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About PETSCHEL HOUSE

Petschel House Hamilton is the home of artists Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan. In 2016 Jenni and Mervyn relocated their studios and galleries from Eltham to a beautiful 14 acre heritage Bluestone home with extensive gardens and lake. New studios and galleries have evolved and now support painting classes and open days. Jenni and Mervyn both grew up in the artistic shadow of Eltham's Montsalvat artists colony. Mervyn is from the founding family of Skippers and Jenni first began formal painting classes at the art colony as a 10 year on child. Jenni went on to have her own studio at Montsalvat and run classes from there. Both artists have travelled extensively overseas and into the desert regions of Australia. Jenni Mitchell has exhibited her work around the globe and is held in many public and private collections. Visitors are welcome at Petschel House to wander the gardens, view the studios and purchase works of art or home grown produce from the large productive orchard and gardens. Best to Phone ahead on 0417585102. Petschel House is located at 107 Petschels Lane Hamilton Victoria. 3300

TWO MONGOLIAN JOURNEYS

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Our next exciting exhibition is about:  TWO MONGOLIAN JOURNEYS

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This exhibition will showcase the PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, TEXTILES & ARTEFACTS produced and collected from our two journeys to Mongolia in 2010 and 2012.

In 2010 we travelled with our Australian friends Marion and Peter to Mongolia to be with our Mongolian artist friend Tugsoo Sodnom. Tugsoo had come to Australia a few years earlier and travelled with us to paint in the Flinders Ranges. This resulted in the first exhibition DESERT SHARING held at Montsalvat Barn Gallery in 2005. We have continued the journey with travelling to the Central Mongolia landscape at Khorhorin, the North East to the Siberian Forest and later in 2012 South to the Gobi Desert with Tugsoo and her son Unench.

We camped in GERS along the way and made many small paintings and much photography and film which will be part of this exhibition. We will also be exhibiting some of the work Tugsoo made in the Australian Flinders Ranges.

Durning our 2010 visit we were invited to return and exhibit in the History Museum in Ullaanbaatar; being the first Australians to exhibit in the Museum. This was part of our reason for returning in 2012; and to travel to the Gobi to fulfil our DESERT SHARING with Tugsoo.

CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO MONGOLIAN JOURNAL

The exhibition opens Sunday 10 November @ 2.00pm and continues through until the end of the year.

The exhibition will be open Thursday – Saturday 10.00 – 5.30, Sunday 10.00 – 5.00

all enquiries to: Jenni Mitchell: (03) 9439 3458, M. 0417 585 102  jenni@ElthamSouthFineArt.com.au

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The Spring Show Opens this Sunday, 29 September at 2.00pm.

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Late Sunday Afternoon Reading –

Jennifer Strauss & Geoff Page – Sunday 27 October

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Jenni & Mervyn would like to invite you to listen to and meet two of our leading Australian poets. Jennifer Strauss (Victoria) and Geoffrey Page (ACT) are both respected and well known for their life dedicated to the craft of poetry.

Jenny Strauss

Jennifer Strauss & Geoffrey Page

at the Eltham South Fine Art Gallery
6 Mt. Pleasant Road, Eltham

27 October at 4.30pm

$8.50

includes refreshments & nibbles

A gentle way to close the weekend as we merge into the new week.

For bookings:
Phone: 9439 3458 Mobile: 0417 585 102 email: jenni@ElthamSouthFineArt.com.au

6 Mt Pleasant Road, Eltham 3095 http://www.ElthamSouthFineArt.com.au

Jennifer Strauss was born on a dairy farm near Heywood, and spent the first six years of her life there. She received her education successively in a Catholic convent, Presbyterian boarding school, and Anglican College of Melbourne University. Her working life has been as an academic in English departments, which has afforded her a great deal of pleasure from teaching, and the chance to move about the world a good deal-living in Britain, USA, Germany, Canada and travelling in Spain and Latin America, especially Argentina. Her first published poems were in Melbourne University Magazine. As an academic at Monash University, Jennifer published a good deal of literary criticism, including books on Judith Wright and Gwen Harwood; edited 2 anthologies of Australian poetry, and co-edited The Oxford Literary History of Australia. Jennifer Strauss is national President of a woman’s NGO, the Australian Federation of University Women.

Geoff PageGeoff Page is based in Canberra and has published twenty-one collections of poetry as well as two novels and five verse novels. He’s also won the Grace Leven Prize and the Patrick White Literary Award, among others. His recent books include A Sudden Sentence in the Air: Jazz Poems (Extempore 2011), Coda for Shirley (Interactive Press 2011), Cloudy Nouns (Picaro Press 2012) and 1953 (University of Queensland Press 2013). Improving the News (Pitt Street Poetry) and NewSelected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann) are due out late in 2013.

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Photographs & Portraits taken and painted by Jenni Mitchell

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Three New Workshops –

TWO NEW dates for the ORCHARD GARDEN @ The Gallery and ONE for WINGROVE PARK, ELTHAM.

CLICK LINKS BELOW FOR DETAILS AND BOOKSINGS

Wingrove Park Workshop 

Orchard Garden Workshop 

 Orchard Garden Workshop

The Late Winter Show has been extended into Early Spring

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Screen Shot 2013-06-03 at 11.24.19 AMThere is still time to catch THE LATE WINTER SHOW at Eltham South Fine Art Gallery. It is now extended into Early Spring. There are great works to see and the new Spring Garden coming to life with colour.

THE SPRING SHOW will open 29 September. There will be new works from gallery artists Jenni Mitchell & Mervyn Hannan with a Spring Theme. Janet R. Boddy and Ron Reynolds will also be showing new works in the Spring Show.

A new collection of semi precious stone & silver Jewellery has also been added to the Show case.

Towards the end of the year will be our long awaited exhibition featuring two Journeys to Mongolia. More on this later.

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The Late Winter ShowCome and join us in the gallery for the opening and share a drink and nibbles.

The Late Winter Show includes several large landscape paintings and a series of small recent still life works using fruits from the orchard garden. Works from a Coastal Norway Snow Shower, the Fiery Sky of a Western Victorian Sunset and a Heavy Mt. Buller Cloudstudy.  There are pastel works from Mervyn Hannan depicting the Flinders Ranges and the Digby Cottage. Still Life from Hilary Jackman and Bush Studies from Piers Bateman. Also included are several recent paintings by Ron Reynolds; Landscapes of Warrandyte and Still Life.

Works by Retro Eltham artists include Grace Mitchell, Alan Martin, Sonia Skipper, Leslie Sinclair and others.

From our recent visit to Dili, Timor Leste we have brought back some traditional textile including  Tias weavings. We are hoping to help support the community we stayed with through some gallery sales.

PAINTING CLASSES have recommenced for the term with regular classes being held Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

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Timor Leste

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Mervyn and I are preparing to travel to Timor Leste. This photograph depicts the way the traditional nomadic Mongolian would load up their wagons and yaks and head across the steppe to greener pasture.

In contrast, Mervyn and I will be flying from Melbourne to Darwin for a five hour sleepover in the at the Darwin airport from 1.00am – 6.00am for the 1.5 hour flight to Dili in Timore Leste.

Follow our journey at: www.jennimitchellblog.com

The (Late) Winter Show

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The Winter Show will be hung after the close of THE RETRO ELTHAM SHOW.

We will be exhibiting a selection of works by Jenni Mitchell, Grace Mitchell & Mervyn Hannan as well as a number of works from THE RETRO ELTHAM artists.

THE GALLERY WILL CLOSED FOR A MONTH – JUNE 27 UNTIL JULY 25

Please join us for drink to celebrate THE LATE WINTER SHOW on Sunday 4 August – 2.00pm.

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The Gallery Directors; Jenni Mitchell & Mervyn Hannan will be travelling to Timor Leste during June & July to help assist in the construction and recording of an ongoing  Eltham Rotary Project – to build a school house in an orphanage.

We hope also to make some connections with local artists’ & women weavers.

Eltham South Fine Art Gallery and Studios will re-open 25 July, upon their return.

The Retro Eltham Show

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LAST DAYS – EXHIBITION CLOSES NEXT SUNDAY – JUNE 9

List of Artists in The Retro Eltham Show

Selected Works from The Retro Eltham Show

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THE RETRO ELTHAM SHOW 

2PM, SUNDAY, 14 APRIL, 2013 

ELTHAM SOUTH FINE ART GALLERY

6 MOUNT PLEASANT RD  ELTHAM 

Eltham today is recognised and celebrated as one of Melbourne’s artistic epicentres yet how many people are aware of the artists, innovators and trailblazers of the 60s, 70s and 80s who helped forge the way?

A new exhibition – The Eltham Retrospective Show – will showcase the works of early celebrated Eltham-based artists, sculptors and jewellers such as Clifton Pugh, Matcham Skipper, Neil Douglas and Lesley Sinclair and their work over one of the most fertile periods in Eltham’s history.

The exhibition will be held at Eltham South Fine Art Gallery, run by Eltham artists Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan.

Ms Mitchell said the artistic achievements of Eltham’s pioneering artists and their impact and influence on Australia’s artistic landscape were at risk of being lost.

“History can be fragile,” Ms Mitchell said.

“It’s important to recognise and celebrate Eltham’s early artistic community, as these artists are the strength and soul behind today’s vibrant and emerging new arts community.

“Many of the artists represented in this exhibition have become national names, while others have fallen into obscurity due to a change of fashion. It’s time to remember their energetic contribution,” she said.

Ms Mitchell said the exhibition would also serve as a personal reflection of the artists who inspired the artistic development of both she and Mr Hannan.

“We were both lucky enough to grow up surrounded by these wonderful creative, courageous and sometimes eccentric people as our colleagues, friends or teachers when growing up in Eltham from the 1950s,” Ms Mitchell said.

“We are proud to show this collection of artists and invite everyone to enjoy, learn, reminisce, and be inspired by the works, many of which have been borrowed from private collections.”

Ms Mitchell said other artists to be represented in the exhibition included:

Rick Amor, Piers Bateman, John Borrack, Myra Skipper, Helen Skipper, Sonia Skipper, Damien Skipper, Joe Hannan, Rita Esslinger, Tony Muratore, Janet Boddy, Will Francis, Mark Page, Maurice Hurry, Ian Hassall, Ming MacKay, Simon Dattner, Neil Douglas, Shane Pugh, Alan Martin, David Lawrance, Grace Mitchell, Jenni Mitchell, Tom Sanders, Chris Sanders, Geoffrey Davidson,  Leon Saper, David Armfield, Margo Knox, Gabrielle Knox, Peter Glass, John Farmer, Hilary Jackman, George Chalmers, and Bernard Rust.

Jenni Mitchell and Mervyn Hannan established the Eltham South Fine Art Studios and Gallery to allow visitors to experience a little of “the old Eltham “ through artwork and the orchard garden.

“The Gallery is my mother’s legacy and an opportunity to curate new exciting and significant exhibitions while maintaining the history of the area,” Ms Mitchell said.

For more information or to arrange interviews, photographs for the Retro Eltham Show, contact Jenni Mitchell on 9439 3458 or 0417 585 102.

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The Autumn Show

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You are invited to the launch of our Autumn Show to open 3 March, 2012 at 2.00pm.

 

THE AUTUMN SHOW introduces several new artists to the gallery.

Janet R. Boddy is an Eltham resident who has been exhibiting regularly over a long career.  Emily Tuke is a talented emerging artist who has been a student of Jenni Mitchell’s for several years and is at the beginning of her artistic career. Tony Muratore also has a long exhibiting history of painting and printmaking in the Eltham district as well as being a regular commuter between his homeland Italy where he retires to work in his summer studio. New works are on show from the stock room and studios family artists Mervyn Hannan, the late Grace Mitchell, Jenni Mitchell, Damien Skipper and the late Sonia Skipper.  The late Geoffrey Eggleston is the gallery poet and painter. And our Mongolian artist Tugsoo Sodnom. 

 

Regular Painting Classes continue in the gallery studio school and visitors are invited to wander through the old family orchard garden.

 

The Autumn Show

THE AUTUMN SHOW includes work from our studios and collection of Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Print and Textile.

Eltham South Fine Art – 2013

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Gallery Opens January 31 with an extension to  THE SUMMER SHOW until the end of Summer.

Come and visit the gallery and help us celebrate the new look gallery; we have been busy with a few changes over the Christmas break.

The gallery will  now feature Seasonal exhibitions with changing work as well as some guest exhibition throughout the year. Details will be posted shortly.

Painting Classes for 2013 begin Thursday 31 January. Classes available Thursday morning and afternoons & Friday and Saturday mornings.

The orchard garden is open for visitors.

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Eltham South Fine Art

The Gallery will be closed for renovations between Christmas and January 31.

If you would like to contact us please do not hesitate as we are not far away and may be able to assist you or open by arrangement.

Painting Classes with Jenni Mitchell re-commence Thursday January 31 and bookings

are now being taken for classes Thursday, Friday & Saturday  mornings & Thursday evenings.

Gallery Hours for 2013 are Thursday to Saturday 10.00am – 5.30 Sun 11.00am – 5.30.

For all enquiries please phone Jenni  or Mervyn  9439 3458 or  M. 0417 585 102.