Oil on Linen
Size: 60cm x 75cm (HxW) 
Stretched canvas
Date: 2020

Jennifer Barnett initially trained as a draftsperson. Former courtroom artist for Channel 9 (Adelaide). Jennifer has won numerous art prizes for drawing, painting and portrait. Teaches art.
Instagram: jenniferbarnett222

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Oil on Linen
Size: 60cm x 50cm (HxW) 
Stretched canvas
Date: 2021

Jennifer Barnett initially trained as a draftsperson. Former courtroom artist for Channel 9 (Adelaide). Jennifer has won numerous art prizes for drawing, painting and portrait. Teaches art.
Instagram: jenniferbarnett222

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Limited edition print (no. 4 of 4, signed)
Size: 40 cm x 30cm (HxW)
Date: c2016
Framed: Secondhand frame (no glass) and wired

Mary Caspar, originally trained in sculpture and ceramics, is now better known for her stunning paintings. For more go to her website.

Landscape painting: mixed media
Size: 70 cm x 85cm – framed size (HxW)
Date: 2002
Archival framing

Bill Delecca (1929-2014) was a well-known landscape artist from Bendigo. He has works in the Castlemaine Art Gallery & Museum collection.

Copper plate aquatint etching (edition: 19/45)
Size:  20 x 15cms (HxW), framed size 58 x 48cms
Framing: Archival, acid free, museum matt board

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Collagraph
Size:  53 x 43cm (HxW) – framed size 53cm x 43cm (each)
Date: 2010
Basic framing

Maritsa is a Newstead artist who has been involved in creative exhibitions in Newstead for 20 years. She is known for her exploration of mixed media. Maritsa is a keen traveler, and her art reflects this.

Oil on canvas
Size:  triptych – cm x cm
Framed: Eggplant frame has slight damage

Marcus is a recent resident of Newstead after living in India for five years working as a car designer. All his recent work was created in India.
Instagram: Marcushotblack

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Watercolour on Indian handmade paper
Size:  31cm x 47cm (HxW) – framed size
Date: 2019
Framing: framed with archival mount

Marcus is a recent resident of Newstead after living in India for five years working as a car designer. All his recent work was created in India.
Instagram: Marcushotblack

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Watercolour on Indian handmade paper
Size:  31cm x 47cm (HxW) – framed size
Date: 2019
Framing: framed with archival mount

Marcus is a recent resident of Newstead after living in India for five years working as a car designer. All his recent work was created in India.
Instagram: Marcushotblack

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Acrylic on canvas
Size:  90cm x 60cm (HxW)
Date: 2018
Stretched canvas, wired

Milton Moss loves colour. He paints in oils and acrylics, often using a photograph of nature or landscapes. He says he always has a canvas on the go.

Watercolour (Hermannsburg school)
Size:  37cm x 50cm (HxW) – framed size 56cm x 68cm
Date: pre 1993
Archival mount and framing.

Ivan Panka is a significant artist in the Hermannsburg school. He is part of the group of ’30 key artists’. While not prolific, his work is well regarded: Ivan Panka ‘developed his own stylized nature based patterning in which negative spaces in the sky were part of the composition’ (Dr Beverley Castleman – The Hermannsburg School of Modern Art, https://thehermannsburgschool.org/ivan-panka/)

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Provenance: Purchased unframed in Central Australia by donor’s father c1993. Framed by donor.

Photograph
Size:  46cm x 53cm (HxW) – framed size
Framing: Hand crafted Blackwood frame by Lachie Park

Geoff Park is a nature photographer and blogger: Natural Newstead

Instagram: park.geoff

Digital print of pastel and ink drawing
Size:  40cm x 30cm (HxW)
Date: 2020
Basic framing

Julie Patey is inspired by landscape around Central Victoria. Her evocative pastels are a response to the character of the land. Her work is featured in most state collections and the NGV.
Instagram: julie_patey_artist & website
Provenance: Flight was exhibited as part of Shift at Newstead Arts Hub in December 2019.

Digital print of pastel and ink drawing
Size:  40cm x 30cm (HxW)
Date: 2020
Basic framing

Julie Patey is inspired by landscape around Central Victoria. Her evocative pastels are a response to the character of the land. Her work is featured in most state collections and the NGV.
Instagram: julie_patey_artist & website
Provenance: Lake Lumineses was exhibited as part of Shift at Newstead Arts Hub in December 2019.

Hand-coloured linoprint
Edition of 50, no. 2.
Size:  30cm x 20cm (HxW) – framed size 47cm x 43cm
Date: c1988-1990
Framed

Vida Pearson has been a professional artist/printmaker for over 30 years, concentrating in the last 15 years mostly on linocuts. She has a very distinctive style with her strong, bright designs, which are mostly hand coloured.

Vida has won numerous awards and twice been voted “Wildlife Artist of the Year” by the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia” and her work has featured in the 2017 Australia Geographic art calendar.

Provenance: This linoprint was given to Lyn Grocke by her cousin Margaret Johnston who had these artworks in her personal collection in 1980s.

Hand-coloured lino print
Edition: 2/50
Size:  30cm x 20cm (HxW) – framed size 48cm x 37cm
Date: 1980-1990
Framed

Vida Pearson has been a professional artist/printmaker for over 30 years, concentrating in the last 15 years mostly on linocuts. She has a very distinctive style with her strong, bright designs, which are mostly hand coloured.

Vida has won numerous awards and twice been voted “Wildlife Artist of the Year” by the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia” and her work has featured in the 2017 Australia Geographic art calendar.

Provenance: This linoprint was given to Lyn Grocke by her cousin Margaret Johnston who had these artworks in her personal collection in 1980s.

Plein air oil painting on cedar panel
Size: 22 cm x34 cm (HxW)
Date: c2017-18
Framed: Wooden frame

John Perry is a traditional oil painter and was a student of Sir William Dargie. John worked as a private art conservator for over 30 years, has been dealing in art all his adult life and also curated hundreds exhibitions for his brother Peter, who was director of The Castlemaine Art Gallery for 38 years.

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Etching by Charles-Francois Daubigny: Bords De L’Oise 
Size: framed size 46x57cms
Date: 1873
Framed: Under glass, in a gilded frame

Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-1878): Daubigny was born into a family of painters and he was considered an important precursor of Impressionism.

John worked as a private art conservator for over 30 years, has been dealing in art all his adult life and also curated hundreds exhibitions for his brother Peter, who was director of The Castlemaine Art Gallery for 38 years.

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Steel engraving (copy): Scene in Versailles  (c1678  or later)
Size: 56 cm x65 cm
Framed: Framed in maple veneer frame

John worked as a private art conservator for over 30 years, has been dealing in art all his adult life and also curated hundreds exhibitions for his brother Peter, who was director of The Castlemaine Art Gallery for 38 years.

Provenance: John’s wife Pamela purchased this work when visiting The Louvre some years ago.

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Lithograph layered with reproduction historic photo (Buda Collection)
Size: 35cm x 40cm (HxW)
Date: 2014
Unframed, on archival mount

Catherine Pilgrim is based in Castlemaine. She has exhibited widely and her work is included in public, corporate and private collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Geelong Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery.

Meticulous, considered drawing is the basis for Catherine Pilgrim’s practice including lithographs, drawings and textiles – with absence, contemporary still life and historical narratives influencing much of the subject matter. Website

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Oil on board
Size:  39cm x 50cm (HxW) – framed size 52cm x 63cm
Date: 1976
Framed

Alan Satori (1936-2007) worked in oils, acrylics and watercolours.

Provenance: Gift to the Arts Hub from an unnamed visitor.

Pastel on paper
Size:  25cm x 30cm (HxW)
Date: 1993
Framing: framed; new mount needed.

Vivienne Sterndale belongs to the Doncaster Artist Group. She exhibits at Doncaster Gallery.

Provenance: In 1994 Lynne Grocke’s mother gave this beautiful artwork to Lynne as a present in appreciation and thanks for looking after her father in 1993.

Photograph (digital print) – from The Tool Shed of Pietro Venosta (Counihan Gallery, 2001)
Size:  45cm x 45cm – framed size 66cm x 66cm (HxW)
Date: 2001
Framing: archival framing

Trevor Streader’s photographic practice searches for beauty in the ordinary. He is motivated by a need to capture aspects of the everyday we often take for granted.

His series The Tool Shed of Pietro Venosta (Counihan Gallery, 2001) preserved a small piece of Brunswick history through a photographic view of the inside of a domestic tool shed that had been lovingly occupied and maintained by a Brunswick man across fifty years. Linked In

Provenance: Purchased from the exhibition by the donor. Framed professionally.

Print – Unique state. Woodcut on Hosho paper over monoprint.
Size:  70cm x 80cm (HxW)
Date: 2018
Archival framing

Richard is a local printmaker and artist book maker.
Instagram: curlyhill2

Provenance: Donated by the artist

Acrylic
Size:  63cm x 50cm (HxW)
Date: May 2007
Stretched canvas

Ungakini Tjangala was born in 1934 at Blackstone, Western Australia, and lives and works at Ernabella. ‘I came to Ernabella mission as a young woman with my mother, father and two younger brothers. I began working in the craft room and I made floor rugs from the wool the older women were spinning and I helped rolling them into bales. I first started to make art in 2002. First, mukata (beanies) from emu feathers, then I made figures from tjanpi (Spinifex grass) and now I am painting on canvas – for the first time’. For more see Ernabella Arts

Provenance: Purchased by donor from Ernabella Arts Centre at Art Mob in Alice Springs. Certificate of authenticity available. Includes story.

Watercolour
Size:  23cm x 17cm print size (HxW)
Framing: Older style traditional wooden frame with matte board
Date: 1976

Peter Trusler (born 1954) is an Australian artist known for his work on wildlife art, as well as for his scientifically rigorous reconstructions of prehistoric fauna. Trusler’s artwork is featured in numerous books and scientific publications, and several of Trusler’s pieces are held in the National Library of Australia. His reconstructions have been featured on the cover of two issues of the Journal of Palaeontology (in 2009 and 2013). His paintings have also appeared in scientific exhibitions, including displays at the Melbourne Museum and the “Wildlife of Gondwana” exhibition at the Monash Science Centre in Melbourne, Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Trusler

Provenance: Donated by Lucy Mora

Screen print
Size: 30cm x 30cm (print) – framed size 50cm x 52cm
Date: pre-2014
Archival framing.

Provenance: Purchased by donor at Art Mob in Alice Springs, probably c. 2014.
Donor: Chris Johnston

Who is the unknown artist of this delightful scene? Inherited by Lyn Grocke from her aunt Margaret, the signature is simply initials – FNIT or perhaps FMT and the date 25.11.16. Lyn’s aunt lived in many different places. Do you recognise this scene?

We’ll update our listing as more information comes to light!

Donated by Lyn Grocke