The inaugural Macquarie Riversm-Artists Plein-air Event ended in Dubbo yesterday after attracting great interest and crowds.
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On both Wednesday and Thursday nearly 20 of Australia’s foremost landscape artists positioned themselves along the river and were watched and quizzed by hundreds of locals, with many aspiring artists among them.
Tonight from 6.30pm at the Garling Gallery in Wongarbon, the ‘wet works’ from the two days, expected to number around 50, will go on exhibition and be for sale. The exhibition will continue through until May 5.
Dr Bill Phillips, RiverSmart chief executive officer said the organisers were absolutely delighted by the interest in the event, which they hope will become an annual one.
“And of course we are extremely grateful to the artists for donating their time and art to help our community work,” Dr Phillips said.
Proceeds from the sale are being donated to RiverSmart by Brett Garling and his colleagues.
The exhibition and sale tonight will be opened by Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson.
“At the same time we’ll be launching the new Art Trail under the Macquarie River Trails initiative, which is very exciting,” Dr Phillips said.
“Plus, and equally exciting is that the downloadable app we released a few weeks ago for iPhones and iPads has been updated already and is also now available for Android devices.
“So now there’s just no excuse for not having this trip planner and gold mine of information about the local region with you all the time.”
On Thursday, several local artists also joined in, to the delight of the visiting group, and the Australian Plein-Air Group which included the who’s who of landscape art in Australia: Kasey Sealy, Doug Sealy, Chic Sealy, Warwick Fuller, Todd Whisson, Barry Back, Bruce Roberts, Ted Lewis, Steve Hoysted, Martin Campbell, Russell Smith, Ray Hill, Ivan Newby, Phil Budge, Graham Callaghan and Brett Garling.