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North Shore Art Society members
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All members are invited to be listed here
North Shore Art Society members are invited to submit
four images of their work, prices, a short resume and contact details to webmaster Ernie
Gerzabek by email
egerzabek1@optusnet DOT com.au
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People who cannot get digital images can post
photographs of their artworks to webmaster for scanning and processing:
Ernie Gerzabek
7 Undula Place,
Belrose 2085
Please note: artists below are
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Artist, Barbara McBurnie of Mona Vale,
Sydney, brings her own style of excitement and vitality to her art.
Her love of the Australian outdoors is
reflected in the subjects she paints – beaches, landscapes, native plants,
birds, boating, abstracts and more recently oil paintings.
Barbara began her artistic career as a
potter, completing ceramic courses at Brookvale TAFE. The excitement of
under glaze colours painted on clay was the motivation to study watercolour
painting.
Today, Barbara paints in oils, acrylic
and water colour using the medium which best suits and reflects the mood of
her painting.
Barbara gives thanks to her teachers Val
Kemsley, Paul Warner, Frederick Bates, Molly Flaxman, Alvaro Castagnet,
Helen Goldsmith, David Taylor, Ross Paterson, Rex Newell, Ev Hales and
Joseph Zbukvic.
Barbara is a member of the following art
societies. – North Shore, Mosman, Artists & Craftsmen of Pittwater,
Pittwater Community Arts and Great Lakes, Forster.
Commissions are accepted.
Horse and rider - oil |
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Gone fishing - watercolour
Spinnaker start - acrylic |
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Artist, Linda Reay resides at Narrabeen on
Sydney's Northern Beaches, is the mother of two grown up boys, both she and
her husband are now retired and her interests are art, reading, travel, and
fishing when she has time. Linda
progressed from hand crafts to folk art then to fine art using watercolour,
acrylic, pastel and oil. Much of her work is of local scenery with a
particular interest in water and boats also native birds and mammals
reflecting her love of the visitors to her garden.
As student of Johanna Geluk since 1999 to
whom she is most grateful for her help in developing her own style with
brush and pastels, she is a committee member of the North Shore Art Society
and a member of the Artists and Craftsmen of Pittwater. Her work has been
shown in art shows at Avalon, Mona Vale, Collaroy, Queenscliff, North
Steyne, Balgowlah and Mosman with some success.
The Lighthouse at Nora Head |
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Palm Beach
River Gums
Spinnaker Run |
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Artist, Sally Morgan has resided in the Northern
Beaches area of Sydney for the last 36 years. Sally first studied drawing and
oil painting for three years while living in Japan. After a break while raising
her family, she spent several years studying silk painting.
Sally finds that silk painting allows her to capture
the vibrant colours and natural beauty of Australian flora and fauna. The art
of painting on silk is thousands of years old and has the advantage of producing
the brilliant colours that often aren’t achievable in some of the other mediums.
Sally now divides her time equally between silk
painting and pastels. She finds that pastels are ideal for flowers, landscapes,
seascapes and the varied colorful bird and fish life so abundant in Australia.
Sally has won awards for both her pastel and silk paintings.
Sally is a member of the North Shore Art Society,
Artists & Craftsmen of Pittwater and the Northern Beaches Artists. She shows
her art in exhibitions throughout the North Shore as well as taking private
commissions.
Many examples of her work can be found throughout
Australia as well as overseas.
White Lilies - pastel |
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Coral Reef - silk painting
Spring poppies - pastel
Balmoral Beach - pastel |
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“Celebrating the music that heals us”
Midori was born in Japan. She has loved drawing and
painting ever since she was a little girl. Her first oil painting was a still
life when she was in year 3. She came to Australia in 1989 and currently lives
in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Since 2002 Midori has been actively participating
in various art exhibitions in Australia. She has won many awards, including two
first prizes in the Figurative and Contemporary sections at Northern Suburbs A&H
Society Art exhibition in 2006.
She loves music and she often translates her love
of music into art. On her canvases she paints her dreams, love and music.
Midori is available for commission work. Please
feel free to contact her. Gallery enquiries welcome.
Mobile: 0431 895 757
Email: midorifurze@gmail.com
Website:
www.midorifurze.com
Cherry Blossoms in E major |
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Summer Girl
Jam session #3
Manly Jazz Festival |
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Ernie is a contemporary landscape and abstract painter and
sculptor. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and came to Australia in 1958. He
started painting in 1970 while practising as a Chartered Architect. Following
his retirement in 1997 he started his full time art practice.
He has a very broad range of artistic interests: painting,
ceramics and sculpture, and thus cannot be pigeonholed into a single art form or
‘style’.
Ernie's main inspiration is Nature and the unique landscapes
of Australia: wilderness areas, wetlands, the unspoilt countryside, deserts, the
ocean and seashores. He is interested in using environmentally friendly
approaches and recently started using recycled materials creating bas-relief and
three dimensional sculptures.
Ernie tends to create playful, decorative and inspiring
artworks, which are both optimistic and spiritually uplifting.
He had more than 22 solo shows since 1999 -- in Sydney,
Melbourne and regional New South Wales galleries. He also participated in
countless group shows in municipal and commercial galleries and other venues.
He is an exhibiting member of Ku-ring-gai, Mosman, North Shore Art Societies and
The Sculptors Society.
Apart from Australia, his works can be found in private
collections all around the world, including USA, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand,
Great Britain and other European countries.Website
www.Ernie-Gerzabek.com
Cheers! SOLD |
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After the drought
Gone sailing
Low rise - bas-relief wall sculpture |
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I reside on Bilgola Plateau on the Northern
Beaches, where I have lived for over 50 years. I was born and spent most of
my
childhood in North Western NSW. Later I lived in Rushcutters Bay, Hong Kong and
Rose Bay.
I first studied Art at East Sydney Technical
College but did not finish my course due to marrying and going overseas to live
in Hong Kong.
On my return to Australia I did not paint for
some years due to bringing up my two children, my interest in acting and the
stage, and later working.
Later I studied with Arthur Murch, Betty Morgan
(portraits), Peter Abraham and at present I am a pupil of well-known artist,
Johanna Geluk.
I am a member of the North Shore Art Society,
Artists and Craftsmen of Pittwater and Pittwater Community Arts. and was a
member of the Warringah Arts and Crafts Society before it folded.
I have won several prizes for painting and some
of my paintings are hanging in the USA and Amsterdam.
I prefer painting in oil but also do water
colour, acrylic and pastel.
My interests apart from painting are golf,
teaching computer to Seniors, library volunteering, gardening and reading.
Spinnaker run |
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Street in Tuscany
Frangipani
Elizabeth |
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I was taught water colour by John Santry and oils
by Fred Goss, both two well known Sydney artists.
I work in oils, water colour, pen and ink,
acrylic and other mediums.
I taught painting for beginners for many years
using oils and water colour. Have won awards in various art shows.
The Lyre bird's serenade $1000
The Three Sisters (Katoomba NSW) $450 |
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Touch of Autumn (Bowral NSW) $800
Poppies $480 |
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Artist, Brian Hutchings, moved to Beacon Hill
in 2006 and joined the North Shore Art Society, the Artists and Craftsmen of
Pittwater group and Johanna Geluk's art class, to work and relax amongst other
like-minded people. He appreciates the helpful advice and encouragement he has
received since joining these groups. During 2007 Brian was successful in
selling a variety of pictures at a number of exhibitions held in the Northern
Beaches Peninsula.
Brian has been interested in art from an early age, but never found the time
to develop his interest until retiring in 1998. He enjoys working in watercolour
and acrylic media, embracing a variety of subjects with a preference for
seascapes and landscapes. Since moving to Australia from the U.K. he finds the
Australian colours and light very challenging and loves painting the wildlife
and beautiful scenery very much.
As a diversion from the formal pictures, he has had success with humorous
paintings, some printed as limited editions after he was commissioned by a U.K.
company to produce paintings for postcards in cartoon format.
In the U.K. he was a member of Seaford Art Club and the Society of Eastbourne
Artists, and regularly exhibited at exhibitions, selling to buyers in the U.K.,
Eire, Canada, U.S.A., France, Holland and Australia.
Origin scrum |
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Uluru
Bungle bungle range
Three Sisters Blue Mountains
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I am an artist who is passionate about the environment and loves
to paint and draw from real life. My latest series of artworks is titled
"Birds of Sydney", a place I hold dear to my heart.
QUALIFICATIONS
Masters in Education Visual Arts, (University of Technology
Sydney)
Painting Scholarship to Kifar Hanassi (Israel)
Bachelor of Education (Primary), Art and Environmental Design (University of
Canberra)
Coordinator – Education and Interpretation, Centennial Parklands
Teaching art to various schools and organisations
Environmental Education Teacher
Art Teacher Latham Primary
ART
Preferred mediums: Watercolour, pastels, oils, airbrush
Specialises in painting: wildlife, landscapes, portraits and large murals
CURRENT SERIES OF WORKS
A series of watercolours of “Birds of Sydney”, “Birds of
Centennial Park”, 25m panoramic mural of “Birds of Centennial Park”
COMMISSIONS
By Private collectors of Australian wildlife and birds
EXHIBITED
Israel, Canberra University, University of Technology Sydney,
North Shore Art Society, local council art exhibitions and the Gallery Café
Surrey Hills.
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Palm Cockies
Yellow-tailed black 
Pacific Black Duck |
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Now I'm retired I'm free to do all the things
I've always wanted to do such as the fine arts, modelmaking, sailing & travel.
After school I studied for four years at East Sydney Tech. (National Art
School). The first two years was an excellent introduction to the basics
of painting & drawing, the different mediums, & the varied forms of art.
I wish I'd paid more attention to the tutors who included such notables as:
Jeffrey Smart, Harold Abbot, Noel Kilgour, Roy Fluke etc, rather than starve in
a garret I opted to specialise in commercial (Graphic) art instead of the fine
arts for the remaining two years.
I started work in the film industry as an animation background artist and
then moved onto layout, design and finished art for studios & agencies.
By the time brushes, paint & markers were made obsolete I had moved on to
Studio and Production management.
I tried to keep up my fine art drawing and painting skills by attending
classes with Fred Bates at the Royal Art Society but business and family
commitments soon stopped this.
Lately I've been able to attend some classes once again, mainly life drawing
with Pina Bartolo at the Tramshed to try and improve my drawing and work bigger
and looser.
I believe in the importance of good drawing as the foundation of all painting
& regard myself as a perpetual drawing student. I've specialised in pen
and wash and watercolour because it is easy to pack and carry when travelling.
I'm also looking forward to working in Acrylics.
As a subject I'm attracted to old buildings, old and working boats, and our
spectacular landscape.
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