I was born in Belgrade, Serbia—a city layered with history, rhythm, and contradiction. It was there that I first fell in love with the language of visual expression, studying at the High School of Design and later at the College of Textile Design. Art was my first home, my quiet rebellion, my way of making sense of the world. And then, life took me elsewhere. For years, I traded brushstrokes for deadlines, stepping into the fast-paced world of media, where…
About the artist… Dessi Balinova has been creating art since her high school years. As an adult shegraduated as an Interior Designer and pursued a career in her field, while herpassion for creating art and painting persisted and has been developing those skillsover the years. Dessi uses expressively warm, bold, striking colours to help connectthe viewer with sense of vibrant life, everywhere they look. Her inspirations comefrom nature and every-day life. The subject matter helps her connect with thenatural world…
Award winning Glass Artisan Kaylene Higgs creates quirky glass artworks and bespoke jewellery from her Sandy Beach Studio on Russell Island. Kaylene has been working with Glass for around 20 years. Born and raised in North Queensland, Kaylene attributes much of her work to her childhood adventures, the colours of Great Barrier Reef and Tropical Rainforests. “The Colours I am most attracted to are calming blues and sea colour greens, my mermaid colours I call them. The aqua, teals and…
Kate Stimson About the Artist From an early age I have always been a creative soul, whether it’s dress making, quilting, knitting, crocheting, or painting. In time, my creative pastimes have improved, making me a lifelong learner of the arts and fulfilling my dream of becoming a Visual Arts teacher for over 30 years. Since moving to Australia, I went back to college to train as an Art Therapist and Reiki Master which has allowed me to help others enjoy…
Art has been the defining force of my life. I see it everywhere. In lines and shapes, colours, and patterns. The majority of my life has been as a performing artist, a dancer and a dance teacher; however just as the performing arts requires an awareness and empathy for light and shade, space and colour, and sensitivity to expression and form, in directing my passion now to the visual arts as an abstract photographer and abstract painter, it is only…
Artist Statement Our world is a fascinating place. Sitting and trying to capture some of the sights and beautyon paper (or canvas) is an absorbing and challenging endeavour—but I love it. I have been lucky enough to do this in pencil and acrylic (at school), in oil paint and pastels (in Melbourne), and in watercolours since moving to the Tweed/Gold Coast region. From my high school art teachers to Patrick Moss, John Lovett, Greg Allen, Charles Reid and Judith White,…
Christine Earthrowl I began watercolour painting about 11 years ago while working in the bush with my geologist partner in the Northern Territory. I had only lived in towns beforehand and couldn’t believe the beauty of the native bush in particular the colourful and textured bark of the local eucalypts and other native plants. As a way of expressing my wonder and awe I started painting some of these barks and flowers in watercolour to allow others to see and…
I’ve always had a love for Art, which started in my early childhood years with chalk drawings on just about anything, concrete pathways, walls no flat surface was safe. It wasn’t until my senior years at high school when I discovered oil paints that I realised that painting was going to play such a big part in my life. I started with landscapes and seascapes around the Gold Coast, however with no formal training I relied on the techniques of…
