Artists
Vernissage Art is proud to represent our talented stable of emerging through to established artists listed below. Works from each of our artists can be viewed here online and seen in person at our events.
Wendy Jagger
Strongly influenced by the seasonal changes of rugged landscapes and the diversity of native flora, Mansfield artist Wendy Jagger’s paintings and ceramics embody her response to being in, within and of the land, particularly when she is out there plein air painting.
Deidre Bruhn
Deidre Bruhn is an experimental figurative artist who works with mixed media to create elaborate figures on paper, board and canvas. Her work is a continued experiment in construction and deconstruction of methods, colours and materials, expressing a fluid approach to the final image.
Kagetsu Buic
Kagetsu Buic is an Australian fine-art nature/adventure photographer residing in Melbourne, Australia. His photographic works represent his passion for natural interactions, and the solitude of natural environments, while holding his core values of environmental conservation, and the protection of wildlife.
Zoe Ellenberg
Nature is Zoe Ellenberg’s inspiration and muse with a special passion for the wild and vibrant elements of the tropics. Birds and insects feature amongst the flowers, leaves and busy mayhem of the tropical vistas, abstracted into impressionistic scenes.
Natalie Briney
Natalie Briney is a Western Australian artist residing in Margaret River. Briney’s work has been influenced by the dotilism works of Yayoi Kusama and evolved into her own signature style, including the use of old book or music pages, torn up and glued to canvas to create the foundations for her works.
Carrie Retallack
Carrie Retallack is a digital artist and designer based in Melbourne using a combination of photographic and digital composition techniques to create vivid large scales works inspired by textures and pallets in nature. Her works challenge the perception of what is real and what is created, interweaving these techniques and creating surreal and layered artworks.
Peter McCarthy
Peter McCarthy is an Australian artist working between Sydney and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. With a background in weaving, McCarthy’s contemporary, bold, abstract (and often geometric) works are constructed and woven textile pieces that reference and question the leadership structures and social systems and values.
Magali Feuga
Magali Feuga’s work focusses on a portrayal of the human form that values internal worlds and unique ways of being. With each emotionally charged portrait and figure aiming to manifest a sense of humanity and connection. Influenced by the Renaissance and Expressionism, she also likes to borrow elements from graphic design and street art.
Steven Hall
Steven Hall is an accomplished, formally trained oil painter based in Melbourne. Hall’s works explore notions of self and identity, the subjective existential experience and the transformation of everyday reality. Hall’s subject matter is diverse, featuring wildflowers, cityscapes, portraiture, nouveau gothic, modern myth and magical realism.
Trisha Lambi
Trisha Lambi is an award winning, contemporary Australian artist based in Queensland. Her works reflect her interest in lightplay as it falls on her subject. Each piece begins as an exercise in colour theory and evolves into reflecting Lambi’s emotions, the responses to external events, and her ongoing spiritual reflection.
Florence Wang
Florence Wang is an award winning visual artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. Wang explores the concept of conveying narrative through the static nature of a paintings. Her works evoke a dreamlike nostalgia, referencing her child-self, learning to paint within the context of, and influenced by, her Chinese cultural heritage.
Alison Percy
Alison Percy is an Albury based artist whose works explore the land, the figure and the flower. Percy’s works reference her interest in traditional Japanese calligraphy pen strokes, combining her fascination of fluid forms with passion for colour theory. Percy's work is full of movement, rhythm, and a tension between art and design through her semi-abstract paintings.