Helene Kippert

I use texture and colour as a way of breaking down our sense of identity with intellect and form and reconnecting us to the sacred whole to which we all belong. I usually begin with a charcoal or pastel drawing and add a number of digital layers until I feel I’ve reached a point of completion.

As a culture we seem to have lost our sense of wonder and excitement about the nature of life. The process of creating these pieces inspires these things in me, and I hope to share them with you through my work. 
 
You can view my online portfolio at

http://www.helenekippert.com
Energy art for the New Earth

http://www.redbubble.com/people/helene
where my art is available for sale.

Horses 7

What dreams may come 3

John Austin

Photographer

John Austin is a Western Australian photographer based in the south west forest working exclusively with fine silver-gelatine black and white prints, normally from large format cameras.

His subject areas include karri and jarrah forest, paperbark-swamps, granite monadnocks, forest protest actions, logging, portraits, artist portraits and an infra-red series of Nel Simpson an aerial performer working high in the forest canopy.

Photo by Naomi Backhouse

PO Box 109
Northcliffe
Western Australia 6262
Phone +61 8 9773 1288
Email mail2@jbaphoto.com.au

Web site: http://www.jbaphoto.com.au

Tony Windberg
Artist

WA artist Tony Windberg chose Northcliffe to set up his studio in 2006. His paintings and drawings focus on our tenuous relationship with the Australian landscape. Tony has also returned to painting trees and runs “Art in the forest” art workshops, based at his studio surroundings at Watermark Kilns Farmstay.  He teaches local TAFE classes in Northcliffe and Pemberton.
Tony has won many art awards including the City of Perth Art Award in both 1999 and 2001.  His work features in numerous public, corporate and private collections.  Since completing his Bachelor of Arts degree from Curtin University in 1986, he has received several major commissions and been invited to participate in numerous group exhibitions.

More about Tony Windberg  ......

1 Karri Hill Rd,
Northcliffe
Western Australia 6262
For studio visits and information on “Art in the forest” workshops, contact Tony on:

Phone:   (08) 9776 6396

Email: windberg@westnet.com.au

Watermark Kilns: www.watermarkkilns.com.au

Warwick Backhouse

Warwick's work includes a wide range of timbers from the local area including some woods that are very rarely used.

Peter Hill

Peter is one of those artists who can pick up a medium and create stunning works. His traditional form is oil painting, but he also works in the realms of sculpture, mosaics, photography and three dimensional paintings.

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The Red Tree
An exhibition of paintings by Peter Hill

Peter Hill has been investigating themes that capture the visible traces of nature’s ever-constant cycle of birth, growth and decay upon individual objects found in his daily life in the South West of Western Australia.

This new exhibition, his first in Melbourne, centres upon the symbol of the tree as a metaphor for the inter-connectivity of Life.

“For many years I have observed and studied the details of trees and the natural environment within which they occur. In this exhibition I have peeled back the surface layers of these to think and feel about the underlying form of the tree and the way that this form is found in many other aspects of nature: the branches of the tree, a river delta, a network of arteries and veins or lightning in a night sky. These shared patterns are all pathways for the flow of energy”.

Peter’s work is included in significant collections such as the Art Gallery of WA , Artbank The Federal Court of Australia and the Kerry Stokes collection.

The Red Tree opens on Saturday 11 October from 3-5pm and runs until 1 November 2008. the artist will be present at the opening. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday 1 – 4 pm and by appointment.

For more information please call Brigitte Braun on 03 95212324 or 0417184260. The exhibition can be seen on artplace.com.au from 6 October.

source:  http://www.artplace.com.au/PressReleases/hill_1008.pdf

The Rivers 2008, acrylic on marine ply, 190 x 70cm

Fiona Sinclair

Fiona is active in many aspects of community life in Northcliffe. She has painted the power poles with local flora, added wonderful fishes to the Windy Harbour toilet block, produces hand built master pieces in clay and worked on a variety of other public art projects in WA.

Fiona is the Coordinator of the fantastic Understory Art Trail, a Southern Forest Arts project which starts at the Northcliffe Visitor Centre

This unique eco and cultural tourism concept will be the first walk trail within Australia to permanently feature specially commissioned artworks from a range of different art forms.

For more details go to the Understory Art Trail web site