BRIDGETOWN ARTISTS

This collection of work by textile artist Cassi-Jo Davis includes a couture clothing range, upcycled antique furniture and Textile Fine Art. The theme is Verte (Green) and is about homes, gardens and growth; what it means as a woman to come home to self. This year Cassi-Jo opens her studio at home, a 100+ year old weather board cottage with a green roof and a green studio nestled in lush green gardens, protected under the arms of the most incredible ancient oak tree. It has been renovated with a green ethos. Only using antique salvaged materials, much like her textile art and clothing range.

Mixed media still life and landscape studies that are an expression of the world around us. The works evolve from the mood of the moment and are joyful representations or layered abstracts with playful colour.

Describes herself as a self deprecating “hobby artist”, keen to try new techniques. Inspiration for her art is taken from the landscape and nature. She is experimental in her preparation, adaptation and creation of works, with acrylic and watercolour being her media of choice.

Since moving to the region Jan has been drawn to the beauty within the Southern Forest. With brush in hand, working in acrylics and mixed media, Jan is fascinated by the change of seasons nature provides. She is currently enjoying the freedom and flow of working with inks, often using sticks to enhance what she sees.

Kim is professionally trained, with a diploma in Studio Ceramics and degrees in visual arts and education and has been making pottery for 29 years. While building her professional practice Kim taught pottery in Perth. Now developing her studio in North Greenbushes, she creates unique functional stoneware pottery, designed around glazes to suit client’s personal aesthetics for your table. This pottery is light, durable and feels good in the hand. She also makes highly original one-off decor pieces featuring clay slips made from locally sourced clay deposits and which are unglazed, raw and earthy earthy. When not making pottery Kim creates drawings and etchings.

Watercolour is her primary medium, Pastel, Geli printing and mixed media are also part of her works. Nature is Marguerite’s inspiration...the bush, the magnificent Karri, wildflowers, and landscape, including the ‘awe of the ocean’ and her beautiful garden.

The past year has been introspective, producing works that are tiny, almost whispering, as if honouring deep change. Images guide her towards quiet retreat immersed in gratitude, and the textures and palette of natures rhythms.

Vikki works in all types of media with an affinity for texture in her mixed media works. She often begins her work in-situ painting en plein air, as well as taking photos to complete works in her home studio. She paints with great gusto using both bush material, palette knife and brush in an impressionist style.

Having always loved creating with clay, Colleen enjoys exploring different techniques to build a piece and the finishing touches. Each work has its own uniqueness.

A lifelong fascination with fabrics led Disha to felting. The sheen and softness of the silk and the strength and warmth of fine wool combine to make an elegant and unique fabric. Disha enjoys the physicality of the process and the way that even with design and planning the end result is an organic unknown outcome.

Isobel creates within her shop/studio, Slow Grow Project, reflecting ‘When we slow, we feel. When we feel, we heal. When we heal, we grow.’ Her philosophy is to create slow, beautiful, imperfect pieces that keep the connection with slow practices, nature and simple living. Isobel sews beautiful linen into functional, inclusive clothing; she stitches off-cut linens, vintage silks into mending patches; she naturally hand dyes with foraged plants; she hand dips local beeswax into beautiful candles and on occasion weaves baskets from overgrown plants. She creates in the way that feels right at the time.

Her source of inspiration is the unique and character-filled buildings in and around the heritage town of Bridgetown. Jean finds using watercolour and ink in a naive style best for expressing the fabric and “feel” of the buildings and considers her artwork a painted archive, preserving iconic and much-loved building past and present.

A collection of sculptures in the Perrier’s personal Sculpture Garden in Bridgetown contains over 30 works and is constantly growing. The work includes Kim’s Carbonature style, lightweight concrete in what he calls Organic Cubism, as well as Bronze and Aluminium cast work. Some work dates back to the late 1980s and many are part of Kim’s extensive personal collection. Kim won the People’s Choice Award at Castaway’s Rockingham in 2021 and 2022 and both sculptures are on display in the garden. Sculptures are solar spotlit at night.

Having lost touch with her artistic passion Melinda has returned to her creative roots, leaning on strong foundations built during her visual art studies at Curtin University. Spending time to rediscover forgotten strengths her experimental process is driving an eclectic body of work created using a diverse array of mediums.

Shekinah... a conversation with the divine through nature tamara uses a variety of media to capture and portray the beauty and magick inherent in the natural world that surrounds her off-grid stone cottage nestled amongst the stunning gums, organic raised veggie beds and fruit trees betwixt Balingup and Bridgetown… she paints using a variety of media including acrylic and watercolour, and sculpts using things found in nature, upcycled and recycled materials, and clay… all her art is imbued with resonant tones and frequency with many having sacred geometry embedded in the bones of the creations, along with other ancient symbology including numerology and astrology...

Her functional pieces are a personal reaction to the colours, rhythm and quirks of her environment, observing also the ever changing shades of rocks, land, sand and sea.

Scrap metal sculptures of birds of many different species. Recent awards: Christian Fletcher Environmental Award at SBB; Dardanup Art Spectacular (First Prize).

Playful semi abstracts, influenced by the natural world and Australian landscape, with layering of materials to build depth and textural interest. Strong elements of design and the tactile nature of the works are a consistent signature.

A textile artist from Donnybrook, Jacky creates to explore techniques and to invite closer inspection.

Richly coloured and textured “interior landscapes” that evoke the passage of time, inspired by the artists Bonnard, Matisse and Vuillard. Recent awards: City of Busselton 2019 (highly commended), 2018 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (finalist).

Figurative works with a rich decorative quality and a nod to the medieval aesthetic. With compositions influenced by the local environment - jarrah forests, a winding river and an extensive garden.

Caricatures, Fine Art, Lifelines, Commissions, Prints

Practicing art for many years on and off I’ve recently taken to Pastels with a passion. I paint flowers often although landscapes and especially those containing water are proving irresistible.