artists
Garden of My Love, 2021
caelene glen
Caelene Glen’s work focuses on the subtleness of fleeting enlightenment and emotional understandings. Expressing everyday activities and interactions through art, she attempts to translate human existence within the eternity of the universe itself. Caelene’s chosen background education in mathematics and astronomy, often brings balance and compositional poetry to expressions of sensitivity in a modern world.
Water Spirits
BONNITA GILLARD
Bonnita Gillard is a mid career visual / sound artist, researcher and writer living in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Inspired by feminine artistry (particular the intersection between motherhood and art), Symbology, Folklore, Herbalism, mythology and the underworld of the human psyche; has lead to years of research and training in various modalities starting with a Bachelors degree in Fine Art Painting and Sound Art and Therapy. Bonnita is currently creating work between the Mornington Peninsula and Bayside.
Through the Veil of Time (V), 2024
SERIFA
German artist duo Natassja and Christian, developed SERIFA in 2021. Dedicated to their art, following the principle of 'Defining New Aesthetics', the artists pioneer new forms of visual expression through artificial intelligence. SERIFA integrates AI technology as an artisitic tool, marking a significant evolution in their artistic trajectory, and echoing a philosophy of embracing unpredictability and innovation.
A collection of artworks have been reserved as exclusive release by the ‘Caelene nee Glen’ gallery. This initial collection is part of the FIRE elemental exhibition October 2024.
Harebells, 2024
lucia roohizadegan
Lucia Roohizadegan is a Melbourne-based artist, illustrator, and author. Her paintings are a celebration of light, colour, and tranquillity, and are meditatively created using environmentally friendly water-mixable oil paints. Finding endless inspiration from the natural beauty of Slovakia’s mountainous landscapes, her botanical paintings keep her connected to her cultural heritage and loved ones based overseas.
The Path to Gondwana, 2018
Ray Besserdin
Born to artist parents, with a 35-year career, Ray Besserdin is an internationally recognised entirely self-taught artist. Ray pioneered his signature “Impressionist Sculptured Paper” style, inspired by the French Impressionist painters, to capture expression and emotion without realism, using sculptured torn papers, much like bas-relief, working with a “palette” of sheet-formed papers providing a wide spectrum of colours, textures, solidity, and delicate translucency. Works range from abstract to ultra-realistic, from miniature to gigantic. Nature is his favourite subject, but he also enjoys portraiture and abstract. Ray regularly collaborates with architecture firms, interior designers, and events coordinators to create unique artworks that leave audience in awe. Works hang in private and corporate collections in London, Munich, Monaco, Manhattan, Tokyo, New Zealand and throughout Australia.
Romance, 2023
fionna madigan
Fionna Madigan’s work is an abstracted response to the colour, texture and forms of the flora and landscape around her. It offers a window of aesthetic contemplation and an experience of perception. Texture works in the painting on a visceral level; we feel texture in our bodies, even if it’s being viewed and not touched. Fionna aims for the work to be optically playful; the painting surface is matt and the work comprises richly compressed layers which engage teasingly with depth perception.
Fionna is drawn to a fertile zone between abstraction and realism and feels particularly satisfied when her paintings straddle these genres. Commencing with compositional goals and encouraging random occurrences; improvisation and transience are integral concepts to the artist’s creative endeavour.
Fionna Madigan is interested in the experience of perception and the way in which the visual cortex metabolises texture and perceptual depth.
Nasturtium in Seneka’s Pot, 2023
Von Davenport
Von Davenport has completed a Graduate Certificate in Fine Art at VCA and works predominantly in still life and portraiture.
Von currently has a small selection of stockroom artworks available at the ‘Caelene nee Glen’ gallery, and commissions can be arranged.