Annette Tyson
Ghost Net

The federal government has cancelled funding for the Ghost Net Initiative in June 2025.

This programme employed indigenous rangers to remove fishing nets and plastic pollution from remote northern Australian coastal waters.

Over 140,000 kg of rubbish and 400 ghost fishing nets had been removed since 2021 and nine rangers employed.

What is the future now for our precious marine life?

This abstract artwork symbolises a ghost net and a marine creature trapped within it.

Image: Annette Tyson, Ghost Net, 2024, oil in cold wax on paper, 66 x 45 cm.

Artwork for sale: $295

Ariella Anderson
Core Survival

Discarded clay resumes a second life, returned to its primal state as dust of the earth. This vessel emerges through a slow, deliberate process—dry clay particles blended with metal oxides, forming coloured bands that echo mineral seams. The amalgamation of particles reveals a layered structure embedded with pockets of air, cracks, and imperfections.

This brittle, unstable structure warns of fragility, yet also reflects matter’s elusive capacity to cohere, to resist breakage, and to defy expectation. Its transient nature is solidified and strengthened—much like the Jewish people, who have endured and withstood the elements across time.

Image: Ariella Anderson, Core Survival, 2025, clay, metal oxides, brass stand, 14 x 14 x 23 cm.

Artwork for sale: $1,400

Carmel Birchley
Nutmeg Mannikins

Walking with camera in hand, I am sometimes lucky enough to photograph some of our shyer little birds.

The camouflage provided by the sugarcane for this little Nutmeg Mannikin family was my inspiration to create a predominately monochromic drawing.

To achieve this, I have used sand coloured Pastelmat paper and a selection of pastel, Conte crayons, and colour pencils mostly in sanguine shades. Paper stubs were used for blending. The camera zoom allows me to see and depict the finer feather details of our small birds which otherwise can't be fully appreciated by the naked eye.

Image: Carmel Birchley, Nutmeg Mannikins, 2025, pastel, Conte crayons, and colour pencils on Pastelmat, 43 x 43 cm.

Artwork for sale: $500

Caroline Palmer
My Quiet Place

Find me a quiet place
Where I can sit, perfectly still, in the stillness
Where the noise of the world can’t reach me
Where peace can find me
In my quiet place

Caroline Palmer is a self-taught mixed media artist who loves experimenting with all types of art supplies.

She enjoys a free, expressive style of painting to evoke a mood rather than to deliver a realistic representation. This painting was inspired by the chaos of the world we live in today, and the desire to find a place of quiet solitude.

Image: Caroline Palmer, My Quiet Place, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cm.

Artwork for sale: $350

Cate Verney
and if the music dies... what then

The music is the sound of the cicadas in December 2024. My musician cousin composed the music for me and I stitched it, then damaged it - thinking all the while about what the sound of cicadas means for different viewers. How long has this sound been screaming through the Australian bush.

Without focusing on why, I ask the viewer to think about a world in which the cicada song is no longer present and what that might mean for our world.

The use of unprocessed silk, metallic thread, leaf skeleton and moth wings draw our attention to the importance and beauty of nature.

Image: Cate Verney, and if the music dies...what then, 2025, thread drawing on silk, 90 x 30 cm.

Artwork for sale: $550

Colleen Helmore
Beach Litter

As custodians of the land we walk on everyday, it is vital we look down and see what is under foot, what came before us.

The smallest particles of shell, a red rock on some shell grit. They all have a story to tell, a reason for being there and a need to be valued so future generations who pass by can see them as we have.

Image: Colleen Helmore, Beach Litter, 2025, watercolour, ink, charcoal and gesso, 75 x 55 cm.

Artwork for sale: $850

Cynthia Hoogstraten
Dawn Reflection

Each dawn a low tide allows me to express myself on the sand. It is a mindful process that rewards me and onlookers alike.

The 'flower of life' symbol became a striking foreground for a stunning sunrise, allowing an observer to reflect and behold the beauty around her.

Image: Cynthia Hoogstraten, Dawn Reflection, 2025, photograph, 34 x 26 cm.

Artwork for sale: $250

David McColl
Misty Hummock

Misty Hummock was conceived as an idea to paint whilst on an early morning bike ride at Bargara after some sea fog had rolled inland. The Hummock appeared as an impressionist painting. The light enhanced the colour of the sky to set a mood sombre and still.

David is moved by the impressionist style and so to emulate nature that appears in such a way brings him joy. Rich in volcanic soil the earthy oil tones remind the viewer of the beauty of our local backyard.

Image: David McColl, Misty Hummock, 2024, oil on canvas, 124 x 94 cm.

Artwork for sale: $500

Debbie Bennett
Puppet Play with Arthur

In my ceramic practice, I have gravitated to a world of puppetry, blurring the lines between creator and creation. The puppet, “Arthur,” embodies my passion for storytelling and the deep emotions that connect us as humans. With its strings and articulated movements, it symbolises life’s complexities. I sculpt life into the clay, and paint the features, giving Arthur character and personality.

Puppetry captivates me for its ability to evoke laughter, joy, and sorrow, inviting audiences to connect with their own feelings and memories. I encourage viewer interaction—please gently pull on the strings to bring Arthur to life and experience his story.

Image: Debbie Bennett, Puppet Play with Arthur, 2024, textiles, ceramics, timber box, 30 x 20 x 43 cm.

Artwork not for sale.

Debra West
Alone

2018 was when my husband Murray passed away from cancer. Over the years, I have had moments where I felt alone. The feeling of isolation from family and friends who don’t really know what you are experiencing.

 In this painting, I have used a subdued palette and negative space to portray that emotion.

Many people experience loneliness throughout their lives. I hope my painting can put a spotlight on this condition, and hopefully one person will reach out to engage with society and reduce their feelings of loneliness. Being connected to your friends, colleagues, and community may reduce the effects of loneliness.

Image: Debra West, Alone, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 41 x 41 cm.

Artwork for sale: $220

Elaine Lyons
Rocky Landscape

This barren, rocky landscape surrounded our visitor accommodation outside Stanthorpe.

I was inspired to paint the scene because of the effects on sunlight on the hard grey rocks and soft feathery undergrowth.

Image: Elaine Lyons, Rocky Landscape, 2025, mixed media and collage, 37 x 41 cm.

Artwork for sale: $500

Emily Kresew
Basalt Shores

In her neckpiece Basalt Shores, Emily accentuates the lava flow evident in our shorelines that has created vast ecosystems for marine life.

Our shoreline's mesmerising rock formations and extraordinary marine life demonstrate the adaptability of nature to thrive after the Hummock took its last breath as a volcano.

Basalt Shores represents the interconnections of nature and symbolises the beauty of resilience in adversity.

Image: Emily Kresew, Basalt Shores, 2025, oxidised sterling silver, 15 x 16 cm.

Artwork for sale: $1,500

Jacques Sauterel
Pelicans on Watch

When not wading, pelicans survey their environment by sitting high up on jetties or poles.

As they mostly eat fish, they are on the lookout for trawlers unloading their catch.

Their majestic posture at dusk is reproduced in Pelicans on Watch, an acrylic on black canvas.

Image: Jacques Sauterel, Pelicans on Watch, 2025, acrylic, 44 x 55 cm.

Artwork for sale: $350

Jo Williams
Shift

Shift is an aerial landscape, a mapping, symbolising rising above an actual or inner landscape. It is the view you see when released from the limitations of an earthbound perspective.  Simplistic in form it hinges on the spaces between the obvious components of the same element, water. One small shift can affect the whole structure.

It's the visceral response I have when an artwork moves me, a subtle shift that changes everything.

Image: Jo Williams, Shift, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 150 cm.

Artwork for sale: $2,000

John Andersen
Rhythm & Blues

My visual interpretation of Rhythm and Blues music.

Feel the music—hear the music—see the music dance across the canvas.

Image: John Andersen, Rhythm & Blues, 2024, acrylic, 70 x 55 cm.

Artwork for sale: $675

Judith Hopwood
Listening

A Galah sits and listens, for others in the flock or danger, or both.

Birds in the wild are always listening and alert.

You can feel the concentration.

Image: Judith Hopwood, Listening, 2024, watercolour, 35 x 30 cm.

Artwork not for sale.

Judy Blackshaw
Silver Wattle

When walking through the bush in the cooler winter months, I am instantly inspired by the native plants of this time of year. The grevilleas, the wattles, but especially the Acacia podalyriifolia, commonly known as the Queensland Silver Wattle, or the Mount Morgan Wattle. Its soft yellow blossoms transform into tiny pastel pink puffballs at the tips and are complemented by the delicacy of unusual, rounded leaves in muted shades of grey green with blushes of pink and mauve.

To portray the plant in 2-dimensional form I chose to use alcohol inks which can blend the varying tones subtly. I also wanted to achieve a muted leafy background to highlight the blossoms, which I further gently emphasised by dots of black ink and white acrylic marker. My vision was to engage the viewer to appreciate the delicacy of the flower that sits quietly in our environment for just a short period at this time of year.

Image: Judy Blackshaw, Silver Wattle, 2025, alcohol ink on Fabriano Bristol paper, 21 x 21 cm.

Artwork for sale: $150

Kate Niblett
The Track to the Beach

This was a nostalgic recollection of my childhood holidays. We had a beach house at Moffat Headland at Caloundra (ours was the only house on the street). The track to the beach passed through Wallum scrub and skirted a tea tree swamp.

Shelley Beach was too dangerous for swimming, but I spent many hours exploring the track, playing on the beach, and discovering the fascinating sea creatures in the rock pools.

Image: Kate Niblett, The Track to the Beach, 2025, wet felted fibre, wool, silk, nettle, flax, bamboo, eucalyptus, 64 x 116 cm.

Artwork for sale: $420

Kym Connell
The Imagined Garden of the Future

I have always associated humanity with urbanisation and consider it to be one of the biggest consumers of the natural landscape. For both worlds to survive into the future, humanity needs to cease viewing the natural landscape as a commodity to be exploited.

The Imagined Garden of the Future draws upon the possibility that the natural landscape will only exist in our imagination if urbanisation continues on its current trajectory.

Image: Kym Connell, The Imagined Garden of the Future, 2024, acrylic and collage on canvas, 50 x 100 cm.

Artwork for sale: $525

Larissa Dabrowski
Bridges

Bridges aims to give form to the physical and emotional landscape of the artist, a tapestry exploring worlds that are intrinsically linked through one lens.

Captured through organic and architectural shapes, detailed brushwork and bold colours, it is not a scene for the faint hearted.

“Why not expand?

You are not from thought…and there isn't truth for you there.

Take a path that grows you inward—

With majesty and chaos and calm: the fibres that weave your very brilliance.”

Image: Larissa Dabrowski, Bridges, 2025, acrylic on canvas, reclaimed timber frame, 83 x 58 cm.

Artwork not for sale.

Lis Nazeri
Murai dan Mermaid (The Magpie and The Mermaid)

Murai Dan Mermaid is a glimpse into my migration from Malaysia to Australia for love and the tension I feel between displacement and belonging.

The mermaid clad in batik - a fish out of water is visited by the magpie, a cultural embodiment of protection and renewal — echoing themes of love, transformation, and the search for home.

Image: Lis Nazeri, Murai dan Mermaid (The Magpie and The Mermaid), 2024, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 45 x 61 cm.

Artwork for sale: $200

Liz Lennox
The Green Room

In 2024, I was hospitalised with low back pain. During subsequent rehabilitation I welcomed my art practice as a figurative "Green Room" (a room in a theatre or studio in which performers can relax when they are not performing). A place to retreat, relax, and reset.

In another sense—immersion in nature is something I value as a literal "Green Room". A slow walk through the rainforest engages all my senses. I am refreshed, renewed.

The artwork has numerous layers of pigments and drawing media with oils and cold wax medium.

Image: Liz Lennox, The Green Room, 2025, oils, drawing media and cold wax medium on Arches oil paper mounted on board framed in Tasmanian oak, 77 x 77 cm.

Artwork for sale: $1,300

Maggie Spenceley
Photosynthesis

In Photosynthesis art and science meet. In science, photosynthesis is a chemical reaction taking place in green leaves when the sun is shining. Carbon dioxide and water are used to make glucose (sugar) and oxygen. This sugar is the starting point for food chains and without it, humans would have nothing to eat. The oxygen produced is very important—it is oxygen we breathe in.

This artwork is layered. The background is light shining, included are symbols of the chemicals involved and cell structures important to photosynthesis. Leaves have been chewed. The first step in a food chain which could have humans as the final consumer.

Image: Maggie Spenceley, Photosynthesis, 2025, mixed media, 40 x 50 cm.

Artwork for sale: $500

Maxine Harwood
VIVID

This portrait explores strength and identity through a bold yet deliberately limited palette. It balances softness and intensity, capturing a sense of quiet confidence.

I build the face with layered watercolour—controlled and intentional—while the hair flows more freely. Created with acrylic, mica, and ink, this piece is unapologetically present and unmistakably feminine.

Image: Maxine Harwood, VIVID, 2025, mixed media on cotton rag, 30 x 42 cm.

Artwork for sale: $300

Michelle Gray
Noritake Roses

Each element has been hand sculpted in soft Italian glass over a mixed gas flame and attached to a repurposed vintage plate (Noritake circa 1950s), demonstrating the beauty that can be created by bringing together 'old' and 'new' transforming into 'unique' and 'connected'.

Image: Michelle Gray, Noritake Roses, 2025, hand sculpted glass, vintage plate (Noritake circa 1950s), 20 x 20 cm.

Artwork for sale: $525

Nicole Jakins
Brooch for the Dead

Brooch for the Dead is a nod to the other side of my creative practice as an artisan jeweller. Modelled on a vintage baroque brooch, it features salvaged copper and clay tear shapes imprinted with Wallum botanical species found at Walkers Point, Woodgate. These impressions—of honey myrtle, geebung, phebalium, and flowered ice plant—emerged from field research for my exhibition Wallum Whispers.

During one of these visits, I encountered an excavator parked deep in the bush. It left me wondering how much longer this landscape would remain untouched.  This sculpted 'brooch' reflects on both beauty and impermanence and is a quiet mourning piece for what is slowly being lost.

Image: Nicole Jakins, Brooch for the Dead, 2025, salvaged copper flame treated with clay resist, stoneware and porcelain clay, stainless steel, 51 x 65 cm.

Artwork for sale: $590

Nicole Strathdee
Equus Aureus

What began as a mere practice piece has become one of my most adored works ever. The piece itself is simple; a horse on a green background, looking vaguely towards the viewer. A simple line of gold surrounds the horse, my homage to the Christian values (and symbolism) I was raised on (and have since left behind).

The horse itself holds more meaning to me than my faith ever did, and taught me lessons in life I continue to carry to this day. The imagery of the horse is mildly inspired by renaissance artworks in which animals are centrally depicted.

Image: Nicole Strathdee, Equus Aureus, 2025, oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm.

Artwork for sale: $1,250

Rosemary Anderson
Bush Dancers

This sculpture is carved from a fallen Banksia tree that I came across while walking on a friend's property.

The Banksia trees always look like they are communicating with each other as they grow close together and have graceful movements in their branches as the wind blows amongst them.

While working this piece it felt like the two pieces were connected and dancing together.

I added some pebbles that were found in a nearby creek. The creek flowed in a complimentary movement to the trees.

This sculpture captures my moment in time in the bush.

Image: Rosemary Anderson, Bush Dancers, 2025, banksia tree and pebbles, 30 x 18 cm.

Artwork for sale: $160

Sabrina Lauriston
Gold Ferns II

This artwork is a cyanotype (sun print) made using two fern leaves, with added texture and detail using gold paint. I’m drawn to the sun printing process because it invites stillness and mindfulness. Each print is a quiet collaboration with nature and light.

I find the act of creating sun prints deeply relaxing; it allows me to slow down, and reconnect with my surroundings. Being in contact with nature during this process is both grounding and de-stressing.

Image: Sabrina Lauriston, Gold Ferns II, 2025, cyanotype, acrylic, 22 x 50 cm.

Artwork for sale: $1,000

Sandy Scarborough
Still Life with Eastern Yellow Robin and Lemons

The painting features an Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis), a species native to Eastern Queensland. Observing these birds in their natural habitat was the inspiration behind this work.

My artwork explores the traditional elements of still life through the use of colour, form, composition, light and symbolism. By juxtaposing the robin’s presence with everyday items, I aim to highlight to the viewer the connection between humans and nature.

The presence of fauna is a frequent subject in many of my works, encouraging viewer to appreciate the often-overlooked species coexisting in our surroundings.

Image: Sandy Scarborough, Still life with Eastern Yellow Robin and Lemons, 2025, oil on cotton canvas, 46 x 46 cm.

Artwork for sale: $480

Vivien Hillocks
Pandanus

Stroll along the coastal paths and you will find flotsam and jetsam adorning the rocks.

This piece shows a fragment of storm-tossed pandanus captured in ink, embellished with watercolour.

Image: Vivien Hillocks, Pandanus, 2025, ink and watercolour, 30 x 42 cm.

Artwork for sale: $500