The Artists

  • Joanne Barnes

    Jo has a passion for painting beach and seascape artworks and capturing the beauty of the water and surrounds on canvas.

    She believes that the calm nature of the works that she creates, add to the important feelings that a home should encompass - serenity and tranquility.

    She lives on a beautiful property in the Perth foothills and is fortunate to have a lovely studio and gallery where she gets to work to the peaceful sounds of birds and wildlife every day.

    No matter where you live, Jo believes that you should feel at ease whenever you walk through your front door and that having the right art hanging in your home, contributes to that.

    Jo feels that the best thing about being an artist is knowing that her work is hanging in people’s homes where they get to love and admire it every day. She is forever grateful that her passion as her career and she is able to share it with others.

    SHOP JO

  • Charlene Blumenfeld

    Charlene lives with her ceramic artist husband in the hills of Perth and they “feel blessed with the inspiration around us every day”.

    She studied art at the Nash School of Art in Durban, South Africa and later took a sidestep into graphic design, advertising and publishing.

    Having studied Feng Shui, Charlene is influenced by the strong energy vibration of colour and how different colours influence and affect the energy in us and our homes. She experiments with the different vibrations of colour combinations by testing with dowsing rods.

    Charlene holds the strong belief that colour influences the energy around us.

    SHOP CHARLENE

  • Fiona Bryce-Fasolo

    Ever since Fi can remember, she has always loved art- admiring it, creating it, teaching it and exhibiting it!

    She vividly remembers standing at an easel in Kindergarten, painting a massive daisy with everyone standing around admiring it. The feeling of excitement painting this daisy, the reaction of others - and how much joy it gave - was the best feeling!!

    Fi completed her Visual Arts degree and Diploma in Education and for 13 years she taught as a Visual Arts teacher.

    In 2012 she launched Art Kids on the Hill - a studio space in Gooseberry Hill, where she runs art classes and workshops for children and adults.

    SHOP FIONA

  • Danielle Buckett

    Danielle is a mother of four who lives with her husband and kids in the Perth hills. She discovered her creative side after leaving the corporate world to start a family in 2013.

    Over the last 8 years she has started and run several successful small businesses, along with dabbling in teaching kids arts and crafts workshops at a local art studio.

    Danielle has discovered her own love for colour and texture along the way to create works inspired by rainbows and light.

    SHOP DANIELLE

  • Sarah Carlton

    Sarah was born in England where she studied art for a couple of years before moving on to Fashion Design and Textiles.

    After raising a family whilst working in various creative based jobs, she moved to Perth where she began working as an Interior Stylist and Visual Merchandiser.

    Little did Sarah realise that picking up a sketchbook and pen to doodle (as a form of self-healing through a tough time) would not only lead her to developing her art business, but also provide the opportunity to share her love and knowledge of creating with others!

    Much of her artwork depicts dreamy, surreal scenes, often centred around nature and ‘losing herself’ there! She is grateful everyday that she re-connected with her inner artist.

    SHOP SARAH

  • Sue Codee

    Sue is an artist/designer located in the beautiful city of Albany on the south coast of West Australia. She has worked in the arts for over 30 years and completed a Fine Arts degree at Curtin University in Perth in 1988.

    Sue designs and creates distinctive papercuts, woodcuts, jewellery, bowls and coasters. As well as handcutting large paper artworks she also uses the technology of lasercutting to cut and etch her designs in paper, perspex, and wood.

    Her detailed and often complex images have a playful and figurative storytelling element with themes of community, environment, family and place.

    Sue’s work is represented in many public and private collections and she has received numerous awards.

    SHOP SUE

  • Kaye Devlin

    Kaye grew up in the Wheatbelt town of Merredin. After relocating to Perth in the early 1980’s she took her first art lessons, learning traditional drawing. Although working full time as a state public servant, Kaye continued taking lessons whenever time permitted.

    In 2009, Kaye completed certificates in Fine Art and Contemporary Craft at C Y O’Connor TAFE and in 2010, began studies for a Diploma in Visual Art & Craft.

    Inspired by early icons and images, ancient frescoes and mosaics, cave paintings and rock art, Kaye’s works have evolved to be bordering on abstract, yet representation is always present in them. The natural world is an endless source of subjects for Kaye, and folklore and mythology often feature in her works.

    Influenced by Goya, Turner, Picasso and Australian artists Joy Hester, Arthur Boyd and Brett Whiteley, Kaye likes to work in mixed media on paper. She especially loves using liquid mediums, incorporating other materials such as pigment, gouache, collage and various pastels.

    Kaye has held three solo exhibitions and received 67 awards. Her works have been acquired for collections in Australia and internationally.

    SHOP KAYE

  • Willemina Foeken

    Willemina was born drawing!

    Creativity clearly runs through her veins as she is an accomplished artist, art teacher, ESL teacher and singer.

    Since 1979 she has held over 40 exhibitions (solo and joint) within Australia and overseas, receiving numerous awards.

    Willemina teaches art to adults and children from her home studio in Southern River.

    SHOP WILLEMINA

  • Michelle Gilks

    Michelle creates art in her home studio in Perth where she listens to music as she paints, dances around a bit and generally makes a mess on the floor.

    A self-taught artist, her process is playful and constantly evolving. She builds up layers in her work by painting freely and spontaneously, often using her fingers to apply the paint and letting the colours run and move. Her favourite part of the process is creating all the random squiggles!

    Michelle loves inspiring creativity in others and gets great satisfaction from facilitating art workshops for adults and children.

    She divides her time between creating art, teaching art and spending time with her family and friends.

    SHOP MICHELLE

  • Georgina Hamer

    Georgina is enthusiastic about colour and curious about texture. A self-taught artist, she employs an experimental nature using traditional and non-traditional mediums, acrylic paint, inks, and stencils.

    She creates multi-layered canvases that are dynamic and engaging, rich with colour, and tempting to touch.

    Most of her art is composed on the porch of her family home in the Perth Hills, surrounded by native wildlife (including her favourite local magpies and her staffordshire terrier, Jazz).

    Otherwise, you will find her creating amongst her peers in the studio, where she spends time during the week with an affirming group of artistic women (Beauties & Brushes) under the instruction of art teacher, Fi Bryce-Fasolo (of Art Kids on the Hill), bouncing around collective ideas and sharing life experiences.

    SHOP GEORGINA

  • Natasha Knott

    Natasha Knott is a West Australian artist based in the Perth Hills. As a new mother she spends her time with her daughter, working as a High school Art and Design teacher and painting in her home studio nestled amongst the trees and local kangaroos.

    Natasha completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Curtin University in 2012 with specialist knowledge in painting, drawing and photography. In 2018 she also completed her Diploma of Interior Design from Billy Blue College of Design which has further developed her decorative approach to painting and fascination with colour and colour theory.

    Natasha’s work is inspired by the natural environments around her and places she has travelled. Whilst focusing on intensely painted birds and various wildlife, her works often integrate two dimensional backdrops with a playful approach with layering and thin washes to create a sense of perspective and the mystical.

    SHOP NATASHA

  • Christine Le Faucheur

    Chris is a visual artist living in Perth, Western Australia. She paints mostly in oils on canvas, gouache on paper and acrylic and has been exhibiting for over 20 years.

    Chris has attended numerous short courses and workshops as well as a Charles Sturt University summer school for 3 years but is predominantly self-taught.

    Chris has been in many club exhibitions, 4 combined exhibitions with one other artist, 3 solo exhibitions and she currently paints with a plein air group (painting on site) in Perth and surrounds.

    Her paintings are influenced by the colours of the semi- tropics of Brisbane where she grew up and her subjects vary from her love of observing people, the bush, and cityscapes, especially at night.

    SHOP CHRISTINE

  • Penny Maddison

    Penny will paint anything in watercolour. It’s the medium rather than the subject she is drawn to because watercolour is so challenging, and she loves challenges.

    Using her imagination to create work from scratch is a favourite activity. But if she wants to show the world as it is she turns to nature, the lightness of birds, the flutter of leaves, our fellow animals and the extraordinaries of light.

    Her early years in architecture means she loves painting building too. Landscapes, portraits, still life and flowers are all subjects which present their own challenges to enjoy. Abstracts allow for really big watercolours. Extensive travel has influenced her painting greatly.

    Penny is heavily involved with the Watercolour Society of W.A. and was the President (2004-2007) and Vice President (2000-2004 and 2018-22)

    She has held 3 solo exhibitions and won numerous awards. Her work is in collections in the U.S.A., Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Holland, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, and South Africa.

    SHOP PENNY