Artist Gallery

Alice Murphy

Sculptor | Costume & Prop Designer

Alice works across many disciplines, with a focus on theatre design, masks, wigs, props, costumes, and puppets. Trained in traditional fine art sculpture, she works in many different mediums and likes to blur the line between costumery, sculpture, and craft.

Alice has created fibre sculptures, textile art, illustrations, costumes, and craft pieces for private commissions. She has worked and exhibited around the world and has made costumes for street theatre productions and even created fire retardant garments and props for an international fire theatre company. She has also designed and hosted community workshops to celebrate cultural diversity, local traditions, and positive environmental actions.

Amy Clarke

Painter

My earliest connection with the natural world was through childhood play. Growing up in the bush in 1970’s did not involve toys. The only toys I recall were a Tonka Truck (which I loved), some Lego and a neglected Barbie doll. I felt in no way deprived. We filled our days playing in the dirt. My paintings are tapping into those feelings and memories. In recent years my work has become increasingly abstract, but to me the landscape is still there.

It is my belief that the directness of this simple childhood and our daily engagement with nature laid the foundations of me being an artist. We were always making. To me painting is part play.

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Andrea Borelli

LOCALLY HANDMADE BASINS

Based on the Sunshine Coast, Andrea Borelli has been engaged by architects, interior designers and private clients to create signature finishes. Andrea says his work is about harmony, feelings, precision, passion and that every job is different and only with those four elements can one achieve something positive.

Andrea created the handmade signature vessel basins for HOLA.

Anne Harris

ARTIST

Anne uses the creative practice of process to explore and learn from the world that surrounds her. Working with plants and place, she uses her sense of curiosity to investigate how knowledge can be embodied through the senses, and translated into bodies of work that can be shared with her audience. The process Anne uses involves natural dye, ink, mark making, weaving, performance and installations.

Annie McIntosh

Painter

Annie is passionate about colour and mood and many of her works feature the colours of the Australian landscape. She is known for her contemporary Australian landscapes and animal art. Annie has an interest in photography, hypnotism, and mythology. Her early career in medical technology, when she viewed cells and tissues stained and under high magnification, has influenced her approach to colour.

Camille Evans

Ceramicist

Camille is predominantly self-taught with a background in painting, drawing and printmaking. More recently she has fallen for the unpredictability of working with clay forms, and the endless

variables that come with each clay and glaze interaction. It is the lack of control and accidental nature of working with this medium that she finds most compelling. Each piece is a study of texture form and contrast.

Camille is fascinated by natural sciences, particularly geology and how humans and weather have manipulated and changed the natural landscape.

Caroline Magerl

PAINTER

Caroline Magerl is an award- winning artist and internationally distinguished illustrator, cartoonist and painter, who is now recognised as a unique and arresting presence. Her work spans from dark, enigmatic oil paintings, through incisive cartoons, to lively children’s book illustrations.

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David Parker

ARTIST

David is a Queensland artist living in Eumundi in the Noosa Hinterland. David has had a long career of exhibitions including representation in Agora Gallery, New York. David is also a talented jeweller and co- founder of “ Pearls for Girls” in Memorial Drive, Eumundi.

David Suters

Timber Craftsman

Inspired by the natural beauty of Australian hardwoods, David Suters is a timber craftsman who works in harmony with nature, drawing inspiration from the distinctive timbers of his trade.

David has spent almost four decades honing his skill. Sourcing and hand selecting special timbers for his own designs along with a steady stream of commissions is both a challenge and a passion.

The thrill of the search and the quality of the find all contribute to his creative process. Salvaged timbers form some of his favourite pieces, with each piece having its own personality and feel.

David has designed and made the planter holders you see around the hotel.

Desley Rolph

Painter

Des Rolph’s work explores a creative process that describes the landscape. Her atmospheric paintings tell a story of mystery and intrigue. Ethereal elements such as wind blowing pollens, birds in murmuration, figures walking through the landscape or sky are signature marks of her paintings – they stir the imagination.

Diana Shepherd

Painter

Originally from Shropshire in the UK and after a working life in farming in the UK, New Zealand and thirty years on the Darling Downs, Diana now lives in Cooran in the Noosa Hinterland.

The countryside, the weather, nature, her inner and outer landscapes, influence her painting. Diana is self-taught and has been painting for seven years.

"Each painting is different, a moment in time experiment with colour, line and texture. I paint for self-fulfilment and enjoy the challenge of abstraction. Having ideas as I paint but nonpreconceived nor precious, I am intuitive and process driven. Each work is an open experiment with, usually, much layering and scratching back; adding to and subtracting from the surface. The paintings evolve and emerge organically. I use mixed media. Currently I enjoy using square canvases, turning them as I paint."

Diana's works are framed in various, locally sourced timbers and they are part of the paintings.

Dinah Wakefield

Painter

Dinah is known for the tremendous sense of movement and energy that she captures in her paintings. She is drawn to the everyday interplay of light found in the Noosa region - from the ocean to the clouds and out to the hinterland. Every painting starts as a leap of faith where she invites the light into her garden studio and allows it to unfold and express itself in its own unique way. She allows the paint brush to flow across the canvas in a fluid and organic way to create all elements of a painting – the ocean, the trees, and the clouds.

Dinah’s paintings are enjoyed all over the world and her work is held in collections in New York, London, Toronto, Paris and throughout Australia.

Elke Lucus

Ceramicist

Elke Lucas is a highly regarded Australian potter. Her wheel thrown and hand built, high-fired porcelain and stoneware ceramics are made in her Noosa studio. The decoration on the pots is minimal, drawing inspiration from the beauty of the landscape and the natural forms around her. This allows the elegant shapes and the quality of the porcelain body to shine through, resulting in pots that have a natural sophistication and a beautiful quiet presence.

Emma Nancarrow

Painter

Emma is a prolific and successful Sunshine Coast artist, and the diverse nature of her practice is a hallmark of her work. From free-flowing abstracts to contained still life paintings, Emma draws inspiration from the Australian landscape, her garden, and interiors. She has produced many private commissions and custom pieces for interior designers.

Emma grew up in Sunshine Beach and now paints from her home studio in the Noosa hinterland.

Jedda Clay

Ceramicist

A need to reconnect with the core of our natural environment - earth, saw the birth of Jedda Clay. Working with clay brings Jedda back to a happy place and has unleashed creativity not previously known. Now each day Jedda is able to build with the earth from her home studio on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Each piece is created with a hand coiling process, which is then fired, glazed and fired again for vitrification. These processes mean every work is unique and hand made with love, to bring the earth back into our houses.

Jenny McElhinney

Ceramicist

From a very young age Jenny always loved drawing and painting. She was introduced to working with clay through a TAFE course in her late teens. She loves the process of hand building and playing with textures then finishing with the use of slips, oxides, and self-made glazes, focusing on matte, dry and crater surfaces. Through clay Jenny is given the freedom and inspiration to create different forms and finishes. Her garden sculptures range from large rustic pots through to soft female forms and angels.

Jess Scurrah

Jess grew up in northern NSW painting and drawing and embraced art as a way to bypass the ordinary. Jess loves to investigate what truly ignites the human soul. She creates artwork to inspire and connect the viewer with her other passions, wildlife and nature.

Jess has a self taught approach to art and likes to push the boundaries of Realism versus abstract and explores methods with acrylic paint outside of traditional methods and conformity.
Currently residing on the Sunshine Coast, Jess is inspired daily by the Hinterland colours and Oceanside beauty of Noosa.

JK Clay

Ceramicist

Janette is the person behind JK Clay. Since her teen years she had an affinity with clay. She loved its earthiness and tactility and found creating on the wheel was a rewarding and satisfying process. What started as a hobby became her next career path and after many years of working in an office, Janette decided to pursue her passion with clay and has never looked back. She now creates her organic, simplistic range for people to enjoy and use in their everyday lives.

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Jo Cook

Ceramicist | Painter | Sculptor

Jo Cook is an artist and sculptor based in Noosa Heads. Her life and art have been profoundly influenced by growing up with a severely intellectually disabled sister in a fragile family environment. She became a full-time artist after a long career in speech pathology. Women, spirituality, and the journey to authenticity are major themes in her work. Her practice is diverse and spans paintings, ceramic sculptures, jewellery, and prints.

Julie Field

Ceramicist | Painter | Sculptor

Julie's abstract landscapes and figurative equine art are extensions of her deep connection with horses and more broadly, her beloved country lifestyle. Julie's focus is on attention to detail in her figurative works while she celebrates intuition and freedom in her abstract landscapes. Her ceramic sculptures are a celebration of the equine form with each piece highlighted by her intrigue of the unexpected nature and exciting results of each glaze firing. Julie has work held in

private collections across Australia, NZ, UK, and the States and is in demand for both 2D and 3D commissions.

Katie Harris McLeod

Contemporary artist

Katie Harris-MacLeod is a multifaceted contemporary artist. She was brought up on the West Coast of Scotland and on Gubbi Gubbi Country on the Sunshine Coast where she is currently based. Her work is deeply connected to nature, the psychogeography of place, and life cycle, which Katie interprets as having three parts: birth, life, and death. Nuances of folklore, multiple generation narratives, femininity, loss, and isolation are all present in her work. These narratives are then recorded through a poetic exchange between the artist, landscape, performance, and practice of the wild. Katie is a graduate of Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland.

Kerri Louisa

Painter | Ceramicist

Kerri Louisa is a visual artist who works with multiple mediums but predominately focuses on illustration and design elements within paintings and ceramics. While pursuing a Diploma in Visual Arts in 2019, Kerri discovered a connection with clay. Working from home with very minimal equipment, Kerri has taken to hand building with a mix of fine sculpture and recycled clays. Growing up on a semi remote acreage in the Adelaide hills, nature has always been a source of solace and inspiration for Kerri. Her work, both in illustration, painting and ceramics often reflects the beauty and story found in our natural world.

In 2020 Kerri enrolled into a Graphic Design Diploma where she endeavoured to become friends with the computer. Working with symmetrical shapes and design has given Kerri a different approach to creative problem solving. She has recently found herself exploring a range of different vase ideas that consider shape, form, and function.

Kiki Vassiliou

Ceramicist

Kiki Vassiliou’s ceramics are well loved by interior designers and collectors of contemporary homewares, many of whom are drawn to Kiki's natural stoneware range and her unique glazes.

Before finding her groove at Eumundi, Kiki spent 22 years selling her Art in Clay at the Riverside Markets in Brisbane. She now sells her pieces exclusively at Eumundi Markets every Wednesday and Saturday. She has fallen in love with the community spirit and comradery of the market environment and vows she will never leave.

Kiki studied in England and graduated with honours, before moving to Australia in 1983. She has also spent time teaching her skills to TAFE students and working at Yarra Glen Pottery.

Kuran Warun

Painter

Kurun Warun is one of Australia’s premier Aboriginal artists. He had his first exhibition, alongside his mother when he was 8 years old. In later years, he developed his own style. He is inspired by slow-moving rivers, the stones underneath them, and the eels that swim through these rivers. The dust of the earth, the sea and the creatures that swim in it all inform his paintings. He also likes to tell stories of his childhood and those of his own children. His Aboriginal dot paintings have a traditional meaning, which is not always immediately noticed, but within the colours, lines, and space, you can see an underlying story.

His talent has caught international interest and his work has become collectable for people such as Oprah and the Prince of Saudi Arabia.

Kuran Warun is from the Guntijamara tribe. He is a descendant of Truganini, the Tasmanian indigenous queen and relation to singer, Archie Roach.

Kurt Black

Painter | Sculptor

Kurt describes himself as an abstractionist. His paintings are an emotional and cerebral response to connection to place, mystery, and spirit. Construction and deconstruction are an intrinsic part of his art making process. He loves to build paintings up and tear them down leaving a scarred surface. He works mostly in enamel and synthetic polymer paint on wood panel. His sculptural work marries opposite materials to make three dimensional metaphors. He is interested in the friction between different materials.

Laura Vecmane

Painter

Laura Vecmane’s practice spans painting, mixed media, photography, mosaic, and sculpture. Laura was born and grew up in Latvia, where she discovered her passion and gift for creative arts. The early years of her artistic career were spent in Europe, studying art in Latvia, Denmark, and Spain. Multicultural influences, impressions of nature, radiant light, rich and vivid colours, and scenes of daily life inform Laura’s art. She nominates nature as her most valuable teacher and enjoys collaborating with others on similar projects. Laura is now living and working at her studio in Maleny.

Lisa Jones

Painter

Lisa is an acrylic and oil painter who loves colour. She has a passion for creative portraiture. Lisa has been painting since 1995. She has studied at the Brisbane Institute of Art and has taken part in many group exhibitions. Her paintings are happy, bold, and humorous.

Mac Morgan

Painter

Mac Morgan’s abstracted figures are an attempt to express feelings that he can’t find words for. They explore rawness and struggle. He enjoys the accidents that occur in the process of creating and uses destruction and asymmetry in his work. He sees irregularity within himself, and social culture and his images are an attempt to learn more about lifestyle and how it impacts on his state of mind.

Mel Lumb

Ceramicist

Mel’s unique handmade ceramics are made from high fired stoneware and porcelain. Her range includes stunning sculptural forms as well as functional vessels. Each piece is earthy and tactile with a contemporary simplicity. Finishes incorporate textured surface detail, slip decoration, oxide washes and custom glazes. Mel spends her days working in her home studio on her little farm outside of Eumundi.

Melissa Stannard

Mixed Media Artist | Painter | Sculptor

Melissa is a deeply feeling artist, a constant gatherer, a collector of the lost and found. As a Yuwaalaraay, Gamillaraay and Koama woman, storytelling is an important part of her culture and
heritage and a way that she is able to express, share and bring awareness to issues that often confront difficult subject matter, from personal narratives and lives experiences to cultural and
collective traumas. Her aim is to find poetic healing through the indigenous practices of Wingangali and Dadirri. Exploring themes of lives experiences with identity, belonging, nostalgia, inter generational memory and trauma, domestic violence and abuse but ultimately survival through connecting to country, Melissa works across a range of disciplines and mediums including jewellery, sculpture, print, painting, drawing, installation, ephemeral and environmental arts.

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Mitch Cheeseman

Painter

Mitch Cheeseman is a young artist making an impact on the local art scene with his luscious, colourful works in thickly painted oil. As a schoolkid, he preferred sketching to paying attention in class. Mitch has always held a fascination for flowers and plants and has fond memories of being in the garden with his grandmother who encouraged him to ‘get close to the bromeliads.’ The application of thick oil paint creates texture in his paintings, which he describes as his way of encapsulating how mesmerising it can be to see a bunch of sunflowers in a vase in the morning light. Experimentation is integral to Mitch’s process as a way of discovering happy accidents and surprise in his paintings. His first solo show was held at Greaser Gallery in Brisbane in 2019. He has also exhibited at Thomas Surfboards Gallery in Noosa.

Pam Miller

Painter | Printmaker

From a very early age Pam has always loved art. Winning a scholarship to the National Art School in Sydney she studied under Brett Whiteley. She likes to paint large scale abstract works and contemporary stylised landscapes. Pam creates for the joy of it and likes to work intuitively in her preferred mediums oil, cold wax, and acrylic. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are held in collections overseas.

Pam Walpole

Painter

Pam paints nature at its best and worst. Drought, bushfire, natural and man made occurrences. A bold contemporary style, she likes to capture the essence of the landscape shadows, reflections and the minutiae of life.

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Rene McGovern

Multimedia artist

Rene McGovern is very well known in our local village. Her murals adorn the walls at The Imperial Hotel and the pub courtesy bus. She is a wild-eyed child, with the curiosity of a cat and is passionate about upcycling which she describes as ‘creating beauty from the ashes.’ Her mantra is ‘speak your truth but be kind.’

Sally Barling

Painter

Sally’s paintings draw inspiration from organic forms, colours and patterns found in nature, moments, an experience, or a memory. She often paints with a limited palette which creates a sense of calm and lightness to her work. Her use of texture, layers and patterning add a sensory dimension to her paintings which are sought after by collectors far and wide.

Sally grew up in London and has spent most of her adult life living in Australia and New Zealand. She now calls the Sunshine Coast home.

Saren Dobkins

Painter

Saren has been painting and exhibiting professionally since 1983. Originally from Africa, her distinctive work is bold, colourful, and lyrical. Contemporary and expressive, her figurative narrative work invites the viewer to contemplate what we experience in our inner life that is usually hidden from others. She has travelled extensively, and integrates her knowledge of design, ecology, literature, transformation coaching and photography into her work. Saren enjoys exploring and learning new things and approaches life with a gentle sense of humour and optimism. Her wry take on life gives her work multiple layers of meaning.

Saren’s work is held in some significant public and private collections including Geelong Grammar School, University of Queensland, and the South Australia Museum.

Sophy Blake

Sculptor | Ceramicist | Illustrator

Sophy grew up in Victoria in a very artistic family and these early experiences continue to influence her practice. Sustainability is a significant concern for Sophy, and this is reflected in her use of recycled materials in her sculptures and ceramics. She has a strong desire to conserve and celebrate our planet and mother nature and many of her works feature our birds, flora, and fauna. Sophy works from her studio at Cooroibah where she also holds regular ‘play with clay’ workshops.

Sue Boyd

Mixed Media Artist | Painter | Sculptor

Sue’s practice is diverse and spans painting, mixed media, timber and metal sculpture and ceramics. She has travelled extensively, and this has had a significant influence on her work. Sue has also illustrated several children’s books by award-winning author, Colin Thiele.

She has a background in graphic design and has worked in advertising agencies and visual merchandising roles whilst continuing to practise her art.

Sue and her husband now spend their time between the Sunshine Coast and Maui, Hawaii.

Susan Schmidt

Painter

Susan's works are contemporary and figurative with subtle abstract elements and surprises. She works in acrylic and oil using pattern, layering, and rubbing back to evoke nostalgia. Susan’s paintings invite the viewer to appreciate the taken for granted and reflect a concern for the environment and sustainable living. She has exhibited in solo and selected shows in Australia and around the world since 1998. Susan has also featured in several international art prizes including the Chelsea International Art Competition, New York and the Rise Art Prize 'Global Artist of the Year' in London. In 2016 Susan was artist-in residence at One & Only Reethi Rah in the Maldives.

She works from her studio in Noosa.

Suzie Mansley

VISUAL ARTIST | CERAMICIST

Suzie is a visual artist based on the Sunshine Coast. Suzie primarily practices in ceramics working in porcelain stoneware using wheel thrown techniques to create miniature works. Hot Flame Ingo is the brand Suzie has been operating based at The Original Eumundi Markets for the past 16 years creating aromatherapy candles and diffusers.

Her handmade ceramic homewares are incorporated into the aromatherapy collection- such as the custom made HOLA room diffusers featuring her special blend of Australian Bush essential oils.

Tony Wellington

Painter

Tony's whimsical, finely detailed paintings have been exhibited and sold through a wide range of galleries in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. He has won various prizes for his artwork, and his paintings hang in homes across the globe. He has been commissioned for several corporate collections and has also created artwork for book jackets. Tony has been exhibiting since 1995.

Wearing a very different hat, Tony has also represented Noosa as a councillor and mayor.

Veronica Cay

Painter

Every artwork Veronica creates starts with life drawing. This allows for space, gentle observations, and connections. Veronica’s work is about opening conversations and distilling experiences through a variety of mark making to create rhythm, texture, and form. She uses sticks, brushes and even her hands to create multi-layered and expressive paintings which are about making sense of transitory moments in time.

Yani Van Ziji

Sculptor | Ceramicist

Yanni is known for her 3D work, particularly site-specific ephemeral, and environmental installations. She also builds ceramic sculptures. She describes this process as a joyful relinquishing of control where she allows the clay to have its say. Most recently she has added performance art and film to her growing skill set.

Her work is often a comment or statement about the environment, and she hopes to provoke discussion and awareness of these important issues.