PAINTING
6757 Channel Hwy, Deep Bay
Note: Please park cars on roadside
Gnarled Tree
Lois’s gallery (select any thumbnail to view full size image and scroll gallery)
Artist, Lois Alexander, creates her works in oil, watercolour and mixed media. She is originally from Western Australia, and spent many years teaching art in schools and at TAFE. In 2012 she made the big move from WA to Tasmania, settling by the water at Deep Bay in the beautiful Huon Valley.
Lois says “now, sitting in my studio, gazing out at the trees and across the waters of the Huon Estuary to the Hartz Mountains, I am forever grateful that I am now able to focus fully on my art practice in such a rich environment”.
Lois enjoys experimenting and using a range of media in her work, a result of being trained in many skills as an art teacher. Drawing is her favourite occupation and is the basis of all her work, which is semi-abstract in nature. She chooses her medium according to what she is trying to achieve, for example, using oils and water colour to capture the colours and changing light in the landscape or using mixed media to express something of the darkness and sombre history which underlies this place. She is inspired by artists such as Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley and Margaret Olley.
Lois has won prizes for drawing and painting in Western Australia and Tasmania. She also enjoys creating hand dyed scarves and textiles which reflect the colours of the environment, and a range of cards based on her drawings and paintings
Lois’s work can be found at the Cygnet Gallery and other venues around Southern Tasmania.
Contact
Handmade in Cygnet 