CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

 April 29 - June 12 2022

Textures of Nature
Clare Riddington Jones
Creamery

In her exhibition Textures of Nature, Claire Riddington Jones explores her love of nature through Acrylic on canvas.

Jones loves to play with paint!  She has been painting for over 25 years so she is able to relax and enjoy the process after many years of practice.  Jones likes to work intuitively and let the painting take her wherever it will.  She often starts out with a specific subject in mind but after pouring, splashing and manipulating the paint for the background, will often see something completely different and go with the flow, as it were.  
 
Some of the paintings here are abstract and are merely lovely colours put on the canvas in a balanced and harmonious way and do not really have a strong message, other than to show the beauty which can be achieved with a flow of colour, a palette knife and some manipulation of the paint.
 
Many of the paintings in this exhibition have abstract backgrounds with more realistic subjects painted afterwards to blend into the background and to look at home in their surroundings.  The birds, animals, flowers and landscapes are all from her own photographs and she loves to depict them with a slightly impressionistic style and always with more colour than they probably appear in real life.
Clare Riddington Jones, Mandevilla, Sea Dreaming and Stilts, Acrylic, 2022 : Images courtesy of the artist.   

THE VIBRANT COAST
Dallas Lesley
Foyer

Surrounded by nature on the winding tracks to Tea Tree Bay, Dallas Lesley paints what she sees in the ocean, plant life and birds of the coastal zones. The shoreline and the shapes in nature inform her work as she looks for patterns in each piece. The flow of the ocean’s currents, the bold curves of the rocks, the curling and spiky leaves, the sensual, sculpted tree trunks make a landscape of patterns that these sights create, and the memories and sounds of the ocean beyond the trees and the birds high above, are part of her vibrant coastal expressionism.

In her exhibition, The Vibrant Coast, the viewer can see how Lesley uses the Australian Coast to explore her thoughts and feelings on the canvas. 
Dallas Lesley,  Below The Point : Image Courtesy of Artist

MENTORS AND MAKERS
All Abilities Art
Group Exhibition
​Butterbox

Mentors and Makers features all-abilities artworks from the Cooroy Butter Factory all-abilities ceramics classes and from Warrnambool’s Factory Arts inclusive mentoring program.
The textured ceramics are grounded heavy objects that are honest in their making and presentation.  The colorful glazes are expressive, playful and lively giving the works an added sense of movement and gesture. The paintings are large format works on unstretched canvas that reveal an array of styles and forms and include portraits, landscapes, street art, impressionism, abstraction and indigenous storytelling.
In the two programs a large number of mentors have guided the participants and sought to develop skills and produce quality artistic outcomes.


​Images : (Paintings) Kids Outside ,Cianan Irvine, Golden Hair Days, Matthew Clarke, (Ceramics)  Spaceman, Zeke Farrington, Camel, Sean Haggerty

OPENING EVENT

Saturday April 30th
4:00pm - 6:00pm
FREE gallery viewing. 

Come for the whole evening! There will be a bar outside to enjoy. 
Stay COVID Safe:
Stay at home if unwell or have a cough, fever, sore throat, fatigue or shortness of breath.
Maintaining physical distancing requirements is the individuals responsibility
Opening Hours
Tues - Sun 10 -3
​ (closed Mondays,  public holidays and  sometimes between exhibitions)
Contact: (07) 5442 6665      hello@butterfactoryartscentre.com.au
Location
11A Maple Street COOROY 4563

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