Ways to remember. Clive James wrote about the Australian Happy Hour with mirth of course. Let me know if you can visit Gallery 48 on the 7th December.
We will close for Christmas after that. Though we have an advertisement in Art Guide for January February 2020 the gallery will close for the heat. We may be available through appointments. See contacts please.
Magpie drinking IMagpie drinking IIMagpie after drinking
We know its hot in Townsville but this fella had it all worked out.
Heather Byrne is a renowned pastel and watercolorist. Her exhibition Living on the Fringe refers to wildlife from the tropics. Byrne’s winning entry Oh He’s looking at you from the ‘4th Hinchinbrook birdlife art awards’ is available to view.
Image: Heather Byrne Forest Kingfisher watercolour on Arches paper
Kathy Cornwall’s exhibition Dream Fight showcases mixed media paintings on canvas, found wood decorated with colour experiments, sculptures of stone ware clay and a large piece using recycled plastics. In addition a bird made from corrugated cardboard is a signature piece.
Kathy Cornwall,Forest Tea Set, stoneware
Artists Kathy Cornwall and Heather Byrne are showing new work coinciding with the inaugural Fringe Festival and the North Australian Festival of Arts 1 July – 31 August 2019
The artists
Heather Byrne is a renowned pastel and watercolorist. Her exhibition Living on the Fringe refers to wildlife from the tropics. Byrne’s winning entry Oh He’s looking at you from the ‘4th Hinchinbrook birdlife art awards’ is available to view.
Image: Heather Byrne Forest Kingfisher watercolour on Arches paper
Heather Byrne is a renowned pastel and watercolorist. Her exhibition Living on the Fringe refers to wildlife from the tropics. Byrne’s winning entry Oh He’s looking at you from the ‘4th Hinchinbrook birdlife art awards’ is available to view.
Heather Byrne, Forest Kingfisher 2019 watercolour on Arches paper 13 x 90 cm $90 framed
Here in Townsville is would be great to show more local artists’ works to the public, those Townsvillians interested in the visual arts and those visiting from the colder regions.
Kathy Cornwall, Afterlife, acrylic paint on wood, 2019
On Monday 12th March radio ABC 630 AM interview by Tom Edwards was played on the Andy Toulson morning show.
Gallery 48 is a small gallery and we hope this interview encourages art viewers to come and see the work in the exhibition. Steve Maguire and other painters
From the Collection, March-April 2017
Steve Cox ‘Portrait of Mickey D’ and Marjorie Lord ‘Poetry of the Air’ portrait fine art photography; From the Collection, March-April 2017