We are very pleased to invite you to a special event in our LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON Series. A Performance with DANIEL KAHANS. SUNDAY 15 JUNE @ 3.30. Booking Advised
.Cost $9.50 includes High Tea and refreshments.
For More details of our forthcoming Late Sunday Afternoon click here.
Our next exciting exhibition is about: TWO MONGOLIAN JOURNEYS
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
Come 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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From May to end of July the Eltham South Fine Art: Studio & Gallery will open ‘Gentle Hours’ – 11.00am – 4.00pm Thursday to Sunday.
While Jenni & Mervyn are exhibiting in Mongolia all phone enquiries are to Trish 9439 8806 AH or between 11.00am – 4.00pm the usual 9439 3458.
The studio is open to current paid up students May – July.
Regular Classes and Private tuition groups will recommence from July 12, 2012.
You can follow the Mongolian journey at http://www.jennimitchellblog.com
A short Mongolian journey from 2010 is available from here.
Eltham South Fine Art: Studios and Gallery is an Artist Run Initiative growing from the legacy of the late Grace Mitchell. The Mitchell family moved to Eltham in 1948 and bought a property that runs between Mt. Pleasant Road and Fordhams Road, South Eltham. Initially Grace and Arthur Mitchell lived in the old minors cottage at the top of the hill (Fordhams Road) and began constructing the orchard garden.
Grace Mitchell, a tailor and pastry cook began building a new residence and shop at the bottom of the hill at Mt. Pleasant Road and commenced her pastry business which she continued to run until the 1970s. On retirement Grace (then 67) swapped pastry and fabric for paint and sculpture and began her Fine Arts Degree at RMIT. Grace passed away April 2011.
Jenni Mitchell (Grace’s daughter) and husband Mervyn Hannan have re-opened the residence/shop as a Fine Art Gallery and teaching studio.
Jenni Mitchell commenced formal painting classes with Lesley Sinclair at Montsalvat in Eltham at the age of 10 and has since completed a Master of Visual Arts at Monash University.
Jenni travels regularly to wild and exotic locations around the world to find rare material for her painting and photography. Landscapes include the Australian desert, The Antarctic, The Arctic, Greenland, Norway and more recently, Mongolia.
Mervyn Hannan has also travelled widely in the search of inspiration to use with his painting, sculpture and music. Locations include Africa, Europe, Arctic Greenland, Canada and Mongolia.
Together Jenni and Mervyn run the Gallery and teaching studio. Visitors are invited to view current work of the resident artists and stroll through the orchard garden. Classes are run regularly and private tuition is available.
The Gallery is open Thursday – Saturday 10.00 – 5.30 and Most Sundays 11.00 – 5.00
For further information please contact Jenni Mitchell (03) 9439 3458 or Mobile 0417 585 102.
email: jenni@jennimitchell.com.au or info@ElthamSouthFineArt.com.au
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