Seasons Greetigs

Peter Wooward - Garden Series

wishing you all the merriest of merry CHRISTMASSES

and a NEW YEAR full of excitement and good challenges.

cheers - Ken

Caroline Lilliman Pottery

Just in to Maleny Artworks Gallery today are four equisite hand-built and hand-decorated porcelain pots crafted by master Maleny ceramicist Caroline Lilliman.
Caroline's arts practice has covered three decades and she ranks up there amongst Australia's most original potters, and these four vessels are a fine example of work from a truly gifted artist and arts technician.


Flying Dream - hand-built porcelain

Platypus Vessel - hand-built porcelain

Tall pit-fired + hand-carved vessel

Squat pit-fired + hand-carved vessel

Mapping the Range

Discover the Difference - Mieke van Sambeeck

Opening last week and continuing through into the New Year at Maleny Artworks Gallery is an exciting exhibition of artworks by members of the Collaboration of Maleny Artists - COMA.
Artists were invited to select a grid from a topographical map of the Blackall Ranges - from Maleny to Montville - then create an artwork relevant to, or inspired by, that part of the Range.
60 artists responded with works ranging from cows to waterfalls.

Morning at Baroon Pocket Dam - Toni Black

Shadows more Real - Noela Mills

A Month of Mountain Mornings - Fiona Dempster

Below Bald Knob - Jo Murray

Mini Deep Red - Barry Smith

Janna's Cows

Janna - in white t-shirt with sponsores and supporters
Unveiled this week at the entrance to the Maleny township are five wonderful steel cows by Curramore artist Janna Pameijer. The sculptures acknowledge the dairy industry bought to the Ranges by our pioneers last century and still a major contributor to our local economy, and they have been erected on the site of the entrance to the old Boxsell's cattle saleyards -that were sold off to make way to an ugle retail development.

Michael Pugh's Tea Service

Just in to Maleny Artworks is a new shipment of exquisite blue and white tableware from the studio of Michael Pugh, including this superb teapot and mugs .

After the Burn

Patricia Cale - "After the Burn"

Opening last night - and running through to 23 December - Main Street Gallery in Montville is hosting an exciting exhibition of new paintings by Patricia Cale. The exhibition is titled ‘After the burn’ .
Patricia's ability to make powerful marks and manipulate different media, in contemporary paintings and mixed media artworks, is clearly demonstrated in this new work.
With parallels drawn from the powerful new energy released from the initially destructive process of fire, Patricia has drawn much of her colour research from recent fires at Tuchekoi.
She has observed the amazing recovery of the trees, with new green leaves defiantly growing on ash coloured branches, covered with burnt leaves.
The works in this show are a dynamic expression of the power of nature and its regenerative life forces.

Patricia Cale talks about her work ...

Marks must be beautiful, or the space between them cannot be beautiful.
My work is my communication. I believe all art is about communication - it should touch a common chord and feed the soul.
It's the 'moment' that I seek, that moment where my ego disappears and the piece becomes something else.
I work very hard; the simplest result sometimes takes days, even weeks. At other times the work flows seamlessly, and that’s a privilege.
Every experience in my life I count as the colour I bring to my palette. I live my work, and cannot imagine waking up in the morning and not going to the easel. I am blessed.
I like to think that this explains my mark-making. My work is about the life force - in everything. That force which sings the mysteries. My marks need to be as fine as possible because what I want to create is that suspension of life. I don't think about death, I'm too caught up in life.
My new paintings draw upon the cathartic experience and are expressed here as metaphor through the natural regeneration of our Australian landscape - after the burn.


Main Street Gallery is located at 167 Main Street Montville - beneath the Poets Corner cafe.
To view the exhibition online go to < http://www.mainstreetgallery.com.au/ > or for further information about the artist, call Mark on 07 5478 5050.

Wabi Sabi Woman

Maleny artist Noela Mills now has her unique scarves on sale at Maleny Artworks Gallery.

Made from antique kimono silks, in the tradition of 'wabi sabi' - the Zen Buddhist philosophy of finding beauty in imperfection and in the everyday - the scarves are an absolute delight and an essential 'artistic fashion accessory' for the discerning dresser !!!