The People's choice award
 
At each Oatley 101 Gallery exhibition, we ask our visitors and artists to vote for their favourite painting.

This month there are two people's choices.
One is the regular gallery choice and the other is for the Fabulous Fakes exhibition.

Also this month, we have two winners for the Fabulous Fakes exhibition.
A Fabulous fake is a painting which is a copy of a painting by an artist who has been
dead for seventy years or more


 The regular Gallery People's
 choice painting is:
 "Room with a view"
 by Sue Gasser
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facebook		  suegasser From an early age Sue immersed herself in drawing and painting. She has always been an ardent animal lover so it was natural progression to paint and draw animals and birds. Sue lives in the Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney, Australia. Sue considers herself an Australian wildlife artist. Birds and parrots are her favourite. Drawing only in pastel, she finds this medium brings out the softness and fine detail in the birds and animals that no other medium can achieve. Sue has won many awards including First Prize at the Art of Sydney Awards in the Works on paper section, and has sold work locally and overseas. One of her paintings hangs in the City Council of Sanda, Japan that is a sister city of the Blue Mountains. Sue has had numerous exhibitions, both solo and shared. Sue gives thanks to God for her talent and for his awesome creation, which provides her with endless inspiration.
Sue is a member of Nepean Art Society and was one of our invited artists for May.
The Fabulous Fakes People's choice first joint winner is:
"Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"
by John Singer Sargent
skilfully copied by Richard Green

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Richard Green has been interested in painting since
childhood and used to draw cartoons and comics.
He did his first paintings when he was 17 years old and has painted intermittently over the years until he met Diana Garth at a St. George Art Society annual exhibition and she told him about Art in Action at Meroo.
At Meroo, Richard was tutored by James Tyler who became his main influence in abstract acrylics.
After Meroo, he looked for a teacher and found Leeka Gruzdeff  and attended her classes for many years.
He was a member of St. George Art Society for many years and then became one of the founder member of Oatley 101 Society of Artists in 1997.
He has served on the committee since foundation and is now President.
He has been attending classes by Glenda Carter and considers her a great influence on his present work.
Richard has won many awards over the recent years  including first prize, Contemporary Section for two years running at the CASS Awards at Darling Harbour, an award for excellence at St. George Art Society Annual Exhibition and a first place in the John Upton Award at the same Society.
His work can be seen both nationally and internationally

       

The second Fabulous Fakes People's choice joint winner is:
"Girl with a pearl earring"
by Johannes Vermeer
skilfully copied by Kiril Grasevski

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Kiril lives in Lugarno with his wife Sarah and sons Nicholas and Peter. He was born in Macedonia in 1964 and migrated to Australia in 1969. He has been painting and drawing for as long as he can remember but had never taken it up seriously. He is mostly self taught but did two years of formal training in the Diploma of Fine Art at St George TAFE during 2005 and 2009 plus a bunch of other short courses at Hazelhurst. He has been in corporate training and HR for most of his working life and once the boys were at uni he decided to reduce his work hours to allow for more time to paint and draw. He joined Oatley 101 earlier this year so that he could get more involved in local art and continue learning as much as he could from the wonderfully talented artists in the society.  He tries to get to as many events as he can and has been enjoying the Monday night sketch group in particular. The ‘Girl with a pearl earring’  was done in oil paint on board using an old masters method - the ‘seven layers Flemish method’ but he also enjoys painting, drawing and generally playing around in a variety of media, methods and styles.

The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Today the painting is kept in the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague. It is sometimes referred to as "the Mona Lisa of the North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa". Kiril likes to paint copies because it allows one to take time to intimately appreciate the skill and learn something about and from the mastery of a great artist.