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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

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“I'm often asked for advice on how to progress with an art career and my answer would be to never stop learning.” Lyn Diefenbach

Lyn Diefenbach’s stunningly realistic florals and portraits in pastels and oils are the result of a 25 year journey of discovery of herself and the craft of painting. Her works reflect a celebration of this journey and of Lyn’s pursuit of masterly quality and technique. For the past 20 years, Lyn has also shared her insights into the pursuit of quality and technique with her students.

Lyn’s works have received awards and accolades nationally and internationally, including the Pastel Society of Australia’s Pastellist of the Year award in 2016 and her paintings are represented in major regional and private collections within Australian and overseas.

Lyn has been featured numerous times in the International Artist, Pastel Journal and the Australian Artist magazines, while her ability to communicate her ideas has entrenched her as a respected and sought-after tutor across Australian and internationally.

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Chan Dissanayake is a multi-award winning watercolour artist and a highly regarded tutor.

His mastery in watercolour is shown through the variety of subject matter that he tackles from rural landscapes and urban cityscapes to coastal seascapes.

In 2017, Chan received the ultimate accolade for an Australian Watercolourist when he was elected to the elite Australian Watercolour Institute.

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Nancy Donaldson. Tutor of Bienarté

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Australian painter Judy Drew was born in 1951. Her passion for the Post-Impressionism period and the influence of Japanese art in the late 1880’s, along with her creative sense of colour and form, allow Judy to create beautiful and modern work, even though Judy’s work is contemporary she retains a touch of sentiment in all her pieces.

Her rich and textured pastels convey her emotion and love for this medium creating refreshing and strong compositional work, which is sensitive to the subject matter. Judy’s love for figurative work and her sensitive portraits of the Bougainville people gained local and international attention whilst living and working on Bougainville Island in papua New Guinea from 1976-1984. After living in Papua New Guinea, Judy returned to Melbourne and continued to concentrate on her figurative work and still life compositions.

She studied Graphic Art at Prahran College of Art in Melbourne and has been recognized with numerous Awards including the Omega Contemporary Art Prize and the Portrait Prize, Melbourne Savage Club. With sell-out exhibitions, Judy’s reputation continues to soar as one of Australia’s most talented and exciting female artists.

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Tianni Fazio. Tutor of Bienarté

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Rikki Fisher is recognised internationally as a Master Scratchboard Artist (MSA). Currently only 4 Australian artists have attained MSA accreditation with the International Society of Scratchboard Artist (ISSA).

Rikki is motivated by her passion for wildlife. She is considered one of the pre-eminent practitioners of this art form. Rikki is both proficient and versatile in the craft and well able to impart her extensive knowledge.

Rikki has won National and International awards for her work. A resident of northern NSW, Rikki holds workshops and has given demonstrations at local, State and International levels.
Her exquisite detailed works speak for themselves.

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Georgie has been painting and creating for over 25 years and holds a bachelor’s degree in both Fine Art and Fashion design from Griffith University in Brisbane. Throughout the past 10 years, Georgie’s work has been a finalist in numerous art awards, including being awarded People’s Choice in 2019 in the Lethbridge 20,000 Small Scale Art Award at the Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane. She was also was awarded Judges Choice in the “Petite Pieces” Competition at the Aspire Gallery, Brisbane in 2018. Georgie has had solo and group shows across Australia and her work is held in private collections around the world.

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Jessie Rose Ford’s techniques in watercolour painting and grey lead drawing lend
her botanical subjects an impressive level of realism.
As a Melbourne-based artist, Jessie’s passion for nature and the environment is evident in her work and in the numerous solo and group exhibitions in which her work has featured. Her art residency on Flinders Island in Tasmania in 2015 also led
to Jessie receiving the Highly Commended Prize at theReFraming Natureexhibition at the Melbourne Royal Botanical Gardens that year.
After several years experience in teaching her botanical art techniques, Jessie is now embarking on a journey around Australia, to share her knowledge, connect with communities and build new relationships - all while exploring more of our beautiful country and its diverse natural environments.

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G.E.T Educational Tours. Tutor of Bienarté