Artist and Poets
- Emily Peck / Max Merckenschlager & Brigita Ferencak
- Cathy White / Carol Millner & Kevin Gillam
- Karen Forbes-Smith / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Nathan Hondros
- Sharleen Jespersen / Peter Jeffrey & Jan Napier
- Peter Dixon / Val Neubecker & Amanda Joy
- Stephen Franklin / Liz Nicholls & Julienne Juschke
- Greg Barr / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Ron Okely
- Chris White / Colleen O’Grady & Tanya Jaw
- Gillian Deague / Christopher Konrad & Virginia O’Keeffe
- Michael Sinclair / Veronica Lake & Allan Padgett
- Richard Kousins / Glen Phillips & Laurel Lamperd
- Delores Purdie / Deanne Leber & Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Josh Harper / Keren Gila Raiter & Sarah Leighton
- Lisa Joyce / Peter Rondel & Meryl Manoy
- Holly Gray / J.R. McRae & Zan Ross
- Jacqui Anderson / Christina Gammon & Shey Marque
- Lorraine Stevens / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Maureen Sexton
- Kristen Cameron / Michael Hilston & Max Merckenschlager
- Christina Curly / Tineke Van Der Eecken & Carol Millner
- Nathan Garrod / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Rose van Son
- Karen Evans / Jan Napier & Cuttlewoman
- Liliana Cheldi / Natasha Adams & Val Neubecker
- Richard Smither / Alistair Bain & Liz Nicholls
- Richard Smither / Graeme Butler & Ron Okely
- Lindsay Stubbs / Coral Carter & Colleen O’Grady
- Jane Gribben / Liana Joy Christensen & Virginia O’Keeffe
- Pauline Birrell / Sally Clarke & Allan Padgett
- Wayne Knight / Glen Phillips & Sue Clennell
- Peter Iland / Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne & Jake Dennis
- Julie Marsh / Keren Gila Raiter & Gary Colombo De Piazzi
- Diana Coote / Peter Rondel & Julie Fearns-Pheasant
- Jenny Travers / Zan Ross & Brigita Ferencak
- Cheryl Ham / Shey Marque & Kevin Gillam
- Barry Tonkin / Nathan Hondros & Maureen Sexton
- Terry Ashton / Peter Jeffrey & Michael Hilston
- Robbie Wilshire / Amanda Joy & Tineke Van Der Eecken
- John Tillbrook / Julienne Juschke & Rose van Son
- Andrew Finlay / Peter Rondel & Cuttlewoman
- Sharon Siciliano / Natasha Adams & Tanya Jaw
- Gavin Downing / Christopher Konrad & Alistair Bain
- Ian Mc Donald / Graeme Butler & Veronica Lake
- Angela Mariotti / Laurel Lamperd & Coral Carter
- Rebecca Berkhout / Liana Joy Christensen & Deanne Leber
- Janelle Mc Mahon / Sally Clarke & Sarah Leighton
- Elinor Doddrell / Sue Clennell & Meryl Manoy
- Ken Reedy / J.R. McRae & Jake Dennis
- Michael Tholet / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Christina Gammon
- Lisa Coles / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Julie Fearns-Pheasant
- Keith Indich / Max Merckenschlager & Brigita Ferencak
- Rosina Hodge / Carol Millner & Kevin Gillam
- Donna Barnsley / Scott-Patrick Mitchell & Nathan Hondros
- Jeremey Gowing / Peter Jeffrey & Jan Napier
- Jenny Hyde / Val Neubecker & Amanda Joy
- Jodie Bateman / Liz Nicholls & Julienne Juschke
- Michelle Storer / Ron Okely & Val Neubecker
- Liliana Cheldi / Colleen O’Grady & Tanya Jaw
- Doug Fancourt / Virginia O’Keeffe & Christopher Konrad
- Wayne Cooper / Veronica Lake & Allan Padgett
- Nathan Garrod / Glen Phillips & Laurel Lamperd
- Wayne Cooper / Deanne Leber & Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Michelle Storer / Sarah Leighton & Keren Gila Raiter
- Melissa Costanzo / Peter Rondel & Meryl Manoy
- Kevin Devine / J.R. McRae & Zan Ross
- Gavin Mc Namara / Christina Gammon & Shey Marque
- Gynetta Panaia / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Maureen Sexton
- Jessica Cantatore / Max Merckenschlager & Michael Hilston
- Mathew Froud / Tineke Van Der Eecken & Carol Millner
- Denis Tomlinson / Jan Napier & Rose van Son
- Eleana Bredemeyer / Cuttlewoman & Liz Nicholls
- Guy Rossi / Natasha Adams & Zan Ross
- Warren Brass / Alistair Bain & Maureen Sexton
- Lisa Bernic / Rose van Son & Graeme Butler
- Katie Bassett / Coral Carter & Natasha Adams
- Vivienne Sharp / Liana Joy Christensen & Coral Carter
- Peter Layton / Sally Clarke & Jayden Tan
- Richard Smither / Liana Joy Christensen & Sue Clennell
- <strong> Jane Gribben / Jake Dennis & Sue Clennell
- Katrina Barber / Gary Colombo De Piazzi & Christopher Konrad
- Candice Raphael / Jacqui Merckenschlager & Julie Fearns-Pheasant
- Artwork by Emily Peck
54 x 38 Acrylic on Canvas
Heart Bypass Operation
The very core of our existence.
Yet how tiny and vulnerable it seems,
as surgeon’s knife exposes
the tangled, convoluted web of life
for ultimate reconstruction.
Max Merckenschlager
A scent of happy children
lingers in the Air
ice cream and lemonade
cheer us up and remind us of hot summer days
lying carefree in the sun
what a privilege
no sorrows weighing us down
transformed into summersaults
We can feel
LIFE
in all its Splendour
THE WANDERING GYPSY
(Brigita Ferencak)
- Artwork by Cathy White
44 x 32 Acrylic on Canvas
twenty-seven
signs in a script
i never knew…
yet how could anyone
convey more accurately
blue yellow & red –
the song of autumn’s
weather vane?
Carol Millner
these lines
a spray of coloured lines
searching for song,
seeking a story –
blue stalking suede shoes, solace,
red’s feelers out for Mao or a corvette,
yellow in wait for submarine
or brick road –
all these lines,
searching
Kevin Gillam
- Artwork by Karen Forbes-Smith
40 x 31 Acrylic on Canvas
crafting sky chartery
life is appliqué. gather
fragment scraps & a
smear of paint. density
becomes metaphor’s el
-oquence. the night sky
is an outline, scraper
high, cloud shapen eye
. it looks like a kitten
heel, purring ballet, tulle
as tutu’s zeal: stars are hip
.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
it’s as though she has pinned
up the ragged hat and coat
of my life in all its chromatic
dysfunction a centrifuge
of cloth that suspends its particles
out of reach but in full sight
before running down the canvas
in inks that would hate each other
but for their simplicity
which makes all this perfect
Nathan Hondros
- Artwork by Sharleen Jespersen
30 x 23 Acrylic on Canvas
Bang Bang And Bunched Leaves On Paper.
Sharleen, have you ever pressed your palms
Hard into your eyes and waited and watched,
While stars formed and long streaks of light,
And sometimes, with luck, colours spread
Diffusing each into each?
Here too, your bang bang on paper and soft
Ever spreading leaves have moved colours
Into the grain of paper, marking brown earth,
Green grass, water, into another world newly
Seen and yet to be seen.
Peter Jeffrey OAM
Backed by wattle’s fortissimo
so only audible to bees
carillions of blue fuchsias
chink and dingle.
Silence Monet’s lilacs
Jan Napier
- Artwork by Peter Dixon
40 x 28 Mixed Media on Canvas
Can you feel it?
colours pulsate
brushstrokes throb
and a steady rhythm
pumps life into the canvas
yes – it’s the heartbeat of the artist.
Val Neubecker
Outstretched
Stretch your arms wide, I’ll move
toward what is revealed
between them
inside
Paint a heart red and arterial blue
and all the colours of the world
will jostle to be closer to you
Amanda Joy
- Artwork by Stephen Franklin
25 x 34 Mixed Media on Canvas
violin strings reverberate
sound waves dance
through spring blossoms
blend with birdsong
melt into soft sunshine
Liz Nicholls
WOOSH… SWOOSH… SWISH …
A dance of dips
and terrific turns
A kiss
in the sky
The engine quill using ink of smoke
A sweeping message ablaze
OOOOO… AHHHH …
The onlookers gaze
Julienne Juschke
- Artwork by Greg Barr
26 x 36 Acrylic on Canvas
The heart of country is red.
Fire caught in every grain
every burnt, reaching plain.
Song lines form in the tread of man
branding their blue white and gold
tones on the air, the bush, the land.
Sung stories built on lore and survival
bridge the divide, bonding kin
to country with fire in the heart.
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
Pilbara Red
Ancient rocky outcrops
weathered by wind and rain
give way to mile
upon mile
of rich red earth
staining your heart forever
Ron Okely
- Artwork by Chris White
32 x 41 Acrylic on Canvas
Chris’ Dream
This poem for a painting with its bright hues;
The artwork completed to musical muse.
Brilliant red splashes meet the eye,
Crossing over onto a darker dye.
The hard work of Chris, like poppies red,
Coming from ideas within his head
And transferred to canvas with his clever feet,
An artist of his genre is hard to beat.
Colleen O’Grady
Energetic and passionate
like an elegant bird
flame or fire
Pounding in rhythm
Organic and dynamic
Andalusian gypsy
Tanya Jaw
- Artwork by Gillian Deague
21 x 15 Mixed Media on Canvas
If heaven or the sky or any of the above
could be held in mind’s winsome cloud
then let these blues, cotton pink and fold, paper billow
and thread speak to the beauty of flow
The cusp of all that is human are rested here on this page
the tarp of Gillian Deague’s gift, her future and frivolity
I fall into that scattering of cosmos great infinitude
and rest there like an unmade angel
only while there in Gillian Deague’s art
and fall back out again to bring this tale to earth
Christopher Konrad
A collage of time
Which ribbon shall we wear today,
grosgrain or satin or trim?
Perhaps my child prefers polka dots
Or gingham or rickrack so thin.
Bows bouncing and bobbing on braids
Can be tied in printed or plain or
Maybe mum went all out and bought baby
Green cotton embroidered with trains.
Whatever the choice now those ribbons,
Are my memories, captured on card.
Virginia O’Keeffe
- Artwork by Michael Sinclair
20 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas
Dancing Man
At the core of things is the dancing man.
He leaps, he turns, a thing of grace.
Like light flickering over the surface,
movement released in a green torrent.
He dances to his own rhythm.
A fandango of passionate red
flairs and fades, caught by the heart,
inviting others to follow
and dance with him to freedom.
Veronica Lake
Celebration
I paint a startling panorama
of viridian and tangerine.
My life unfolds in a rush
of vibrant strokes,
meandering thoughts –
and a cassowary tumbling
through saturating raining forest.
Allan Padgett
- Artwork by Richard Kousins
20 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas
Abstract Buddha
Incense sticks send curlicues
of smoke from their ranked stall
at the temple entrance. Shoes
are stacked haphazardly on steps
and a few monks robed in maroon
move in the dark inner depths.
I advance through hanging green
tendrils to observe this red buddha
with its third eye unseen. Hear
ching-ching of little temple bells.
Glen Phillips
Beginnings
Strange white things
Crawling over red sands
From the Permian
Now discovered skeleton-like in stone
And art forms
Of imaginative minds.
Laurel Lamperd
- Artwork by Delores Purdie
42 x 31 Mixed Media on Canvas
Darling
In my eyes we are
Every colour
Gathered together
Calendars wilt
But your eyes bloom brighter
And we fit because
We are made of each other
Deanne Leber
The Dance
I lay down brush and paper,
release wild butterflies
over earth’s green plane
colour it up, muck up
the order of things
nature’s shin dig.
Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Artwork by Josh Harper
40 x 28 Mixed Media on Canvas
Ssssounds. silence. reminiscences.
sitting sitting. while the world turns round.
items scattered like a wind through autumn leaves
the tent was large, the sky above — larger still.
the smile on her face — sizeless.
Keren Gila Raiter
“Secret trails”
Explore
sands of ochre
See
sleepy creatures
Spring
sunshine streams
Be
this vibrant Life.
Sarah Leighton
- Artwork by Lisa Joyce
40 x 39 Acrylic on Canvas
The miniscule
The unseen
A world of wonder
Beneath the microscope
Coloured gems
Each as unique
As snowflakes
Peter Rondel
Tropicana
Brightly coloured tropical fish
in their natural habitat
darting in and out the corals
brilliant colours, bizarre shapes,
such an exotic display
of Nature’s vast variety.
Meryl Manoy
- Artwork by Holly Gray
26 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas
Lone Flower.
A lone flower,
Alone in wild regions
Where moss and lichen,
Toadstool, bracken,
Old man’s beard and
Mistletoe
Unhindered grow…
Lone flower that blossoms best
In the heart’s deep wilderness.
I see, I know.
J.R. McRae
Touch is like wind,
but texture is
stroking a bird, or
a dog, or a horse –
heavy in movement
and colour; or if a
storm pushes through,
all quick-silver blue,
fire-red and the green
of earth and spring.
Zan Ross
- “Nature” by Jacqui Anderson
45 x 20 Ceramic Dish
Cool, wet earth
moves
between fingers
moulding to lines.
Heart, fate, life
within my hands,
all of me
becoming
this ornament
where keys are thrown.
Christina Gammon
Fragments of life, pass by, pause for a fraction of time,
become imprinted on the earth. Gouge it, scrape it, stain it,
distort its shape but we can never destroy it for the earth is
a recycled canvas.
with every foot print
on fresh mud, I am back there
repainting the past
Hai Bun by Shey Marque
- Artwork by Lorraine Stevens
3 Ceramic Pieces
Wind chime leaves,
captured treasures from the forest
pressed lovingly onto clay,
stained with juices of earth,
imagined depths of time,
fired for endurance.
These leaves of her wanderings
will turn on a breeze,
chime their joy,
release a glint of knowing.
Jacqui Merckenschlager
Earth Chimes
Green leaves
blow with the breeze
gold flowers
bright in the sun
brown/grey gum nuts
drop to the earth;
hapes, tracks and swirls
glazed in colours
of the bush.
Maureen Sexton
- Artwork by Kristen Cameron
Ceramic Wind Chime
Listen to it “PLAY”
Listening to the music,
I hear it as it plays
Through the summer days
It’s my eucalyptus wind chime made from clay.
I hope you like the music
It will play.
Michael Hilston
Murrundi Willows
Slip beneath Murrundi’s streaming tears,
feel them kiss and cool your burning cheek.
Share your game of summer hide and seek,
immigrants who’ve settled through the years.
Max Merckenschlager
‘Murrundi’ is the aboriginal name for River Murray
- Artwork by Christina Curly
30 x 23 Acrylic on Canvas
There’s a rose in your hair
I smell the ocean
and petals of dawn
A summer day
I see your face
A diamond glint
in the trees around you
A memory away
There’s a rose in your hair
Your diamond face
A memory away
Tineke Van Der Eecken
“A”
Here is an “A”, just one.
Here is a desert just begun.
Here is a forest. Here is a sun.
Here is a golden child.
Here is a lizard with a lizard’s smile –
she stops to bask in the sun awhile
then says to the child atop the “A”
just what a lizard is going to say
in a world with no language except for an “A”.
Carol Millner
- Artwork by Nathan Garrod
20 x 20 Paper Art
weaver’s world
after tearing strips off
yourself, weave you back
together anew. speckle
like spectators gesticu
-late. give boundaries to
the rebuild: we shine best
within the world we con
-fine, yes. boxing-in
makes it easier to move
humans, so start moving
.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Indian Summer
a garden chair, its plaited seat so lightly done
to sit and view those woven baskets hung
just so, to take the sun to heart
you planted carrot seeds and lettuce hearts
for me to pick-
leaves peppered in morning sun
Rose van Son
- Artwork by Karen Evans
25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Sticky clay shaped and fired
painted in love’s shade.
Seedlings secretly picked out,
potted watered watched over.
Only the finest blooms selected.
Look a vase of birthday Lilliums
for the world’s best mum.
Jan Napier
Me, Chagall, Keats
The table slipped and water slapped.
The flowers flew from their vase
into your lap—
Well, I never minded, no, not at all, not at all,
What was only a slightly strange thing to befall.
We gathered them up again, poked them all in again.
I dressed them down and painted them up again.
I thought about how, it was just like that Grecian urn
To loose grasp of its contents.
So I looked for a jar.
Cuttlewoman
- Artwork by Liliana Cheldi
25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Diane and Brian
Phoenicopterus plastikos
pink Flamingos camp on
Don Featherstone’s lawn
coloured by carotene in
the plastic prawns they eat
sent flying when a soap box
racer careered out of control
Diane and Brian
kitsch cultural icons
Natasha Adams
Rendezvous
He’s on his way
head thrown back
motorbike roaring
his indigo leathers
blurring the leafy overhangs.
He smiles
as a riotous sunset
blushes the clouds
mirrors the lake
for he knows she’ll be waiting.
Val Neubecker
- Artwork by Richard Smither
30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas
The Skeins
were here
i taste their passing
and the dreams
they imagined on the ochre
green veins
surrounding blood
as if to heal
transform
Alistair Bain
rain-filled days are greening the land
emus kangaroos raucous cockatoos –
delicate dragonflies with sunset wings
gather together to feast
in this brief time of plenty
Liz Nicholls
- Artwork by Richard Smither
25 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas
the sky fell in
and everything that wasn’t black
was blue
except the moon and stars
which glittered yellow surprise
not knowing the usual
a UFO reported Earth
a very strange place
where everything was either black or blue
and floated
in the sky
Graeme Butler
Trains and buses
The shapes of trains and buses
differ from town to town
but all have the same task daily
to carry the workers home.
Ron Okely
- Artwork by Lindsay Stubbs
30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas
At Bethanie
garden saints gather
with the congregation of flowers
wear petals as halos
lift honeyed voices to sing
all praise to the pollinators
hallelujah to rain clouds
glory be to the one earth
bloom without end
Coral Carter
Lindsay’s View
Some days when Lindsay visiting farms
And viewing the country with all its charms,
Sees the winter greens, his favourite colour
And the orange paddocks of a dry summer.
Thus his painting represents his precious green
And orange of flowers of dry paddocks seen.
Lindsay’s work has a marvellous flair,
Beautiful flowers dancing in the air,
Reminding one of dancing daffodils
Floating o’er the valleys, fields and hills.
Colleen O’Grady
- Artwork by Jane Gribben
30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas
SETI Petals
Born on a blackboard
these upright flowers got bored
and left the classroom behind
Upright, invincible, they sail
through deepest space
self-styled ambassadors
for the human race
Liana Joy Christensen
Enamel flowers
When magpies sang in the moonlight
They conjured flowers out of the ground
Which gyred and glowed in the moonlight
To the beautiful magpies’ sound.
See them blossom out in the sunlight
On days when the wind sweeps the sky
Those painted petals from moonlight
Bright gifts from the carolling magpies.
Virginia O’Keeffe
- Artwork by Pauline Birrell
12 x 17 Acrylic on Canvas
see how the paint blends,
mixes one shade with another
smears across my larger canvas,
colours mingling
tossed in the wind
a storm blowing seawards
whipping up waves
flotsam jetsam random chaotic
bigger picture than I usually do
but such fun—all over my hands
Sally Clarke
Creation
A cacophony of vibrant saturated
colours explodes inside
a blue universe
of creation. The world
has just begun –
and I am running hard
and deep inside it.
Allan Padgett
- Artwork by Wayne Knight
17 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas
Big Top In Town
The circus came to town
in red and yellow. Big top
rose near the saleyards
and wagons, wooden wheeled,
were drawn from circus train
steaming still in the station yard.
Ringside we eyeballed clowns,
acrobats, stern-faced lion tamers,
daring horse riders, who left us
living in a blur of yellow and red.
Glen Phillips
I paint Slim Dusty riding into the sunset
like Smoky Dawson, Roy Rogers,
and all other cowboy heroes.
The black of Slim’s hat merges
with crimson and gold because
the big man is up in the sky now,
but his music still reaches us.
Sue Clennell
- Artwork by Peter Iland
17 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas
The stories they could tell
Electric creatures
who live in the deep below,
witnessed the earth begin
do they fathom their own brillianc
booming within?
Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
Entremet: Between Servings Entertainment
Sprung by the chef’s courtly clown
paid sixpence for a song, the emerald crowned
diner donned in bloodied gilded armour
instead of glistening gravy finds:
a blackbird’s yellow beak—
Released like steam
the firework bursts—
like an exploding cannonball
into a bundle of black feathers
from the Italian 16th century pie.
Jake Dennis
- Artwork by Julie Marsh
17 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas
Faeries in dark woods
whooshing winds, sifting sands.
a woman sits in a café eating lunch
dominoes topple and the radio blares
faeries dance from tree to tree
red to white to brown
a dance of daily moments
crayons and paints.
Keren Gila Raiter
Catch a Fairy
There is a flicker
among the leaves.
A sprite too quick
a flash of red
a spur of yellow.
Could it be fairies
dancing the wind
and whispering leaves
in the brush and hush
morning sounds?
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
- Artwork by Diana Coote
12 x 17 Acrylic on Canvas
Sounds of the mountain
as a spring thaw cascades
from its lofty birthplace.
The beginning of a long journey
to the waiting ocean
in a timeless display
of natures finest heritage.
Peter Rondel
Rocks breaking, almost wailing within…
…against the storm sea shapes…
…like an internal battle of elemental strong tears.
Scarred rivulets of salt bearing down
On broken crevices…
…natures’ revenge.
Julie Fearns-Pheasant
- Artwork by Jenny Travers
30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
This bouquet of smiles
and laughter will spin
out into your eyes
and hands. Come
closer – it’s a door-
way into my heart
where loved ones
are welcome, and I
am dancing to the
music of their stories.
Zan Ross
My Angels are waiting in the meadows
their silver wings,hidden by their flowers´ petals
and OH, do you hear their precious laughter?
Like bluebells who wave in the Hereafter
A gentle breeze that is filled with Grace
and a place of Refuge
so come what may…
THE WANDERING GYPS
(Brigita Ferencak)
- Artwork by Cheryl Ham
30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Leap into the nucleus of your last dream
unravel helices of rose and gold
send their ribbons skyward
shout down those clouds from your rainbow
and dance upon them
for they will settle
like yesterday’s whisperings
fragile and soft underfoot
Shey Marque
canvas of being
call it more an undoing,
a release of mood states,
scrawled angst, brushed meanderings
of regret, all in the shy
hues of rainbow – indigo,
violet – the lurid unrhymes
of orange and purple,
daubs and curls and swirlings,
a canvas of being
Kevin Gillam
- Artwork by Barry Tonkin
40 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
here colour wheels across the canvas
left behind by tractor tread on farm land
and in its reds and blues is laughter
and longing and the playing of tricks
or cricket. because what he paints is a field
upon which things are played out
the livery of every day spent in the grip
of a good joke shared with these his friends
Nathan Hondros
Back on the Farm
This is a busy farm!
I can see wheels and tractors
tracks going back and forth
windmills and water
but the crop’s not green yet –
the only patch of green
is around the cricket pitch
and is that a dog I see
running after the ball?
Maureen Sexton
- Artwork by Terry Ashton
30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Seeing Things Everywhere
Terry, once in Bali,
On the slopes of a volcano,
My wife and children forged ahead
In the hurry scurry of seeing things,
But a hundred feet short
Of the crater’s rim I sat and could go no more.
Once they reached the crest,
Like you with your paint everywhere
They saw the heavens rain fire
And hurl stones and spurt molten gold.
Peter Jeffrey OAM
Every day
The colours in the morning
Out my window everyday
Sitting in the sunshine
It’s where I want to play
Smiling, Laughter and Happiness
Are here to stay ………
Michael Hilston
- Artwork by Robbie Wilshire
30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Half a Colour Wheel
Arc me
a curve where
I might find a bird
ripple me a line
slide vermillion wide
wheel me through colour
a serenade in paint
speak to my eyes
I hear your art-
heart
Amanda Joy
A coastline
bleached and scarred
Brisk summer breeze
with silent souls.
Wild poppy with purple petals,
frail (it seems),
sways on a bright green stem
We stop, breathe,
feel the pull.
Don’t pick it, or it’ll die.
Tineke Van Der Eecken
- Artwork by John Tillbrook
30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
The Horse
Dawn breaks and sets ablaze the reflection of eyes
and droplets
of breath
appear
The horse snorts and puffs and breathes
Billowing clouds of warmth
Smoke signals in the cool morning air
Julienne Juschke
Storm Wind
It seems this is the sea
where fish and coral hide in streams
of spreading sun, the sky a crimson red
but if I look again I see planes that fly with birds
and if I turn my head I hear the wind
that drives your heart.
Rose van Son
- ‘Field of Dreams’ by Andrew Finlay
30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
A yellow carpet
A field of buttercups.
The glory of a summer day
when weeds of many faces
compete for a place
to grow
Peter Rondel
Red meets the others
Not my colours.
The colours did not suit
the temper of my hair.
I squashed my eyes to blur them.
They pretend I am not there.
I quoted them as motley,
But still they do not care.
Just stressed and pressed nostrils against
my pigmentally-challenged hair.
Cuttlewoman
- ‘Butterflies’ by Sharon Siciliano
30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Butterfly Days
Our days together are flying by
so my little butterfly, I will watch
you flutter by. To catch you
is to kill, these butterfly days.
Natasha Adams
Hot and cold dancing
Courting a mate
Wing colours and patterns
Warm male butterflies dancing
Cooler females swarming to choose
Tanya Jaw
- ‘Falling Leaves’ by Gavin Downing
30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Guppies
Guppies swim and bits of me, there, in the spaces
left over after imagination has run its course
Other watery creatures and heralds of Darwin’s’ evolution
scope of the human scenario:
flighty, funny, full and empty – trilled and tumbling
All carmine, sea-green and saffron like Buddha’s pupils
The bits that are me, stay and wonder
The bits that are me, swim with my ancestors
For a little bit of time then, dear observer, stay and stare at creation
Christopher Konrad
In Profundis
here is an ocean sport
a morning when we woke as fish
and things sank down
for waiting blood-coral growing daisies
the molecules of humans
and human ingenuity parted and shattered
ululating to our sight
as the floor sand made
an ocean concoction of butternut milk
as welcome
Alistair Bain
- ‘Going Home’ by Ian Mc Donald
30 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Closing my eyes and looking towards the sun
I see the vivid red canvas of my passionate freedom
Which in painting I find near eludes me.
Ha!
But passionate freedom I have caught you
In and behind my ecstatic strokes
Of yellow, green and brown.
Graeme Butler
Vista
Vibrant, pulsating energy,
cannot be contained
Whirling in a fierce frenzy
Cannot be controlled
Red eye peering into
a strong red heart
Cannot be defined
Shifting, swirling dust,
Must be free, cannot be still
Veronica Lake
- ‘For Mum’ by Angela Mariotti
40 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Imaginations
Out of a Terry Pratchett novel
I ride hard against the wind
Hidden within my pink bower
I kneed my steed onwards
Past bemused onlookers
Towards victory.
Laurel Lamperd
galahs gather on a high wire
strung against clouds
some bunch rose pink breasts together
others hang by one clawed grey foot
swing
ripe fruit
then fall
before the hawk’s shadow
draws a curtain on the clown troupe
Coral Carter
- ‘Blue Vision’ by Rebecca Berkhout
30 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas
Choices
Ribbons doppler
through this red shift pond
revealing green
fronds of reed that wrap
entrap
The Möbius dragonfly flees skyward
peels away to freedom
while the eel dives straight down
into deeper blue
Liana Joy Christensen
I rescued her Willow from dust
Those blue inky streams
Dancing around ceramic
Broke one when we moved
I wanted the leafy green cups
And plates with handles
Like water lilies floating
Arms behind head
Meditating in the cabinet, dust ninjas
Deanne Leber
- ‘Autumn Falls’ by Janelle Mc Mahon
25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
I explore the internet
find how to make different shapes
say something new
see what I can do
not just a paintbrush
for leaf shapes I try a cardboard tube
experiment
with a plastic cylinder
want abstract expressionism
to push imagination beyond ordinary
Sally Clarke
Dancing Leaves
From a rainbow sky
at red sunset
see petals, leaves
and golden seeds,
with snow-puff down
all swirl and dance
on a midnight lake,
a dream of joy.
Sarah Leighton
- Artwork by Elinor Doddrell
40 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Ho, I am a Flamenco dancer
afoot in a land of red capes,
dark eyebrows and oranges.
Watch wax candles gutter when I twirl by.
Guess who will be thrown my rose.
Sue Clennell
Flamenco Dance
A Flamenco dancer
I twist and turn
with skirt swirling
figures whirling
castanets clapping
high heels rapping.
Costumes enhance
the Flamenco Dance.
Meryl Manoy
- Artwork by Ken Reedy
41 x 41 Acrylic on Canvas
Other Gardens.
Below sea ripple
Where kelp gardens wave,
Their mystery,
Come dive,
Come see
The beauty of these
Foetal worlds
The ocean’s child,
The living sea.
J.R. McRae
Haiku indebted to Robert Frost and e. e. cummings
gold seeds in moist earth
catch light with first leaves: children
clasp bright falling stars
Jake Dennis
- Artwork by Michael Tholet
21 x 25 Acrylic on Canvas
I Reach, You Reach
People as different
as primary colours
come and go.
I catch a glimpse of you
a glimpse of me
in colours banded strong.
Find the soft edges
between us.
You reach me
I reach you.
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
colours of this land
mine, theirs, ours
sparkling sapphire ocean meets
red rust, burnt dust, earth
sun shining golden amber over all
black, yellow, red
blue, red, white
the sun knows no difference
shows no difference
just shines
Christina Gammon
- ‘Surfing in my Bean Bag’ by Lisa Coles
25 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Bodies of the earth
spirits of the soul
intertwine
on a sunshine day.
Jacqui Merckenschlager
Bending back from a summer wind, sun dancing on our faces…
…heat on one side, cool whispering on the other.
Feeling tired, feet sunk in sand…
…together, walking.
End of a good day, breeze pushing us forward.
Julie Fearns-Pheasant
- ‘My Nungah Flag’ by Keith Indich
30 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Getting The Balance
Fingers grip and slip in artful guile
on wobble-track of bowler’s smothered smile,
OR, planet Mars in realm of milky whey
a universe of human hearts away,
on NASA-funded burning-learning quest
while, back on Earth, we feed and clothe the rest.
Max Merckenschlager
Under darkened skies I meander
and yet I cannot loose myself
Being embraced by a cluster of stars
my light shines through
like velvet and silk
embedded in tender Love
I rise above the heavens
THE WANDERING GYPSY
(Brigita Ferencak)
- ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ by Rosina Hodge
30 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas
Rain!
Rain! I hear you drumming in the dark
my roof stretched tight my ears
attuned to a live mid-night performance
I feel you rising and rising –
gutters set to overflow in splendid crescendo
as you flash flood dash to ground water – fall
headlong into billabongs painted here like
rain’s footsteps drumming in the dark.
Carol Millner
while skin
on the wrinkled skin
of thinking,
blisters of flaming anger,
buds of fluorescent doubt,
while skin lies
dark as history,
thin as possibility,
oblivious
Kevin Gillam
- Artwork by Donna Barnsley
30 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas
charism
bloody burnt land
with a dab dab-hand
: consecrate sacred
space. with human
‘s, race. start running
. all things are better
sweeten. CHAR means
gift in ancient tongue
, so CHAR our world
your everything
.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
I see the signs of hope also
and lay them down
in black and white
innocence is here at times
in the symbols she chooses
at the point where we intersect
she knows there are other ways of seeing
and in god she trusts
she knows well the direction of things
Nathan Hondros
- Artwork by Jeremey Gowing
30 x 22 Acrylic on Canvas
Starship Surging Through Space
Jeremey, with your love of flight and robots,
I see you as the captain of a huge starship,
Gazing from your huge control deck
At pulsating infinite space and the everpresent
Stars that mark the bounds of all things,
Just as the dolphins you have left behind,
Surge through the surf of Earth
And along the endless ocean shores
Are leaping too, into the space of waves
And the sky above .
Peter Jeffrey OAM
Sound the klaxons!
Call out the guard!
Aliens! Invaders!
But wait what’s this?
Award winner 2012
Sculpture By The Sea
Jan Napier
- ‘Visiting Family in Geraldton’ by Jenny Hyde
90 x 30 Mixed Media on Canvas
Family
The genesis was only two
then generations spread and grew,
with added in-laws, features changed,
appearances were re-arranged,
but in each one, that first design
is handed down from line to line,
and buried deep, it’s on display –
the perfect strand of DNA.
Val Neubecker
Visiting Family in Geraldton
Joyous bright from the heart with a spark~
Familiar faces all gather around and I’ll dress you
in flowers and crowns and beautiful gowns
each outfit a bar of a beautiful song, sung so
we can all belong
Amanda Joy
- ‘Sea World’ by Jodie Bateman
102 x 50 Mixed Media on Canvas
when thunder claps and waves crash
come with me to another place –
where seahorses glide majestically by
fabric fish sparkle, starfish smile
there are stories to hear
lost treasures to find –
safe beneath the storm
Liz Nicholls
Sea World
A world of wonder
a sight to see
a place to float … to swim
Just leap straight in
Underneath serene and still
Till … a GASP of glee
A classroom scene
A favourite wish
Schools of magnificent ocean fish
Julienne Juschke
- Artwork by Michelle Storer
70 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Rain
Refreshing rain drops
Flowers lift their heads
Gardeners sigh with relief
Plants and people
share the same delights
Ron Okely
playful bubbles
tease and tickle
the ocean’s swell
as a scattered wreath of
heavy-headed blooms
drifts
in remembrance of a friend
Val Neubecker
- Artwork by Liliana Cheldi
60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Liliana’s Delight
Sponges make flashes of green and yellow,
Leaving one feeling soft and mellow.
This painting reflects a gentle disposition,
Thus Liliana’s work is of tender transmission,
Smoothing with the sponge the softer parts,
Placing colours of love within our hearts.
For her painting is truly sublime,
One that will last the test of time.
Colleen O’Grady
Grass tracking
along channels
of wheat
Weaving an
Aussie carpet
of green and gold
Tanya Jaw
- Artwork by Doug Fancourt
60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Stars
Leaning on the Rialto Bridge in 1734 Canaletto saw
in his mind’s eye, waves of molten gold and cerulean
angels’ wings of heaven and painted them on canvas.
Now
Through a tube of mirrors 569 kilometres above the Bridge
Hubble’s telescope sails through the world of space,
capturing the erupting gold and turquoise of the
superb Swan Nebula on filtered wavelengths of light.
How amazing is man.
Virginia O’Keeffe
Starry night revisited
Where Van Gough’s stars were great fiery swirls
Sweeping vortexes in European skies
Yours sing sweet simple gentle in the desert sky
Like a great Dreamtime serpent or Carpet snake
Your starry night places me in this land
Far away from other aspirations, other artists elsewhere
Your art is here, now and seats me quietly in this dirt as I reflect
As the cool quiet western desert night washes over me
Christopher Konrad
- Artwork by Wayne Cooper
60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Triptych
One colour is not enough
Three sides to identity
Diversity the key
Green for life uplifting
Reaching to the sun
The core, the secret self
Lingers in shadows
Creativity shines blue
One colour is not enough
Veronica Lake
Revelation
Three worlds conjoin, the wildness
of nature confronts me.
As I wriggle free
from the bonds which tie
me to symmetry,
I sigh, I smile, I cry –
and living colours surround, caress
and pamper me.
Allan Padgett
- Artwork by Nathan Garrod
50 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Bright Trail Of Beauty
Like an opal ablaze with light
the colours shimmered on velvet black.
I thought of all the ways we come
following the bright trail of beauty,
following our songlines from pre-school
to the grey bobbing heads intoning
community tunes in a homely peace.
Glen Phillips
Where All Roads Lead
Distant tracks
Meandering through stunted mallee
And spinifex
Across stony deserts
Inland sand dunes
Searching for the Rainbow Serpent.
Laurel Lamperd
- Artwork by Wayne Cooper
45 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas
Fish dart between flakes
The kids count streaks in the water
Orange, grey and silver splash with laughter
So many moments
Turn between fingers
The control over lips kissing
Kids pucker up
We write them into poems
The delight of surfaces coming up for air
Deanne Leber
The Gardener
It seems only right
that trees, solid as houses
should begin as liberated seeds.
Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne
- Artwork by Michelle Storer
60 x 30 Acrylic on Canvas
Dragonflies
Dragonfly crush in busy meet
String tails slap and splash,
How finely tuned, this hasty greet
As pink and purple flash!
Slap hits hard – a bruise of gold
Marking the embrace
Weaving tracks both strong and bold
Life’s complicated lace!
Sarah Leighton
Strings in motion
the connection between here and there
never finishing, never ending
flying
from source to destination, destination to source
each with a radiance of its own
Keren Gila Raiter
- ‘Butterfly Dance’ by Melissa Costanzo
45 x 55 Mixed Media on Canvas
The unsurpassed beauty
of the rarest orchids.
Beyond the reach of such as I
within the unseen protection
of some hidden forest.
Adornment of the Debutant
a treasured creation
to compliment her ball gown.
Peter Rondel
Butterfly Dance
A rosy day, butterflies dance
gently alighting on the flowers.
Butterflies, symbols of romance,
summer sunshine, happy hours;
such fragile delicate creatures
displaying stunning vibrant tones
of colour – their outstanding features –
gardens are their natural homes.
Meryl Manoy
- Artwork by Kevin Devine
45 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas
The Youthful Gardener
A glimpse –
Among the hyacinth,
The thrill of daffodil,
The blush of rose,
The purple rush of iris,
All of those –
Glimpsed amidst their wonder,
A shy smile,
“Come sit, admire
A little while…”
J.R. McRae
These colours are all
me: bright, Green
Lantern Coolness.
Check it out! I am
cruising with it – a
real doer, loving the
making, joining in.
Yeah! That’s me and
my friends over there,
laughing, living life big!
Zan Ross
- ‘Inner Brightness’ by Gavin Mc Namara
55 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas
smile reflects in
kaleidoscopic eyes
hearts full
swell with warmth
coloured world
brightened day
Christina Gammon
From
your raw
emotions
primary shades
merge with parched earth, mapping territories
A Tetractys by Shey Marque
- ‘Madam Butterfly’ by Gynetta Panaia
63 x 183 Acrylic on Canvas
Girl,
haunting blue eyes reflected
in a squeezed heart pendant,
flanked by butterfly witch-wings,
embraced by flowing hair
medusa-like around her shoulders.
Is she prepared
to seduce the world?
Jacqui Merckenschlager
Bringing back Frida Kahlo
Was it Frida you saw that day,
and could you feel the pain in her eyes?
You have given her a new life
with your paintbrush
returned her to us
on the wings of a butterfly.
Her hair the colour of earth,
her beauty the colour of nature.
Maureen Sexton
- Artwork by Jessica Cantatore
60 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas
Dugongs At Sunset
Seagrass sanctuary in Moreton Bay;
pups graze idly by her side
in this historic harbour of infamy.
Sunset weeps blood,
drenching their ocean bed.
A modern mermaid drifts at peace.
Max Merckenschlager
Every night
I love a golden sunset
Over the Aussie bush
Every night
I’m happy in colours
That make me smile
So it’s alright
With me
Michael Hilston
- Artwork by Mathew Froud
40 x 75 Acrylic on Canvas
At my table I serve you
plump tomatoes of empathy
bright peppers of joy
creamy eggplants of meaning
in a tangy pickle of truth
I sprinkle you with sugar
and tickle you with berries.
When you’re gone I sizzle you in my memory
and fry up a plan
to invite you again
Tineke Van Der Eecken
late roses dissolve
fallen petals turn
on the blue water
Carol Millner
- ‘Deep Sea’ by Denis Tomlinson
45 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas
Deep Sea
(or the concise Snark)
‘Cross this greeny blue
sailed Bellman and crew.
Once landed they sought
for a creature most fraught,
but in triumph all sobbed,
of the baker were robbed.
To keep spirits up
His friends downed a sup,
and their narrative sped
to an editor’s head.
Jan Napier
Deep Sea
We have met before you & I
but in this Deep Sea there’s something new-
such striking lines, your colours bold
the voice you weave holds me in awe.
I breathe your beauty; am glad you swing
your brush again, such flight! So we can enjoy
the greater gift you give.
Rose van Son
- ‘Little Fishies Swimming in the Pink Sea’ by Eleana Bredemeyer
60 x 45 Acrylic on Canvas
Blue
From burning blue ground
clefts and ridges stained red hiss:
I do not speak.
I do not speak the language.
I do not speak the language of,
the language of my grandmothers.
Cuttlewoman
Little fishies swimming in a pink sea
I dream little fishies swimming in a pink sea
I dream mermaids, their cheeks ripe apples
their hair strawberry cream
they dine on rose petals and raspberry tea.
I dream dolphins, whale song, sea turtles
ancient, strong.
I dream little fishies swimming in a pink sea
my dreams are anything I want them to be
Liz Nicholls
- ‘Eagle Mountain’ by Guy Rossi
50 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas
Here I sit on Eagle Mountain
All I’m sayin’ is
hey ref
c’mon and shine some
of your sunlight
on me
Here I sit on Eagle Mountain
Today I’m King of the world
Natasha Adams
Those Eagles climb
that mountain each
season, and I’m there,
blowing the horn,
using they r colours –
blue and gold, the
white – that’s my hand
stretched out to pull
them up. And they
get there, as I do.
Zan Ross
- Artwork by Warren Brass
75 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
Skydive
we fall like autumn leaves
skydiving as the parachute
bellows open
and sky cloudless
rushes in greeting
below the new-green of paddocks
and dams refilled
beneath the orange and amber
the red and brick-brown
floating we become
Alistair Bain
My House is a Zoo
The crocodile looks hungry
bears and tigers pace and growl
monkeys play, whoop and chatter
the elephant sways on the spot
from one foot to the other.
Seeing myself in the eyes
of a lion, it occurs
to me how alike we are.
I love being in the zoo
with my friends and housemates.
Maureen Sexton
- Artwork by Lisa Bernic
58 x 48 Acrylic on Canvas
Panels
finding you in blues and greens, so vocal there
your voice a thick and vibrant red, your eyes see me
as I see you in colours, warm to everlasting
valiant threads, pulled tight in panels-
certain to catch and hold the breath
Rose van Son
Three Little Pigs
Three baby pigs in their farrowing pens
In coloured radiance flourishing
Freely twisting, writhing and lying prone
Fleshy organs, meat, blood and bone
Feeling their way into their piggy home.
Fretting ugly for food with piglet squeals
To their indulgent mother they make loud appeals.
Graeme Butler
- ‘Smacking Munyee No. 2’ by Katie Bassett
52 x 52 Acrylic on Canvas
when four butterflies
lift their wings and stamp
winds blow
everything down
flies up
everything up
flies down
but a flag caught in branches
shreds
thread by thread
Coral Carter
nebula
main sequence
(extrapolation of the expansion)
use your colour index to
decode the cosmic microwave
your supernova smile
a burst of radiation
to briefly outshine
my entire galaxy
please say you’ll be my
cosmological constant?
Natasha Adams
- Artwork by Vivienne Sharp
42 x 42 Acrylic on Canvas
Elementals
All honour the Green Dragon:
Guardian of water, plants,
Children
All honour the Red Dragon:
Guardian of fire, food,
Love
Elementals dancing
Joyous, equal, free
Liana Joy Christensen
contrast: opposition or juxtaposition of different forms, lines or colours in a work of art to intensify each elements properties and produce a more dynamic expressiveness. (noun)
green red
in sweet pastures in firelight
safe passage danger beware
wounds heal wounds bleed
cells multiply, divide blood boils
in leaves and long grass in hearts and war
plough shares and vines swords and swift arrows
green red
Coral Carter
- Artwork by Peter Layton
26 x 26 Acrylic on Canvas
give me colours
to sing along with
give me friends
who make me laugh
if you help me
I love to make pictures
no brush just my palm
spreading colour green yellow red
then we can read a story
take a walk
Sally Clarke
Nature
Flowers are blooming,
Red roses and daffodils,
Pollen’s bursting in the air,
Surrounding us everywhere.
Jayden Tan
- Artwork by Richard Smither
75 x 40 Acrylic on Canvas
The Freedom Flag
Fold up Old Glory and
unfurl the Freedom Flag
We will go to war no more
Each lozenge of colour
bursts with the fizzy joy
of its distinction
Beneath such a banner
we can gather and wage
unceasing peace
Liana Joy Christensen
To all my loves in rain-sodden countries,
I send you envelopes filled with
Perth sunshine,
Cottesloe sand,
smiles to go around.
Sue Clennell
- Artwork by Jane Gribben
40 x 75 Acrylic on Canvas
Christmas Island Refugees
Barbed wire cannot contain life:
even with their lips sewn
their mouths speak.
Jake Dennis
The fence that is holding us back
deceives with its rich colours.
My heart ignores fences and
reaches out to you with my painting.
Challenges you to pull at the palings
Sue Clennell
- Artwork by Katrina Barber
60 x 50 Rug
Shout
In my hands I hold the world.
A patchwork field of colour
jostled and formed
individual, distinct.
Me, you, everyone.
I see possibilities I cannot hear
feel the essence of every colour
every object, every movement
and shout.
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
The line of it
And there it is
there , irrevocably, the line of it your life
In the middle of it all like golden light
The refusal to be obscured hidden retrenched
From the sweep of the tapestry of everyone and everything
Your place is assured but in a soft and gentle way
Remarkable deserving announced
Christopher Konrad
- Artwork by Candice Raphael
30 x 30 Acrylic on Paper
Whispered words ebb and flow
to a mother’s lullaby
joining the song-lines
of tiny birds
caught on a breeze
woven through
a smocking and lace sky.
Jacqui Merckenschlager
Random patterns of brain thought…
…playing delicately in head space…
skipping once, twice, like a repetitive dance.
Colours blending with the steps, complimenting each other
on the natural rhythm.
Julie Fearns-Pheasant