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ROBYN COLLIER is a professional artist with over 40 years of painting experience. She is regarded as one of Australia’s foremost wilderness artists – preferring to paint the natural world and aspects of it. She has conducted workshops throughout Australia and New Zealand for the past 12 years, published many articles, held over 30 exhibitions and made numerous television appearances. Her work has won multi awards and is in prestigious collections in most countries in the world. She has taken part in many ‘Artist-in-Residence’ programs – both on the mainland of Australia’s and many remote islands. Many of her articles have been published in magazines and paintings have appeared on cards and prints.

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My artwork has a strong environmental focus concerned with waste behaviour and how we use and dispose of materials, which I challenge through strong personal inquiries. I move between creative media in response to both my own journey and a broader social/conceptual framework, with skill, confidence and passion that is further enriched by with the innovation of found materials, gathered stories, discarded objects and forgotten memorabilia.
I am an Australian Artist living in Brisbane, Queensland and my artworks include painting, public artwork, mixed media object and small sculpture. I am self-represented and have works sold into private collections in Australia, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom and United States.

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Paula Cordoba. Tutor of Bienarté

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Jeanne Cotter is an accomplished pastel artist and has been teaching Soft Pastel classes for adult beginners for two years. Jeanne discovered the textures and colours of soft pastels a few years ago and has since attended numerous classes and workshops and travelled to Italy on painting tours with her art tutor and fellow students. Today Jeanne works part time in a Brisbane art supplies outlet whilst pursuing her love of soft pastels. On her days off she paints and teaches pastel art classes for adult beginners at her home in Middle Park, Brisbane. http;//deliciousart.com.au. She especially loves teaching others and witnessing their delight in the discovery of pastels and finding their inner artist; her mantra is "Don’t die with the art still inside you."

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"My main aim is to paint passionately and enthusiastically… with variation, versatility and diversity… always changing and evolving so as not to become staid. I feel the need to continually keep my work alive, looking for inspiration evoked by emotion, mood or atmosphere."

Helen Cottle’s realistic/impressionist painting style has grown out of decades of experimentation with different mediums.

Born in Williamstown, Victoria, Helen’s artistic life started in early childhood where she spent hours drawing from life. However, what began as a part time hobby, over time evolved into a passion to express herself creatively in whatever medium the chosen subject calls for.

Inspired by and studying the brushstrokes and techniques of artists such as Arthur Streeton, John Singer-Sargent and Harold Herbert, Helen initially focused on oil painting before moving on to specialise in watercolour. Recently Helen has moved into acrylic and mixed media. She believes that regardless of medium, having a fascination with the effects of light on a subject and observing life’s intriguing details, enables everyday views to be transformed into dynamic and interesting works of art.
Helen has had many successful solo and joint exhibitions and is now a popular and highly sought after tutor and educator.

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Margaret Coulsen spent her formative years drawing people and architectural landscapes in graphite, pantone pens and ink, before discovering pastels. In recent years she has refined her pastel painting techniques, becoming particularly interested in the many facets of water and the reflective compositions that the element of water helps create. Architectural landscapes and portraits continue to be a focus for Margaret.

Margaret’s works have been accepted into a number of competitions and she has produced several pastel portraits on commission.

Most recently, Margaret is sharing her passion for painting and drawing with children and young people, developing and presenting a series of workshops for students on different aspects of drawing and painting.

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Ros' artistic passion was ignited at the age of 5 when she was awarded a scholarship to the Qld Art Gallery. This was followed by tuition in water colour, photography and more recently oils.

Inspired by the beauty of nature, Ros strives to bring the outside in through her realistic depictions of the Australian landscape, seascapes, native flora and fauna.

Having pursued a career in teaching and allied health, Ros now combines her two passions of art and teaching to help students gain the fundamental knowledge and skills of oil painting in a relaxed and encouraging environment.

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Tammy de Zilva. Tutor of Bienarté

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An award-winning artist, Libby is a fourth-generation water-colourist, passionate at pushing the medium into the contemporary space. She won the Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award - Queensland Regional Art Awards (2021) and has been a finalist in multiple local and national awards including Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), QRAA (2020), Local Artist Local Content (2022/2021/2020) and Du Rietz Art Awards (2021/2020).

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"Nothing excites me more than when a student comes to me having never picked up a paint brush. They do my classes and develop a skill, a passion they never knew they had"

Renowned French-Canadian Master Artist, Marcel Desbiens, is an accomplished Artist and Tutor who generously shares his expertise on the techniques of the Old Masters. Over the years people were often asking him for advice on technical skills in Oil Painting, this lead him to teach painting in 1980. He has run full time classes since 2003. Workshops have been conducted throughout Queensland e.g. Cairns Artescape, Port Douglas Art House, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Laidley and North of New South Wales- Ballina.

Marcel Desbiens is an award winning artist who has won several prizes for his exquisite Oil Paintings capturing the true essence of beauty in his works. He has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in Canada and throughout Australia. You can view his artwork on his artist website marceldesbiens.com.

Awards
2007 First prize, Best of show, The Black Snake Art Award, Queensland, Australia
2006 First prize, Best of show, The Black Snake Art Award, Queensland, Australia
2006 Best Landscape, The Black Snake Art Award, Queensland, Australia
2004 Commended, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Prize Brisbane, Australia
2003 Best Oil or Acrylic, Art Spectacular, The Combined Brisbane Rotary Clubs, Brisbane, Australia
1996 First prize, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Prize Brisbane, Australia
1994 First prize, Moreton Shire Exposition, Ipswich, Australia
1989 Le prix d’excellence, Concours national des arts visuels, "Rencontre parallèle, Montréal, Canada

Solo Exhibitions
2016 Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Stanthorpe, Australia 2016 Lasting Impression Gallery, Kennilworth, Australia
2011 Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009 Gallery 2120, Brisbane, Australia
2008 Gadfly Gallery, Delkeith, Perth, Australia
2007 Delshan Art Gallery, Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Gadfly Gallery, Delkeith, Perth, Australia
2006 Delshan Art Gallery, Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Maria Perides Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2004 Delshan Art Gallery, Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Musee Louis Hemon, Peribonka, Quebec, Canada
2000 Galerie la corniche, Chicoutimi, Canada
1997 Delshan Art Gallery, Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Valerie Cohen Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1996 Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1994 “Le moment présent”, Ipswich Regional Gallery, Ipswich, Australia
1992 “De la fiction à la réalité”, exposition itinérante :
1992 Centre culturel de Dolbeau, Dolbeau, Canada
1992 Salon du Conseil régional de la culture, Jonquière, Canada
1992 Promenade du Vieux-Québec, Québec, Canada
1985 Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke-Est, Sherbrooke, Canada
1983 Galerie coopérative des arts visuels, Chicoutimi, Canada
1980 Galerie Menasen, Sherbrooke, Canada
1975 Café de la Cour, Québec, Canada