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Mar 13th Freda Surgenor - Watercolour

Freda was born in Harrow England and studied art and later graphic design and illustration at
Bourneville School of Art, Birmingham, United Kingdom. She worked in London as a graphic designer
in publishing as well as illustrating two children’s books and teaching art for several years.
Since arriving in Australia in 1982 Freda has established herself through solo exhibitions and group
shows as a highly respected watercolour painter.
Subsequently, Freda was featured as a master painter in both the Water Colour Annual ’98 and
International Artist Magazine, Articles on her work have since appeared in Australian Artist Magazine.
In 2003, Freda was accepted as an exhibiting member of the Royal Art Society of NSW and was
elevated to Fellow in 2009..
She is a multi award winning artist, including the Mosman Art Prize, the Royal Easter Show and the
CASS Art of Sydney Awards..
She has always enjoyed life drawing and is convenor of the Oatley 101 life drawing sketch group.
Freda, who has always been interested in people, both at work and play, demonstrates a high
level of excellence using vibrant colours to depict a great variety of subjects from landscapes
through waterscapes, cityscapes, still-life, floral, portraiture, life painting and miniatures.
Freda is totally dedicated to her work - when she’s not painting she is thinking about it.
She feels that good draughtsmanship is a basis for successful painting and never stops drawing.
She works in fine detail using strong colour to create pieces, which glow with life and light.
This results in highly successful warm paintings, which demonstrate her ability to capture and
recreate the images realistically. This is reflected by the number of her works, which are highly
sought after by collectors both in Australia and overseas

Apr 10th Ros Psakis - Oils

Four times winner of the Art of Sydney awards, Ros has paintings hanging in collections both here
in Australia and overseas.
She is a popular demonstrator and workshop tutor with her easy to understand method
of teaching.
Early training was with Gloria Ransom and Allan Fizzell.
Her continuing lessons come from Nature herself. Learning to paint is an ongoing
journey. And what a wonderful and exciting journey it is.
There are no shortcuts to success, no easy formulas to follow, only dedication and a passion for
what you are doing and above all else, lots of brush mileage.

May 8th Glenda Carter

Art tutor and judge: Glenda has tutored art students ranging from school children to advanced artists.
She currently mentors an advanced group of contemporary artists.
She works mainly in acrylics, oils, watercolour and egg tempera.
Her work includes landscapes, still life, icons, botanical and orthonological studies and print making.
Glenda has judged and presented awards at several open metropolitan and regional competitions.
She is an exhibiting member of The Botanical Art Society of Australia, Drummoyne, Bankstown,
Liverpool and Fairfield Art Societies.
She has undertaken studies in Life drawing at Julian Ashton Art School, Watercolour at Willandra Art
Centre with Hohn Lindsay Sever and Helen Godsmith; Iconography and Gilding with Michael Galvonic;
Contemporary studies at Mitchell School of Arts Bathurst with Peter Griffen and Studio workshops, also
with Peter Griffen.
Glenda's work has been purchased for public and private collections both nationally and internationally
and she has won numerous awards covering all her areas of work.

June 12th Jeanette Prout

Jeanette is an active exhibiting member with Arcadian Artists and Artisans Inc, The Willandra

Art Society, The Castle Hill Art Society and the Workshop Arts Centre at Willoughby, a member

of NAVA and a member of NSW Writers Centre Inc.

Jeanette specialises in painting with acrylics and watercolours and appreciates a wide range of

painting styles. Influenced by artists such as Charles Reid, Jean Dobie, Helen Goldsmith,

Patrick Carroll, Ingrid Haydon, Frank Hodgkinson and is a great admirer of the work

of Richard Diebenkorn.

Jeanette's work is influenced from her travels and the surrounding beauty of the Australian landscape,

all her artworks are infused with a wonderful sense of colour and serenity.

Jeanette Prout is an avid enthusiast of of colour, line, shape and abstraction, and a regular exhibitor
of paintings at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and other competitions. Jeanette has won a number
of awards and her works are in private and corporate collections.

July 10th Josefia Lemon
Born in Indonesia, Josefia emigrated to Australia in 1979 and started attending painting workshops in
1989. After becoming a student at the Julian Ashton Art School, she was awarded the
Thea ProctorScholarship for 1997 and obtained the Diploma of Fine Arts in 1999. She has been teaching watercolour workshops at the Art School since 2000.