Featuring Artist:  Scott Denholm

Scott Denholm is an award winning contemporary ocean artist living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Scott began painting traditional landscape scenes in 1993, age 10 and received two years of tutoring from local artists. As a junior, Scott’s award winning landscapes showed a maturity in his style and technique years beyond his age.

After moving to the Sunshine Coast in 1996 he took up surfing and immediately developed an infatuation and respect for the ocean.

Later joining the famous Australia Zoo crew for 7 years, his interest and dedication to the environment led him on the path in 2011 to becoming the world’s first and only eco conscious surf artist.

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Featuring Artist:  Mark Seaman

Mark Seaman is an American Master Wood Carver noted for “carving” his name through the art world.

Living in San Diego for over 30 years, his sea inspired carvings can be found up and down the California coast in restaurants, bars, private homes, and schools. His western inspired horses, buffalo, and Native American Chiefs showcases his many talents in storytelling and attention to detail making each carving truly special.

Mark attended San Diego State University, where he learned to perfect his craft and make it his career. Staying true to the California lifestyle, he would surf every morning, noticing the beauty of the sea, it’s creatures, and the local lagoon life. Using sturdy materials such as Honduran Mahogany, Black Walnut, Teak, and White Oak, each carving contains the beauty of the wood allowing the perfect backdrop to each image.

Recently Mark finished a carving of La Jolla Shores for Duke’s Restaurant in La Jolla, California. A 10’x5′ view of the famous La Jolla coast line carved out of high density foam, providing a fresh feel to a surf inspired restaurant. Other projects in the works includes landscapes of beaches, light houses, and Multnomah falls in Oregon.

Using just a chisel, hammer, and a block of wood, Mark is truly a Master Wood Carver.

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Featuring Artist: Reg Norman

Local ocean photographer in the Noosa area.

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Featuring Artist:  Tracy Naughton

Meet Let Me Sea… A collection of sun sprinkled salty time stamps. Inspired by music, art, the ocean and the free spirits who share the love of coastal living..

Tracy Naughton is an artist and photographer originally from NZ but has called the Sunshine Coast home for over 15 years. Having fallen in love with the natural beauty of the coastal lifestyle Tracy has developed her own signature style well recognised amongst locals. She regularly holds exhibitions and loves to collaborate on all sorts of creative projects.

Her fine art prints are printed on high quality cotton rag paper using archival inks. Tracy also creates limited edition works of hand drawn or painted art and is happy working on shoots for different brands as well as commercial work.

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Featuring Artist:  Kou Kahe

Kou Kahe is a Sunshine Coast based photography and video production company that will turn your stories into memories.

We offer high quality corporate, small business, events, sports, family photography and video services.

Our specialised team uses a range of professional equipment and are also able to offer you unique aerial/drone and water shots.

Our corporate and social media videos are affordable, effective and efficient. Video is fast becoming the most popular way to connect with your audience and to grow ‘know, like and trust’ with your clients.

Tell us your story, show us what you do and we will create your short film.

From recording the memories of your event, to capturing your passion about your business, we use both photos and videos to create your personalised story.

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Featuring Artist: Graham Borough

Graham Borough moved to Queensland in 1986 and began painting professionally in 1988. The influences are firstly organic, from growing up in the beachside suburb of Balmoral in Sydney. Then to the Colourful brighter light of Queensland.

EXHIBITIONS:

October. Solo Exhibition at Rogues Gallery. Sydney. Darlinghurst.
March. Mixed exhibition in Gallery A-Z. Osaka Japan.
Match. Trade Show exhibit at the Pacific design centre. Los Angeles.
April. New Drummer gallery. Sydney.
July. Metro Arts Gallery Solo exhibition
1993 March. Gallery Hananol. Tokyo Solo Exhibition.

July. Printemps Department Store. Ginza, Tokyo.
August. Graphics Fine Art Gallery. Woollahra, Sydney. Solo Exhibition.
September. Art Expo Los Vegas.
Honolulu. Art Expo Blasdell Centre.
Honolulu. Art Expo Blasdell Centre.
August. Cairns. Reef Gallery Solo Exhibition.
August. Vanuatu. Noumea Gallery. Solo Exhibition.
August. Los Angeles. Santa Monica Gallery. Solo Exhibition.
November. Palm Springs. William Danniels Fine Art Gallery.

2000 to 2015.

Worked exclusively with Interior Decorators in South East Queensland. Primary the Northern end of the Gold Coast. Moved into design and art.

2008 Opened the Graham Borough Art and Design Gallery. In an old church in Nundah. Brisbane.

Held annual exhibitions at the studio. An art studio and Gallery combined.  Artistic influences changed to include Fairweather. Also travelled to Samoa and painted the churches.

Closed the Gallery in 2015. Moved to the Sunshine Coast. 2016 Created the Almora Surfboards and the artworks that embellish them.

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Featuring Artist:  Bino Smith

A self-taught multi medium artist from Aotearoa, New Zealand.

I am of Maori/Croatian decent and was brought up on my marae in Hongoeka Bay, Porirua, Wellington. My tribal connections are Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Raukawa, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Kahungunu. And Tainui, Tokomaru and Takitimu being my canoes.

Many of my inspirations come from my strong Māori heritage, and the values our culture upholds, and the Māori way of seeing the world (holistically). As with all indigenous cultures, Māori still retain a close connection to Papatuanuku (Mother Earth) and our many gods.

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Featuring Artist:  Cathy Cogill 

A deep connection with the sea was forged at an early age and continues to this day.

Cathy has been body surfing the waves off Mooloolaba for over 50 years now and her large wave paintings reflect the awe and admiration she has for the ocean.

Her formal art tuition commenced in 1998 in the Brisbane studio of mosaicist Scott Harrower. An interest in the technical aspects of mosaic making coincided with her research on the mosaics of the Greek island of Delos, the topic of her Bachelor of Arts honours thesis at the University of Queensland.

Scott introduced her to the “Ravenna technique” of making mosaics where the classical motifs of ancient Greece and Rome were replicated using small hand-cut marble tesserae.

Following many trips to Greece, Italy and Cyprus in pursuit of the ancient mosaics, in 2005 Cathy settled in Hania, Crete where she set up a mosaic studio and successfully exhibited and sold her work.

The second phase of Cathy’s art tuition commenced in 2010, when she studied painting (acrylic on canvas) in the studio of Eva Von Bernstorff in Hania.

Since then she has undertaken several drawing and painting courses on the Sunshine Coast with Lyn Donald and Don Milner, and in Brisbane with Robert Andrews, Abramo Papp and Merv Moriarty.

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Featuring Artist:  John Mills

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Featuring Artist:  Celeste Dawson

Celeste’s artist’s practice consists of paintings with a very distinct and occurring theme of organic forms, lines, shapes, colours, and natural themes based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Celeste is a Christian artist, and in her painting she reveals through the lens of her faith the glory and beauty of God, His creation (or nature), and the spiritual power this holds. The ocean, the experience of the ocean, and nature in general are an instinctual and intuitive basis of the works she produces.

Celeste is known amongst the coast for her large-scale black and white murals, which she has learned over the last year is her most preferred medium to work in. Celeste is also exploring hosting and curating local exhibitions, particularly seeking to represent emerging artists from the area.

Having lived in the Sunshine Coast her whole life, the surrounding environment has undoubtedly been a major influence on her identity as an artist, as well as her faith. These two contributing factors reveal the formula for her art making.

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