AUSTRALIAN

Australian Artists will be your Hosts

Wyn Vogel

Australian Watercolour Muster

Curator & FabrianoinAquarello

Italy Delegation Leader

Caroline Deeble

Australian Administration

FabrianoinAquarello Italy and ‘Muster Support’

Jenny Loveday

Australian Watercolour Muster

-Artist Support

Phillip Edwards

Phillip Edwards is an artist living and working in Bullarto, Victoria in the vibrant arts community of Daylesford. West Gippsland born, from childhood he’s had an affinity and inquisitiveness for the natural environment. “I revel in the allencompassing, visceral experience of being in the outdoors.” His artistic practice started at 14 years of age with his first oil painting, continued through studies at the Victorian College of the Arts in his late teens, majoring in painting. He’s maintained his painting practice for over 30 years and expanded into sculptural works with found objects, steel and timber. Be it painting or sculpture, his works have a natural aesthetic that connects him to the natural world.

Richard Tiejun Chao

Richard Tiejun Chao is a world-renowned watercolourist. Born in a family of artistic atmosphere, he has accomplished 11-year systematic professional study on oil painting and obtained Master’s Degree of Art.

Basing on his profound background and rich experience on oil-painting, Richard has focused on watercolour portrait. Taking a contemporary perspective, he depicts his interpretation of the human world in his realistic paintings. An exploratory artist as he is, Richard tries out the possibilities of watercolour as a medium with huge size paintings. His models are people from every corner of the world with diverse and unique customs and cultures, as well as religions on the one hand, which amaze him; while the common feature among these people from all walks of life impresses him— their sufferings and happiness. His expertise and endeavour on painting have won him awards and reputation worldwide.

Julian Bruere

‘As a watercolourist, I draw on a variety of themes, with a focus on landscapes, alpine snow gums, city scenes, maritime themes and portraiture...’

Bruere is the Victorian Vice President of the Australian Society of Maritime Artists a past Treasurer of the Victorian Artists’ Society. He is a member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, the Watercolour Society of Victoria and a former member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Julian was elected a member of the Australian Watercolour Institute in 2015.

Born in artistic Eltham, Julian Bruere studied Graphic Design at RMIT, embarking on numerous artistic and illustrative jobs as a book illustrator, advertising artist, animation designer and product and realestate artist until becoming dedicated to teaching watercolour and being a professional painter.

He has travelled and painted in Europe (2011), New Zealand (2014) and England (2017). In his latest English exploration, he painted in a sketchbook creating a selection of watercolour studies and drawings featuring locations in London; Broadway and the Cotswolds; Llandudno, Northern Wales; Staithes, North Yorkshire, and Bath. Bruere is a regular exhibitor in Australia and abroad, including China, and for the past eight years has been involved with FIVE, an annual group exhibition of select Victorian Art Society artists.