Kempsey Neighbourhood Centre has provided opportunities through the now defunct Arts from our Place programs for people to learn new art/craft skills as well as continuing to develop previous skills. Different groups still operate giving opportunities to practice art activities.
All the artists listed below have exhibited and sold their works through several pop-up community exhibitions held by The Kempsey Neighbourhood Centre and some have exhibited in other community exhibitions and sold their work.
Patsy Hails
I am a sight-impaired multimedia artist. I paint delicate works in the spirit of renaissance painting with a funky gothic twist. I have recently discovered the beauty of oil and charcoal. My current work explores animal portraits and still life.
Clair McAlpine
I am a multimedia artist who has been making art my entire life. If it weren’t for the fact that I lived in in the real world I would be completely detached from reality, which my work conveys. I am known as a mural artist in the Kempsey Shire and my work is represented in several local community and business spaces.
Lizzie Clarkson
I am an artist that utilises various media. I draw my inspiration from nature. My current series is an exploration of natural forms using collage and acrylic paints.
Susie Jeffree
I am a self-taught artist. I attended Artist Kadira Jennings Art classes for four years when living on the NSW Central Coast. I have continued to be mentored by Kadira since moving to the NSW Mid North Coast which has been four years now. My art is inspired by nature, in particular flora and I have an eclectic style. I use various mediums to create my art depending on what I am working on. Having sold a few of my paintings I am driven mostly to improve my art practice every day for the love of creating art.
Maria G Nagy
I was always interested in looking at beautiful fascinating pictures at length as a child and still now in my 60’s. I enjoy being in the moment when I paint, and flow with the colours, shapes, shades appearing on the paper and the senses in my body. It gives me such pleasure, and I hope others benefit from enjoying my art.
Shirley Kerfoot
I have been a creative for many years aind that extends across all modes of art and craft making. This series explores Neuroart which is based on the art form NeuroGraphica. My work is influenced the patterns of neural networks of the brain and how they connect. Everyone’s brain is different. We all react in different ways and our neural pathways reflect those differences.
Tina Sternbauer
I enjoy drawing and painting as it is relaxing and helps me destress. I love painting lonely old farmhouses in their haunted landscapes. I have sold a few of my works in recent exhibitions we have had a s a group.
Meg Thiering
I love having colour in my life. I learnt batik at High School and have returned to this art form whenever I could paint and decorating fabric to make clothing. Other expressions of my creativity have been embroidery, drawing with pastels and oil pastels, collage, playing the piano and writing. Over the past few years, at groups run by the Kempsey Neighbourhood Centre, I have loved experimenting with mixed media, weaving, watercolour and oil painting as ell as adding D materials to my collage
Corinne Rose
I like to evoke happiness and joy. I love seeing people's personalities in their art. I am fascinated by the healing nature of creating art, recent groups have seen me concentrating on different techniques and applications. I enjoy art in many mediums and hope you enjoy my art too.
Vicki Wacha
Vicki is a multidisciplinary artist who gives new life to discarded materials, inspired by an appreciation for the natural world and a commitment to sustainability. Vicki also likes to explore themes of social critique and challenging social norms. Vicki confronts societys relentless fixation on women’s beauty and perfection challenging the pressure to conform, through this work I invite the viewer to consider the value of imperfection to see the strength in what is fractured.
Jess Kings
My name is Jess Kings. I am 24 yrs old. I have doing water colour for just under 2 years. I find I can express myself freely like how the water and the pigment flow calmly on the paper.
Michelle Dundas
Michelle Dundas is a local Aboriginal Dunghutti woman who has been painting for a little over 2.5 years. She creates from the soul and lets the paint flow.
