Artists

Alison Comber

JEWELLERY ARTIST| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER| SCULPTOR

Alison is a self-taught artist who loves to hunt down second hand items and turns them into imaginative sculptures in her many creative moments. She creates fantastic robots, birds, insects, colourful...

Andrew Hillhouse

PAINTER

Andrew’s passion for painting and drawing has been a lifelong obsession. While a busy architecture career left little time to spend in the studio he managed to squeeze in an exhibition at the Noosa ...

Anne Everingham

JEWELLERY ARTIST

Anne designs and hand crafts jewellery with a distinct style. She combines unusual materials with gold and silver to create classic yet contemporary pieces that have earned her a reputation as one of ...

Anne Yang

PAINTER

From her childhood growing up on the Atherton Tablelands FNQ, Anne’s happy place has been outdoors in the natural landscape. Anne seeks to infuse this joy and her emotional connection with nature in...

Anwen Thomas

CERAMICIST

Anwen sees ceramics as an opportunity to align creativity and scientific enquiry. Her practice is often fluid and relaxed and is sometimes unpredictable. Inspired by the natural environment, she is al...

Art in Pomona

PAINTER

Sara Bell is an eclectic artist, experimenting with many styles and subjects. From birds of the Sunshine Coast to large genre pieces depicting the human form and the odd abstract. Constantly learning ...

Azure Pottery

CERAMICIST

Sue takes inspiration from her former career in horticultural science and her love of nature. Her works use earthy tones, the greens of hinterland country, and turquoise blues of the sea. While some w...

Bage Studios

CERAMICIST

Working with her hands has been a way of life for Neita, after completing a Gold and Silversmithing degree at RMIT she went onto work in Melbourne, London and Capetown before settling back in Australi...

Barry Novis

PAINTER

Paintings by artist Barry Novis hang in the homes and offices of celebrity and corporate collectors all over the world. His collectors include Coldplay, Joanna Lumley, Hit & Run Music (Phil Collins/Ge...

Beatrice Prost

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Beatrice creates unique surfaces which are topographies of her imagination. She explores our planet seen from high above or down below. Beatrice is a multi media artist who enjoys the process of creat...

Bendigo Community Bank Cooroy

CERAMICIST| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Not just a bank but an art gallery space as well. One does not need to be a customer to pop into the branch to check out the exhibitions. Supporting local, regional, emerging and established artists w...

Bendigo Community Bank Tewantin

CERAMICIST| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Not just a bank but an art gallery space as well. One does not need to be a customer to pop into the branch to check out the exhibitions. Supporting local, regional, emerging and established artists w...

Bronwyn Barton

PAINTER

Bronwyn has established herself as an admired contemporary artist here on the Sunshine Coast. Her semi abstract botanical artworks express her close connection to her bushland environment. They are he...

Bulumbeer Gardens & Art Gallery

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PRINTMAKER

Steven Hill is a visual concept artist, specialising in large format, impactful, feature wall art. Steven is the curator of Bulumbeer Gardens, a unique hinterland creative space that features an a...

Carol Watkins Ceramics

CERAMICIST

Carol has been working with ceramics for 16 years and has exhibited in a number of galleries on the Sunshine Coast, including Caloundra Regional Gallery, Noosa Regional Gallery, Cooroy Butter Factory ...

Caroline Elliott

GLASS ARTIST

Glass has a quality of lustre, shine and vibrance of colours that fascinates Caroline. She started her journey with glass in 1995 moving into kiln fired glass in 1998. Caroline has a loyal following h...

Charlotte Wensley

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

Loosely based in the landscape painting genre, Charlotte's work is concerned with multidimensional experiences of physical spaces. The socio-spatial interactions that happen between people, places and...

Coastal Studio Ceramics

CERAMICIST

Jasmine Hayes, the founder of Coastal Studio Ceramics, has gained a devoted following for her outstanding restaurant-grade tableware, engaging pottery workshops, and unique ceramic underglaze transfer...

Dale Leach Art

PAINTER| PRINTMAKER

After travelling to Europe and Canada, Dale completed an Art and Design course in Melbourne. She then worked as a secondary school art teacher for over 20 years, working in Vic, WA, NT and Qld schools...

Dave Gilbert

CERAMICIST| PAINTER| SCULPTOR

After moving to Noosa in the 90's, Dave joined the Wallace House Watercolour, Creative Artists and Tinbeerwah Art Groups. He paints with watercolour and acrylics, incorporating skills from his pastry-...

Deborah Samuels

PAINTER

Deborah is a Noosa based mixed media and style artist. Her current collection for NOS explores and delves into her love of street art, human and animal form, text and colour. Art and design have been ...

Debra Hutton Art

PAINTER

Australian stylist turned visual Artist Debra Hutton is now exciting the home interior decor world with her intrinsic expressionist abstract works. Inspired by the kaleidoscopic tints and tones and fa...

Dennis Forshaw Pottery

CERAMICIST

Dennis has spent over 30 years at the potter’s wheel and testing glazes. Every piece is hand thrown and glazed with his own glazes. All of Dennis’s vessels are bespoke. He uses the clay and his gl...

Dinah Wakefield

PAINTER

Dinah is inspired by the light, the colours and the natural beauty of the Noosa region of Australia. “What I love most about Noosa is the interplay of light. From the oceans to the clouds, to the ri...

Dots by Donna

ILLUSTRATOR

Donna’s illustrations are all original and come with a life of their own, with each piece taking from 40-200 hours to complete. It is quite remarkable that every single detail from small feature...

Eileen Thompson Art

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

Eileen is a mixed media artist working with a variety of mediums including alcohol inks and watercolours. She is influenced by nature and bright bold colours are often a feature of her art. ...

Fiona Groom

PAINTER

I am inspired by the natural world to paint and create, for me realism is the way to go and as I evolve and complete the work, the painting fills me with a need to create again and again. I’m driven...

Fiona MacCulloch

FURNITURE MAKER| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

Born of a passion for African design, Fiona creates unique pieces of furniture from recycled timber and wrought iron. She weaves ancient tribal symbolism through her work, along with African handmade ...

Francoise Alloin Monnereau

PAINTER

Francoise works from her art studio in Cooran. She is a story teller and her canvasses weave mythology, symbols, and sacred geometry. Francoise is also inspired by the beauty of the Noosa Hinterla...

Gabi Timm

JEWELLERY ARTIST| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

Gabi Timm’s multidisciplinary practice spans across sculpture, printmaking, painting and handmade artisan jewellery. Her wearable treasures, inspired by nature, are a fusion of recycled, up-cycled a...

Gabriella Sutherland

GLASS ARTIST| ILLUSTRATOR| JEWELLERY ARTIST

Gabby begins her drawings by digitally montaging her photographs, transforming, manipulating, and dousing them with colour. The secret, often troubling and typically of a social justice subject matter...

Gail Affleck

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Gail is inspired by the unique nature of Australia's vast and captive landscape; her art is texturally rich, capturing the qualities of Australia's panorama through colour and texture. Her impressi...

Gayle Lockley

CERAMICIST| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

Gayle moved from the Blue Mountains to Noosa & the love of the area inspires her fluid artworks that portray the ocean & the earth in an abstract form. She also sculpts clay figurines that have indivi...

Geoff Cook

KNIFE ARTISAN

Geoff is a passionate gold and silversmith who has been crafting one-of-a-kind pieces for 40 years, keeping traditional methods alive by harnessing the transformative qualities of fire and water. Visi...

Giuliana De Witts Art

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER| PRINTMAKER

Inspired by nature Giuliana breathes her sunny coast locale at Sunrise Beach into her painting, print making, expressive mark making, and life drawing. Colour and movement merge in her works, a cel...

Gunter Schwarz

CERAMICIST

Gunter has been making pottery for over four decades. His main interest is making sculptural vessels which are mainly hand built, carved and/or twisted but also partly thrown on the wheel. He digs and...

Hart Fire Designs

CERAMICIST

Melbourne born artist Kerry Sanders now living in the Mary Valley Queensland, has been working with ceramics for over 30 years. Kerry’s creative process has evolved over the years, having explored s...

Hart Fire Designs

SCULPTOR

After working with metal in the manufacturing industry for many years, forming industrial art,Wolf has had a desire for a long time to explore metal with its’ ability to bend and flow to be formed i...

Helen Lawson

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Helen's artworks have been exhibited in competitive exhibitions in most states since 1997 with many awards both in traditional and contemporary genres. Local awards include those given by Gympie and N...

Irene Visser

CERAMICIST

Throughout her long career as a designer and lecturer of communication design, Irene often found refuge in the practice of manual arts and crafts. Now that she has the time and space to focus on h...

Jacqueline Weening Art

PAINTER

Jacqueline has attended landscape painting courses in Australia and in The Netherlands. She has studied a course in Natural History Illustration through the University of Newcastle. Her intention ...

Jan Murphy

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER| PHOTOGRAPHER| PRINTMAKER

A painter since 2015 after her photographic work was displayed and sold internationally. Self-taught and then attending many workshops after returning to Australia in 2016 Jan found a passion for art ...

Jane Powell

ILLUSTRATOR| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Jane used to joke that she 'worked to fund her art habit'. Now a retiree, she is free to pursue art as inspiration takes her. At Lily Pad Studio, visitors will enjoy a variety of 2D works of differing...

Janey Richards

PAINTER

Janey's love of colour and abstraction brings out the dramatic beauty of a natural form with subtle ink washes and blending, bringing in some muted contrast. Her spontaneous use of acrylic paints a...

Jayne Hodgson Art

CERAMICIST| PAINTER| TEXTILE ARTIST

Jayne creates bold, fluid, highly textural paintings, described as ‘distinctive, colour - saturated, stylistic expressions’. Streetscapes, landscapes and vivid blooms are favourite subjects. E...

JD ART

CERAMICIST| GLASS ARTIST| JEWELLERY ARTIST

Leith’s art initially started with slip-cast ceramics, and ventured into slumped glass as another medium for kiln work, finding complements with both regimes. After re-locating to Peregian Beach ...

Jen Jay Art

PAINTER

Jens thrilled for her third Noosa Open Studios, the past year enjoying painting subjects from “Horizonless Coastal Series” to a new perspective of now “from above” still incorporating coastal ...

Jennie Smith

PAINTER

Jennie is a Cooroy based artist who has a love of nature that is reflected in her vibrant floral paintings. Her abstracts show a quirky view of the world while the geometric abstracts show her love of...

Jenny Hines Art

PAINTER| PHOTOGRAPHER| PRINTMAKER

The abundant natural beauty surrounding Noosa has revealed itself in Jenny’s bold landscape work. Images constructed in abstract from the visible world, building a composition of fragmented memories...

Jo Cook

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| SCULPTOR

Jo is a mixed media artist and sculptor. Her life and art have been profoundly influenced by her upbringing and lengthy career in Speech Pathology. When she turned fifty, she decided to pursue her cre...

Jodie Ramsay Art

PAINTER

Bold and saturated colour is central to Jodie‘s art. Flowers have always been her muse. Armidale, the quaint country town where Jodie grew up, is filled with stunning roses due to the cold climate. ...

Juanita Van Den Bergh

PAINTER

Juanita has made her mark by being a pioneer in the science of mixing paints and other agents to create a fluid palette in acrylics that literally fuses and layers colour in the most unpredictable of ...

Jule

ILLUSTRATOR| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Painting asks questions. Jule works by capturing the essence of curiosity, keeping itself fresh until it reveals itself. She paints people, landscapes, flora, still-life, figures in settings and life ...

Julia Vail

CERAMICIST

Originally from Paris, Julia went to Bath Academy of Art in the UK where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Three Dimensional Design (Ceramics). Her interest has always been in hand-built forms focus...

Julie R McPhee

PAINTER

Julie has recently painted a wide spectrum of out doored landscapes inspired by the spectacular beauty of the neighbourhood, beaches and the hinterland. These include vibrant portrayals of local build...

Karen Rogers

PAINTER

Karen's art is a ‘wind in the hair’ ride through colour, shape, texture and powerful abstract themes. Inspired by her love of sailing and nature, she weaves her stories of land and sea into bold, ...

Kate Florence

PAINTER

Kate was born in the UK, studied fine art at Winchester School of Art, spending a year and a half of the course in Milan studying traditional painting skills, graduating in 2015. She moved to Melb...

Kay Wright

CERAMICIST| PAINTER

The focus of Kay's ceramic practice is the ‘Saggar’ smoke firing method. Kay uses organic materials, minerals and oxides to emulate natures patterns, colours and the weathering process. The result...

Kelly Williams Design

ILLUSTRATOR| PRINTMAKER

Kelly is a printmaker and illustrator. With a Diploma in Surface Design, as well as studying floral illustration, she has a keen eye for colour and pattern. Trained in digital design, Kelly feels her ...

Kerry Norman Art

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| SCULPTOR

Creating Joy through Art. Kerry loves to share her Knowledge of all mediums in art especially utilising the natural environment at her hinterland property. This year Kerry will be Selling her popular ...

Kevin Dick

SCULPTOR

Kevin has been a master craftsman boatbuilder of high quality powered boats of his own design that have been a reputation for quality throughout Australia. With 50 years experience he is now focused o...

Kim Wallace Ceramics

CERAMICIST

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Kim Wallace has called Australia home for over twenty years. Kim's eye for design and attention to detail coupled with her passion for high quality, handmade produc...

Kym Henkee-Poole

PAINTER

Kym works primarily in acrylics, creating contemporary pieces that draw on the elements and shapes found in the natural environment. She is drawn to the bold colours of the Australian outback, the ope...

Lee Birch Art

PAINTER

Lee Birch is an abstract, intuitive artist who moved to Cooroy two years ago. Lee paints from her heart and soul seeing her painting as a form of meditation where she uses colour to express feelings a...

Lorna Goldring

PAINTER

Lorna is an abstract artist working in acrylic and mixed media. Her work is essentially abstract landscapes, at least this is the starting point as she explores the connection between her inner intima...

Lucy Laino

ILLUSTRATOR| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Lucy is a re-emerging artist and experienced art teacher, working from her Mark Makers Art Studio in Tewantin. Returning to Noosa after an 18 year sojourn in Tasmania, she draws upon the natural envir...

Marg Watt Artwork

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Marg is a retired primary school teacher who relocated with her family from the Snowy Mountains region of NSW to sunny Queensland. She has always been passionate about creativity and her love of colou...

Maria Brown

CERAMICIST

Maria’s hand-built Ceramic vessels and Totem sculptures are Abstract expressions of the diversity and beauty of the Natural environment, particularly the beach and Wallum bush land that surrounds he...

Mark Price

PAINTER| SCULPTOR

Mark finds inspiration based on first hand observations of Australian wildlife, his love of natural world, experiences of diving and the wonders of the underwater world. Typically, he explores the not...

Martin Taylor

PAINTER

Martin's paintings are inspired by his life overseas and his travels in Australia and abroad. He works in a variety of media - oils, acrylics, ink, water colour and gouache. The media is selected base...

Maxine Noosa Jewellery

JEWELLERY ARTIST

Carla Maxine Germann creates unique solid silver & gold jewellery that's inspired by life in Noosa - a slow life lived close to nature and the ocean. Each piece is crafted with care and always with su...

Mel Lumb Ceramics

CERAMICIST

Mel Lumb is a ceramic artist working from a purpose built studio in the Noosa hinterland. She adopts a slow, sustainable practice that encompasses one-off homewares, exhibition work, custom interiors ...

Mike Taylor

PAINTER

Mike's beach and seascape paintings capture the inviting and uplifting allure of the sea, with which he has had a life long connection. He has painted acrylic on canvas for 30 years and over the past ...

Mitchell English

PAINTER

Mitchell English is an Australian contemporary artist. With a career spanning more than 30 years, Mitch's paintings have an undeniably Australian, coastal aesthetic. His work is his highly sought a...

Myrtle

JEWELLERY ARTIST

Myrtle is a collaboration between jewellery designer-makers Donna Condon and Alicia Allan. Together, they create luxurious jewellery inspired by Australian flora and botanical motifs. Myrtle pieces ar...

Nedra Purnell Fine Art

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER

Nedra loves to tell stories through her image making. From initial concept of a piece, she enjoys the challenge of composing story using a wealth of visual language techniques and elements. Her work r...

Nicole

PAINTER

Nicole is an artist living in the heart of the Noosa hinterland with her partner and children in what Nicole describes as our little haven on earth. Nicole is a registered nurse and enjoys helping & t...

Niknot Glass

GLASS ARTIST

John's work consist of warm glass work that is primarily abstract pieces for colour and aesthetics, and others whose focus is geometric to include the challenge of precision, whilst allowing for the m...

Noreen Flood

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

The diverse ecology of the sunshine coast inspires the artist to create mainly mixed medium expressionistic work using mark-making as a means of conveying impressions. In the landscape works; practica...

Pan Pottery

CERAMICIST

Pan Pottery pots are hand made by Angus McDiarmid using a traditional wood fire kiln, kick wheel and and a blend of Australian and locally dug clays. Each pot is completely unique as the clay and fire...

Paulus Kooij

ILLUSTRATOR| PAINTER

Born in Amsterdam. Retired Engineering project manager. Paulus developed his artistic skills at an early age. He is a skilled visual artist and illustrator with a vivid imagination pushing the boun...

Penny McIntyre

JEWELLERY ARTIST

Penny works as a silversmith jeweller and mixed media artist. She uses traditional methods combined with conceptual narratives to create many one-off jewellery and sculptural pieces at her Doonan stud...

PSB Fine Art Photography

PHOTOGRAPHER

NO LONGER PARTICIPATING IN THIS YEARS EVENT! Peta St Baker is a fine art photographer. She studied b and w film while living full time in the USA in the late 90’s and has since had the privilege ...

Robyn Moon

PAINTER

Robyn’s focus has been to utilise the traditional Old Masters skills she has studied extensively into more modern works. Robyns work is mostly realism with an occasional dabble in looser impressioni...

Rossella Van Vugt

PAINTER

Born in Trieste, Italy, came to Australia in 1955 as a small child. Grew up; educated in Melbourne. She relocated to Sydney with her husband in 1987 to continue their business careers, residing on the...

Rowley Drysdale

CERAMICIST| MIXED MEDIA ARTIST

Rowley is known as one of Australia’s foremost ceramic artists. His practice spans four decades in ceramics, particularly wood fired work and the development of high fired glazes. He also creates 2D...

Sancha McGilchrist

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| PAINTER| PRINTMAKER

Sancha's creative skills range from mixed media to vibrant acrylics on canvas, ink and botanical press. Her preference leans towards contemporary landscape and still life. Sancha can find an image, ph...

Sarah Drysdale

CERAMICIST| PAINTER

Sarah’s ceramic work is distinctive for her surface decoration utilising the ancient ceramic arts of sgraffito and mishima. She is often inspired by plant life, especially flowers and wild grasses a...

Saren Dobkins

PAINTER

Saren’s expressive and narrative works are animated with colour and emotion. A professional oil painter for over 30 years, her work is held in public and private collections. Her distinctive style i...

Shape Meets Texture

MOSAIC ARTIST| PAINTER

These beautifully handcrafted mosaic plant pots & pet bowls (for the posh pooch) are made with precision, coming in various sizes & colours. You will also find unique turned wooden bowls with inlaid m...

Shelley Owen Art

PAINTER

Shelley Owen is an emerging artist now residing in Noosa. Combined with her love of colour, her art is bold, energetic and uplifting. She draws inspiration from her love of the ocean as well as her sp...

Simone Z Leao (Outer)

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| TEXTILE ARTIST

Simone Z Leao (aka Outer) is a textile and mixed-media artist and designer. Her work focuses on the space that separates the inside and the outside of an individual. This layer carries the tension bet...

Siren’s Spell

SCULPTOR

David uses old and discarded timber including driftwood, railway sleepers and bridge timbers to shape unique pieces of human, animal and other worldly forms that proudly display the scars of their pre...

Sonia Begley Art

PAINTER

Sonia's art brings the lush tropical surrounds of nature into the home with modern colourful botanicals and Australian landscapes. She captures the lush colours and shapes of the surrounding rainfores...

Sonia Conti

CERAMICIST

Sonia‘s unique artwork are inspired by her experiences from throughout the world. She constantly creates exciting new designs using different techniques. Sonia has a passion for hand built and wheel...

Stacey Petersen

PAINTER

Stacey lives and paints amongst the beautiful beaches of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Always a creative, she followed a career in Sport and Education before developing her Art practice into a full-t...

Steve Scamp

PAINTER

Steve has been drawing since childhood, first took up painting in his 20s, then began painting again in 2017 after a 20 year hiatus. He paints in a realistic, often detailed style. Attracted by the pa...

Stormy Noosa

CERAMICIST

Gail uses a variety of clays to hand build her functional wares and sculptures. The flora and fauna, of her local area, the Sunshine Coast, and travels to other places and countries, influence the dec...

Susan Schmidt

PAINTER

Susan’s works are contemporary and figurative with subtle abstract elements and surprises. Acrylic and oil layered and rubbed back evoking nostalgia. Inviting appreciation for the taken for grant...

Tracey Lee Textiles

MIXED MEDIA ARTIST| TEXTILE ARTIST

Tracey Lee makes handmade journals using tea and coffee-stained papers, handmade papers, vintage lace, silk ribbons, and other handmade ephemera. Her journals are beautifully crafted and can be used f...

Trevor Hood

PAINTER

Trevor is an experienced artist, graphic designer, and teacher. He creates images using visual memories and is inspired by an obsession with patterns and colours found in nature. Whether acrylic on ca...

Trevor Purvis

PAINTER

Purvis's painting strikes us as improbable and a bit outlandish. His wildly abstruse colours and casual looking primitivism exudes a rare poetry of place. Trevor is an award winning artist. His en...

Ursula Braunshirn

PAINTER

Discover Ursula's increasingly popular Pointillism paintings. You'll love to collect her beautiful light filled spiritual healing art. Let it enrich your life and easily transform your home into an in...

Virginia Spencer-Bower

PAINTER

Colour is Virginia’s main inspiration, flowers are strongly represented in her works with a touch of abstract to make them a little quirky. Palette knife works are an added dimension to Virginia’s...

Wendy Britton

CERAMICIST

Wendy has a great sense of fun which comes through in her quirky bright & colourful pieces. She also likes to incorporate her love of the flora and fauna which is in abundance in her surrounds. She th...

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