Andrea Redman-Williams: Six decades of artistic expression

Andrea Redman-Williams has been funny successful coating since Grade 5 when she won archetypal prize successful a people drafting competition.

The children had to prime a metropolis of the world and gully it. She says she remembers she researched respective cities looking astatine their coastlines, countryside, way of life, food, and songs and dances.

She chose Rio de Janeiro. She was captivated by its vibrant beaches, the iconic Christ the Redeemer & Sugarloaf, its pulsating samba festivals and the divers Brazilian dishes.

Even astatine that tender age, she was capable to recognise that everything astir Rio was astir bold, agleam and contrasting colours and shapes.

Having been calved successful Famagusta, Cyprus, she migrated to Australia successful 1955. The household settled successful Collingwood where they remained for galore years.

Beginning her creator travel successful the aboriginal 1960s, and until this day, Andrea’s heavy committedness to coating has not wavered, successful contrast, it has grown done exploration and refinement.

Over the years she has experimented with various categories such arsenic landscape, portraiture, and still life; and divers materials and techniques such arsenic oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, pencil, charcoal, crayon, ink and mixed media.

Although she has not made a vocation retired of her passionateness for painting, Andrea has accumulated, implicit the years, hundreds of pieces of creation which she has displayed astatine various events and has made them available for sale.

Andrea with two of her daughters, Mahi (left) and Samantha (right).

I had the accidental to speak with Andrea astatine the caller “Agapes” fundraising lawsuit and aboriginal caught up with her and her sister Mary Calombaris for coffee. I asked her when and however her emotion of coating began.

“I was ever attracted to bright, bold colours, frankincense my choosing Rio de Jeneiro. The metropolis is afloat of colour. The food, the costumes, the fashion, the architecture, the landscape, are each astir vibrant, deep, and fiery colours. I similar experimenting with various colours and antithetic media,” she said.

She didn’t take creation arsenic a career, and enactment her emotion of coating connected clasp to rise her 4 beauteous children, but went backmost to it when they were astatine elder school.

The household had moved to the eastbound suburbs astatine that stage and she joined an creation radical successful Box Hill. She remained with the radical till the household moved to Northern Rivers successful NSW. It didn’t take her agelong to source retired the section creation radical where she has participated.

I asked her where she got her inspiration from when deciding what to overgarment next.

“I similar to travel, so a batch of my inspiration comes from the places I visit and the radical I meet. I spell to galleries, museums, the state side, beaches, people’s homes, spot something I similar and travel location and either gully it oregon use it arsenic the ground for my adjacent painting,” she said.

Andrea very kindly donated 1 of her lipid paintings arsenic a raffle prize to the Agapes’ fundraiser. She besides brought down respective different creation pieces and displayed them astatine the event.

I was very impressed with the scope of topics arsenic well arsenic the various media she uses. She seems rather comfy utilizing lipid conscionable arsenic she is utilizing watercolour. Andrea is presently backmost astatine location successful NSW.

If you are funny successful contacting Andrea Redman-Williams, you tin scope her astatine – [email protected]