NEWS DESK Adaptable artists PENINSULA studio Trail artists have had to adapt to restrictions imposed as a result of COVID-19 and have deferred their usual exhibition at Southern Buoy Gallery. However, sales of artworks are still going ahead. A variety of prints, paintings, pottery, sculpture and jewellery by 25 artists from around the Mornington Peninsula can be seen – and bought – via Southern Buoy’s online exhibition until 29 November. Buyers should contact the artists through the exhibition pages and can individually arrange to pick up their work, being mindful of any distance restrictions imposed because of the pandemic. “This exhibition is an excellent way to see our art while relaxing in your own home at any time of day,” organiser John Trebilco said. Peninsula Studio Trail is a not for profit group of artists promoting their work collectively. It aims to reflect the quality and range of fine arts and craft practiced on the Mornington Peninsula and to make artists’ work more accessible to the public through open studios and exhibitions. Visit peninsulastudiotrailinc.org/ exhibition
An eye for detail gives life to art JUNE Alderslade, pictured, is precise in her art. Hours of research and a magnifying glass have always contributed to the realism she achieves in her paintings of insects and birds. Daughter Linda Mitchell says her mother, now 95, has always painted, with one of her paintings featuring in a Bacchus marsh newspaper when. She was 10. Ms Alderslade, who has spent half
her life on the Mornington Peninsula, worked as a mechanical tracer before the introduction of computers when “everything they traced had to be precise”. “This showed in her art as she always used magnifying glass and often two hairs in her brush,” Ms Mitchell said. “Family came first so mum never painted professionally, but always painted her flowers and portraits for
the love of painting.” These days the pictures “are smaller but still incredible”. “She complains she can't paint the way she used to. Her portraits are so real,” Ms Mitchell said. A stroke and a broken hip have had little long term effect on the quality of her paintings, mostly created with a mixed media of water colour and pencil.
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A resident at Mecwacare Park Hill, Mornington and in lockdown, Ms Alderslade has been known to spend 30 hours researching her subjects before picking up a brush. “She is mostly self-taught from what she learned from books,” Ms Mitchell said. “Using water colour, pastels and pencil her pictures came to life.” Keith Platt
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