OUR ARTISTS
ALICE MURPHY
Sculptor | Costume & Prop Designer
Alice works across many disciplines, with a focus on theatre design, masks, wigs, props, costumes, and puppets. Trained in traditional fine art sculpture, she works in many different mediums and likes to blur the line between costumery, sculpture, and craft.
Alice has created fibre sculptures, textile art, illustrations, costumes, and craft pieces for private commissions. She has worked and exhibited around the world and has made costumes for street theatre productions and even created fire retardant garments and props for an international fire theatre company. She has also designed and hosted community workshops to celebrate cultural diversity, local traditions, and positive environmental actions.
ANNE HARRIS
Artist
Anne uses the creative practice of process to explore and learn from the world that surrounds her. Working with plants and place, she uses her sense of curiosity to investigate how knowledge can be embodied through the senses, and translated into bodies of work that can be shared with her audience. The process Anne uses involves natural dye, ink, mark making, weaving, performance and installations.
CAROLINE MAGERL
Painter
Caroline Magerl is an award- winning artist and internationally distinguished illustrator, cartoonist and painter, who is now recognised as a unique and arresting presence. Her work spans from dark, enigmatic oil paintings, through incisive cartoons, to lively children’s book illustrations.
DESLEY ROLPH
Painter
Des Rolph’s work explores a creative process that describes the landscape. Her atmospheric paintings tell a story of mystery and intrigue. Ethereal elements such as wind blowing pollens, birds in murmuration, figures walking through the landscape or sky are signature marks of her paintings – they stir the imagination.
ELKE LUCUS
Ceramicist
Elke Lucas is a highly regarded Australian potter. Her wheel thrown and hand built, high-fired porcelain and stoneware ceramics are made in her Noosa studio. The decoration on the pots is minimal, drawing inspiration from the beauty of the landscape and the natural forms around her. This allows the elegant shapes and the quality of the porcelain body to shine through, resulting in pots that have a natural sophistication and a beautiful quiet presence.
JENNY MCELHINNEY
Ceramicist
From a very young age Jenny always loved drawing and painting. She was introduced to working with clay through a TAFE course in her late teens. She loves the process of hand building and playing with textures then finishing with the use of slips, oxides, and self-made glazes, focusing on matte, dry and crater surfaces. Through clay Jenny is given the freedom and inspiration to create different forms and finishes. Her garden sculptures range from large rustic pots through to soft female forms and angels.
JO COOK
Ceramicist Painter Sculptor
Jo Cook is an artist and sculptor based in Noosa Heads. Her life and art have been profoundly influenced by growing up with a severely intellectually disabled sister in a fragile family environment. She became a full-time artist after a long career in speech pathology. Women, spirituality, and the journey to authenticity are major themes in her work. Her practice is diverse and spans paintings, ceramic sculptures, jewellery, and prints.
KERRI LOUISA
Ceramicist Painter
Kerri Louisa is a visual artist who works with multiple mediums but predominately focuses on illustration and design elements within paintings and ceramics. While pursuing a Diploma in Visual Arts in 2019, Kerri discovered a connection with clay. Working from home with very minimal equipment, Kerri has taken to hand building with a mix of fine sculpture and recycled clays. Growing up on a semi remote acreage in the Adelaide hills, nature has always been a source of solace and inspiration for Kerri. Her work, both in illustration, painting and ceramics often reflects the beauty and story found in our natural world.
KURT BLACK
Sculptor Painter
Kurt describes himself as an abstractionist. His paintings are an emotional and cerebral response to connection to place, mystery, and spirit. Construction and deconstruction are an intrinsic part of his art making process. He loves to build paintings up and tear them down leaving a scarred surface. He works mostly in enamel and synthetic polymer paint on wood panel. His sculptural work marries opposite materials to make three dimensional metaphors. He is interested in the friction between different materials.
MAC MORGAN
Sculptor Painter
Mac Morgan’s abstracted figures are an attempt to express feelings that he can’t find words for. They explore rawness and struggle. He enjoys the accidents that occur in the process of creating and uses destruction and asymmetry in his work. He sees irregularity within himself, and social culture and his images are an attempt to learn more about lifestyle and how it impacts on his state of mind.
MITCH CHEESEMAN
Sculptor / Painter
Mitch Cheeseman, a rising artist in the local art scene, creates lush, colorful oil paintings that capture the beauty of flowers and plants. Inspired by his grandmother's encouragement to explore nature, Mitch's thickly painted works evoke the mesmerizing sight of sunflowers in morning light. Embracing experimentation, he finds joy in discovering unexpected beauty in his artistic process. His debut solo exhibition was held at Greaser Gallery in Brisbane in 2019, with additional showcases at Thomas Surfboards Gallery in Noosa.
SALLY BARLING
AMY CLARKE
Painter
My earliest connection with the natural world was through childhood play. Growing up in the bush in 1970’s did not involve toys. The only toys I recall were a Tonka Truck (which I loved), some Lego and a neglected Barbie doll. I felt in no way deprived. We filled our days playing in the dirt. My paintings are tapping into those feelings and memories. In recent years my work has become increasingly abstract, but to me the landscape is still there.
It is my belief that the directness of this simple childhood and our daily engagement with nature laid the foundations of me being an artist. We were always making. To me painting is part play.
ANNIE MCINTOSH
Painter
Annie is passionate about colour and mood and many of her works feature the colours of the Australian landscape. She is known for her contemporary Australian landscapes and animal art. Annie has an interest in photography, hypnotism, and mythology. Her early career in medical technology, when she viewed cells and tissues stained and under high magnification, has influenced her approach to colour.
DAVID PARKER
Artist
David is a Queensland artist living in Eumundi in the Noosa Hinterland. David has had a long career of exhibitions including representation in Agora Gallery, New York. David is also a talented jeweller and co- founder of “ Pearls for Girls” in Memorial Drive, Eumundi.
DINAH WAKEFIELD
Painter
Dinah is known for the tremendous sense of movement and energy that she captures in her paintings. She is drawn to the everyday interplay of light found in the Noosa region - from the ocean to the clouds and out to the hinterland. Every painting starts as a leap of faith where she invites the light into her garden studio and allows it to unfold and express itself in its own unique way. She allows the paint brush to flow across the canvas in a fluid and organic way to create all elements of a painting – the ocean, the trees, and the clouds.
EMMA NANCARROW
Painter
Emma is a prolific and successful Sunshine Coast artist, and the diverse nature of her practice is a hallmark of her work. From free-flowing abstracts to contained still life paintings, Emma draws inspiration from the Australian landscape, her garden, and interiors. She has produced many private commissions and custom pieces for interior designers.
Emma grew up in Sunshine Beach and now paints from her home studio in the Noosa hinterland.
JESS SCURRAH
Artist
Jess grew up in northern NSW painting and drawing and embraced art as a way to bypass the ordinary. Jess loves to investigate what truly ignites the human soul. She creates artwork to inspire and connect the viewer with her other passions, wildlife and nature.
Jess has a self taught approach to art and likes to push the boundaries of Realism versus abstract and explores methods with acrylic paint outside of traditional methods and conformity.
Currently residing on the Sunshine Coast, Jess is inspired daily by the Hinterland colours and Oceanside beauty of Noosa.
JULIE FIELD
Painter
Julie's abstract landscapes and figurative equine art are extensions of her deep connection with horses and more broadly, her beloved country lifestyle. Julie's focus is on attention to detail in her figurative works while she celebrates intuition and freedom in her abstract landscapes. Her ceramic sculptures are a celebration of the equine form with each piece highlighted by her intrigue of the unexpected nature and exciting results of each glaze firing.
KIKI VASSILIOU
Ceramicist
Kiki Vassiliou’s ceramics are well loved by interior designers and collectors of contemporary homewares, many of whom are drawn to Kiki's natural stoneware range and her unique glazes.
Before finding her groove at Eumundi, Kiki spent 22 years selling her Art in Clay at the Riverside Markets in Brisbane. She now sells her pieces exclusively at Eumundi Markets every Wednesday and Saturday. She has fallen in love with the community spirit and comradery of the market environment and vows she will never leave.
LAURA VECMANE
Painter
Laura Vecmane’s practice spans painting, mixed media, photography, mosaic, and sculpture. Laura was born and grew up in Latvia, where she discovered her passion and gift for creative arts. The early years of her artistic career were spent in Europe, studying art in Latvia, Denmark, and Spain. Multicultural influences, impressions of nature, radiant light, rich and vivid colours, and scenes of daily life inform Laura’s art. She nominates nature as her most valuable teacher and enjoys collaborating with others on similar projects. Laura is now living and working at her studio in Maleny.
MEL LUMB
Sculptor
Mel’s unique handmade ceramics are made from high fired stoneware and porcelain. Her range includes stunning sculptural forms as well as functional vessels. Each piece is earthy and tactile with a contemporary simplicity. Finishes incorporate textured surface detail, slip decoration, oxide washes and custom glazes. Mel spends her days working in her home studio on her little farm outside of Eumundi.
PAM MILLER
Painter
From a very early age Pam has always loved art. Winning a scholarship to the National Art School in Sydney she studied under Brett Whiteley. She likes to paint large scale abstract works and contemporary stylised landscapes. Pam creates for the joy of it and likes to work intuitively in her preferred mediums oil, cold wax, and acrylic. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are held in collections overseas.
SAREN DOBKINS
Painter
Saren has been painting and exhibiting professionally since 1983. Originally from Africa, her distinctive work is bold, colourful, and lyrical. Contemporary and expressive, her figurative narrative work invites the viewer to contemplate what we experience in our inner life that is usually hidden from others. She has travelled extensively, and integrates her knowledge of design, ecology, literature, transformation coaching and photography into her work. Saren enjoys exploring and learning new things and approaches life with a gentle sense of humour and optimism. Her wry take on life gives her work multiple layers of meaning.
ANDREA BORELLI
Locally Handmade Basins
Based on the Sunshine Coast, Andrea Borelli has been engaged by architects, interior designers and private clients to create signature finishes. Andrea says his work is about harmony, feelings, precision, passion and that every job is different and only with those four elements can one achieve something positive.
Andrea created the handmade signature vessel basins for the accommodation.
CAMILLE EVANS
Ceramicist
Camille is predominantly self-taught with a background in painting, drawing and printmaking. More recently she has fallen for the unpredictability of working with clay forms, and the endless variables that come with each clay and glaze interaction. It is the lack of control and accidental nature of working with this medium that she finds most compelling. Each piece is a study of texture form and contrast
DAVID SUTERS
Timber Craftsman
Inspired by Australian hardwoods' natural beauty, David Suters is a seasoned timber craftsman who harmonizes with nature, drawing inspiration from distinctive timbers. With nearly four decades of experience, he meticulously sources and hand-selects timbers for his own designs and commissioned works, turning challenges into passions. The thrill of the search and the quality of each find fuel his creative process, especially in salvaging timbers that give each piece its unique personality and feel.
DIANA SHEPHERD
Artist
Originally from Shropshire in the UK and after a working life in farming in the UK, New Zealand and thirty years on the Darling Downs, Diana now lives in Cooran in the Noosa Hinterland.
"Each painting is different, a moment in time experiment with colour, line and texture. I paint for self-fulfilment and enjoy the challenge of abstraction. Having ideas as I paint but nonpreconceived nor precious, I am intuitive and process driven. Each work is an open experiment with, usually, much layering and scratching back; adding to and subtracting from the surface. The paintings evolve and emerge organically. I use mixed media."
JEDDA CLAY
Ceramicist
A need to reconnect with the core of our natural environment - earth, saw the birth of Jedda Clay. Working with clay brings Jedda back to a happy place and has unleashed creativity not previously known. Now each day Jedda is able to build with the earth from her home studio on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Each piece is created with a hand coiling process, which is then fired, glazed and fired again for vitrification. These processes mean every work is unique and hand made with love, to bring the earth back into our houses.
JK CLAY
Ceramicist
Janette is the person behind JK Clay. Since her teen years she had an affinity with clay. She loved its earthiness and tactility and found creating on the wheel was a rewarding and satisfying process. What started as a hobby became her next career path and after many years of working in an office, Janette decided to pursue her passion with clay and has never looked back. She now creates her organic, simplistic range for people to enjoy and use in their everyday lives.
KATIE HARRIS MCLEOD
Contemporary Artist
Katie Harris-MacLeod, a multifaceted contemporary artist raised on the West Coast of Scotland and currently based on Gubbi Gubbi Country, Sunshine Coast, explores themes deeply rooted in nature, psychogeography, and the life cycle—interpreted as birth, life, and death. Her work reflects nuances of folklore, generational narratives, femininity, loss, and isolation, captured through a poetic exchange between artist, landscape, performance, and the wild. Katie is a graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Scotland.
KURAN WARUN
Painter
Kurun Warun is one of Australia’s premier Aboriginal artists. He had his first exhibition, alongside his mother when he was 8 years old. In later years, he developed his own style. He is inspired by slow-moving rivers, the stones underneath them, and the eels that swim through these rivers. The dust of the earth, the sea and the creatures that swim in it all inform his paintings. He also likes to tell stories of his childhood and those of his own children. His Aboriginal dot paintings have a traditional meaning, which is not always immediately noticed, but within the colours, lines, and space, you can see an underlying story.
His talent has caught international interest and his work has become collectable for people such as Oprah and the Prince of Saudi Arabia.
LISA JONES
Painter
Lisa is an acrylic and oil painter who loves colour. She has a passion for creative portraiture. Lisa has been painting since 1995. She has studied at the Brisbane Institute of Art and has taken part in many group exhibitions. Her paintings are happy, bold, and humorous.
MELISSA STANNARD
Painter
Melissa, a Yuwaalaraay, Gamillaraay, and Koama woman, embodies a profound connection to her heritage through artistry. As a dedicated collector of lost and found stories, she uses her work to express deeply personal narratives and confront challenging themes such as identity, belonging, intergenerational memory, trauma, and survival. Through mediums ranging from jewelry and sculpture to printmaking and environmental art, Melissa seeks to bring awareness to cultural and collective traumas while exploring paths to healing rooted in indigenous practices like Wingangali and Dadirri.
PAM WALPOLE
Painter
Pam paints nature at its best and worst. Drought, bushfire, natural and man made occurrences. A bold contemporary style, she likes to capture the essence of the landscape shadows, reflections and the minutiae of life.
TONY WELLINGTON
Painter
Tony's whimsical, finely detailed paintings have been exhibited and sold through a wide range of galleries in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia. He has won various prizes for his artwork, and his paintings hang in homes across the globe. He has been commissioned for several corporate collections and has also created artwork for book jackets. Tony has been exhibiting since 1995.
Painter
Sally’s paintings draw inspiration from organic forms, colours and patterns found in nature, moments, an experience, or a memory. She often paints with a limited palette which creates a sense of calm and lightness to her work. Her use of texture, layers and patterning add a sensory dimension to her paintings which are sought after by collectors far and wide.
Sally grew up in London and has spent most of her adult life living in Australia and New Zealand. She now calls the Sunshine Coast home.