Margaret Wonson
My name is Margaret Wonson and I’ve always been able to draw even as a young child. The only Art training I had was during my school years. It is in recent years that I’ve turned to using Oil paints.
This came after a visit to the Louvre in Paris and The National Art Gallery in London and other Galleries during my world trip. I decided, I can do this, and did.
During ‘lockdown ‘, I got to paint the pictures I had wanted to do for years.
In 2021, I opened an Art Gallery for Artists to sell their work to the public called, Get Creative in Crookwell.
It now displays and sells Art works from over 60 different artists, many of whom hold classes, now about 40 on offer, and sells Art supplies.
A lovely place to visit.
Cheryl Ann John
Traditional Chinese Brush Painting artist, Cheryl Ann John, has been painting and teaching this beautiful art form for over 35 years.
She was first introduced to it in the mid 1980’s by Chinese Master, Mr Chiu, Cheryl fell in love with the style and studied under Mr Chiu for over two years.
Cheryl takes her inspiration from nature and her popular subjects include bamboo, flowers, birds, fish, landscapes and her beloved cats. Her work is exhibited in Sydney, Lismore, Alstonville, Gundagai and Crookwell, NSW.
As an author, Cheryl published her first memoir “With Eyes Wide Open” in 2009 following a very turbulent time in her life. Writing her story helped to heal the enormous grief she had experienced. She now runs workshops aimed at helping others to write their stories and has self-published another twelve memoirs and short stories. Recently, she tried her hand at illustrating and co-publishing three children’s books about “Freda the Friendly Fox.”
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Carol Stelling
Carol became interested in abstract fluid art while viewing various sites on the internet. She has experimented with acrylic paint using various mixture percentages along with the use of adding silicon to artwork.
Carol primarily using acrylic paint, structure and flow and will add ink to her work as well to achieved different effects. She uses various pouring techniques and is continuing her learning of fluid art and is commencing to learn painting with acrylics.
Catherine Lidden
Is a self-taught Wildlife Artist working in pastel and oils and working from her studio in Fullerton. She paints what she is passionate about, which includes animals and the natural world. Always using her own photos, she likes to get ‘up close and personal’ often cutting out any distractions and allowing the image to fill the frame.
Her choice of style is realism, this is in order to capture the essence and personality of her animal subjects. She always aims to go beyond any photograph and hopes that she can also show people the beauty and vulnerability that exists especially in lesser-known species.
She has won many awards nationally and internationally and has been published in many magazines, including the Pastel journal, International Artist, Australian Artist, Pastel Artist International and American Art Collection. She has also been known to be published in such books as, the Strokes of Genius, Art Journey Animals (Inspiring Masterworks), 100 Ways to paint Still Life, 100 Ways to paint Portraits and Feather and Brush, (A History of Australian Bird Art) by Penny Olsen.
Chelsea Whittle
Chelsea Whittle is a junior artist at Get Creative. She enjoys experimenting with new materials and colour combinations. Chelsea has been constantly creating and developing different artworks for most of her life and hopes to continue her artmaking and developing her artist practice in the future.
The direction of her work is a combination of small and large artwork with wire, beads, and multiple other materials. Her preferred medium is sculpture and collage, sometimes a combination of both.
Chelsea is attempting to make bigger artworks that still provide just as much detail as her smaller works. Chelsea has finished her last year of high school and will be continuing to develop her art style for the duration of her life. Her art-making practice has been influenced by other artists especially those within her extended family. Her Grandmother, Joan Whittle, and her Great Uncle, the late Bob Baker, have helped and encouraged her in the development of her art.
Much of her art is inspired by her love for animals and many of her works refer to environmental concerns and issues. Chelsea feels fortunate to have this opportunity to showcase her artwork and she looks forward to creating and sharing more artwork with the world.
Diane Hickey
An Australian artist born in 1968, who has spent the majority of her adult life comparing her work to others….. and recently realised she has wasted a lot of time.
This year she has finally come out and shown that she adores creating art that reflects her love of animals and nature. From her farm in Bevendale, NSW she produces art using acrylic, ink, charcoal, and pastels to draw attention to the simple things we often walk past and pay no real attention to.
Her influences are some of the big names like Monet and Van Gogh and closer to home Margarita Georgiadis and the late Kim Nelson.
Elisha Marcelino
Is a 13-year-old artist, based in Crookwell NSW Australia. Elisha loves to paint using a wide variety of mediums, and inspiration.
Elisha particularly loves to paint landscapes, bringing a unique view and perspective. Elisha enjoys developing new skills and learning new ways to bring her ideas to life.
Elizabeth Egan
Elizabeth lives in the Southern Tablelands of NSW and has worked in tertiary education administration, teaching and local government.
She enjoys gardening, farming, family, travelling and creative writing. She has won awards for bush poetry, flash fiction and short stories and has published a novel for adults, a novel for young adults and adults and two children’s stories.
Jane Ramsey
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Jenny White
Is an emerging Artist based in historic Goulburn in NSW Australia, located on the beautiful Southern Tablelands of NSW.
She loves to paint, and learn about art. Most notably thoroughly enjoying painting with acrylics on canvas and watching the magic happen before her eyes! The joy of capturing what she thinks of as ‘tiny treats’ of her favorite memories is at once so personal and simultaneously she feels she needs to share with the world.
Karen berry
Landscape and natural world photographer.
Her interest in photography came from her grandfather and has been taking photos for as long as she can remember. She has travelled to many countries and photographed many things. Her main interest is in Landscape and Nature Photography and living in country NSW, where there is plenty of inspiration for her art.
Karin P Schaefer
Equine fiction author located in regional NSW.
When not spending every possible daylight hour of her childhood with horses, Karin was devouring pony books. BlueBuckle is her first pony book for grown-ups. She currently shares her life with 3 horses – Omar, Plum and Horace.
Kirsten Jeffcoat
A drawer, painter, printmaker and photographer.
She has taught Art at Australian High Schools and at the Sorbonne University in Paris; worked as Education Officer at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia. She has three degrees in Art from universities including a Masters from the University of Paris VIII.
Kirsten Jeffcoat has worked as an assistant to two French Master Lithographers. Her own lithographs are represented in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Kirsten Jeffcoat’s artistic travels have taken her to Africa, America and Europe. She has been artist-in-residence in the ghost town of Cossack in the northwest of Western Australia and in the Wilderness Gallery at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.
During the 17 years she spent based in Paris her exhibitions toured to 21 venues including three solo exhibitions at the Australian Embassy in Paris, the Discover Australia Festival in Bonn, Germany and the St James Centre for Creativity in Valetta, Malta to celebrate Australia’s Centenary of Federation.
Leanne Kelly
Sculptor and recycled materials artist.
Likes to talk about how her art has been an amazing journey, including being a regular art teacher and being part of Get Creative in Crookwell art workshops.
Leanne enjoys the countless opportunities that she has available to her to practice her craft such as, Art shows, Teaching Wire Workshops and commissioned garden sculptures.
Being a farmer, she has ample access to the mediums in which she works, materials such as tin, barbed wire, rusty wire and what most people would consider junk. She likes that she can give something old, a new story.
Lesley Gartrel
Lesley found painting at the young age of 13. After winning many art competitions she began as a graphic designer, moving on to teaching painting in the art colleges of the Sydney Northern Beaches for 25 years.
Progressively she designed numerous projects for Australian Ceramics & Australian Decorative Painting magazines.
Her preferred mediums are underglazes on bisque fired ware, oilcolour on canvas & watercolour.
Lesley’s favourite subject matter is still life with flowers.
Lucy Allsop
Loves dead things! No, no hear her out. She loves creating, and to make something that brings the dead back to life, this is something that is so interesting to her.
Lucy is self-taught and has been crafting and creating oddities for the last 5 years. Her pieces are unique in style and one of a kind. Just like her! Her natural items are cleaned, treated, and sanitised to be displayed safely.
They are sourced responsibly, and no animals are harmed for the purpose of her craft.
She hopes that people will enjoy her art as much as she does!
Mandy Southwell
Mandy’s love of art and craft started at a very young age with a love of colour, fashion and nature. Her medium is constantly evolving with her inspiration often coming from things collected outside. From sticks, sea shells, quartz rocks, seed pods, to something new or recycled, the possibilities are endless with the outcome a beautiful handmade keepsake for yourself or a gift for someone special.
Her personal healing journey of the most recent years has been therapeutic and the connection to so many beautiful crystals, helped her create some very different and unique one of a kind items passing on this vibrant energy to others.
Martin Creagan
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Sally Cullen
Sally Cullen wears many hats in her work life priest, teacher, business owner and event organiser to name but a few.
Sally is always looking for ways to make life more beautiful with what we say and look at having such a big influence on how we view the world and each other, her greeting card designs reflect this.
She also believes that being creative is an essential and necessary part of being human and should be celebrated and encouraged.
Sam cosgrove
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Jan Elliott
For the last 15 years Jan Elliott has been enjoying printmaking and mixed media drawing. Linocut, woodblock, collagraph and drypoint are her chosen printing techniques.
Lately she has also been making paper and fabric collages.
Her love of the countryside, garden and birds influence her work. For Jan making art is such a pleasure.
Joel Russell
Having lived in many different countries including USA, Africa and China, Joel has attempted to express what it means to be human, and to find a sense of belonging, while living in communities with differing cultural backgrounds.
To do this he has explored the use of various modes of expression: ranging from performance art such as poetry, song lyrics and video; to visual art such as photography, acrylic painting and sculpture using recycled materials.