ARTIST STATEMENT:

Belinda Nadwie creates art that explores the intersection of the visible and the unseen, where energy, emotion, and spirit converge. With a deep belief in the power of art as a conduit for connection, Belinda views each painting as more than just a visual expression. It is a space where intuition guides every brushstroke, often channelling messages or energies that resonate on a deeply personal level.

While every piece reflects Belinda’s artistic vision, there are moments when the connection to something greater becomes undeniable. Certain works are experienced as clear messages or reminders for those who encounter them, often evoking memories of loved ones or serving as a bridge between the earthly and the spiritual. This unique ability to channel energy through art is something Belinda considers a gift, and the profound emotional responses that the paintings invoke in viewers affirm the artist’s sense of purpose.

Belinda believes that art is a spiritual experience, a means of healing, remembrance, and transformation. Through each painting, Belinda creates a space where viewers can reflect on their own experiences, find comfort, or receive the subtle messages that exist beyond the physical world.

Belinda’s works held in Private Collections in UK, USA, most European countries, Japan, Israel, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand and more. Belinda also has collectors all across Australia.

EXHIBITIONS:

• Gold Coast Art Centre, Gold Coast 1990

• Gold Coast Art Centre Group Exhibition, Gold Coast 1992

• Art Connection Gallery Group Exhibition, QLD 2005

• Art Moment Gallery Group Exhibition , Bondi 2006

• Swanes Nursery Group Exhibition, Dural 2007

• Eden Gardens Solo Exhibition, Ryde 2007

• Arcadian Artists Trail Group Show , Arcadia 2015

• M2 Surry Hills 2019

• Art Lovers Australia, TBC Gallery The Block Exhibition, 2019

• Windsor Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand 2022, 2023

• Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane 2022, 2023

• Art Lovers Australia Fiercely Feminine Exhibition, Sydney 2023

• AAD Gallery Women in Art Exhibition, The Rocks, Sydney 2023, 2024, 2025

• Bluethumb Gallery, Brisbane, Adelaide & Melbourne 2023, 2024

• Art Lovers Australia Gallery, Gold Coast & Melbourne 2023, 2024

• The Other Art Fair, Sydney 2023, 2024, 2025

• Affordable Art Fair, Sydney, & Melbourne 2023, 2024

• Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore 2025

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Winner of Art Lovers Australia People’s Choice Award 2018

• Interviewed by visithills.com.au 2019

• Featured on ‘The Block’ Television series 2019

• Interviewed by hillsdistrictmums.com.au 2019

• Finalist for Bluethumb Art Prize 2021, 2022

• Finalist for Art Lovers Art Prize 2020, 2021, 2022

• Winner of Sydney Hills Local Business awards 2020 and 2021

• Winner of Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2021

• Featured in the 3rd Annual Edition of Art Folio coffee book 2022

• Featured in Art Lovers Australia Collector’s book 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

• Interviewed by montmarte.com.au 2022

• Podcast – The Art of Business Family & Art, how to navigate both 2023

• Featured in The Interiors Addict 2023

• Featured on Selling Houses Australia Television series 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025

• Featured in Hills to Hawkesbury News 2024

• Finalist of Northern Beaches Gallery Summer Art Prize 2026

• Winner of AGES Art Prize 2026/2027

An established Australian mid-career artist specializing in watercolour and pencil on birchwood panels and oils on canvas. Jude was previously known for her vivid hand coloured linocuts and ink drawings on hand made paper.

Born in Darwin NT, travelled extensively throughout Europe, South America, Africa and Asia to study art, including two years at Beaux Arts in Paris.

Returned to Sydney and studied at various colleges including Julian Ashton Art School. In 1982 during her early career Jude designed a Commonwealth Games swimsuit fabric.

Jude’s works are the result of studying in a traditional Parisian art school and later the Italian persuasion of Francis Giacco at Julian Ashton. She is inspired by many Australian artists and the great Italian masters, as well as Mexican and Asian art.

Her latest body of work is the product of living in Leura in the upper Blue Mountains. Jude’s art has been likened to silk embroidery and tapestries from the 18^th century. Gardens and structured composition play a big part in her approach. Jude has more recently adopted figurative compositions as part of her subject matter:

‘I love the tactile quality of working into the wood with thousands of pencil strokes to create a rich yet soft texture. The varying grain of the wood adds another element in the unworked spaces. I find this medium ideal for conveying my passion for the female form while also expressing the gentle strength of women. In contrast the use of oils, my other medium, provides an intense richness of colour through multiple layers of glazing. The verdant bushland and magnificent gardens of the mountains are my endless source of inspiration.

Exhibitions

2025        ‘Gardens, Landscapes and Figures’, with Steven Glassborow Cooks Hill Gallery

2025        ‘Of Land and Clay’, Rex-Livingston Art Gallery

2024        Jude Rose – New Works at Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle

2024        Finalist, Soho Art Prize, Woollahra ‘Water’

2024        Solo Exhibition ‘Quintessence’, Rex-Livingston Art Gallery

2023        Finalist, Minature Egag Wrap Prize

2023        Finalist, Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, Griffith University, Brisbane

2023        Finalist, Small Art Prize, East Gippsland Art Gallery

2023        Finalist, Waterbrook drawing prize, Bowral Art Gallery

2023        Bathers Pavilion, Mosman Solo Exhibition ‘Under Cerulean Skies’

2022        Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2022        ‘Arborescence’, Jude Rose & Edward Wray-Bliss, Rex-Livingston Art, Katoomba

2021        Double J, Jude Rose & Judi Moss, Rex-Livingston Art, Katoomba

2020        ‘Resurgence’, solo exhibition Rex-Livingston Art, Katoomba

2019        ASMA National Miniature Awards, finalist

2019        Hunters Hill Art Prize, finalist, Highly commended prize

2019        ‘Eutierria’, solo exhibition Artsite, Sydney

2018        Miniature Art Prize Most Innovative award

2018        Pirtek Art Prize, Finalist

2018        Esprit de Corps, group exhibition Artsite

2018        Hunters Hill Art Prize, Finalist

2018        Joie de Vivre Artsite

2018        Collectors Choice exhibition Artsite

2017        Rust Avalon Alchemy, solo show

2017        Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2017        Hunters Hill Art Prize, Finalist

2017        Lethbridge Art Prize, Finalist

2017        Miniature Art Prize, Finalist

2016        Artspace Wollongong, group show

2016        Avalon Art Gallery, solo show

2016        Rust Avalon ‘Lush’, exhibition of linocuts

2016        Cornmill Fine Art Corrimal

2014        Cornmill Gallery Corrimal

2013        Bow Wow Palm Beach

2013        Day Fine Art

2012        Newport Art Gallery Newport

2011        Avalon Art Gallery, group show

2009       Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2007        Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2005        Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2003        Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2002        Mosman Art Prize, Finalist

2001        Mosman Art Prize , Finalist

2000        Wynne Salon des Refusés, Finalist

2000        Mosman Art Prize , Finalist

1992         Bow Wow Palm Beach, linocuts

1992         Cape Gallery Byron Bay, exhibition

1991         Palm Beach Art Gallery, exhibition

1991          Anita Ellis Gallery Avalon, exhibition

1991        Palm Beach Art Gallery, exhibition

1990        Cape Gallery Byron Bay, exhibition

1990        Mullumbimby Art Gallery, group show

1980        Galerie des Artistes, Brittany France, solo exhibition

Prizes

Finalist, Murwillumbah Regional Gallery, Landscape Prize

Bowral Landscape Prize, highly commended

Second Prize Wollongong Regional Gallery 16 by 20 landscape

Third Prize Wollongong Regional Gallery 16 by 20 landscape

Highly commended Miniature Art Prize, Willoughby Art Centre, The Ewart Gallery

Highly commended Miniature Art Prize, Thirroul

        Collections

Corporate and private collections throughout Europe, Asia, USA and Australia.

John Martono’s abstract works, which blend painting with hand embroidery on silk, offer a fresh and distinctive perspective within Indonesia’s contemporary fine arts scene. His innovative approach combines the precision of textile science, the artistry of embroidery, and the fluidity of painting on silk—each requiring a specialized technique that has become his signature form of expression.

With a background as a textile designer and years of experience as a lecturer, alongside a Master’s degree in Design from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), John masterfully intertwines these diverse elements, resulting in striking and elegant works of art.

Artist Statement:

The Journey of Happiness is a realization of a process that after all this time concepting and working in fine arts that in and on itself is its own happiness.

Throughout the various situations that accompany this creative process I personally calls it as happiness in every details.

Situation in the form of individual feelings becomes a stimulus in a work that is born with the intensity of process from time to time. A situation that exist outside of my experience become one of my responsive thinking spaces so that I also have to distance myself from all these

events in order to get sufficient points of reflection. In essence, thinking about appearance in an imaginative context is the search for knowledge on a broad horizon.

Please enjoy my artworks and know that you are a part of the happiness of these works.”

Yvonne Gallagher is a Malaysian-born Australian contemporary artist whose work is shaped by a life lived across cultures and coastlines. Having lived in Kuala Lumpur, Bermuda, and Dublin before settling in Sydney, her global journey informs both her artistic perspective and visual language.

A self-taught painter with a professional background in finance, Yvonne brings analytical discipline and structural clarity into a deeply expressive creative practice. She continues to reflect a rare fusion of logic and intuition, precision and spontaneity. This duality underpins her steady rise as an emerging artist whose works are increasingly collected internationally.

Based in Sydney Northern Beaches, Yvonne paints from within the elements rather than observing from afar. Whether sailing, paddle boarding, swimming, or travelling by ferry, she captures landscapes as they are experienced from the water itself — immersive, expansive, and alive. Working primarily in thick impasto acrylic, she builds textured, light-filled compositions defined by layered surfaces and luminous blues and greens that evoke movement, tranquillity, and horizon-bound freedom.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Ken Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York, Van Gogh Gallery in Madrid, Red Dot Miami, and the World Art Fair in Paris. As a globally exhibited emerging artist, Gallagher continues to cultivate a growing collector base across different corners of the world while remaining grounded in her passion for the ocean and the everyday beauty it offers.

Artist Statement:

For Yvonne Gallagher, the ocean is both subject and sanctuary.

Travel serves as the quiet engine of her creativity. Each coastline, harbour, and horizon expands the way she sees and experiences the world. Living by the sea has transformed her perspective: she paints landscapes not from the shore, but from within them. Whether on a paddle board, sailing across open water, or immersed in the stillness of the blue hour just after sunset, she works from direct experience of the elements she seeks to capture.

Her palette is dominated by blues and greens — colours that echo calm, depth, and renewal. Working in thick impasto acrylic, Yvonne builds layered surfaces from dark to light, allowing underlying tones to reveal themselves through texture and gesture. Each painting begins with a considered structure, reflecting her finance background, yet within that framework she allows intuitive movement and expressive mark-making that mirror the rhythm of the sea.

Drawn to the horizon as a symbol of possibility and transition, Yvonne creates immersive compositions that invite viewers to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the expansive energy of nature. Her practice embodies balance — between discipline and freedom, structure and spontaneity, profession and passion – as she continues to explore what it means to see the world anew and share that vision through paint.

EDUCATION

2025 New York Academy of Art – Art and Design of Landscape Painting

2025 New York Academy of Art – Visual Composition Workshop

2024 Classical drawing studies at Julian Ashton Art School

2002 Lecturer | Sunway University

1999 Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) (UK)

1997 London Chamber of Commerce Industries (LCCI)

1997 Diploma in Accounting

EXHIBITION

2024 Ken Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

2025 Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid

2025 World Art Fair, Paris

2025 Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York

2025 Red Dot, Miami

2026 Harvey Galleries, Sydney

For Land | Sea | Air at Harvey Galleries, Yvonne Gallagher presents works that immerse viewers in the elemental dialogue between sky and water. Painting from within the landscape rather than observing from afar, Gallagher captures coastal horizons as they are experienced from the sea — fluid, expansive, and alive with light.

Working in layered impasto acrylic, her compositions are defined by luminous blues, shifting skies, and textured surfaces that evoke both movement and stillness. The horizon becomes a central motif – a meeting point of air and sea – symbolising openness, transition, and possibility.

As an emerging artist balancing a professional background in finance with a growing international practice, Gallagher brings both structure and intuition to her work. In Land | Sea | Air, her paintings offer a contemplative pause – inviting viewers to step into the elements and experience the restorative rhythm of nature from within.

COLLECTION

Four Seasons New York Downtown

Private collections in Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, New York and Sydney

Yvonne is available for commissions for public and private spaces.

PUBLICATION

Forbes Australia – Journey

The Art Edit Interior Design

Kate Pittas is a Brisbane-based contemporary landscape painter, exploring her own experiences of the Australian bush. Her work is expressive, and delves into themes of nostalgia, memory and connection.

Hitting the road and discovering or revisiting regional and remote locations in Australia provides Kate with personal experiences she can work with back in her home studio in the bushy outer suburbs of Brisbane. Having studied Visual Arts at university, Kate taught in Sydney high schools for close to a decade before transitioning away from the classroom and into her current full-time practice and career as a painter, which she relishes.

Art Prizes
2023 National Emerging Art Prize ACB Selects Finalist
2023 Finalist ‘Heart of the Bush’ – The Bush Exchange Goondiwindi
2021 Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Finalist Salon des Refusès
2020 Unearthed Art Prize Art to Art Finalist

Solo
2021 Wanderlust – Wild Canary Brisbane
2022 Solo Arcadia Street Gallery Noosa – ‘Not Far from Home’

Exhibitions
2024 Breathing Space – Wild Canary
2024 Primordial Landscapes Whitewall Art Projects Southern Highlands
2024 Brisbane Affordable Art Fair – Arcadia Street Gallery- Brisbane
2023 An Ode to Pink Corner Store Gallery Orange
2023 Sydney Affordable Art Fair Sketch Co Gallery Sydney
2022 Gather, Sketch Co Gallery Sydney
2022 Melbourne Affordable Art Fair – Sketch Co Gallery
2021 Arcadia Street Gallery, ‘The Sun Also Shines’ Noosa
2021 Wild Canary, ‘A Winter’s Walk’
2021 Wild Summer Days – Wild Canary Brisbane
2020 Wild Canary, Solo Exhibition, ‘Wanderlust’
2019 ‘Betwixt & Between’ Purple Noon Gallery Sydney
2019 ‘Landscapes’ Group Exhibitions – Conner Store Gallery Orange