Don Roderick Gallery

Friday, March 29, 2013

Exhibition: "Art in the Towers" 27April - 11 May 2013

important dates for April and May 2013:

Tuesday 9th April 2013 Next meeting @ 5.30pm Flo Fitzgerald Room, 2013 Memberships due date, “Art in the Towers” nominations due date.

Friday 12th April 2013 NQ Arts Awards evening

Saturday 20th April 2013 Artworks to be delivered

Saturday 27th April 2013 Opening night “Art in the Towers” exhibition

Saturday 11th May 2013 Last day “Art in the Towers” exhibition

Sunday 12th May 2013 Artworks to be collected

A reminder also that the 2013 Art Competition and Exhibition will run from 29th June to 13th July 2013.

2013 DRGG membershp form

just print and send completed form with payment to the address listed.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Jim Arena - The Worlde and other places - exhibition

Jim is a self-taught and passionate artist. Even in his school years, he excelled in art. In his early years he began working as a ticket-writer and window-dresser, all the while painting and drawing whenever he could get the time, so it was a natural and easy progression to move into signwriting, screen-printing and eventually commercial art and design as a career.

During his 40 plus years in his trades his work covered many other aspects of the visual advertising industry including air-brushing, murals, pencil, pen and ink and hundreds of T-shirt and tea towel designs. He has also designed book covers and illustrated books for authors from all over Australia. Many of his logo designs still appear on coins, letterheads, honour boards and in business advertising. He has won State and National awards for his designs and artwork, some of which have been used in advertising in Portugal, Spain, Bahrain and the USA.

It was during Jim’s extensive travels throughout Australia that he realised that there was a whole world out there just waiting to be painted …. scenes that perhaps no-one else has painted … scenes that people look at but don’t really see. So it wasn’t difficult to make the decision to devote himself to his lifelong passion of painting and drawing full-time.

Jim has held two successful exhibitions at the Don Roderick Gallery in Charters Towers (2011 and 2012). Each showcased forty pieces and gained him several commissions.

He works in oils for his landscapes and seascapes and in pencil for his portraits.

Email: jimarenafineart@bigpond.com