What Are Members Up To?

Each week some of the members bring in work either completed or underway looking for feedback on their efforts. All are potential masterpieces.

14 October 2025

Janice



7 October 2025

Morelle (On a rock)

Kerry

Jean

Penny


Bruce



Bruce

Bruce



30 September 2025

A quick version of flowers by Bruce.



23 September 2025

Bruce - Pretend Cat

Bruce - Valla beach



16 September 2025

Julie



Karen


19 August 2025

Ros



Cathy

Janice

Morelle - Study of a Pallet




Karen

Karen



12 August 2025

Bruce



Cathy

Morelle

Bruce


22 July 2025

Lorraine

Lorraine



Cathy

Karen



Janice

Julie



15 July 2025
More Bellwood Park art.

Bruce

Faye


8 July 2025
Letitia showed off her embroidery skills with her enhanced deck chair.
Letitia



1 July 2025

Faye



Karen



Bruce

Bruce

Bruce



17 June 2025

Julie - GOAT (Greatest Of All Time)



Karen



10 June 2025

Bruce of Faye

Bruce of Miranda



Cathy


3 June 2025

Jean

Jean



Bruce

Bruce

Karen

Karen

Karen



27 May 2025

Letitia



Julie

Julie


Cathy

Cathy

Chris

Elwin

Elwin

Faye

Janice

Karen

Letitia

Lorainne



29 April 2025

Tit

Faye






Karen - "Stoned"

Penny - "After the Blaze".

Letitia

Bruce - "Bel".

Karen - "Housing Crisis".



15 April 2025

Shirley



Janice



Cathy - Ready for the Macksville Show

Cathy

Bruce - The beginning of 3 portraits

Faye

Elwin

Elwin - Scribble drawing of Ollie



8 April 2025

Shirley



25 March 2025

Jean



Shirley



Faye

Kerry

Elwin

Jean

Karen

Bruce

Bruce

Glenn

Julie



18 March 2025

Julie - Self Portrait



Shirley

Shirley



Chris

Chris



Elwin of Glen





Jean



Kerry

Jean

Kerry

Julie

Tit



Bruce of Bel

Bruce of Julie

Bruce of Morelle



4 March 2025

Elwin has been busy with a torn paper image of Glen.

Bruce has started on the portrait of Bel.

Karen's cut paper street view.





Julie has signed the painting.

Kerry reaching the end of this masterpiece.

Morelle on a new jouirney.

Janice is developing her quick flower shapes.

Janice

Faye's field mice/



25 February 2025

Julie



Jean



Ros

Tit

Ros

Ros

Janice

Pauline




18 February 2025

Ros



Bruce

Janice

Kerry

Jean



Bruce - Nth Valla Beach in progress

Karen, just being crazy.

Ros - A subtle landscape.



11 February 2025

Jean explores a family portrait




Ros has created a cut paper image




Chris is creating a cut paper scene. There's an Ibis in there.



Janice lately is into spiral images

Jean has just started a cut paper scene



3 December 2024

Faye


Janice



26 November 2024

Jean


Chris

Grahame

Lorraine

Lorraine

Lorraine


19 November 2024

Bruce

Bruce


Faye

Janice

Tit


12 November 2024

Faye

Faye - "4 for $10"

Jean - "Just 3 Colours"

Julie

Tit - "A Special Christmas Card"


1 October 2024

Betty with a technique called reverse stenciling

Elwin

Karen

Karen


24 September 2024

Faye



17 September 2024


Faye


Terry



Bruce

Chris

Chris

Grahame



10 September 2024

Ros



Janice

Jean



Faye

Karen



3 September 2024

Jean



Jean


Chris

Morelle




Julie

Kerry




20 August 2024

Penny - From her archive of paintings

Faye did a bit of training for today




Tit

Karen - Round 2



Jean



13 August 2024

Karen - Doodling with images. I can see a face, a boot and trees. By the way Karen has painted this in landscape mode not portrait. Which do you prefer?




Karen - Doodling with images. I can see a face, a boot and trees. By the way Karen has painted this in landscape mode not portrait like I have presented.


6 August 2024

Lorraine

Lorraine

Lorraine



30 July 2024

Kerry



Faye

Julie


Janice



Bruce



Bruce




2 July 2024

Julie is making progress on this portrait



25 June 2024

Karen took on the challenge of a dot version of The Tree.

Tit has added to last week's challenge.



18 June 2024

Betty

Betty ( A week late)

Bruce

Karen



11 June 2024

Jean



Tit - Photograph of a spiders web.

Jean

Ros

Ros



4 June 2024

Julie






28 May 2024

Elwin

Elwin

Karen

Bruce

Tit



21 May 2024

Penny is working on a Bruce portrait. Chris's was handed over today.

Karen



14 May 2024

Janice

Karen

Morelle




23 April 2024

Elwin



Belle

Betty

Betty

Glen Bowra

Jean

Julie

Letitia



16 April 2024

Julie



9 April 2024
The real good paintings are under wraps for the Macksville Show, so stay tuned for the next edition of the Blog.

Janice

Morelle

Morelle

Faye


2 April 2024

Bette

Bette

Bruce

Penny



26 March 2024

Ros



Jean

Bel

Karen



Lorainne

Lorainne

Penny


Janice

Morelle




19 March 2024

Chris






Chris

Jean

Jean

Karen

Shirley



5 March 2024

Bette

Bette

Bette




Karen




27 February 2024

Faye

Jean



Karen

Karen

Penny


20 February 2024

Karen

Karen

Bruce - "Horizon"

Bruce

Bruce



13 February 2024

Bette

Bette


5 December 2023

Morelle - I Used to be a Leaf.



Karen - People & Plants Share the Landscape

Bruce - The Beginnings of Main Beach, Nambucca Heads





28 November 2023

Lorraine has been very busy.












Shirley's Ink Drawing



21 November 2023

Betty



31 October 20223

Elwin - Scotts Head Beach "No Dogs"

Jean

Karen - "Parrot in a Pear Tree"


Bruce - View from Kia Ora



24 October 2023

Shirley PC Station, Bellbrook



17 October

Elwin - "Bird's Nest"



10 October 2023

Ros



Ros

Ros




Janice



Bette



Bette




Bruce

Penny

Shirley

Glen

Morrell

Jean

Jean


Karen

Chris

Belle



2 October 2023

Betty



Keran - Exploring Negative Spaces



Elwin

Penny

Penny


Bruce - The beginnings of Wenonah Headland



26 September 2023

Penny - Yarrahapinni 1

Penny - Yarrahapinni 2




Ros - Is it a Teddy Bear?

Janice does plastic bag art. Ask her about it.

Jean does her background colour to set the mood.





5 September 2023

Elwin



Elwin



Shirley

Shirley










29 August 2023
Belle



Ros



Jean



22 August 2023

Glen



Creating Composition Using Shapes

Karen



Chris




Elwin


15 August 2023

Penny is working on a masterpiece.






Janice



1 August 2023

Janice - "It's All About the Box"

Elwin - "Too Many Signs"



25 July 2023
John - Summer Days



Jean - Landscape Study

Glen

Karen



John



Janice



18 July 2023

Jean



Lorraine

Janice

Karen

Lorraine (Torn Paper)

Bruce

Bruce

Lorraine

Loraine

Lorraine (OPil Pastel)

Bruce



11 July 2023

Janice









Jean

Jean

Jean

Sarah


4 July 2023

Shirley

Elwin (Charcoal)

Ros "Here's Looking At You".


Ros "Snakey"

Karen "Up The Garden Path".

Ros "In The Beginning".

Karen "Too Hot To Handle"

Bruce "Water Lillies"







27 June 2023

Bruce - Water Lillies in the style of Monet

Janice - Rural Shack

Ros - Water Lillies in her own style (in progress)




20 June 2023

Terry



Janice

Karen - "Red Landscape No.2"

Bruce - King Charles



13 June 2023

Karen

Ros

Ros


6 June 2023

Jean

Karen

Karen




23 May 2023

Karen



Morrell



Jean



16 May 2023

Dragged Colours

The Aquarium




2 May 2023


Elwin

Bruce

Jean

Jean



Lorraine

Lorraine

Lorraine



Karen



Morrell's Rooster in Progress




18 April 2023

Lorraine - Her Daughter

Lorainne

Glenn - In Progress




Bruce - Deep Ck 2



11 April 2023

Karen

Lorraine



4 April 2023

Elwin

Jean

Jean. It couild be the start of a Triptych.

Janice

Morelle



28 March 2023

Jean's Teddy is now all furry.




21 March 2023

Jean

Jean's "Whose a Pretty Boy"
Karen



Elwin's work in progress "Signs, Bloody Signs".

Sarah's "In The Beginning"



14 March 2023

Morelle's pallet knife painting



Lorraine "Looking Out The Window"



Bruce "Ros' Place



Karen

Elwin

Elwin ( In progress)

Sarah

Janice



Bruce's South Valla Beach



Bruce's "Macksville Riverbank"

Ros

Ros

Ros

Lorainne

Karen's "Shipwreck on the Bouy"



Jean's "Kookaburra Family"

Bruce's Sunset

Bruce's "Karen's Place"

Lorraine

Jean

John's Version of Black on Black (Is it the right way up?)

Bruce's Nambucca River Bar



Chris's Sunset

Chris

Shirley




Lorraine's "Crossing the Bank".

Lorraine




Lorraine




Bruce's South Valla Beach



Bruce's Missabotti






Bruce's Entry for the Macksville Show is underway

Bruce's Golf on the Nambucca Island Golf Course





Linda


Jean




Chris

Sarah




Elwin is Working on a New Colour Pallet





Jeans Well Composed Coastal Scene




Karen Creates an Indigenous Look of NZ




Ros Does Widescreen




Bruce's Little Beach Scotts Head





Morelle's Dusty Lane


Janice Going Wild




Janice's "Dab" painting of an apple



Karen Creates two Examples of Her Pointillism Style

.



Karen's example of pointillism.


Bruce's Beginning of Shelly Beach



Lorraine

Lorraine




Ros demonstrating how to use a pallet knife.




Jean progressing each week




Karen




New Karen


Taylor's Arm by Shirley



Bruce's Deep Creek, Valla  Beach


Ros was looking at this view


Sarah's new effort. Would you believe me if I said there was a squeegee involved?



Sarah has to decide when to stop


Jean likes to get botanical every now and then.



Bruce is continuing his recent theme of rural settings. This is "True Blue" a local prperety.



Shirley created a landscape from her imagination.



Chris is developing a painting of West Australian Grass Trees.




Elwin put together a sketch worthy of a frame.


Bruce has recorded a memory of North Stradbroke Island.



Lorraine has been busy and displayed 3 masterpieces.







Sarah in the midst of her next creation.




Karen exploring negative spaces.



Bruce working on a painting of Ebor.



Deb creates a beautiful bird with a few strokes



Karen has produced a great pencil sketch of Menindee Lakes near Broken Hill.



Bruce is creating a farm scene up North Arm.



Lorraine keeps on producing gems. This time a cliff face in progress. She is strong in creating a soft image in the background in keeping with the depth of the view.



Lorainne is freeing up her style and colour selection with her rainforest theme.




Chris venturing to the abstract world.


Chris also has a true to life Water Lilly.



Bruce's subject is an accommodation shed at Wollombi Wines. Work in progress.



Karen arrived with an abstract.


Then created another.



The beginnings of a landscape based on a scene in Bucrabendinni by Bruce.

Bruce


Shirley engaged in some idle doodling. She denies that the portrait is of Putin.

Shirley


Penny has a long fascination with the singer Leonard Cohen and has started and nearly finished her interpretation of the song "Famous Blue Raincoat". She has captured the mood well.



Bruce accepted the challenge of painting a landscape at Ebor from a "boring" photograph


Shirley constructed a still life from her imagination.



Sarah keeps provoking our thinking with her abstract images.



Shirly did a sketch of a water lily.



Bruce has completed his portrait of Ros.




 Lorraine and Karen presented finished works today.

Karen's River Scene. Note the stand of Poplars.


Lorraine's Dorrigo Waterfall


Lorraine's Cliff Face. Did You Spot The Person On Top?

Elwin's Latest Creation. Can You Find the Insects?



























































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