Opening Thursday 13th July,   6-8pm

13 July - 30 July

To be opened by

The Hon. John Thwaites MLA

Minister for Water & Environment

Our group grew from a discussion between Jex (Peter Byron) and Mark Schaller, both keen plain air painters.  Their idea was to get me out regularly on landscape painting trips.  Since I live in St Kilda we decided to use the bay as our subject, in particular the docklands and shipping (containers not yachts).  It reminds me of fishing or surfing, bumping around at dawn in my ute judging the tides and weather trying to catch a big ship or two. I now find painting in public a liberating experience, especially when you can hide within a group.  Our group now has grown to the point that on any day we may have as many as a dozen artists working in the same time and location.
 
Dave Last - St Kilda 2006

Artists in The Boat Show include:

Peter Andrews                          Sally McCrae

Nigel Creighton                         David Porter

Julie Goodwin                           Michael Porter

Gail Hedley                               Graeme Rowe

Jex (Peter Byron)                     Fiona Somerville

Emma Keep                              Phillip Suter

Dave Last                                David Waters