Dr Peter Bajer

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​Dr. Peter Bajer is an accomplished educator with a career in visual arts. He graduated from the National School of Visual Arts in Warsaw, Poland before earning a Bachelor of Arts and a Graduate Diploma of Education Degree (Secondary) from the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

He later obtained his PhD degree from Monash University (2009).

 

For many years, Dr. Bajer worked as a freelance artist, illustrating, and designing over 300 children's and educational books. In 2001, he joined Geelong Grammar School, where he has been inspiring students in art and design. In 2012, he was appointed Head of Visual Arts, overseeing the department and teaching VCE and IB Art and Design.

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Dan Butterworth

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Doug Moran and Archibald Prize finalist, Daniel Butterworth is an established artist specialising in portraiture – frequently using portraits to express social, political and personal views. With numerous solo and group exhibitions to his name, along with selection as a finalist in a large number of high profile portrait prizes, Daniel is now in demand as a guest artist and teacher in Australia.

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After painting with oils for most of his career, he recently switched to house paints, allowing for much more freedom and spontaneity in his work.Having started his working life as a sign-writer, Dan later completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Latrobe University and has been a practising artist for more than 20 years.

Dan works from his studio in Kyneton, Victoria.

Helen Cottle

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Helen Cottle was born in bay side Williamstown, Victoria in 1962, she is a self-taught/self-educated artist who paints in all mediums in a realist/impressionist style. Helen is currently working as a professional Artist/Art educator in the central highlands town of Trentham. Helen is a popular and sought after tutor/teacher currently conducting classes and workshops in various regions across Australia teaching drawing, watercolour and acrylic painting. Helen has also conducted several workshops for the National Gallery of Victoria and has been a tutor for numerous art venues across the country.

 

With a strong passion for watercolour Helen also enjoys painting in acrylic and oil. She believes that having a fascination with the effects of light on a subject and observing life’s intriguing details everyday scenes can be transformed into dynamic and interesting works of art.

 

Helen’s career began as an Artist and Art educator, with no formal training, just an eagerness to continue to learn and then pass on her gained knowledge to others, encouraging them to enjoy the wonderful world of art.

 

Helen joined the Little Gallery Trentham in 2015 and has her work permanently on display in the gallery.

Kim Haughie

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Central Victorian based ceramicist Kim Haughie has been practising her craft for just on 19 years, her work is inspired by the natural beauty of the region and she makes her work utilising the design principle of form follows function. Kim is also an educator, facilitating clay workshops in the region and holds residency at the Little Gallery in Trentham.

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Carolyn Holt

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Carolyn Holt has spent decades working on developing skills as mainly a fibre artist. Her interests include various types of stitch including embroidery, quilting, felting, basketry, also jewellery/metal work, papermaking and the creation of books. Her main textile interests now lie in spinning, knitting and dyeing. Her recent projects involve mapping the dye potential of the plants on her forest property and surrounding areas in the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Dr Dianne Longley

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Growing up on a sheep and wheat farm in central west NSW I developed a sense of adventure and an inquisitive nature. This curiosity inspired me to attend art school as soon as I finished high school. The heady days of Whitlam’s social and cultural legacy in the late seventies gave me access to a free education for which I am very grateful. I was in heaven; classes in techniques and processes, morning coffee discussions about art, politics and literature, and weekend parties with Patti Smith and Leonard Cohen on the turntable.

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A broad education in fine arts has underpinned my career in the visual arts. I work across a range of media including printmaking; encaustic and pokerwork on wooden panels; artist books; on-glaze porcelain; and small-scale bronze casting.

 

My artist books and prints have featured in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, South Korea, Japan, India, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, Mexico, the UK and the USA and are in numerous public collections.

 

I am currently a master printmaker at Agave Print Studio, an access printmaking studio I established in picturesque Trentham in 2014. Agave Print Studio offers professional printmaking facilities for intaglio and relief/letterpress printmaking.

James Walsh

 

After completing RMIT photography course I spent 3 years in london in the late 70’s assisting various photographers, on many different assignments including Fortnum and Mason, Whitbread Brewery, annual reports for Shell and similar projects.

Returned to Melbourne in the early 80’s and started my own studio in Carlton working for large retail stores David Jones and Myer, advertsing agencies and graphic designers. My work also included resorts in Fiji and Malaysia.

This continued up to the COVID years when I decide to semi retire and settle in Trentham. My photography passion is now travel and wildlife including Dogs Of Trentham annual calendar.

 

Rose Wilson

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Rose Wilson’s artistic career began at The International art school in Sydney then 2 years later she found herself in remote East Arnhem Land, it was there that she was inspired by story telling & symbolism, which is prevalent in her work. Accepted @ Darwin University, she completed her Fine Arts degree in Newcastle.

Since moving to Trentham 21 years ago she found herself captivated by her surroundings and now flips from portraiture to landscape.

Wilson was inducted into the Heather Mutimer Honour Roll for her contribution to the arts and In 2018 she had a major exhibition dedicated to and honouring the farmers of Trentham. Her works have been exhibited in many galleries throughout Australia and she has been chosen as a finalist in prestigious art prizes including the Archibald, The Doug Moran, The Salon DeRefuse and the Lethbridge Landscape prize to name a few.

As a portrait painter her main objective is to connect with the sitter and to reveal something intimate. Identifying just one element of their character, or a testimony of who they are, she is satisfied.