About Sandra

My forte has been in the areas of colour and design. Inner city architecture has attracted my attention and I have developed this to a contemporary style and incorporated other water-based media. These paintings have had a high drawing content which I have endeavoured to produce in a loose style.

Conversely I have also concentrated on landscapes of the Australian outback with practically no drawing content but which give the opportunity of displaying well the nuances of watercolour.

In concentrating primarily on these two very different subjects I have been able to explore and develop new ideas within this framework. This has enabled my own signature style of painting to be birthed and given opportunity for innumerable ideas for painting what first may appear ordinary subject matter.

Curriculum Vitae

Sandra with Professor the Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD,CVO at Camden Art Prize Presentation - First Prize, Works on Paper

• 1980 became an elected member of Ku-ring-gai Art Society acting as their selection convener.
• 1981 became an elected member of the Royal Art Society of NSW and elevated to first an Associate and then a Fellow in 1989.
• 1990 invited to become a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute.
• 1991 exhibited with the Institute in a panel of watercolourists at the Federation of Canadian Artists.
• 1994 exhibited at the first International Watercolour Biennale in Mexico at the Muses De La Acuarela.
• 1997 chosen to be included in the World Watercolour Book The Best of Watercolour 2
• 1999 featured in Australian Artist Magazine in the series entitled ‘Master Painters of Australia’.
• Included in an Exhibition of Artists of the South Coast at the Forest Gallery, Durras in 2000 and in 2003 exhibited in the Victorian Artists’ Society Invitation Exhibition.
• January 2009 exhibited in a Post Modernism Exhibition at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery, exhibiting Scrambled Hillside
• January 2009 selected for the Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition at the Shanghai World Expo. Paintings exhibited were Industrial Power and Rock Design
• Basil Sellers Art Prize ($15000) - Finalist 2004, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2016; Highly Commended 2008.
• 2012 accepted for the Taiwan-Australia Watercolour Exhibition at the Taichung City Cultural Centre, exhibiting Marble Bar Countryside
• 2013 Selected exhibitor and Excellence Prize Winner at the Shenzhen International Watercolour Biennial (China) with the painting Oriental Jumble
• 2013 Finalist, Gosford Art Prize
• 2014 Oriental Jumble included in Shenzhen’s National Travelling Exhibition in eight locations in China and purchased by Luohu Art Museum, Guangdong, China
• 2014 Exhibitor in the Australian Watercolour Institute Exhibition held at the Shanghai Quanhua Watercolour Art Gallery, Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, China
• 2014 Invited artist to the Qingdao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition with Asian City Lights being purchased for permanent collection
• 2014 Finalist in the World Wide Watercolour Competition conducted by L’Art de L’Aquarelle in France
• 2020 Exhibited in the Taiwan-Australia International Watercolour Exhibition Tradition and Transformation 2 with the painting Reconstruction Zone
• 2021 Finalist in the inaugural National Capital Art Prize in the landscape category

Painting Awards

Exhibitions and Events

Teaching

• Conducted watercolour classes for 20 years in Sydney and continued for 5 years on the NSW south coast
• Held painting workshops and demonstrations for 30 years, for both Sydney and NSW Art Societies
• Watercolour Teacher with Celebrity Cruises – March 2013
• Two day watercolour workshop at Annabel Wallace Gallery - 2013

Bibliography

• Max Germaine - Artists and Galleries of Australia 1990
• World Watercolour Book - Best of Watercolour Book 2 - Rockport Publishers, Massachusetts 1997
• Art of the South East Resource Book and Diary - Published 2007, Linda Lord
• Australian Watercolour Institute 75th Anniversary Edition 1923-1998, published by Beagle Press
• Australian Watercolour Institute Book 2006 - Published by Phillip Matthews
• The Inaugural Shanghai Zhujiajiao International Watercolour Biennial Exhibition Album of Exhibits 2010
• Book of Exhibits - Tradition and Transformation - Taiwan Australia Exhibition 2012
• Book of Exhibits - Shenzhen Watercolour Biennial, China 2013-2014
• Ku-ring-gai Art Society 2015 Golden Jubilee Book, published by KAS
• ‘Across the Waters’ - China/Australia illustrated exhibition catalogue, published by Quanhua Watercolour Art Gallery, Shanghai 2014
• Book of Exhibits - Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao Province, China
• Concourse Mondial de L’Aquarelle, World Wide Competition - Catalogue Book 2014 Printed in France, Megatop October 2014, published by Diverti Editions
• Taiwan – Australia International Watercolour Exhibition Book 2020 Tradition and Transformation 2, Published in Taiwan