Liz Cuming
"It is both a privilege and a curse to be driven
to paint. I say driven, because I really feel that those of us who persist longterm with painting must be so.
Painting is bigger than all of us – a consuming obsession that gobbles huge slabs of time, space and resources
(both financial and emotional). There is however no escape – to not paint is unthinkable. Paralleling the journey
of life itself, it is the sense of the unknown that sustains this obsession – the more learned, the more there is
to learn. When you think you know what you are doing give up!"
Marlon Dalton (Hoodoo Gallery)
"One of the few times I feel absolute freedom is in the early hours of the morning while the
majority of the nation sleeps, painting during this window of cool quiet is for me a sublime pleasure.
My paintings are an expression of the things I love, people, places, cuisine, music, annotations on the
ephemeral nature of life; they are a tapestry of colour and texture that radiate emotion."
Michèle Marshall
"In my artwork I seek to portray the sensual and sublime experience of being within a landscape space.
The landscape for me is spiritually alive, filled with energy depth and richness of colour. My paintings can
be seen both as fields of texture & light and as landscapes. By combining numerous layers of glazes, gold leaf,
rice papers and fabrics I am able to produce an inner glow in my depictions of the unique qualities of the
Australian landscape.
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Sarina
"I’m very lucky to be able to paint what ever I feel like at the moment. If I feel like painting
surf…or flowers…or my sexy “Je suis” girls I do! I do a lot of running and walking…..and often dream
about images or see things whilst out in the bush that I should paint. The only problem is finding
the time to do all the things I want to create. I have BOXES of sketches and ideas and I doubt I’ll
ever get to do them all. I hate the fact we have to sleep!!!"
W. Shawn Gray (AuzGnosis)
Creative thinking has always been central credo of mine; both during my fine art training thence practice,
as well as alongside in my ADP (Automatic Data Processing), IT (Information Technology), KE
(Knowledge Engineering / AI (Artificial Intelligence) ) careers.
Despite treasuring numerous sparks of meticulously documented inspiration, I often let ideas ferment for years,
to decades, before finally giving them any discrete form in media as diverse as virtual reality to bronze castings.
In 1976 I made "Spiders" Australia’s first fine-art computer graphic film. My films being included in
"Videotapes dall’Australia" at the 1980 La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale). 1984-2003 created the Absolute
Kinegraphic Notation System "The AKNS is to the understanding of movement and space, what the invention of the musical
score was, for the notation of the harmony & rhythm of sound." On my (Australia’s Secrete Knowledge) AuzGnosis website
can be found my Artist Statement, Professional Resume, Biography, Bibliographies, Essays, Images, Virtual Reality,
Philosophy, Politics and lots more.
