Artists

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Huskisson Gallery

Our Artists’ Stories 

At Shoalhaven Fine Art and Framing in Huskisson, we have a large gallery of artworks created by award-winning international and Australian artists. On this page, you can find out more about these artists – including their origins, their techniques and what led them to develop a passion for art. If you want to see their masterworks, or organise a framing service in Huskisson, be sure to visit us today. 

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Steve Harris


Steve Harris was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1953 and is a self-taught artist. In 1991, he moved with his wife Karen and two daughters to Australia. He now resides in Jervis Bay, New South Wales.

“Harris has become well known for his impeccably painted still life compositions; His skilful use of light, shadow and space being a hallmark of his approach. He generally tends to depict objects which have an everyday function or have even been discarded, but the work is about much more than simple representation. Harris is a master of understated realism, which in turn evokes its own sense of ‘atmosphere’ and contemplative mood. His works have been described as ‘meditations in light’, which is very much the feeling one has when attending one of Harris’s exhibitions. A type of reflective silence emanates from the paintings and imbues them with a spiritual quality that one would not perhaps anticipate.”

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Beach Party

Auburn Boattail

Barn Bluff Above The Fog

Bread And Glass

After The Breach

Brumby In The Snow

Brumby On Kosciuszko

Bugatti In Venice

Burning Leaf

Catch Of The Day

Self Freezer

Cradle Mountain

Forrest

Fish Painting

Eggs In Cast Iron

Jincumbilly

Mercedes Car

Murray Fish

Basket and Apples

Rusty And The Indian Girl

Still Life With Baguettes

Tent By The Billabong

The Humpback

Three And A Half

James Ainslie


James Ainslie’s preferred palette is acrylic paint on paper with the occasional use of mixed media. His forte is modern realism, although he also produces abstract art. Ainslie’s paintings resonate with an inherent passion for this country’s unique beauty, particularly the sandy dunes and reflective waters of Queensland and South Australia. His paintings are often a direct result of a location. It is the colours, textures, smells, patterns, in fact the essence of a place that inspires his images

Ainslie was born in SA in 1950 and graduated in art from the South Australian School of Art. He has exhibited throughout Australia and overseas since 1975. Sand and water have always inspired his work, harking back to a childhood in South Australia spent playing around the Coorong and exploring the huge sand tracts around the Murray River. Now living in Noosa, he has turned his attention to the undulating dunes of Fraser Island and the many beaches along the Sunshine Coast shoreline. Ainslie’s annual visits to Broome also ensure that Kakadu and The Kimberley remain strong influences in his artwork. 


Ainslie resided as a regular artist at Ayers Rock and was invited to represent South Australia in London with six other artists. He showed at the Museum of Fine Art in Pasadena, USA, with Ainslie Roberts and Garry Duncan. Ainslie won the prestigious Camberwell Flora & Fauna Prize in 1990 and was co-winner of the Barossa Valley Heritage Award.


His work is featured in many prestigious public and private collections worldwide, such as: 



  • Artbank
  • BP Australia
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
  • Mobil Australia
  • William Hancock collection
  • San Francisco 
  • Banker’s Trust
  • Diamond Merchants
  • South Africa 
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Pink Flower Painting

Boat On The River

Beach White Sand

Beach White Sand Portrait

River Sunset

White Boat

Blue Boat On Sand

Desert With Trees

Artist Holding Painting

Rocks On River

Ann Dunbar


Ann Dunbar is an award-winning artist born in Hampshire and educated in the UK, now living and working in France full time on her art. For over ten years, she has developed an original style and technique to find her unique expression and signature. The distinctive marrying of techniques on paper together with the elegance and charm of fine embroidery brings enchantment to her compositions inspired by “la dame nature”.

Ann was encouraged by her parents and teachers to pursue her artistic ability as young as thirteen. She was offered a place at Art college after her schooling, but she was then advised by her parents to obtain a teaching diploma which she finalised in 1975. At that time, she won first prize at a competition in Streatham, London, then she attended West Surrey college of Art from 1975 to 1978. Ann taught in schools and colleges for 16 years before she worked as an artist. 

Due to her husband’s relocation, she moved to Paris. Making the most of her surroundings, she took part in the famous Parisian salons where she acquired awards and medals. Her art has enabled her to travel the world and she enjoys making a body of work inspired by these travels. Visits to Cambodia, Japan, India and China has broadened her usage of materials, such as gold leaf, interference medium, metal threads and bolder colours in contrast to softer backgrounds.

Oriental art and artists such as Turner and Monet, Redon, and Van Gogh are the principal influencers of her art.


Artist’s statement: 

“The effect of light plays an important role in my creations. The enchantment of stitching embroidery on to painted grounds on paper is the magic which brings the compositions alive with rich textural details. The translucent, ethereal backgrounds worked in water mediums provide the atmosphere and the ambiance to the subject.”

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Landscape with Trees

Maricha Oxley


Maricha Oxley’s love of art and sculpture started when she was a young child in the Philippines and Spain when she started carving cakes of soap as a 5-year-old. Maricha’s talent in sculpting is mostly self-taught, although she has studied under a number of prominent Spanish and Philipino artists. 


Her passion for art, particularly sculpting, has continued to grow since she migrated to Australia in 1961. As an accomplished wood sculptor, Maricha’s exhibition ARTRICH highlights her journey through wood sculpture. Her favourite timbers to work with are Huon pine, mahogany, walnut, beech, bush timbers and wattle.

Maricha says that her aim is to make sculpting more spiritual and less materialistic. Each sculpture reflects a journey into the spirit. For example, Clydesdales pulling a Dray of Silver Ore depicts the journey of a man and his reality. 


When Maricha was a teenager she was awarded a fine arts scholarship to attend the Assumption College, in Manila. Unfortunately, she was prevented from pursuing her dream of studying art because of the Second World War. When her family was able to afford it, Maricha took lessons in oil painting from Antonio Garcia Llamas of the Bellas Artes Academia de Sevilla and attended seminars/lectures by Fernando Zobel. She also received coaching from Manuel Rodriguez, of the University of the Philippines, at his studio. 


Maricha has many influences. Those dearest to her are Dali, Michelangelo, Picasso, Julio Gonzalez and Eduardo Chillado. She has received many awards in recognition of her work over the years. The most recent award she received was presented by the State Forest of NSW for her sculpture ‘Hugs and Kisses’.

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Mini Sculpture Man

Mini Sculpture Man With Hat

Randall Sinnamon


Randall Sinnamon is determined to amuse and challenge his audience with opportunities to reflect upon themselves and the social world in which they live. Sinnamon uses sculpture, painting and printmaking as a means to express a continuous and passionate investigation of nature and humanity. His preference is not to state the aim of his work, thereby leaving it completely open for the spectator’s personal interpretation.

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Mini Sculpture Bird

Mini Sculpture Bird With Scissor Head

Trees Painting

Portrait Painting

Mini Sculpture Bird On A Table

Artist With The Painting

Olivia Alexander


Olivia Alexander is a contemporary artist who was born in London but grew up in Australia. It was there she found a passion for the rugged coastal landscapes and oceans that are now her artistic focus.

 

In 2001, she began to pursue an artistic career and undertook nine years of art training, eventually specializing in mixed media. Olivia uses unique techniques in a combination of acrylics, inks, watercolours, mineral pigments and gold leaf to create paintings in contemporary abstract.

 

Her aim is to capture the spirit of the ocean and coastal landscape using an alchemy of mixed media, design elements and formed compositions inspired by the natural world.

Exhibiting extensively, Olivia Alexander has received nine international awards in recognition of her work. In 2022, she

has been nominated for the Palm Art Award in Germany, and

a Silver medal from the Society of Arts, Sciences & Letters in Paris.

 

Olivia was one of 10 international artisans selected for inclusion in the Artsy Shark ‘Artful Holiday Gift Guide Dec. 2021’. Olivia’s artworks are owned by private collectors in many countries and since 2003, she has exhibited or been represented by galleries and curators in cities such as Paris, New York, Chicago, Rome, Bologna, Sydney, Kolkata and Singapore, to name a few.

 

She works as a professional artist from her Gold Coast studio in Queensland, Australia.

Abstract Painting

Sea And Sand Painting

Sea And Sand Portrait Painting

Close Sea Portrait Painting

Abstract Painting Sea

Abstract Painting Boat

Thomas J. Brown


My name is Thomas J. Brown. I am an aboriginal man from Wreck Bay Aboriginal community. My Community is located on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia. My mother is the GUNDENGARAH people (Blue mountains). My father is the WALBUNJA tribe (South Coast) Yuin people. I am a Plover Totem through my fathers line. My passion for my artwork comes from the strong Aboriginal cultural beliefs and from my family. My strong ties to my Traditional Country, is continuously strengthened and amplifies my cultural identity as an Aboriginal person.

I then construct and generate in my mind a visual medium that illustrates the views that I believe represents those significant issues. I believe that my voice as an artist and as an Aboriginal person produces artwork that is impartial, but more importantly authenticated evidence. My artwork is a personal journey of the past and current lifestyle of my family, my community and my people.In my artwork, I utilise shells that I find on the beach in my traditional country. The beach is post traditionally (Summercloud Bay) which is on the front step of my house. It is during my  journey in creating my artwork, that I am able to enlighten and further illustrate the struggle of my people since the colonisation of Australia in 1788.

I do believe that the shell work strongly envisions and more notably, depicts the significant ties of my people to our traditional country. On completion of my artwork, the shells that were chosen from Summercloud Bay visually portray their own splendour to the extent that each shell showcases its own beauty. My sense of belonging and connection to my Traditional Country is prominently exhibited. I truly believe that consumers will be given an insight in identifying and recognising the significant issues that are continuously affecting Aboriginal people in Australian society today. Overall, I believe that it is the artworks striking beauty that entice consumers and therefor enriches the life of the receiver.

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Man With Beard Painting Using Brush — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

Man In Front Of His Artwork — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

Thomas Brown Artwork — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

Aboriginal Artwork — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

Artwork With Blue Background — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

Artwork Of Sea Creature — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

Aboriginal Artwork By Thomas Brown — Framing in Shoalhaven, NSW

John Brown


Born Sydney 1952

Studied Landscape painting mediums under Brian Stratton Bankstown TAFE 1969 - 1973

Diploma of art national art school Newcastle majoring in painting 1973 - 1977

Part time teacher in Sculpture child art at Newcastle TAFE 1978 - 1981

Post graduate art diploma in painting Newcastle University 1982

Moved to the Shoalhaven in 1986

Has continued to exhibit in solo group shows throughout the region.

John paints from home in his studio at Woollamia.

His works are a mixture of influences of many artists over the years.

In the late 1960’s it was the feeling of isolation in Drysdale’s landscape paintings.

During the 70’s large colour field abstract expressionism works by the new American artists Pollock de Kooring were a major influence.

The lyrical line of Olsen are the draughtsmanship of Whitely inspired in the 1980’s

His paintings then involved into a series of works entitled “Bird series” Which has continued to re-emerge in the later years.

The “Road series” was inspired by Lloyd Reese “Road to Berry”

I feel at the moment I am cycling back to the beginning, back to a basic energy.

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Yang Fang 


Pen names as Yixiu, Miaochen. born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, currently living in South Bird Garden, Jervis Bay, Sydney, Australia. Embroidery artist (under the tutelage of Ms. Wang Wenying, a master craftsman in the Asia-Pacific region and a master of Chinese arts and crafts), a wool painting artist, a contemporary Chinese poetess, a video producer, an audio anchor, and a gourmet lifestyle expert.



President of Australian Arts and Crafts Association, President of World Poetry Association Australia, Secretary General of Australian Chinese Poetry Art Federation, President of Australian Yue Opera Art Research Association, Vice President of Australian Asian Cultural Association, Vice President of Australian Calligraphers, member of the Sydney Embroidery Art Association, member of the Australian New Art Association, member of the Sydney Yue Opera Troupe, member of the Weavers and Spinners Guild of NSW Inc (Wool Road Spinners and Weavers) Association, honorary consultant of NZ Chinese Poetry Art Association, marketing manager of "Global Poets and Artists Monthly", editor-in-chief of "Baihuayuan Junzhichun" international cultural public welfare platform.

Her personal embroidery works are bold in color, breaking through traditions and actively innovating. In recent years, she has devoted herself to the research and creation of Australian bird embroidery. Her personal works are deeply loved by art lovers and collectors. Her poetry works have been published in the overseas edition of People's Daily, Australia New Daily, Australia News, etc., various paper media at home and abroad, and various online literature platforms.

In 2021, she won the Royal Australian Arts and Crafts Exhibition Personal Excellence Award, and her many works won the first prize and highly recommended award. She worked as the executive chair, director, and editor-in-chief of the 2021 CCTV Global Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala (Australia branch venue), and the 2022 CCTV Global Chinese Poetry Spring Festival Gala (Australia and New Zealand venues).

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