THE Masters 2014 Exhibition, to be held at Scottsdale Art Gallery Cafe from Sunday, at 2.30pm, showcases seven Tasmanian artists.
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The exhibition includes paintings from Southern artists Roger Murphy, Tony Ryan, Richard Bacon and David Hopkins - Northern artists include glassblower James Dodson and ceramists Rynne Tanton and Bernadine Alting.
The Masters Exhibition is the first function of the annual Rotary Dorset Arts Festival that continues over the June long weekend.
The gallery's Shirley Rootes Martin said that:
- Roger Murphy was a lithographic artist and commercial printer before he studied life drawing with Jack Carrington-Smith. He now works full-time in watercolour and oil, travelling regularly throughout Europe, with his works sold extensively worldwide.
- Richard Bacon's work could be described traditional but he has a lovely contemporary edge, making it enticing to a broad audience. His forte is the light at dusk reflecting the beauty of the day.
- Tony Ryan is an oil painter of the past 25 years and was a finalist in the John Glover exhibition in 2006 and the prestige Wrest Point Art Award in 2010.
- David Hopkins is well known to Scottsdale art lovers. He is a third-generation artist showing his affection for Tasmania in his watercolour paintings of its best-loved towns, landscapes and its native flora and fauna. Hopkins has a love of painting fishing boats at their moorings and will also be holding a book signing of his latest book Tasmania's Golden Years Revisited , to be held on Saturday afternoon from 2pm-3.30pm.
- James Dodson is a professional glass blower who describes molten glass as having a seductive quality that leads to endless inspiration in his work. Dodson trained at Orrefos Glass School in Sweden and in London before returning to Tasmania where he set up Tasmanian Glassblowers and now works from Breadablane.
- Rynne Tanton is from New Zealand and travelled to Melbourne to study before taking on a teaching position in Launceston where he remained for a number of years. He now works from the Underwood studio he shares with Bernadine Alting. Rynne is diverse with his work, working with his signature crackle work and crystalline glazes and showcases his hand-painted works
- Bernadine Alting is a local ceramist and after retiring from teaching ceramics, has spent her time setting up her studio and working with a lovely sensual abstract range of southern ice porcelain with a celadon glaze on the inside and a colourful abstract finish.
Ms Rootes Martin said that Richard Klekocuik would officially open the exhibition.
