Megan Seres

Oil on linen

H71.5cm x W71.5 cm

Oil on Linen - H61cm x W91.5cm SOLD

Dr Ian Hill is an experienced Obstetrician and Gynaecologist practicing in the eastern suburbs and inner west of Sydney.

Dr Hill has been a patron of the arts for over two decades.

Oil on Linen - H61cm x W61cm SOLD

Morna Seres has an extensive background in the arts, entertainment, public relations and law. She has a law degree with a Masters in Human Rights Law and was the Chair of the Human Rights Watch Committee. Morna has now chosen a career in fictional writing and was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize 2020.

Morna has been a patron of the arts for over two decades.

Oil on linen - H51cm x W41cm NFS

Self-portraiture is just one of the countless ways people have explored self-awareness to gain knowledge of their strengths and weaknesses. They provide both an image and metaphor for emotions from hope and elation, to fear and despair.

Identity is often ambiguous, even strange, as it is both elusive and mutable. How much we give of ourselves depends on too many variables to be reliable.

With every brush stroke the expression looking back at me changes and I fight with the challenges of ageing and wanting to smooth out my lines. My lips have pursed in concentration and my eyes seem somewhat disapproving. But here I am, one brush stroke at a time to form a small part of the tapestry of who I am.

Oil on linen - H100cm x W150cm

Papesch Architecture Commission

Oil on Linen - H91cm x W 71cm Commission

Lorraine Wood is the author of Love & Addiction and the co-founder and owner of one of Australia’s most respected addiction and mental health hospitals South Pacific. Lorraine made it her life’s mission to help others and their families and has said, “You can reach out for help, that recovery is possible and that no matter how dark the night there will be a new dawn.”

Oil on Linen - H56cm x W76.5cm NFS

Oil on Linen - H61cm x W61cm

Oil on Linen H71cm x W91cm

Highly Commended - Waverley Art Prize 2018

Oil on Arches Huile Paper - H49cm x W41cm NFS

‘Fade into View’ touches on the ambiguous nature of dreams, beauty and memories, of the unseen and unheard and the continual complexities of societal pressures and gender imbalances.

Oil on Arches Huile Paper - H49cm x W41cm

Oil on Arches Huile Paper - H49cm x W41cm SOLD

Oil on Arches Huile Paper - H49cm x W41cm

Recipient of the (Acquisitive) Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

Oil on Linen

My painting, Scarlett as Colonial Girl was inspired by my daughter’s school assignment on colonial history and her acting role as Mary Wade at school. After creating my daughters costume and doing her hair I thought she made a wonderful subject as she is a born actress and is extremely expressive.

I wanted to place ‘Scarlett as Colonial Girl’ within the enigmatic Australian landscape both beautiful and terrifying and decided that a smaller canvas would create a certain intimacy. The absence of perspective creates a feeling of confinement that contrasts with the vastness of our landscape. The depth of blue in her eyes represents the Australian sky which would have been a great surprise for those who came from the smoggy, grey industrial towns of London and the look on her face, well I will leave that up to you to decipher.

Oil on Linen - H91 cm x W91 cm SOLD

Paola Morabito is an award-winning director. Her work spans the genres of both documentary and comedy. Morabito has enjoyed great success with her writing and directing talents, her short film 'I'm the one' premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

Year: 2009

Archibald finalist 2009

Oil on Linen - H91cm x W91cm NFS

Brendan Cowell is an Award winning Australian actor, screenwriter, comedian and director.

“After the death of Hamlet’s father, the over-analytical Hamlet is besieged with suspicions, apparitions and wild imaginings,” says Seres. “Like Goya’s macabre Black Paintings, with their images of monsters, ghouls and other supernatural figures, Hamlet’s dark and disturbing journey was brought into the light by Brendan’s ability to let the darkness slide out of the hidey-hole of his imagination into the heart of truth.

“In my painting, I have tried to embody the inner turmoil, vulnerability and sense of impending doom that Brendan portrayed so beautifully as Hamlet. The ambiguity of Hamlet’s last line, ‘the rest is silence’, was incredibly alluring as a title.”