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Hobie Porter. Tutor of Bienarté

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Chris Postle. Tutor of Bienarté

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Kate Quinn. Tutor of Bienarté

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Annette has been a successful art practitioner and teacher for the past 23 years; teaching three weekly art classes (including the Royal Queensland Art Society) as well as conduct numerous workshops.  She uses a combination of teaching processes directed at various learning styles, including practical demonstrations and lessons in process and media application, analysis of other artists’ works both contemporary and historical, and class discussions. 

"I have always been captivated by the creative process, intellectual challenge, and diversity of media application. I encourage my students to explore possibilities, make mistakes and extend their learning".

With more than 20 Awards and Prizes, 3 Artist-In-Residences and a number of exhibitions of her work, Annette is highly qualified and sought-after teacher and artist in her own right.

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The recipient of many Australian art prizes, Mellissa’s style is distinctive with her electric palette and layered application of brush strokes. 

Mellissa’s paintings have evolved into her “macropointilist” style celebrating the shape, colour and brushstroke of contemporary impressionism. These characteristics come together presenting unique representations sought after by both Australian and international collectors alike.

Mellissa Read-Devine is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW and is the Acrylics tutor at the RAS Art School.

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REK is an established artist based in Brisbane. His popular artworks draw inspiration from the beauty and intricate details found in the natural world, in particular he has become known as a realistic avian specialist.

While being closely associated with the world of birds, he has also been recognized independently for his male figurative and organic inspired abstract works, both of which have been honored with art prize nominations.

REK Studied at the Brisbane Institute of Art and his original works are represented by Red Hill Gallery in Brisbane, Blue-chip Investment Gallery Mooloolaba and Art to Art Gallery Melbourne.   He has exhibited consistently in solo and group exhibitions in Brisbane, Melbourne and the Gold Coast since 2008.

His artwork has been commissioned for children’s books, appeared on Chanel 10’s Healthy Homes Australia and has been a finalist in art prizes including The Brisbane Rotary Art Prize, Queensland Figurative, the Art Lovers Australia Art Prize and the Lethbridge 20,000.  
He is a member of the Queensland Wildlife Artist’s Society and was the People’s choice recipient for the Societies' 2019 exhibition. 
In 2020 REK was The feature artist and guest judge at the Royal Queensland art Societies' Biannual Exhibition "All Creatures and Wild Things" Held at Petrie Terrace Gallery.

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Tricia Reust is a visual artist working in most media and has lived with her family on the Redcliffe Peninsula in Queensland for the past 36 years 

Tricia’s art process increasingly involves presenting layers of story in her images.

Among many awards, Tricia was awarded 2nd Prize in the 10th International Drawing Biennale in 2019 and won the National Mortimore Prize in 2012; has been a finalist many times in the Bald Archy; recorded two television episodes with Colour in Your Life; and has been published in the Australian Artist and all four “Incite – The Best of International Mixed Media” publications through North Light Books.

Tricia’s second book “Using Chroma Art Materials – Tips and Techniques for Creating Art” is now available, and her eBook “Landscape as Story – Directions for Creating Expressive Landscapes” is available on Amazon. The Revision of this book with an expanded section on pastels will be released in 2022.

Her three instructional DVD’s are available through Pulsar Productions, and she has several videos on art processes, mediums and techniques on YouTube, and through Chroma Australia.

Tricia is a Master Pastellist with the Pastel Society of Australia, and a Life Member of the Redcliffe Art Society. She is a popular workshop presenter and has taught throughout Australia and overseas.

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My process is an intuitive one. I don't work from photographs or sketches I don’t always have a specific view in mind when I paint. I will start with a mark, a colour, a memory, a word or piece of music in my head and go from there.

I begin each painting with a period of ‘play’ or experimentation, moving paint, mark-making, trying out ideas. Sometimes I sand my paintings back after a few layers of paint, revealing interesting textures and surprising marks. And then I begin to layer again.

I enjoy trying to communicate without words when putting a piece of work together, for me I like to make my paintings a visual journey, where the discovery of small details within the work helps build a story or evokes an emotion within the viewer that draws them back to the piece again and again.

I’ve always been drawn to the layers and texture within a piece and so my art includes the use of line work, inks, pencils, collage and experimenting with different tools away from the brush, that helps create different one-off marks.

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Kerry Rushton has a menagerie of talents. From professional artist to passionate ‘beginner’s
Instructor’. Kerry had a 10 year career painting on film and theatre sets before running her own art
classes and establishing an art gallery. She was recently the Artist in Residence at the Monet in
Paris Experience and taught hundreds of people how to ‘paint like Monet’.
She is predominately self-taught with skills in illustration, murals and abstract expressionism.
Kerry loves to create luscious layers and then strip them away to reveal the history within. Her
work is spontaneous and explores rich, deep colours and neutrals.
“I start with chaos and then sensitively discover the story within”.
Kerry strives to inspire the student to rediscover their innate creativity. Observe, connect with and
embody the confidence that comes with learning to paint and make pictures.

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Louise Saunders OAM (Watercolour, Pastels)

After spending 4.5 years as the Artist in Residence at Couran Cove Island Resort on the Gold Coast, Louise developed her passion for ecoscience and wildlife with expeditions for EarthWatch, learning Bayik painting in Thailand and Borneo to work on illustrations for an identification key guide.

In 2015 Louise was part of the inaugural Artist in Residence programme at the Ecoscience Precinct at Dutton Park in Brisbane. She is a member of the Botanic Artists' Sociaty of Queensland, the Queensland Wildlife Artists' Society Inc and the Pastel Society of Australia. Louise is an artists and illustrator who is recognised as a specialist in botanicla and natural history subjects and was recognised for her wildlife work with the medal of the Order of Australia.