GERARD MUTSAERS Gerard Mutsaers was born in Holland in 1947, arriving in Australia as a child in 1952. A traditional landscape painter, he has become renowned for his renditions of the subtle colours of the Australian rural landscape particularly the Yarra Valley. Mutsaers has held numerous solo exhibitions throughout Melbourne and interstate. Works are represented in private and institutional collections in Australia and overseas. Gerard started painting professionally in 1974. Many works have been purchased for corporate boardrooms including Insurance Council of Australia, Westpac, Tokyo Electric Company, Tokyo Gas, and BHP Australia. His paintings are also featured in the Royal collection. Current prices in galleries are between $1250 - $1500 (www.gerardmutsaers.com)

Armidale Youth Futures Art AuctionWe are really excited by this year’s selection of art for sale. All the works are original and in excellent condition and display a range of styles, sizes, prices and subjects- something for everyone!

We would very much like to thank the local donor for the paintings displayed here for auction and sale. Some have a fixed price attached (all excellent value) and others will be auctioned at the Armidale Youth Futures (AYF) Fund Raising Dinner on the 1st April at the Armidale Ex-services Club. The total amount of the sale will go to AYF – all the paintings have been donated and there are no commissions.

We need your help! Please share this catalogue with all your friends especially those who love art. Please feel free to send a link to any who may be interested wherever they live! Phone bidding or pre-auction proxy bidding will be available for the items to be auctioned. Please contact AYF for details or fill in the form at the bottom of the brochure.

If you would like to view any of the art work or would like more details, please contact Rob Dewhurst on 0409723522 or info@ayf.org.au

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4. One Afternoon Light, 30×20cm Oil on Board Unframed (Auction $700-$900)

5. Wet Eucalypt Forest, (Oil on Board) 15×20cm Unframed (Auction $500-$700)

ADAM BOGUSZ Adam, the son of the artist Richard Bogusz, turned from music to painting in 1998. He has developed a vibrant and colourful style of painting that is now well sought after here and overseas. His paintings of beaches and the city are particularly appealing.

1. A Cup of Coffee 38×33cm Acrylic on Board Framed (For Sale $350)

2. Ned Kelly Series, Acrylic on Stretched Canvas 30×40cm Oil on Board Unframed (For Sale $450)

MAX HORST SOKOWSKI Max Horst Sokowski is a contemporary full-time painter and works from his studio in Melbourne. In 1997, he completed a Masters Degree at the European Academy of Arts. He uses oil, acrylic, watercolour and gouache, often mixing them with drawing techniques and uses a combination of traditional and non-traditional techniques to experiment with paint mediums, colour and texture. He has won many art competitions and his works are in private collections all over the world: his ‘Ned Kelly Series” is particularly appealing.

WILLIAM O’SHEA Bill was born in Sydney in 1934, is based at Dubbo NSW and is generally regarded as one of Australia’s best-selling painters. He began painting full time in 1974, after having worked in poster design, silk screen printing and also as a part time lecturer at the Sydney School of Graphic Arts. His works, distinctly “O’Shea” in style, dramatically and beautifully typify the Australian scene - the woolsheds, mining and farming scenes, shacks, timber mills, homesteads and pubs of Australia.

3. Hungerford 75×37cm Oil on Board Framed (For Sale $370)

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ROS PSAKIS Ros Psakis is a six times winner of The Art of Sydney Awards (including best oil painting in 2016) and twelve times winner of the Award of Excellence St George Art Society. She is an excellent impressionist artist combining the use of light, brush strokes and movement in her paintings. Her work is included in many collections in Australia and overseas with several articles in the Australian Art magazine (www.rospsakis.com)

DUSAN MALOBABIC Dusan Malobabic is a Perth-based artist who completed his BA - Fine Art (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts. There is a warmth in the paintings in an impressionistic style. His oil paintings on canvas depict scenes from everyday life, scenes bustling with life and motion from busy cafés and crowded beaches. He makes these scenes come alive, so much so that you can almost hear the chatter in the café and the sounds of children playing in the sand and seagulls calling on the shores. The paintings of this Australian artist provide glimpses of the carefree and laid-back life of the continent. His style is impeccable and attests to his mastery of his art form.

10. The Beach (Oil on Stretched Canvas) 30×40cm Unframed (Auction $350-$450)

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6. The Stork in the Lagoon Acrylic on Board 30×30cm Framed (For Sale $250)

KEN TABER Ken Taber was born in Richmond NSW Australia in 1942. He is a self-taught artist who paints in both acrylics and oils. His preferred subjects are usually water scenes, misty swamps, tidal backwaters, beach scenes and his later work, semi-abstract acrylics of water birds in their environment. Ken has now been painting since 1968 and has had many one man and group exhibitions. His paintings are hung in collections around the world. He now resides on the NSW south coast near Batemans Bay. (www.kentaber.com)

8. The First Day of Spring Oil on Canvas 40×50cm Unframed (For Sale $400)

9. Friends at the Beach Oil on Canvas 40×50cm Unframed (For Sale $400)

EMERALD CAT (TANIA HAYES) Emerald is an emerging artist and currently owns her own business ‘Emerald City Art’ that specialises in animal, people portraits and wall murals in diverse styles. She works as a full time painter at her studio in South Australia. Her works have a surreal, yet realistic quality that has been influenced by her interest in colours, classic literature, beauty and animals.

7. Dragonflies Acrylic on Stretched Canvas 40×50cm Unframed (For Sale $150)

DIANA GARTH Diana Garth paints landscapes and flowers in oils, acrylics and mixed media. She loves painting from life and travels far and wide for her favourite subjects. A founding member of Oatley 101 Society of Artists and the Combined Art Societies of Sydney. Over the years, Diana has received many awards, including 2002 First Prize Miniatures, Oyster Bay Arts Festival, 2003 First Prize Small Paintings Award, St. George Art Society and Commended and Highly Commended Awards at the Combined Art Societies of Sydney Exhibitions.

13. Farm in the Valley 40×30cm Oil on Canvas Unframed (For Sale $250)

12. Ploughing the Field 45×30cm Oil on Canvas Framed (For Sale $300)

11. The Waterfall (Oil on Stretched Canvas) 40×50cm Unframed (For Sale $400)

18. Going to Church Oil on Board 40×30cm Framed (Auction $200-$300)

PETER HUGHES Born in Sydney in 1935, Peter Huhes is a mostly self-taught artist. He has exhibited his outback scenes in Queensland, and his work is represented in Parliament House, Brisbane. He is based at Gympie. Peter’s strong personality translates to bold works in a naive and colourful style. Peter has publicly exhibited work in places such as Government House, the Sydney Opera House and the Museum of Everything in London.

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SANDRA KNIGHT Sandra is a Melbourne–based artist selling original paintings in acrylic on large stretched canvas. She expresses the vivid colours of her exciting palette in a free form. Sandra is a multi-award winning artist who enjoys the quirky and experimenting with colour and form to produce stunning pieces of ‘conversational’ artworks.

14. Coral Garden Acrylic on Stretched Canvas 50×80cm Unframed (For Sale $275)

YOUQING (EUGENE) WANG Youqing (Eugene) Wang is an emerging and highly sought after artist based in San Francisco who specialises in small contemporary still-life and landscape works of art. See http://wangfineart.com/. His compositions are exceptional and the use of colour engendering compelling realism.

15. The Oil Can (Oil on Board) 25×20cm Framed (Auction $200-$300)

17. Lyrebird 53×35cm Oil and Gouache on Paper Framed (For Sale $260)

16. Feeding Time 32x41cm Water Colour and Gouache on Paper Framed (For Sale $150)

CHARLES A NEWMAN Charles Newman is an Australian Children’s Book Author, Artist and Illustrator. These pieces of work come from his estate.

JOHN POINTON Born in Sydney in 1936, John Pointon is mostly a self-taught artist and is a modern traditional painter. He has worked in commercial art and advertising, and has exhibited in Sydney, Brisbane and Surfers Paradise, as well as in San Francisco, USA. His work is represented in private collections in Australia and the USA. He is famous for his sell out exhibitions in the 1970s, where all his work sold in ninety minutes, creating a sensation and attracting favourable reviews in the Sydney press. He is best known for his delightful portrayals of Sydney’s inner city suburbs such as Paddington and Balmain with their terrace houses and workers’ cottages. John also enjoys painting rural scenes and seascapes. He uses a clever mixture of colour, light and texture to add a special dimension to his paintings.

20. Paddington Oil on Board 20×20cm Framed (Auction $300-$400)

COLIN HAYDON

Colin is an Australian artist who particularly relishes painting outback scenes featuring horses

19. The Muster Oil on Board 60×60cm Framed (For Sale $480)

RICHARD BOGUSZ Richard was born in Europe in 1947 of German /Polish parents who immigrated to Australia when Richard was five. His artistic talent blossomed early, gifted with a natural ability to draw and an abundant imagination. Richard has held a great desire ‘to work things out for himself and copy no one’. He has avoided any external influences, which he feared would corrupt his unique perception of the world. As an artist, Richard Bogusz does not deal in reality, but in a journey into his imagination. Richard began painting professionally in the 1970’s and during that period he won a number of awards & prizes. In 1986, Richard and his family migrated to Townsville to escape the pressure and expectation of those demanding his work. Here he embraced clear, bright colours which would be a refreshing contrast from the greys and browns of his earlier work. In 2001, he moved to Brisbane where he continued to paint his imaginative, narrative works, with his girls in bright dresses interacting with the birds and landscape which are instantly recognized as a ‘Bogusz’. The demand for Richard’s work has been so high that he has chosen to just supply a few selected Australian galleries with whom he has developed a close rapport. His works grace collections throughout Australia and overseas and paintings usually sell from $1000 to $2500.

21. Feeding the Birds 35×15cm Acrylic on Board Framed (For Sale $325)

22. Echidna 2 Series 47×60cm Oil on Board Unframed (For Sale $680)

RAMON WARD-THOMPSON Ramon is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and has been painting on a full-time basis for 40 years. His work is represented in galleries and collections in Australia and overseas. He settled in Berrima in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales - a move that was to greatly influence his painting style. It is here that he introduced the soft misty Highland light into his romantic studies of life in the Australian bush; a feature that he has developed and explored over the years and is recognised in his work today.

23. Brother and Sister (Oil on Board) 40×50cm Framed (Auction $400-$600)

24. Mates Oil on Board 45×60cm Framed (For Sale $500)

JOHN COBBY John Cobby is probably the best of the “Pro Hart” school of painting, enjoying painting the outback and its characters using lively colours. He is highly sought after, with his works available from $600-800.

25. Waves On the Black Sea Oil on Board 30×40cm Framed (Auction $250-$350)

OLEG ZAKHARIEV Oleg is an emerging artist from Russia who enjoys painting seascapes.

26. Mid-Victorian Miniature of Mozart (signed Vilpy) Water Colour on Ivory 7×7 cm Original Frame (Auction $300-$400)

27. Mid-Victorian Miniature of a Woman (signed Mangard) Water Colour on Wafer 8×6cm Original Frame (For Sale $300)V

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