Meet the Grassfed Artists – 28 April – 8 June 2025

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Exhibiting at The Verandah Gallery of The Verandah Beecroft.

Caroline Pullinger

Caroline Pullinger is a mixed media, contemporary, visual artist based in Sydney. Her art works are interpretations of nature, with emphasis on the Australian Landscape.

Whilst Caroline takes much inspiration from nature, her works blend the factual with memory. This allows her to take the lines and shapes of her photos and sketches and evolve them into beautiful works of colourful marks and texture. Caroline abstracts nature with ease, enjoying the use of focus studies as her paintings take shape.

Caroline is a frequent exhibitor in group and art society productions and has had several small group exhibitions. Over the years Caroline’s work has enjoyed much success. Prizes include from the Sydney Royal and Castle Hill Agricultural Shows, Combined Sydney Art Societies, Lane Cove Council Art Awards, Hawkesbury Show and Parramatta Foundation Art Award.

Cylene Whiteley

Cylene Whitley is an artist strongly influenced by her Irish background. Raised in the countryside there, and surrounded by plants and animals, she was encouraged to appreciate the natural world. Having a mother who was a talented hobby artist, and loving art at school were also significant influencers.

Then fast forward to arriving in Australia  – new flora and fauna are her models.

Cylene is a regular in local exhibitions and has received awards for her work. In 2019 she had the opportunity to hold a joint exhibition  with three other artists in the  Sydney Botanic Gardens. This led onto a solo exhibition at the same venue. Cylene found the success of the solo exhibition an important milestone. Particularly the satisfaction of meeting the people who purchased her work to take back to far flung destinations in Australia and overseas.

“The wonderful thing about my painting journey is the interesting people I have met and the endless subjects to paint and draw”.

Maxine Collins

Originally from England, Maxine Collins has always been intrigued and inspired by the unique nature of the Australian landscape – its brightly coloured birds and intriguing flora. Maxine is inspired by the shapes, colours, textures and play of light that surrounds her. These are captured beautifully in her paintings.

Maxine’s artistic journey has included silk and ceramics, but these days she concentrates on watercolour and acrylics. She loves the often unexpected and unpredictable effects that can be achieved with watercolours. As for acrylics, Maxine finds the bright colours ideal for expressing native flora and fauna. There is also a freedom that comes with acrylics, to allow many different techniques to be used.

Maxine’s work has won her many awards over the years, and she has been featured in Creative Artist magazine in 2016. Her paintings can be found in both Australian and overseas collections.

Nel Davis

Nel Davis is never happier than when turning daydreams into beautiful watercolours. 

Nel divides her time between Sydney and the NSW Central Coast, and spends a lot of time thinking on representation of the landscape on painted paper.  Nel has participated in several group exhibitions in Sydney and beyond. Many of her paintings are held in private collections, including a number of commissioned works.

In the short time she has been painting there have been several awards: Winner of Castle Hill Art Society annual art awards, small painting, 2023; Winner of Castle Hill Art Society Christmas Challenge 2023; Winner of Central Coast Watercolour Society October Challenge 2023; Finalist, Northern Beaches Gallery Summer Exhibition 2023 and 2024.

She says: “I desire to paint the dream, and for the viewer to see that I’m playing with light, colour, and the crazy nature of watercolour.  I have so much to learn. Every day seems to bring a new discovery on technique and expression. I’m loving the journey.”

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