In House Quarterly Meetings

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Jenny Nunn – Acrylic mixed media. Title – “The Journey”. The story for this painting is spiritually inspired. People are always focused on the outcome (horizon) sometimes it is forgotten that the journey of life has many surprises that can enrich our lives.

Bill the Bastard' by Samy McNamarra - an acrylic that I am still working on. Bill the Bastard was a legendary Australian war horse from World War I — famous for being almost impossible to ride, yet capable of extraordinary courage and loyalty. He was a huge 17‑hand Waler stallion, notoriously stubborn and unrideable, which is how he earned the nickname Bill the Bastard

Mark Davis – medium: oil and acrylic

Artist Note: Mark likes painting rocks, which is a feature in this large painting. He received permission to paint this photograph that was part of a photography group. This painting took him three and a half months to complete. He found it daunting to paint the large number of trees in the background, and needed some adjusting.

 Fay Jeanes – "The Battling Days" after a poem by Henry Lawson. Fay painted an old farm wagon in watercolour and read the poem from Henry Lawson. She has been experimenting with watercolour as she normally paints with pastels. She was a country girl and remembers the old farm wagons being used when she was small 

Mark was the first cab off of the rank with a large painting of a big horned Canadian sheep on an unframed canvas. The background was painted in a bright scarlet red colour with the sheep laying in the foreground. The background was painted in acrylic whilst the sheep was done in gouache

Penny’s art piece was done in acrylics and varnished. It showed a winter owl in the snow. The background was black, white and purple. White streaks in the background were added without much blending to depict snow and sleet. Penny visualised the owl without a preliminary sketch. She divided her page into 3 sections – face, body and tree branch in width and length. Penny enjoys painting animals in clothes but ensures the animals in her pictures including their eyes are realistic and to scale. 

First up was Sammy who had painted an open door with a small oval aperture in it showing a landscape with a waterfall. She said her painting was about the door opening the mind to literature, and had painted books which she had shown at the bottom of the painting. She said that she was rushed to finish the painting due to her study commitments. It was painted in acrylics

First up was Ellen who had a nice frame so decided to paint something to fit it, so she conjured up a landscape scene from sections of other paintings that turned into a waterfall in portrait format. It was painted with pastel pencils on grey paper and depicted her idea of paradise. Only a small painting but very well executed.