Nicole Duyst
Nicole has recently relocated to Tasmania and is living in a Grand Designs-style renovated cottage on the Tamar River. She runs a successful art business online and through past connections with galleries in Queensland. Nicole's work has an enviable appeal on many different levels and we are fortunate to have her quirky, yet evocative image, "Winter Snow Cradle Mountain" in this Exhibition! Mixed media on Canvas, it measures175x102cms and is priced at $950
Sarah Walters
Sarah continues to inspire as our dedicated producer of extraordinary artworks. This time we are featuring a group of Three Tall Houses (The tallest stands at 44cms high) .. They are a Floor Show of their own! and like her inspired smaller ceramic houses, they seem to move and speak to each other. This is a one-off group of three .. $230 for the group.
In all of Sarah's ceramic pieces you will find her unique feeling for the use of unusual and beautiful clays and for the application of exciting glazes. Sarah's cards, too, are still with us - with some new, festive designs !
Prices are as marked. (All of her works have been made in Tasmania, are available for immediate purchase and can be taken home straight away)
David Pullen
David R. Pullen has miraculously appeared together with three exquisite watercolours which are on our walls. Born and educated in Launceston, David's art-work, even as a high-school student, showed remarkable promise. Now living and working in Canberra, he has begun to concentrate on a serious return to using the gifts that we, as his teachers, recognised in him so many years ago. David's connection to family here and his love of the island where he grew up bring him back to Tasmania whenever he can get here !!
Richard Barker
A rare opportunity remains to view and purchase original Eggmen Comic pages, finely rendered in pen and ink on paper, an expression of Richard's quirky, brilliant mind and its observation of the Human Race! Each drawing is presented at A3 size and priced at $125. Please enquire, either by email or at the Gallery for access. For those interested in exploring the series further, a small selection of Eggmen comic books is also available at $25 each.
Audrey Bilston
This Exhibition welcomes a very young and very vibrant talent to the Art Scene. These four images were created by Audrey in 2024, when she was in Year 11. They are extraordinary in that she drew them by hand on the face of an iPad - and, in that the images come entirely from her imagination, based on meticulous research about Paris - a city she dreams of visiting one day ! For anyone who knows that wonderful city, these prints ( because the iPad ,of course, converted Audrey's drawings into digital entities) speak very clearly of the essence of the place !
The works have the feeling of the Analogue - perhaps a lino-cut ? They are outstanding and deserve serious consideration!
Denise Cox
We welcome Denise back for a second time on our walls. Having formed a strong attachment to our Island and setting up home by the sea, Denise is a passionate emerging artist, keenly observing landscape around her and eagerly experimenting with how to express what she sees. These two small semi-abstract acrylic paintings are vibrant with the colours and weather patterns she finds around her all the time in her coastal environment..
Jack Boyes
We are delighted to welcome our youngest "Emerging Artist", Jack Boyes.
Just about to tackle Year 12, Jack is an intelligent and inspired photographer - searching for inspiration, eager for advice and for new ideas - looking for patterns and beauty in the things around him. This piece, "Wingspan", became central to his body of work in 2025 and led him through a complex period of creativity for one so young . We look forward to seeing what this next year will bring.
Tania Glanville
We were keen to keep Tania's "Bounty" for another month - Works like this do not happen every day and it seemed such a pity to remove that implied aroma of richly ripe berries ! ..
To make our happiness complete, Tania offered to pair (pear?) it with "Green Apples", so now there is a delicious crunching sound and an apple fragrance permeating the space as well!
How special is that !!
Margo Macdonald
The last works Margo brought here experimented with using acrylic paint "in situ" and overlaying this later with oils in the studio .. but the raw and earthy approach she has "with just pure Oil Paint out there in the open" seems to have won the day, difficult though it must be to transport still wet oil paintings on a companionable fishing trip with one's husband! .. so, celebrate these two vignettes of a knotted hedgerow somewhere out near Clarendon Homestead on a wild and woolly Tasmanian Day !
Garry Billing
Garry has been a compulsive Artist (and Musician!) throughout his long and wonderful life .. Where art is concerned, it has been amazing to watch his development, his experimentation and his growth in personal stature as a remarkable and self-assured painter. Later this year, we believe there will be another solo show here of Garry's works .. That made it difficult to preempt which of his works to choose for this exhibition .. so, here are what seemed to be the "odd-men-out"- two gorgeous little abstracts which should make you wonder and fill you with a bit of a glow !
Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan's new work, "Pieman River Corner", may be disappointed to have been left out of last year's solo show, but it possibly needs a bit of "solo" space of its own! At first glance, it seems to be the "benign and beautiful photo" that appeals to everyone - but, a short time spent with it, and the viewer is drawn into a mystery, an enigma that puzzles the mind and gives it food for deep thought ...
Alice Fullerton
This is Alice's first time at Raincoat and she has presented two linked Oil paintings. She loves to use colour in her work which she feels comes from the subconscious mind. .. and finds that stained glass windows represent the colours and patterns of Life itself.
Anne O'Connor
Anne is well known on these walls for her sensitive and innovative approach to photography.
This little piece is part of one of her earlier projects called "Art of the Street - East Launceston" and gives movement and beauty to a pavement scenario which many would not even notice. It calls out, quietly, for attention and dances into the viewer's mind....
Jason Foon
Another young artist from earlier Secondary College teaching days, Jason was outstanding as a student of Computer Graphics, excelling in the use of modelling software, being highly motivated and producing inspired work. Now busy in a long-standing job, he is still creating amazing landscapes from his mind's collection of beautiful images and is finding himself in demand in the sphere of Computer Gaming Visual Art.
