Sonica Joshi-Mann

Heartful Sojourn

170x 170cm

Acrylic on canvas

Sonica, an abstract expressionist creating vibrant paintings straight from her heart!

‘Live Large Life’ is the motto behind her large scale paintings. Nature lover, yoga enthusiast and mum, she creates impactful pieces which elevate the mood of any space.

A combination of Indian and Australian heritage, has brought an interesting depth to Sonica’s life. The connection with colours, seasons, mountain peaks, beaches, native flora and art-forms from these two worlds enrich her life and emerges through her paintings, bringing a vision of spiritual well-being onto the canvas.

Painting with vibrant colours, Sonica’s techniques include hands, loose brush strokes, palette knives and unusual tools in the process of layer building. These play an amazing role in enhancing the depth of composition.

Creating a happy painting for someone’s sanctuary sets Sonica on her spiritual creative and emotional journey. That becomes her Heartful Sojourn!

Debbie Parker

Liquorish All Sorts – Gouldian Finches

50 x 50 cm

Mixed media on canvas

With a career spanning almost 30 years, Deb has always been drawn to the Australian landscape and the distinctly different flowers and birds we have here. Brisbane based, she trained in Canberra where she started experimenting with water-based medium.

She is an expressionist artist who combines the painterly qualities of acrylics and dry pastel fixed with acrylic medium in many transparent layers, often taking the subject in and out of focus.

‘My future focus is moving towards birds in movement and flowers in the environment with a simple narrative about their beauty.’

Gabriela Azar Schreiner

Veins

120 x 180cm

Mixed media and gold leaf on canvas

Argentinian born painter, Gabriela, is based in Melbourne.

She embraces a passionate, intuitive approach to painting. Rather than subscribing to rigid techniques, she lets colour and emotions guide her creative process. The resulting paintings easily capture the imagination through whirlwinds of colour and texture.

Gabriela views painting as sheer passion and feeling. Through her process she doesn’t seek to depict a set idea or subject, but instead lets scenes and dynamic movement emerge organically.

Tabitha Stowe

The Goddess is You

91 x 122 cm

Mixed media on canvas

Tabitha Stowe – poet, illustrator and artist. Her skills enable her to approach her art with different techniques she loves to explore, including a mixture of digital collage, large acrylic canvas paintings and hand-painted pastel illustrated children’s art.

Her subjects include trees, birds, patterned fashion illustrations and more.

‘My art is intuitively self taught. I like sharp geometric shapes entwined with intricate patterns, bold colors sitting with pastels and opposites. I am an eclectic artist so don’t stick to one form or process with a preference for female figures and nature.

I believe the worlds need more gentleness and unconditional love. I live in a sort of imaginary world where animals and humans live as one at peace. Some of my illustrations express my childlike personality and a yearning to escape into fantasy.

My Japanese muse is my alter ego dressed in her magical attire. I am a fan of all things exotic, decadent and lavish in the natural world.’

Michael Wolfe

Under A Turbulent Sky

122 x 122 cm Acrylic on canvas

‘I’m always looking for the sensual and lyrical, providing a window to enjoy nuance, colour, gesture and the interplay between forms and marks.’

Michael uses a combination of accidents, the relationship between marks and colours and most of all, gesture and energy when painting.

‘I love the openness and the beautiful distances around where I live and never tire of the rolling hills, granite outcrops, rhythms, textures and colours.

I want to engage and communicate through my art. Painting is a pleasurable dialogue. It can be a narrative vehicle, in my case, telling a story about a place.’

Michael has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally with over 30 solo exhibitions. His work is included in public, corporate and private collections.