Colleen James is an experienced artist and art teacher, painting in oils and acrylic for over 40 years. She has exhibited all over Queensland, including the Customs House Gallery Brisbane, Green Frog Gallery Maleny, LizArt Gallery Montville, The Attic Gallery Edmundi, Blue Dolphin Gallery Mooloolaba, Helen Wiltshire Gallery Mission Beach, and Milton House Gallery Mackay. Her works has been awarded many prizes, and is included in the Central Queensland University Gallery Collection and other private collections. Colleen has also painted theatre backdrops, shopping-centre holiday themes, murals, and book illustrations.
"Currently, I'm interested in painting fauna and flora. To capture both fragility and strength in nature, I combine loose, transparent paint with strong defining marks of opaque acrylics and charcoal."