Artwork at hamar house
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
-Pablo Picasso
Step into our tiny exhibition space to find inspiration on every wall.
Grace Brown
Grace Brown was born in Victoria and is a proud Wurundjeri woman. Woiwurrung is her language group and is shared by the other tribal territory groups and clans within the Woiwurrung territory.
Grace has been on a journey to find her heritage on her grandmothers side and with many years and much research, she now knows where on country she belongs. Grace lived in north east Victoria for most of her life but now resides on the Gold Coast.
More of Grace’s work can be viewed on Art Lovers Australia.
Desert - Western Pebble Mouse
Limited edition print
Some of the strangest constructions made by animals in Australia are the mounds of stones, built by the western pebble-mouse. They move thousands of pebbles, each weighing up to half their own weight, and create a landscape dotted with miniature stone “volcanoes” in which the “craters” serve as burrow entrances.
Flowering Gumnuts
Limited edition print
A highly detailed traditional dot painting from the Desert Wildflower Series.
Michelle Gilks
Michelle Gilks is an artist, art teacher and workshop facilitator whose favourite medium is acrylic paint. She loves acrylic’s versatility and unlimited potential.
Michelle has a deep need to create and cannot be away from her easel too long. She has more ideas than time, and can often be found painting late into the night.
She is inspired by beauty in all its forms, but particularly that of the natural world. Michelle hopes her art encourages others to see and appreciate the wonders that surround us.
Michelle incorporates many layers in her work, which are composed using free brush strokes, drips, stamping and stencilling. She chooses her colour combinations instinctively, and finds their interplay to be simply magical. Her process is playful and constantly evolving.
You can view more of her work on Facebook and Instagram @michellegilksart
Skippy Roo Kangaroo
Limited Edition Print
An intimate portrait of a kangaroo, its warm gaze intent on its surroundings.
Cara Shields
Cara Shields is a Wiradjuri artist who was born in Narromine and grew up in Dubbo, Central Western NSW.
Cara likes to work with ochre pigments incorporating the pigments with acrylic paint and also lino printing.
She draws her inspiration from tree carvings and the natural patterns that occur in trees due to removal of bark or natural wear and tear.
Cara has now settled in Beenleigh, previously she has lived on the Gold Coast and Central Coast.
More of Cara’s work can be viewed on Art Lovers Australia.
Travel Pathways Series III
Cara was born in Narromine, moved to Dubbi - Gold Coast - Central Coast - Logan
This series represents pathways living in different places.
Laila Aasand Bjornsson
Laila is born and raised in Norway but later moved to Iceland to study weaving and textile arts at the College of Art in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 1983 after 10 years in the Arctic cold, Laila moved with her Icelandic husband, Magnus, and children to Queensland, Australia where they set up home. Laila has worked with different mediums; printmaking, acrylics and pastels. In 2018, she started working with oils on canvas.
This artwork is from her Warp and Weft series, a new series of oil paintings where Laila works with the tapestry of pattern and lights in the form of tree trunks, branches, foliage, sun and shade, the warp and weft to our natural world.
Forest Mood
Oil on canvas
This artwork is painted En plein air in the Daisy Hill Conservation park, close to her home in Rochdale.