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Bronwyn Searle
Bronwyn has been painting and drawing, in one form or another, all her life.
Today, as an emerging (and highly collectable) painter in oils, her work reflects her passion for capturing the light, and is influenced by her depth of experience in illustrative technique. Bronwyn enjoys the challenge of taking ordinary, everyday scenes and interpreting them in her own inimitable and increasingly widely recognised style. Working in oils on canvas, she loves to explore the technique of chiaroscuro.
Bronwyn has recently returned to still life painting, while continuing to explore the detail found in leaf litter and textures in the urban world. She is drawn to the unique beauty found in ordinary settings. This direction suits her technique and eye for detail.
Born in Brisbane, Australia, and trained at the Brisbane College of Art, Bronwyn worked professionally in the art field for more than 25 years, starting as a graphic artist and moving on to exhibition design and illustration. She spent 18 years at the Queensland Museum, designing displays and illustrating museum publications, including the Sciencentre’s picture book, "Velvet the Flying Gecko."
Bronwyn collaborated with her writer husband Rick on two children’s picture books, “Slam Dunk Tim” and “Follow Me,” which were published by Random House and Scholastic respectively. Leaving the Museum in 2002, she freelanced as an illustrator, with regular commissions from John Wiley Australia Publishers.
In 2012 Bronwyn was invited to be represented by the Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane after winning first prize in the Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Awards. She exhibits a new collection of works there each year.
Her paintings are held in a number of private collections, in Australia and overseas.
She is also happy to take commissions.

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When people ask artist Jeffrey Service where he gets his ideas from, the answer is simple... They come from the haphazard adventures of his everyday life – which in Jeffery’s case has taken him to many exotic and far-flung places: from New York to El Salvador and New Mexico, from Sweden to Morocco and across the Australian outback.

Jeffrey, born in Bundaberg, left Australia in 1969 chasing the Summer of Love to a hippie commune in California. He took up batik painting and sold five thousand of them during a 20-year-love affair with that art form. Several of his batiks hang in the U.S. Library of Congress, the King of Thailand bought one, and Elizabeth Taylor bought two.

These days, Jeffrey works in water colour on paper, and in smaller sizes than the large batiks he’s famous for, but everyday life continues to inspire his quirky vision. Over the years Jeffrey has exhibited and taught across the USA, Australia and most recently, the Tiwi Islands.

It’s impossible to look at a Jeffrey Service painting and not smile. And that, to him, is a sign of success.

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Untutored Session. Tutor of Bienarté

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"When I paint, I find my everyday concerns fall away and I’m left with only the joy of colour and canvas."

After growing up in Japan, Ai arrived in Australia in 2005 and in 2010 she established herself as a respected and accomplished artist in Brisbane. Her exquisite oil paintings of nature – most often featuring water – offer viewers a feeling of depth, calm and serenity…. much like Ai herself.

Ai now also shares her knowledge and great love of painting with students as part of the Brisbane Painting Classes core team.

In 2010, Ai won the inaugural Lethbridge 10 000 Art Award. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her work at Lethbridge Gallery in Brisbane, as well as exhibiting in Sydney, Melbourne and San Diego art fairs.

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Caroline Shapley. Tutor of Bienarté

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Llewellyn Skye, known simply as Skye, is a dynamic, passionate and soulful visual artist, whose unique and expressive abstract paintings are captivating public and private collectors around the globe. Drawing inspiration from lyrics, poetry and nature, in particular florals, Skye’s work evokes romance and drama.

Completing her BFA at the National Art School, followed by an advanced diploma at the Sydney Gallery School, Skye is an accomplished artist whose work has been represented in over 60 exhibitions and 12 solo shows. She received the Fenton & Fenton 2021 Rising Talent Award, ALA 2021 Abstract Artist Award, 2018 BLA Award, was highly commended in the John Olsen drawing prize and was awarded a painting residency in Italy. She has undertaken a significant number of notable commissions, and her works can be found in a number of public and private collections in Australia and abroad.

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Ann Strini is an emerging modern impressionist artist who migrated to Australia in 2015 and re-started her art practice in 2021. Inspired by the leafy surrounds of Brisbane and the laid-back coastal vibes of the Sunshine Coast, Ann has a passion for capturing joyful, saturated landscapes with mesmerizing patterns and close-up still life subjects that reveal playful details.

A daily painter, Ann practices the “alla prima” technique, painting in plein air and from images she takes of nature or during travels abroad. “Because I’ve learned my craft through years of daily practice, in-person courses and workshops, online classes, books, and trial-and-error, I think of my artist education as self-lived. My goal is to share the plethora of tips and techniques I’ve learned along the way to help make oil painting less intimidating, more accessible, easier to gain confidence in and more enjoyable as a lifelong activity.”

Ann has exhibited in galleries in QLD, VIC & NSW and has sold works to private collectors in the US, South Africa and Australia.

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Keiko Tanabe’s watercolour paintings have been described as “...being caught between the 'physical' and the 'spiritual'. It is if they are glimpses of who we are and where we have been” (Brian Sherwin, art critic).

As a child growing up in Japan, Keiko painted and drew and won many children’s art awards. However, it wasn’t until 2003, after undertaking a course in basic drawing and watercolour painting at a community college in her current home city of San Diego, that she decided to pursue art as a career.

Keiko’s love of travel is captured in both the exotic and familiar landscapes, cityscapes, waterscapes and interiors that are the focus of her work. Her use of colour, texture and signature brushwork have earned Keiko many awards, and her work can be found in collections around the world.

She is also the author of six books and a sought-after workshop teacher, having conducted more than 170 workshops and demonstrations in the past 6 years.

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Tricia Taylor is a Master Pastellist from Queensland, Australia with 20 years’ experience working with pastels. Having an impressionistic style of realism Tricia’s work has life and movement focusing on the beauty of light.
She has awards in landscape, seascape, still life, florals and portraits along with being awarded Pastellist of the Year 2010.

“The way the pastel becomes your brush and the paper your pallet is immediate and exciting to paint with. The subtle colour affects you can gain by glazing one colour over another gives a great depth to the artwork.

My purpose it to shine a light into the community through art. Light has always fascinated me. It has so many meanings and significance in life. It brings clarity, hope and unveils our path. The moment between night and day as light fills the sky with colour, this Kairos moment brings me deep joy. With art as the vehicle I tell the story of light whether the hope of a sunrise, the light falling on a child’s face to reveal their innocence or the path of light as it falls across a table to expose the velvet petal of a flower. I aim to share the light of God that lives in me and is revealed in creation into the lives of others to bring just a little more joy into their hearts.”

As an Accredited Unison artist Tricia has been given her own selections of Unison pastel sets. Including Seascape, Earth and Rock, Sand and more that can be ordered from her website.

Teaching from beginners to advanced students for many years Tricia’s workshops are in demand in Australia and internationally. www.taylorart.com.au.

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Sandra Temple’s passionate interest in wildlife, and particularly in wildlife
conservation, is evident in her art, in her teaching and in her support for the field of
wildlife art in Australia.

With more than 30 years experience as a professional artist, illustrator and author,
as well as a sought after teacher, tutor and art judge, Sandra has worked in all
mediums – but has a strong interest in mixed medium art works. Over the past six
years Sandra has also become internationally recognised as a Bodypainter, and is
demand in the advertising, special effects, film and events sectors.

Sandra has held many exhibitions and won numerous wildlife art awards in both
Australia and overseas. She has also illustrated 26 children's books, including the
multi award winning' Puggle's Problem' and the series of twelve 'Pony Pals'.