Friday March 22 10am - 6pm
Saturday March 23 10am - 4pm
Sunday March 24 10.30am - 2pm
Rod Cherry
Rod Cherry is a Sydney based resident living in North Rocks. Born in 1953, he began painting in 2013 following retirement from a 40 year career as a teacher and administrator. Rod has been training since then at the Amberley Art Studio with well-known artist and teacher Deborah Angus.
Working in acrylic on canvas or board, Rod’s main themes reflect either seascapes or landscapes. As an emerging artist, he has been experimenting with colour and shape to reflect movement in nature, and often incorporates humour into his work.
He is strongly influenced by what he sees in nature, and by the interaction between the fauna and flora found in the locations where he seeks inspiration. Rod utilizes colour to convey changes in time, and changes in shape to reflect movement found in nature. Rod sees his work as transitional as he finds new inspirations from ever changing locations.
Rod has exhibited and sold at the Sydney Easter Show. He has been working on a series of acrylic seascape paintings on both canvas and board, taking inspiration from the Pittwater area in Sydney as well as the Central Coast and South Coast of NSW. Additionally he has broadened his paintings to include landscapes and seascapes from travels to Tasmania and New Zealand.
Deborah Angus
Deborah Angus has run the Amberley Art Studio in St. Ives for the past 36 years. At the same time continuing to paint commission portraits and exhibiting her work. She exhibits not only the portraits for major exhibitions but her intricate drawings but also landscape paintings inspired by the local area.
She first entered portrait competitions with the Archibald in 2003 with a painting of race horse trainer Gai Waterhouse. This was subsequently accepted as a finalist in the Portia Geach Women’s Portrait Prize at the S.H.Irvin Gallery. In 2009 she was again a finalist in the Portia Geach with a portrait of newsreader Ian Ross. In 2010 she was a finalist at the Art Gallery of NSW in the Dobell Prize for Drawing with “Book Of The Sea”. The following year, 2011 she was again a finalist in the Portia Geach with a portrait of leading jockey Glen Boss. In 2013 she was a semi-finalist in the Moran Portrait prize with a portrait of cricket writer Mike Coward and again in 2022 with a portrait of Peter Overton .
She has also been a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize with “Ball of Shells”,
Deborah has held exhibitions of landscape paintings of Pittwater, as well as more of her drawings of nests, shells and other intricate subjects. She has won awards at local exhibitions including the Royal Easter Show , Drummoyne Art Society and St.Ives Annual Show.
Gordon Anderson
From Sydney in NSW, Gordon has been a hobby glass artist for the last 15 years. He works his glass in a kiln, forming, slumping and fusing to create his unique pieces. His favourite glass medium is “Bullseye” Glass from Portland, Oregon in the USA, and he also works with recycled found glass.
