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Put Some Colour in Your Life
(26 x 30 mins)

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Series A No.	Title	Synopsis
1	BATCHELOR, Mealie	Amelia has been a practising visual artist for more than 20 years and now owns and runs a small Art House Gallery in the Northern NSW Region. Amelia is a multi-platform artist with skills based in the mediums of paint, paper, recycling and wire and metal based sculpture, organic sculpture, photography and community art projects. This episode features Amelia painting one of her expressionist fantasy works using acrylic paints.
2	MORTIMORE, Peter	Peter is a well renown equine artists, working with water colours, oils and acrylics, and the patron of the Mortimore Art Prize. The episode features Peter Mortimore sketching with a red pen, and touching up other pieces with oil paints.
3	BROUGHTON, Nicholas	Artists are often obsessive about their particular discipline and none more so than Nicholas Broughton who considers a day without painting or sculpting to be incomplete. His varied background has no doubt contributed to this fascination for the vibrancy of life that he so confidently depicts in his paintings and sculptures. Nick's shows Graeme his unique style utilising bitumen and paint on a canvas.
4	MILES, Frank	A lifelong intimacy with nature is captured in all his wildlife sculptures and it is that which gives them such a presence in private, public and corporate collections worldwide. Frank made a wide study of various methods of bronze casting and finally formulated the unique process which, combined with his inspired talent, distinguishes his work. Frank shows Graeme his unique method of sculpture and the final cast product.
5	O'BRIEN, Leisa	Leisa O’Brien is a passionate, self-taught artist. Her passion is to be able to capture a moment in life, whether it be a person, a clear wave on a sunny day, or a combination of colours in a second’s glance. Using mainly acrylic paints, with the occasional oils, Leisa likes to get her vision onto canvas as soon as possible, with the first few layers being a fervent frenzy, followed by several layers of refined, loving detail.
6	ZBUKVIC, Joseph	Joseph Zbukvic is regarded as the worlds leading water colour Artist and the Colour In Your Life TV show and team had the rare privilege to spend the day with Joseph in his Melbourne Studio. Joseph Zbukvic is a leading master of the watercolour medium of his time. His impressive achievements and enormous success is due to his ability to transform any subject into visual poetic language. Covering an infinite variety of subjects, his sensitive, lyrical and atmospheric paintings have captured people and galleries from all around the world.
7	BEHRENS, Dave	This week on Colour In Your Life, Graeme chats to friend and colleague Dave Behrens and watches him create his unique style of Art. Inspired by the vast universe, the limitless histories of the ancients and the yet to be told tales of the futurists, Dave creates art that encourages the viewer to be drawn in to explore the unlimited potential of their own imagination. Dave’s works have been described as bringing a sense of sophistication, glamour, and classic simplicity to works that are anything but simple.
8	UPTON, Michael	Michael Upton shares some of his incredible skill with us on this episode of Colour In Your Life. Michael has had a number of exhibitions and picked up quite a few awards. His art has been sold all over the world and he continues to paint a variety of subjects though always specialising in wildlife of mainly Africa and India, places which he continues to visit. He now lives in the beautiful Northern Rivers area of New South Wales under the shadow of Mount Warning
9	McGREGOR, Kelli	Kelli McGregor is an emerging artist who began her artistic career later in life than most. Her experience in architectural design heightened her awareness of space and negative shapes and of the compositional dynamic they create. Kelli combines training in design with an unerring sense of the aesthetic to produce her striking figurative paintings. Typically, her work is exuberant, vibrant, confident and eye-catching.
10	FARRELLY, Kylie	Kylie works mainly in acrylic, with which she incorporates a variety of media to enhance the textural outcome of her work. Her paintings invite you to feel the energy of each piece. She uses a bold colorful palette to capture the energy she draws from this vibrant young city. Her use of tone in her compositions creates a sense of depth and perspective within her work. The images are not always meant to be realistic but are easily recognisable. The paint is applied in layers of pure colour often using colours that have little resemblance to the real structure.
11	REUST, Tricia	Graeme heads to the studio of Tricia Reust, a multimedia artist and winner of several noted art prizes, including the Mortimore Art Prize. A spectacularly vibrant Artist that uses colour without any inhibitions, letting the idea and the form take shape and then building a story as part of her approach. Tricia is a woman who loves life and also her ability to pass on the great information she has learnt herself over the years. The development of a visual language that successfully communicates her beliefs is a life long goal.
12	DAVEY, Gina	Gina Davey is an Artist who has a wonderful understanding of the natural world. Her attention to light and form is amazing and her dedication to presenting the creatures of the world in their natural habitats is inspiring.
13	JACKSON, Terry	Graeme visits the studio of Terry Jackson, an artist that began her career later in life. Terry is a naturally brilliant graphite and pencil Artist. Her love of nature and all things whimsical with wildlife is a magical journey of emotion and joy. Her work is a wonder to behold, and the skill with which she brings her images to life will inspire.
14	HILLIER, Steve	Steve Hillier is an Artist dedicated to the process of producing stunning eye catching scenes of women and animals in realist and surrealist images. His commitment to details is extraordinary and his ability to portray a story through his work leads the viewer on a journey of imagination.
15	TOWNSEND, Darren	In this episode, Graeme visits sculpturist Darren Townsend, even having his own bust created. Darren enjoys the process of turnng clay into human likeness. Creating something that can stand the test of time gives him a unique satisfaction equalled only by those who enjoy his work. He also hopes that his work will inspire others to create.
16	SELLWOOD, Jeanette	Jeanette enjoys combining people in a natural environment. The ocean, rainforests, sunsets and sunrises create wonderful opportunities for new creative endeavours. Jeanette is also fascinated by people and individual personalities, her portraiture work showing a unique side of each person she paints.
17	BRADY, Rebecca	Society, conformity, the quest for perfection and beauty are the foundations of Rebecca's art making practice. These ideas have a direct relevance to her life and provide a reflection of the world around her In her works, colour can be seen as the symbol of vibration, an intense experience which expands the mind and creates possibilities. Rebecca believes that when colour is interpreted in its purest state and is seen as vivid and dramatic, a new creation can be made.
18	STEVENSON, Graeme (GL)	Graeme takes the viewers into his home studio in this episode, showing them how he brings together one of his nautilus shell pieces. Graeme is the founder, CEO and host of Colour In Your Life, and has been a master artist for over thirty years.
19	DYUMIN, Yelena	Yelena Dyumin is a professional artist and art educator who has spent decades perfecting her craft and unique style with its whimsical humour, textural sensitivity and vibrant sense of colour. At the heart of Yelena’s art, and a constant source of inspiration, is her rich heritage. After moving to Sydney in 2005, Yelena began blending her European experiences and classical style with the strong colours and energy inherent in Australian life and nature. This approach inspires her characteristically original and harmonious artwork bridging both cultures.
20	WILSON, Patrick	Patrick became interested in art from a very early age, finding great enjoyment in his ability to draw. He then found the simple objectivity of African Art, and the rhythm in Celtic Art. From the work of sculptors like Michelangelo and his insight into the human psyche, Rodin for his emotion, Henry Moore for the way he captures a simplicity of form and Jean Arp for his use of organic shapes. Patrick’s main source of inspiration in sculpture is his wife.
21	WOOLNOUGH, Meredith	Meredith Woolnough is a visual artist that works and lives near the coastal region of Newcastle NSW. Her practice engages with the natural environment utilizing the skeletal frameworks of flora and fauna as the basis of her own embroidered specimens. Threads are densely stitched into freeform sculptures that are carefully pinned to paper or set in resin preserving them as delicate handmade artifacts. Her work explores themes of the interconnectedness of living things and environmental degradation.
22	CORKE, Louise	Louise Corke is a Master Pastelist and one of the disciplines greatest teachers in Australia. She has won numerous awards over the years and her work is collected on a world wide basis. Louise considers painting a dance that is pure gestural expression, and while she dances alone, she also dances so that others can enjoy the emotions of the visual music.
23	McCANN, Lucy	Lucy McCann is an incredibly talented watercolour artist who, along with her husband Barry, teaches art classes in beautiful Armidale. Lucy studied fashion and dress design at The National Art School which gave her the grounding in draftsmanship and design. She has been a teacher of art for 12 years, here in Australia, New Zealand and Italy.
24	McCANN, Barry	Barry was born in 1962 in Armidale NSW Australia, where he now lives with his wife Lucy, also a full time artist. Together they run McCann Fine Art, producing, selling and teaching art. Barry’s love of art has taken him to some of the best museums and art galleries in the world where he draws constant inspiration. His subject matter usually involves an animated object with a dramatic light effect and enjoys the constant challenge of trying to portray the illusion of both movement and form with a narrative theme.
25	KENNEDY, John	John Kennedy was born 1973 in Solihull, UK; his family immigrated to Australia a year later. At 19 John was put under the wing of one of the great Australian Abstract Expressionist painters, Ron Lambert (1923-1995), who had studied under Oskar Kokoscka in Austria. It was then that he began to experiment with painting more intensely; producing one of his most important works, The Lady of Shallot (Alfred Lord Tennyson), a painting that only took the length of time that the poem was recited.
26	DONE, Ken	Born June 29, 1940, in Sydney, he left school at 14 to enter the National Art School in East Sydney. After 5 years study, he commenced a highly successful career as an art director and designer in New York, London and Sydney. Working predominantly in oils and acrylic, Done takes inspirations from diverse sources - the ebullience of the sea and sky, the transcendent emotions of a quiet garden, aboriginal art, japanese poetry, the urban shout of Sydney, where he makes his home - but the sensibility that underlies his work is uniquely his own.

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