134 Mollison Street Kyneton Victoria 3444 (opposite Shire Hall)
Sunday 29 June – PREVIEW 2pm-4pm —- by invitation only
Monday 30 June – Sunday 13 July 2008
Featuring works by Annie White and Vanessa Rogalsky
Annie White
Annie White is a freelance illustrator who has been involved with drawing throughout most of her life. After studying Art and Design, she worked in advertising before moving full time into illustration.
Annie’s work has appeared on cards, posters, homepages, magazines, rubber stamps and murals, and she has illustrated over 50 books for children. She communicates ideas clearly and simply using expression, movement and a certain sense of whimsy.
Some of Annie’s clients include Era Publications, Oxford University Press, The Five Mile Press, Pearson, Macmillan, Harcourt, Thomson Learning, Michelle Anderson Publishing, Horwitz, Jacaranda, and the National Trust of Victoria.
Annie is Melbourne-based, and we are very privileged to be exhibiting her original illustrations from many of her published works. Annie enjoys working in many areas and especially in the field of childrens literature; her illustrations are well regarded for their ability to capture the innocence, curiosity and the cleverness of children. A former advertising illustrator, Annie now devotes herself full time to working as a freelance artist, and most of her work is published in childrens books.
Vanessa Rogalsky
Vanessa began her art studies in 1965 at Cardiff Art College and continued her education in Fashion Textiles Screen Printing, Tapestry and Design at Great Malvern, England. Vanessa’s tapestries have toured the world with Art Colleges UK.
After graduating Vanessa entered the fashion industry as a pattern cutter. As luck would have it she met and married an Australian, thus emigrating to Australia and settling in his home town of Warrnambool. What a cultural shock after London! They then moved to Woodend where she bred and rode horses, raised her family and worked as a chef for 14 years in Mt Macedon …… artists do have many talents!
Four years ago Vanessa decided to return to painting, her first love. She has successfully exhibited in Lions Club and Rotary Club art shows and was awarded a Highly Commended at the Queen’s Birthday Art Show Bacchus Marsh.
This is Vanessa’s first exhibition which encompasses her love of horses, fish and rust – “Zebras are, to my eye, totally unexpected – you already have appaloosas, pintos, solid colours, but STRIPES … a striped horse – Equus – amazing! Rust … I love the decay of rust, the idea that one day the object will no longer be. I love finding rusted objects in my paddocks – I have no idea how long they have been there or how long they will continue to be there. Fish … I have always had a passion for fish. As a child I had a pond full of fish and newts, and so now I have tanks and a pond full of them. Anyone could design the most outlandish fish possible and within the week it will probably be caught. I love the way fish move and flash in the light – their movement through water is more akin to flying. I also love the way, with water, you can look into it or onto it.”
Gallery hours 10:30am – 5:30pm daily; closed Thursdays.