Tanya Robertson Cunninghame

Tanya Robertson Cunninghame

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Artist, Teacher, Drawing, Oil and Watercolour.

My themes are based on time, place & experience. I am environmentally inspired. My latest exhibition based on Water and Light was an escape from endless drought and fire. Painting for me is a problem solving, I have done it all my life, it is my safe place. Creativity is like capturing water in your hand, the more you try to contain it, the more it slips away. Creativity needs to be honest, don't pretend it is something that it is not.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Visual Arts has been a constant throughout my life. I commenced teaching Visual Arts in my early twenties, which hastened my own steep learning curve in gaining the necessary experience & qualifications. Creating art is about problem solving & that is the ongoing challenge.

BIO

Graduate Diploma in Education UNE Armidale 2007; Cert IV assessment and Workplace Training 2006; Dip of Arts Tamworth TAFE 1994; Art Cert Course East Sydney Technical College 1980-1981;

CONTACT

wattlebend@skymesh.com.au
0413 212 979

Greville Wilton

Greville Wilton

CREATIVE PRACTICE

Lead lighting

The interaction of light with the colours and textures of glass is ever changing and a constant fascination. My collaboration with Tanya Robertson-Cuninghame over the past thirty two years, is a partnership of Tanya's paintings and lead lights derived from those works.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My extensive travel through Europe and Asia was where my appreciation of handmade crafts was ignited. Once back home, I open Katoomba Centrecraft, a craft supply and Gallery business. I tried my hand at several different crafts, before attending a Community College course in lead lighting, the rest is history. For the past 50 years I have worked with many artists and designers, and completed numerous commissions. As we move into the 21st Century I fear that many of the skills associated with traditional crafts will be lost, as technology overwhelms us and it becomes more difficult to earn an income through the Arts. Computers can't make lead lights - YET!

RECENT EXHIBTIONS

Maitland Regional Art Gallery
The Makers Shed Glen Innes

CONTACT

wattlebend@skymesh.com.au
(02) 6734 7497