EMERALD Beach artists Sue Trefz and Karen Thio have paired up to present their artworks in exhibition at Nexus Community Gallery in Bellingen during The Bellingen Arts Trail on the weekend of 7 and 8 November.
The pair will host an opening party on Sunday, 8 November at 12 noon.
Karen Thio is a well-known and happily obsessed bird artist working mainly in pencils, pastels and printmaking.
Her passion for birds as the subject of her creative output stems from 20-plus years of hand-raising and handling birds.
“Every day I have the honour of several birds perching on my head or shoulders while I complete my usual work around the house,” Ms Thio told News Of The Area.
“In the afternoon I settle in my studio to draw, and create artworks in conjunction with my feathered friends, my companions … it’s our habit,” she said.
In the local art world Karen is known for her catch cry: “A Printmakers Revolution, one printmaker at a time”.
The community is invited to visit Nexus Gallery during her exhibition and see what she means by this.
Sue Trefz is earning a reputation for pleasing watercolours and oils depicting her travels and wanderings throughout the land.
Sue has won many awards including People’s Choice and the Packers’ Award at the Woolgoolga Art Gallery. Sue’s love of art stems from the wonderful meditative effect that comes with the creation of art.
“Once I pick up a paintbrush everything else seems to disappear,” she said.
“It’s a wonderful way to quieten my mind.”
During The Bellingen Arts Trail around 100 artists and craftspeople will exhibit across 39 open studios, galleries and shared spaces from Urunga to Bellingen up to Dorrigo and Dundurrabin.
By Andrea FERRARI
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