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David Bongiorno is an award winning figurative artist working in Maleny, Queensland. David
has participated in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Steps Gallery, Brunswick,
The Cooroy Butter Factory Arts Centre, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Gatakers Artspace
Regional Gallery and Caloundra Regional Gallery. He has undertaken private commissions,
and has works in private and public collections. David has participated in local and national
art prizes including “Emerging Wearable Artist Winner” at the Australian Wearable Art
Festival 2022, and has arts management, curation, teaching and mentoring experience.

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Andrew Bonneau (born 1981) is an artist whose work reflects a deep sensitivity to the forms of nature and the subtlety of light, embodying many of the qualities of the European realist tradition.

Andrew earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at The National Art School in Sydney and later studied at both The Charlie Sheard Studio School and the Julian Ashton Art School.

To connect more fully to the disciplines of traditional drawing and painting, he studied for three years under Jacob Collins at the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York.

His subject matter ranges from portraits, figures, still life and landscapes, and his work is characterised by the unique perception and delicacy he brings to each of these genres.

Andrew has been selected as finalist for many national painting awards, including the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, the Percival National Portrait Prize, the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize and three times for the Moran Portrait Prize. He was recently selected as a finalist for the Archibald Prize for 2017 and has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

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Ric’s driving motivation is to share how he sees the beauty of the Natural World while exploring the importance the role of ‘Creativity’ plays in our well being and wholeness. The Japanese concept of “ Nagomi “, which translates to a ‘ sense of well being, calmness, harmony and sustainability ‘, is what we in the Western World might call being in ‘ The Zone’. This ability to loose ourselves in the creative process has proven benefits for both physical and mental health, so important in our busy and sometimes chaotic lives. 

Ric hopes to encourage this creative process through his classes, while using his experience as a practicing artist to help others develop their own skills. 

Ric trained as an Art and Graphics teacher at Southampton University in the UK. He went on to teach Art and Graphics at a number of Secondary Schools in Australia over a period of 25 years.

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Scott Breton is a figurative fine artist from Brisbane, Australia.

After completing a science degree (BSc (Genetics) University of Queensland) and contemplating a career in biotechnology, Scott committed fully to pursuing art, continuing a classically leaning arts education and practise begun much earlier. In 2012 Scott won the highly contested A.M.E. Bale Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s largest national prize for developing the careers of traditional representational artists. This allowed Scott to do further study with contemporary classical artists in the US and Europe, and has contributed to his view of the relevance of Renaissance thinking and aesthetics in the Arts in the 21st century.

Using a range of traditional drawing, painting and sculpting media as well as exploring digital counterparts to these, Scott sees plastic composition rather than any particular media as the core of the classical ethos. He is interested in how this sense of plasticity can be utilised by the contemporary artist. This endeavour seems to closely mirror a more general exploration of how the specifics of the contemporary human experience relate to and can be informed by insights about the human condition that have emerged across all of human history.

To continue and expand his work in fine art education, Scott was a cofounder of The International Arts and Culture Group (TIAC Group) in 2016, and now spends his time between Brisbane, Australia and Florence, Italy, working on his compositions and TIAC’s arts education projects.

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Doug Moran and Archibald Prize finalist, Daniel Butterworth is an established artist specialising in portraiture – frequently using self portraits to express social, political and personal views.

Having started his working life as a sign-writer, Dan later completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Latrobe University and has been a practising artist for more than 20 years. Working from his studio in Kyneton, Victoria, Dan has most recently been producing large scale self portraits, using oil on paper.

With numerous solo and group exhibitions to his name, along with selection as a finalist in a large number of high profile portrait prizes, Daniel is now in demand as a guest artist and teacher in Australia.

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Katherine explores the interplay between realism and impressionism, primarily using oils to capture moments of light across diverse landscapes.

She gained broad international recognition for her wildlife and bird paintings under her former name, Katherine Castle. Her artwork has adorned millions of products, including mugs, plates, and tea towels.

Now bewitched by ephemeral natural light, Katherine sensitively captures landscapes and still life with subtlety and delicate nuance.

Katherine has been a Professional artist for over thirty years. She holds a diploma of fine art, and has received personal instruction from some of Australia’s finest painters. She has received numerous awards.

Now settled in the Tweed Valley, Northern NSW, she finds endless inspiration in the region's natural beauty. She has traveled Australia widely and loves to paint en plein air to capture the essence of the landscape.

Katherine has held workshops in oils, watercolours and drawing all over Australia.

She believes art is a powerful tool to appreciate Nature's beauty. Each painting is an invitation to pause and reconsider the world around us - to awaken ourselves to the overwhelming beauty in which we are ever immersed.

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Christine Clark is a professional artist and sought- after Tutor adept at helping students develop their own individual style and guides each student in reaching their potential, in a supportive and nurturing environment.
Christine has won numerous awards and in 2007 was awarded Master Pastellist of Australia, status from The Pastel Society of Australia and in 2012 the prestigious Pastellist of the Year Award. Examples of her work have also appeared in the Australian Artist Magazine. Recently in January 2015, Christine appeared on the TV show ‘Colour in Your Life.’
Born in Melbourne Chris has always had a passion for drawing and painting. Now living on the Sunshine Coast for the past 25 years with her family, she has been inspired by a variety of subjects, figures, portraits, seascapes, flowers and animals. Chris has painted in various mediums, but regards pastel, oil and charcoal as her favourites, loving the soft luscious strokes, texture and vibrant colours.

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Stephie Clark is a soft pastel artist from Australia working mostly in her country studio at home in Armidale. She divides her time between painting in her studio and teaching workshops both here in Australia and overseas in France. 

Stephie is best known for her free and flowing florals and fruits - her style is uninhibited by rules and boundaries. She is inspired by the nature and colours it produces. Stephie’s work has been featured in French magazine Practique des Arts and you can see her in action on her Patreon site. Stephie sells her art in her online shop around the world.

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