Moran was an Australian realist artist who specialised in floral works in oil. She was highly regarded for her skills as an artist as well as her ability to share her knowledge of painting. realismRural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize Grand Winner 1986.A still life oil painting of pink and white chrysanthemums arranged in a glass vase with rounded gum leaves which has been placed on top of a round dinning table which has been covered in a white tablecloth.Obverse: P. Moran/ (bottom right corner) WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ GRAND WINNER 1986/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, patricia moran, still life, flowers, chrysanthemums, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection.An oil landscape of Lake Mokoan that has been painted using shades of blue, green, yellow, and brown.Obverse: A. D. MORRIS/ (bottom right)wangaratta art gallery, a. d. morris, ad morris, landscape, painting, lake mokoan

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize 1993.A still life watercolour of an old garage painted with a colour palette of brown, green, grey, and yellow.Obverse: RON L MULLER/ (bottom left corner) Grand Winner 1993/ Garage Corner/ By/ Ron L. Muller/ Judge - Barbara Beasly-Southgate/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, ron muller, watercolour, garage, still life

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Show 2004.A landscape scene of an elderly couple walking through a park in Autumn painted in a post-impressionist style.Obverse: DO NOBLE/ (bottom right corner) 2004 Art Show/ - Grand Winner - / 'Autumn Lovers' - By Do Noble/ Judge Ramon Horsfield/ (plaque on mounting board)wangaratta art gallery, do noble, painting, autumn, landscape

Rural City of Wangaratta CollectionA costal landscape of boats mooring at a small dock, painted in oil using shades of blue, green, brown, yellow, and white.Obverse: Ross Paterson '91/ (bottom right corner) APRIL MORNING EDEN By ROSS PATERSON/ GRAND WINNER/ JUDGE - BARBARA McMANUS 1991/ (plaque on frame)wangaratta art gallery, ross paterson, landscape, painting, eden, costal, boats, dock

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Wangaratta Art Show Grand Winner 1985.A landscape of a pastoral scene, painted in oil using shades o green, brown, blue, and yellow.R Paterson '85/ (bottom right corner) - GRAND WINNER 1985 -/ WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, ross paterson, landscape, painting pastoral

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Show Grand Winner 2007.A pastoral landscape of cows grazing beside a river, painting with oils in shades of brown, green, yellow, red, and blue.Obverse: Ross Paterson/ (bottom right corner)wangaratta art gallery, ross paterson, landscape, painting, pastoral, riverbank, cows

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize Grand Winner 1981.A aerial landscape of a rural road, painted in oil using a colour palette of blue, green, white, yellow, and brown.Obverse: L Pawluk/ (bottom left corner)wangaratta art gallery, len pawluk, landscape, rural, painting, walhalla

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize 1983.A pastoral landscape painted in oils using shades of blue, green, white, yellow, and brown.Obverse: L. Pawluk./ (bottom left) WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ GRAND PRIZE WINNER/ 1983/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, len pawluk, landscape, painting, pastoral

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize 2005.A coastal landscape of people frolicking on the beach of an inlet, painted in oil using blues, browns, yellows, and whites.Obverse: L Pawluk/ 2005/ (bottom left) Wangaratta Art Show - 2005/ ** Grand Winner **/ 'Otway Coastline' - Artist: Len Pawluk/ Judge: Wykeham Perry/ (plaque mounted on frame) wangaratta art gallery, len pawluk, landscape, painting, coastal, otway

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize 1988.A coastal landscape painted in watercolour using shades of blue, green, and brown.Obverse: HERMAN/ REKEL/ (bottom left corner) WANGARATTA ART SHOW - 1988/ 150th CELEBRATION SPECIAL AWARD/ GRAND WINNER - WATERCOLOUR/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, herman pekel, coastal, landscape, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection, Wangaratta Art Prize 1987.A landscape of a lake scene, painted using oils in a colour palette of green, blue, pink, brown, and grey.Obverse: Wykeham Perry 87/ (bottom left corner) WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ GRAND WINNER 1987/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, wykeham perry, landscape, painting, coastal

abstractRural City of Wangaratta Collection. Purchased with funds from the Wangaratta Art Council.An abstract painting of an eatery dinning area painted in oil using a colour palette of predominantly blue alongside shades of green, pink, brown, and yellow.Pyett/ '76/ (bottom left corner)wangaratta art gallery, christopher pyett, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of the artist 1992.A landscape scene of a river winding through gums painted with oils using a colour palette of green, brown, grey, blue, orange, and purple.Obverse: A. Quabba 1992/ (bottom right corner)wangaratta art gallery, angelo quabba, landscape, painting

abstract, contemporaryRural City of Wangaratta Collection, purchased with funds from the Wangaratta Art Council.An contemporary abstract painting using a wide range of colours with shades of white being prominent. Obverse: RESSOM/ (bottom right)wangaratta art gallery, richard ressom, abstract, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta CollectionA still life painting of a band uniform alongside a trumpet and music stand, painted using red, blue, silver, gold, yellow, black, and white.Obverse: R SPINNER/ (bottom right corner)wangaratta art gallery, r spinner, band, still life, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Wangaratta Art Show - Grand Winner 1998.A oil landscape of Lake Buffalo, painted using shades of blue, green, yellow, brown, and white.Obverse: R SYMMONS/ (bottom right corner)wangaratta art gallery, rodney symmons, landscape, painting, lake buffalo

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Wangaratta Art Prize Grand Winner 2003.A landscape painting of a terrace house painted in oils using yellows, greens, blues, greys, browns, oranges, and white.Obverse: Taylor/ (bottom right corner) Grand Winner - 2003/ Richmond Patterns/ Artist: Kevin Taylor/ Judge: Herman Pekel/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, kevin taylor, landscape, painting, richmond, terrace house

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Wangaratta Art Prize Grand Winner 2000.A coastal landscape of docked boats painted in oils using shades of green, yellow, brown, and grey.Obverse: Taylor (bottom right corner)/ Grand Winner 2000/ WINTERS CLOAK MORDIALLOC/ By KEVIN A. TAYLOR/ Judge - Ms. JUDITH GARDE/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, kevin taylor, landscape, painting, coastal, boats, dock

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of the Wangaratta Y's Men's Club.A river landscape painted with oils in shades of green, blue, brown, and grey.Obverse: MARY WATSON/ (bottom right corner) WINNER - PAIR SMALL PAINTINGS/ 1988 WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ Presented By WANGARATTA Y'S MEN'S CLUB/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, mary watson, painting, landscape, buckland river

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of the Wangaratta Y's Men's Club.A river landscape painted with oils in shades of green, blue, brown, and grey.Obverse: MARY WATSON/ (bottom right corner) WINNER - PAIR SMALL PAINTINGS/ 1988 WANGARATTA ART SHOW/ Presented By WANGARATTA Y'S MEN'S CLUB/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, mary watson, landscape, painting, ovens river

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of Leslie Morrison. Donated in memory of Bruce Morrison, Shire Engineer.A realistic pastoral landscape, painted in watercolour using a colour palette of green, blue, brown, yellow, and white.Obverse: VR WATT/ (bottom left corner)wangaratta art gallery, v. r. watt, landscape, painting, pastoral

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of Leslie Morrison. Donated in memory of Bruce Morrison, Shire Engineer.A realistic pastoral landscape, painted in watercolour using a colour palette of green, blue, brown, yellow, and white.Obverse: VR WATT/ (bottom left corner)wangaratta art gallery, v. r. watt, landscape, pastoral, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Wangaratta Art Prize Grand Winner 2020.A realistic pastoral landscape during a storm, painted in watercolour using shades of blue, green, brown, yellow, and orange.Obverse: M WEBSTER/ (bottom right corner) Grand Winner 2020/ Malcolm Webster/ *** Sky Storm ***/ Judge - Amanda Hyatt/ (plaque mounted on frame)wangaratta art gallery, malcolm webster, landscape, painting

Rural City of Wangaratta Collection. Gift of the Wangaratta BPW Club for their 21st Anniversary.A landscape oil painting in shades of yellow, blue, green, and brown.Obverse: Marg Woollard 6.1977- (bottom right corner) Marg Woollard 'NATURE'S CORROBOREE'/ Y.M.C.A 1978 Art Show prize/ Presented by Wangaratta B.P.W. Club. for its 21st anniversary/ to the City of Wangaratta./ (plaque mounted on frame)wagaratta art gallery, margaret woollard, painting, landscape

Strampp lived and worked at Clifton Pugh's artist colony Dunmoochin from 1980 to 1985. 'Into the Night' is Strampps' "own marriage painting". The wedding dress and horse, "a symbol of virility and passion" represents Strampp and the background landscape was inspired by her stay in Somerset, England. The cliff edge on the left symbolises "an audacious step into the future." The painting "is of a bride, passionate yet absent, about to embark upon a new journey in life, and of the voyage ahead. It is about acknowledging the past, and having the courage to move forward. To take risks". Strampp was largely influenced by both the new German Neo-Expressionists of the time and by English artist John Walker, which is evident in this painting. Her work took on popular stylistic trends and themes of the time, which included a painterly aesthetic and an energetic application of the medium, which transferred to an emotional and or personal connection to subject matter that was communicated symbolically. Strampp is an artist of national significance. This work encompasses themes and a style of painting (Neo - Expressionism) that was prevalent during the time of its making in the eighties. This work represents a transition from Strampp's highly regarded early paintings of heroic horses in the mid to late 1980’s to her highly regarded paintings of contemporary wedding and/or armour-like bodices dresses of the 1990s. Both the 'horse' and 'dress' were often set in empty backgrounds or dreamy/foreboding landscapes. Painted in oil on linen (x2) in a 'Neo-Expressionist' style, 'Into the Night' depicts a ghostly white horse to the right of the painting looking away from a ghostly white wedding dress to the left of the painting. The dress has sprouted white wings and is adorned with bows on the bottom edge of the dress and roses on the sleeves. The dress seems full bodied although there is no figure. The dress and horse are placed in the foreground on a stage like platform with a white curtain framing the picture to the right, and a black ladder and brown cliff edge framing the picture to the left. The background depicts a foreboding and dark cloudy sky and seascape with a firery red landscape burning on the horizon. Signed low right (1988.7b VA) with brush in purple (light) 'Adriane Strampp 87'. into the night, neo expressionism, wedding dress, horse, symbolism, painting, seascape, dramatic, emotional, poetic, strampp

The painting was purchased from the Eltham Outdoor Art Show. Smith endeavours to capture mood, atmosphere and light in this work by heightening and intensifying the imagery where possible. Smith is concerned with expressing a 'sense of place' inherent in the subject matter. Painting of a landscape at dusk with dirt walking track and trees somewhere in Eltham. Oil on composition board. Moulded frame. Painted in the 'Western Realist Tradition'. Signed 'HARRIS SMITH/84' Hand painted in capitals in red paint; bottom right. eltham, painting, landscape, smith, evening

N/AJodi Wiley is a local artist who works in acrylic to create detailed images of trees found in urban and suburban environments. “Trees are ordinary features of our everyday landscape. And yet when the light hits them at certain times of the day, the colours and textures that are illuminated can make us gasp in awe if we are truly paying attention". 'Afternoon Light' was highly commended in the 2015 Nillumbik Prize, judged by Melinda Martin, Director of Linden New Art, Melbourne.Detailed, cropped view of a tree trunk, warm earth colours and tonesWhite, hand painted 'J' in bottom right cornerwiley, acrylic, art, painting, trees, landscape

Painter, printmaker and sculptor Rick Amor is one of Australia's most distinguished senior artists. He was a good friend of the late George Baldessin and three times Archibald Prize winner Clifton Pugh, having lived and worked at Pugh's property, Dunmoochin in Cottles Bridge, Nillumbik during the 1980s and 90s. George Baldessin (1939-1978) was born in San Biagio di Callalta, in the Veneto in Northern Italy and arrived in Australia ten years later. A printmaker and sculptor he built his bluestone studio at St Andrews (Nillumbik) in 1971 with his partner Tess and the three Hails brothers, Rob, Doug and Don. Made of recycled materials the studio today contains all of George’s equipment including the large press, which he modelled himself with the help of Neil Jeffrey (Enjay Presses). George won many prizes throughout his career and is represented in many of Australia's public art collections including his famous 'Pears' sculpture in front of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. In 1975 he represented Australia in the Sao Paulo Biennale, before living and working in Paris until his return to St Andrews in 1977. In 1978 George was killed in a car accident aged 39 years. In 2001 Tess returned to St Andrews to reclaim the run-down studio and reconstitute it as The Baldessin Press & Studio - a printmaking retreat. It operates in George’s memory, so that artists may continue to create, perpetuating the generous spirit of George. 'The Ruin' is one of eight prints in the 'Baldessin & Friends commemorative folio. The folio was conceived by Tess Edwards as a fundraising initiative in celebration of the The Baldessin Press & Studio's fifteen year anniversary, and as a way to honour George Baldessin's memory. The folio is a unique coming together of seven very different and acclaimed artists who are connected by their friendship to the missing eighth member, George Baldessin. The Baldessin Press & Studio is a not-for-profit organisation created in memory of the late George Baldessin (1939-1978), whose original studio is now open to the public for creative use and as a practical legacy to living artists. The Studio is located in St Andrews, Nillumbik. Rick Amor has been an ardent supporter of the Baldessin Press & Studio and a great patron of living artists. In 2014 the Press partnered with Amor and the State Library of Victoria to create The Amor Residency at The Baldessin Press & Studio, which is part of the Library's annual fellowship program. 'The Ruin' was based on a plein air painting done by Rick Amor on a trip to Broken Hill in 2001 and reflects on death and the passing of time so eloquently portrayed by the industrial ruins of NSW. In the tradition of a Piranesi, the work emphasises the transience of life and the triumph of time. Black and white drypoint etching in which a small figure, a traveller; located bottom left, points to a large crumbling edifice (building), a stage like space in the background. Ed.14/25baldessin, print, drypoint, amor, 2018 ekphrasis, ruin, etching, ekphrasis2018

Stanley Couzens of the Wathourong community was commissioned by Geelong Wool Combing Ltd to create a painting of the You Yangs and Corio Bay to be reproduced on a jumper. The jumper itself was designed by Jeni McMahon using Merino wool from her property McMahon Farm Pty Ltd. Jumper and miniature wool bale packaging were presented as a gift at the opening of the Geelong Wool Combing LtdSynthetic miniature wool bale packaging containing jumper. Miniature wool bale features two stenciled design with black ink. First stencil reads "Pure Australian Wool" with Woolmark logo. Second stencil reads "A Gift From Geelong Wool Combing GWC". Small tag on bottom right corner reads "XL". Has two removable staples closing top opening. Woolen Jumper inside contains red, mustard, green and cream colours depicting Indigenous artwork. Features two stenciled design with black ink. First stencil on front reads "A Gift From/ GWC/ Geelong Wool Combing ". Second stencil on back reads "Pure/ Australian/ Wool" with Woolmark logo above. Small tag on bottom right corner reads "XL".