WELCOME TO NOOSA OPEN STUDIOS ART TRAIL

Queensland's Largest Open Studios Art Event

1 - 9 October 2022

Noosa Open Studios Art Trail provides locals and visitors to our beautiful region on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast with the unique chance to visit over 100 artists in their private studios over 9 days in October. Whilst there, you can learn about the artists’ creative processes, see their work and perhaps even make an art investment to call your own!

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Fiona Groom @fgroom_artist, is an 'out of this wor

Fiona Groom @fgroom_artist, is an 'out of this world' artist. Let us explain.⁣⁣She once featured on the well know art program Put Some Colour In Your Life @colour.in.your.life.art and the episode is one of three hundred episodes being stored in a time capsule heading to the moon, hence she is 'out of this world' and one day may be seen by some strange looking purple creatures studying earth. Who knows. 😂⁣⁣Fiona is actively engaged with her local art community, including group exhibitions, art projects, workshops, tutoring and creating her art large scale with the creation of several Animal murals...

Behind all the art we share is a large fun group o

Behind all the art we share is a large fun group of people. They carefully create their work by hand with honed skills, plenty of love and a lot of passion. Meeting the artists is a big part of why Noosa Open Studios has been so popular for the last 5 years. You get to talk to the artists, see them create and find out who they are.⁣⁣Eileen Thompson @eileenthompsonart is just one of our 117 artist this year.⁣⁣Eileen creates colourful and dramatic abstracts using alcohol inks, drawing inspiration from Nasa's Satellite images of our planet. She also paints in watercolour taking inspiration from the beautiful and amazing creatures in our oceans.

If you look at Dinah Wakefield's @dinahwakefieldar

If you look at Dinah Wakefield's @dinahwakefieldart works in progress you will observe canvases lying flat on the ground with pools of coloured water slowing drying. She certainly has a way of taking nature and creating beauty.⁣⁣Dinah's paintings are abstract representations of the light, energy and movement in nature: the invisible currents that underlie the natural world and surface in the landscape we experience. She paints on a large scale creating a unique combination of colour, form and movement.

A scroll through Dennis Forshaw's Instagram @denfo

A scroll through Dennis Forshaw's Instagram @denforshaw, feed will open your mind to a wonder of pottery work. Plenty of it is finished, however Dennis also shares lots of work in progress. This is what Noosa Open Studios is all about, our artist open up their working space to share with you both finished work and all the messiness it takes to get there.⁣⁣Come along and see it for yourself 1st - 9th October 2022, Dennis would love to share his tales with you.⁣⁣Dennis has been a professional potter/teacher and mentor for over 30 years. The recipient of numerous awards. He specialises in reduction fired crystalline glazes and large naked raku forms.

Debra Hutton @ebrahuttonart has a way of turning d

Debra Hutton @ebrahuttonart has a way of turning dabs of paint into creations to brighten a room. Sometimes when you step back you see things differently.⁣⁣Debra Hutton born in Toowoomba lived in Sydney, established Artist and Art Consultant creates in her Peregian Beach studio.⁣Her interplay of colour and layering creates a stunning rhythmic work, that brings the viewer into her world of Italy a life of travel she remembers during her years with Qantas.

We don't often get many artists who are metal work

We don't often get many artists who are metal workers. most people think of a metal worker as a guy or girl in a helmet, welding up machine or equipment in while fabricating or repairing them. Sparks and metal flying everywhere and the gravely sound of grinders a constant during the process. This is exactly what David (Wolf) Sanders @hartfiredesigns did. However, since retirement those sparks now come from the creation of works of wonder instead.⁣⁣After working 40 years as a first class sheetmetal tradesman. Wolf is now exploring metal using his skills and knowledge to create unique pieces. He is also inspired to turn paper origami into Metalgami. Wolf's studio set in the Noosa Hinterland is interesting and eclectic well worth the beautiful drive.

Does any one suffer from Coulrophobia, the fear of

Does any one suffer from Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns?⁣⁣Dave Gilbert @davegilbertartist doesn't, well we assume he doesn't as he loves to create sculptures of them. Amazingly he incorporates skills from his pastry-cooking days, using pallet knives and piping bags to add structure and texture to his work. He has a passion for working with clay and his award-winning sculptures brighten up many homes interstate and overseas.

Bright colour sure do grab attention. As soon as w

Bright colour sure do grab attention. As soon as we saw this work by Susan Neuvonen @neuvonenart we just had to scroll her Instagram feed to see what else she has in her collection. She has some fun work.⁣⁣Susan is an Australian born to Finnish parents and water, weather, landscape and life is what her work is about. Susan grew up in the Australian bush and a small coastal town on the mid-north coast of NSW. These influences inform Susan's work which is created using a variety of mediums.

This one is for all the #kombilovers out there. A

This one is for all the #kombilovers out there. A car that certainly has turned into a passion for many Noosa residence. They sure do catch the eye as they pass by and many are an art piece themselves. Deborah has decided to capture the split screen version which are super rare these days.⁣⁣Deborah Samuels @deb_samuels_artist is a Noosa based artist. She is often found in her studio creating new works. Her new collection revisits her early years painting where she concentrated on abstract shapes and forms playing with scale, depth and text in various mediums. Art has been her successful chosen path since college

It has been a week of wonderful blue skies and cri

It has been a week of wonderful blue skies and crisp sunny days. A wonderful change from the wet and grey days preceding it. Amazing @clareriddingtonjonesartist's wonderful painting has a the two elements, clouds floating in a clear sky, blended together with splashes of colour.⁣⁣@clareriddingtonjonesartist love of nature is apparent in both her art and photography. She has a natural sense of colour and her art is always harmonious, colourful and full of movement. Her subjects range from bold abstracts to impressionist landscapes, seascapes and birds. Her art is collected worldwide.

Please meet another one of our committee members @

Please meet another one of our committee members @daleleachart. Many of this year's participating artist will know Dale as she is an artist liaison, plus she is rather fun. Of course she is also an artist herself with bright and colourful works that like her is full of fun.⁣⁣Dale has revisited her favourite local landscapes and gardens, marvelling at the wonder and beauty of nature. She takes many, many photos before she paints and realised that in these images, she saw small signs of renewal and hope. The more she looked the more she saw.

We find this work by @charlottewensleyart rather i

We find this work by @charlottewensleyart rather interesting. we thought it may have been a mixed media type work of cutouts or material and paper, but amazingly it is a painting. Her work certainly does what her bio reads, it makes the mind wander.⁣⁣@charlottewensleyart creates ambiguous abstract imagery that encourages the mind to wander, free to contemplate and respond to forms, lines and colours and create a space where the viewer can explore their own perception of the painting and further its narrative and meaning by lending their own experience to its interpretation.

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