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Lauren is a local Brisbane artist fully immersed in the world of watercolour. She has painted with some of the best watercolourists in the world and her passion and love for the medium show through in her vibrant paintings. Lauren believes that expression rather than perfection is essential to being a joyful artist.

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Based in Wollongong, Wendi Leigh is a re-emerging artist after a twelve-year break in which she designed and manufactured her own prints into women’s fashion. Her professional painting practice started in 1989, and in 2019 Wendi created the O.D.O.R.I art movement describing her style as ‘overt distortion of real imagery’. It has been likened to digital art, but in reality, is a personal derivation of simplifying detail to a minimum and using colour to suggest light and form. Colours are often subtle and yet at the same time strong in character -evoking a complexity of mood that is almost punctilious in its analysis of contemporary attitudes and life today. 

Her recent work has controlled detail and a warm confidence that brings in glowing colours in unusual combinations. The abstracted qualities of the paintings are always very strong both in line and tone and these new works are particularly striking. 

As a full-time artist, Wendi now devotes much of her time to experimentation with gouache on board and paper. “The gouache work utilises the flat opaqueness of the medium, likened to silk screening. The subjects include a narrative that records current life from urban sprawl, Australian flora and fauna, social interaction and household animals. These subjects hold the underlying stories of hope and joy in a time where anxiety and disillusion of worldwide unrest holds many people in negative frameworks”. Wendi describes her work as “bringing a certain peace to the viewer, which in turn renews a sense of wellbeing and happiness”. 

Wendi has won many prizes and exhibited in over 27 shows and is now represented in galleries in NSW, S.A. VIC and QLD. Wendi has built on her original study in a Diploma of Colour and Design, and in 2008 was awarded a Bachelor of Fine Arts with distinction from Wollongong University.

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Brett Lethbridge is a multi-award winning artist with a national reputation for his boundless creative energy. His work ranges from the sublime and beautiful linework of his drawings to the vivid richness and exquisite detail of his large paintings.

Having finished a degree in Law, Brett took hold of his vocation and began drawing and painting in 1998. Winning numerous awards and on the encouragement of his friends Brett decided to extend his artistic pursuits in Europe. A year in Siena, Italy was followed by numerous international exhibitions including Singapore, Germany, New York, and Romero Britto’s gallery in Miami, Florida.

In 2004 Brett opened his own gallery in Paddington, Brisbane. Lethbridge Gallery exhibits, encourages and mentors some of the best artists in Queensland and has a reputation for showing artists with excellent technical skills.

The gallery runs three annual art awards and regularly participates in art fairs in the United States, Asia and Australia.

http://www.lethbridgegallery.com/

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Kate Liley. Tutor of Bienarté

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Denise Lithgow. Tutor of Bienarté

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John Lovett’s passion for travel, landscapes, people and the environment is reflected in his powerfully evocative watercolour, oil and mixed media works.

Born in Cooma, NSW, John studied at Newcastle’s National Art School and has painted professionally since 1979. In that time he has held over 40 solo exhibitions, participated in numerous joint exhibitions and become a regular featured artist and contributor to the ‘International Artist’ and ‘Australian Artist’ magazines.

John’s work possesses an emotive power and vitality that is enhanced by his use of light, color and strong sense of design and is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and USA.

John’s passion for his work and his open easy approach to teaching make his books, DVD’s and workshops thoroughly enjoyable, extremely informative and always very popular.

John Lovett is an Australian artist working in oils, watercolor and mixed media. Since commencing his career John has held over thirty five solo exhibitions and taken part in many joint ones. John’s work is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and USA. John’s passion for his work and his open easy approach to teaching make his books, DVD’s and workshops thoroughly enjoyable, extremely informative and always very popular. His articles are regularly featured in “International Artist” magazine.

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Paul was born in August 1945. As a child he loved to draw but had no formal training or direction. After school he started window dressing at Myer Melbourne. He was called up for two years in 1966 as a conscript and served one year overseas in the army.
In 1971 he went to England and spent three years travelling and working. Married in Australia in 1974, he began painting murals for children’s nurseries. In 1978 he became engrossed in wildlife art. After much research into ornithology and through self-taught efforts and experiments he started to get the hang of it. A few years later he became a member of “The Wildlife Art Society of Australasia” and the very next year won first prize for the best painting.
Since that eventful exhibition many things began to formulate ~ Paul was included in a book launch in 1990 featuring 70 of the best living traditional artists in Australia. He also had a book published on his own paintings. Australia Post commissioned him in 1991 to do a water bird series of stamps and he was subsequently commissioned by the United Nations to paint a series of endangered species in 1994, which was released in Vienna.
Paul has had solo exhibitions in London and Japan, six solo shows in America and two at the exclusive “Raffles” Hotel in Singapore, making his international career blossom. To be chosen to exhibit at the prestigious “Leigh Yawkey Woodson Birds In Art” show in America (80 selected from over 3500 entries) was a “feather in his cap”. He was chosen two years running in 1995 and 1996. Paul was honoured with a fellow membership to “The Wildlife Art Society Of Australasia” for services to the society and wildlife art. In 2006, he became the first Australian wildlife artist to have a solo exhibition in Hong Kong. In 2009 he released his second book “Away With The Birds”. In 2010 he was featured in a 4-page article in the prestigious “Art In Watercolour” magazine which was released in Paris.
Paul uses water colour and gouache with airbrush backgrounds to achieve his artwork.
His love for painting, with that of his wife, son and daughter make him a truly contented artist.

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Lyne Marshall completed a BA in Visual Arts in 1994 and a Graduate Diploma in Further Education at USQ Toowoomba and now enjoys helping others find creative destiny. Her interest in the spiritual aspects of art was fuelled by research into creative processes, which began in 2000, and encounters with Asian art in 2003. This led her to produce four books on art philosophy, the most recent in 2017.

• Gleaner or Gladiator: The Struggle to Create
• Invisible Realities: Finding the Hidden Dimensions in Art.
• Harnessing the Power of the Creative Spiral
• Relocation as Inspiration: Creating from Diverse Landscapes

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Barry McCann. Tutor of Bienarté

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Lucy McCann. Tutor of Bienarté