With three magnificent prizes up for grabs,

this should prove to be a very successful fundraiser for the society.

As a members or friend of GWAS, your assistance in promoting the raffle and selling tickets would be most appreciated.

Tickets are available in books of 25,

just email James at webmaster@gwas.org.au to request books and arrange pickup or posting,

any unsold can be returned to the society.

The prizes are:

1st Prize

Beautifully airbrushed 44 gallon recycled drum with a solid redgum top, airbrushed with Grampians flora & fauna by local artist Ingrid Rudolph. Value: $1,000.00

Ducks - Ego Guiotto

2nd Prize

Limited Print: ‘Ducks’ by renowned Australian Wildlife Artist & GWAS tutor for 2012: Ego Guiotto Value $450.00

3rd prize

Family pass to Halls Gap Zoo, or art materials to the value of $100.00

Prices 1 ticket $2.00, 3 tickets $5.00, Book (25) $35.00

For further information please contact Glenda on 0409423872

Through a philanthropic donation the Society has secured a long term lease over the land which will be developed as the home of Australia’s wildlife arts collection.
President of GWAS Glenda Lewin says the acquisition of the site is a significant milestone in achieving our vision to create a centre of excellence for exhibiting wildlife art. “It will also create a home for promoting the extraordinary depth of artistic talent in the Grampians region.
Now we begin the challenging task of gaining support from both Federal and State government agencies along with private sponsors to support our vision of creating Australia’s first truly national gallery for wildlife art” said Glenda Lewin.

In the Grampians!

Several rare, vintage documentaries and a beautiful little, never before seen, insight into the Lyrebird filmed renowned wildlife painter and artist, Stephen Powell, will be screened at Halls Gap on August 30^th as part of the 2^nd “Grampians Wildlife Arts Festival”. 

Over generations, the spectacular beauty of the Grampians Region has captivated the imagination of many Australians. Together with the Halls Gap film Society and the support of the National Film and Sound Archives and ACMI, the Festival is able to show some unique footage of the Grampians, Ballarat and Stawell taken in 1917 and 1925.  Complementing these short films will be 3 films produced in the 1950’s; including a rare 14-minute gem recorded by the Straford Brothers on their holiday in The Grampians in 1954.   

The films have been acquired in digital form through the auspices of NFSA and ACMI as part of the Grampians Wildlife Art Society’s policy of community ownership and long-term vision of establishing a significant collection of Australia’s natural history art. Following this evening’s event, they will be given, on permanent loan, to the Northern Grampians Shire Archives and will be made available to schools and other community groups.

Entry is by gold coin donation, light refreshments will be served and every-one is welcome.

Tuesday 30^th August at 7:00 pm
The festivities will be held at the Halls Gap Community Hall

Click here for a PDF version of this information

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is pleased to launch it’s on line booking system.

You can now book and pay on line for any of our workshops and features of the 2011 Grampians Wildlife Arts Festival.

If you wish to become a member and support GWAS you can also do this on line.

Simply click wherever you see this button

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According to Gary, it was his Grandmother who first stirred his interest in orchids when he inherited some cymbidium orchids from her many years ago.

That, along with his own curiosity in nature, including the local tadpoles, frogs and snakes he collected from the swamp in the bushland behind the house he grew up in, in Rural Bulleen.

From looking after these first orchids, his passion grew to discovering orchids in the wild and documenting these.

Having no formal training in photography, Gary set about learning how the SLR camera worked so he could capture what he saw in the field.

“I am a self taught photographer, and in the days before digital cameras were introduced, we just bought a camera, did the point and shoot and then had to wait anxiously for a few weeks to view the slides,” said Gary.

“Digital cameras have changed all this, and in my book, “The Orchids of Victoria” which I co-authored with my friend, Jeffrey Jeanes, we shared this role.”

Last year, Gary visited picturesque Crete in Greece, where he studied an extensive number of terrestrial orchids, along with wild tulips, poppies and lilies.

Over the past 30 years on his trips throughout Australia, Gary has discovered around six previously un-described orchid species.

These are now named by the location in which they were found or by some diagnostic feature of the orchid such as colour.

As part of the 2011 Grampians Wildlife Arts Festival in Halls Gap, Gary will be giving a presentation to participants on Wednesday 31 August, as well as a public lecture on Friday 2 September.

For more information on the Festival or to attend one of Gary’s presentations, please contact Grampians Wildlife Arts Society President Glenda Lewin on 0409423827 or email glenda_l@gwas.org.au.

Download a PDF version of this Media Release here.

The Grampians Wildlife Arts Festival is a workshop based event for natural history artists to experience and study Australia’s unique environment, its plants and inhabitants with unprecedented intimacy.

 The Festival –

• Workshops and lectures on various materials, styles and genres of wildlife art by internationally recognized, prize winning artists.
• Exclusive after-hours and behind-scenes access to Halls Gap Zoo, home to some of the world’s rarest and most endangered creatures.
• Guided day and night tours of the spectacular arid mountain range that is the Grampians National Park
• Weekend workshops for children in mask-making, and pavement art with Chalk Circle.
• The festival culminates in the “Grampians Wildlife Art Exhibition”, September 1 – 4, 2011.

 The Workshops –

• Headlining workshops for the 2011 event will be conducted over 5 days by Ego Guiotto
• “Drawing from Life at the Zoo”, a 2 day, weekend workshop conducted by Linda Weil.
• Ena Graham will present a Botanical Art with Watercolour workshop.
• Secondary workshops, demonstrations, short lectures and guided tours compliment the main workshops.
• The “Old Techniques, New Technology” lecture by Peter Voice will return

 The combination of these elements is a priceless opportunity for serious wildlife and natural history artists to explore, study, and record one of the world’s most beautiful natural environments and its unique treasures.    

 Produced by the Grampians Wildlife Arts Society Inc

www.gwas.com.au

Big Hill Art on 5358 3746 chalkcircle@iprimus.com.au

Halls Gap Zoo on 5356 4668 info@hallsgapzoo.com.au

Over the 2 days, Ena will introduce you to the basic techniques of botanical painting using watercolours and pencil on hot pressed watercolour paper. Ena will share with us her passion and knowledge of learning to paint native plants in all their splendour; focussing on the leaves and seed pods of our unique Australian flora, specifically eucalypts. These specimens will be provided from Ena’s own botanical native garden.’ ]]> http://gwas.org.au/2011/04/botanical-art/feed/ 0 http://gwas.org.au/2011/04/ena-graham/ http://gwas.org.au/2011/04/ena-graham/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:49:10 +0000 james http://diywebpagemaker.com/gwas/?p=308

Ena Graham

Since moving to the Grampians area sixteen years ago I have concentrated on painting Australian Natïve Plants .

The range of flowers in the wild and our own acreage is a never ending delight and inspiration.

Who would want for more.

Banksia-praemosa by Ena Graham

Eucalyptus-macrocarpa by Ena Graham