentrating largely on watercolour and all its possibilities. Charles has received numerous awards and honourable mentions for his work and has had successful solo and group exhibitions, both in Australia and France at La Galerie, and Main D’or, Paris. His work is represented in both private, corporate and government institutions in Australia, including the new Parliament House, Canberra. He is also represented in New Zealand, U.S.A., U.K., France and Belgium. Charles is an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists Society and the Old Watercolour Society. Primarily a topographical watercolourist, he also works in pastel and oils. |
 Westminster Bridge  Collins Street  Tuscan Valley $1350 |
Hugh Guthrie
“The Journey Continues”Renowned Bellarine Peninsula artist Hugh Guthrie is a self disciplined artist whose goal is to create something in his studio every day. For Hugh, his love of art goes back to his childhood days in Scotland where his exercise books were decorated in drawings, slowed down through his accounting days to flourish later in life. Hugh has won more than 100 art awards throughout Victoria and has become known as the ‘Hans Heysen’ of Geelong. It is not unusual for Hugh to work 16 hours at a stretch; either in front of his easel, sketching a scene for the next painting, or framing a completed painting. He takes great pleasure in working in his home studio, either in oil, water colors or pastel, but his favorite is the old masters’ medium of egg tempera, used in his highly recognizable ‘chook paintings’. But it is for the Australian landscapes, his stricking depiction of the Australian eucalypts, that he is best known. Hugh looks upon his development as a painter, as a life time endeavor and often jokes that when he ‘retires’ - he will take up painting as a hobby. Although he is well aware of the ‘art business’, he maintains that one must paint for the joy and excitement of the creation. As an artist he strives to create the ‘Master piece’, which will always be the next painting.
“I have to go bush I believe, you must absorb nature to be able to paint nature. By seeing a landscape you can put on canvas exactly what is portrayed all types of weather and all times of day.” |
 Murray River 78 x 93cm $985
 Through the Trees- Silverton oil on canvas board 77 x 104cm $1200   |
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