Glenise is an established award winning Qld artist with many sales on bluethumb over many years. She is a contemporary Australian artist with over 35 years of exhibiting at major art galleries and selling paintings in Australia and overseas. Glenise studied Fashion Design at The Brisbane College of Art now Queensland University of Technology. She is best known for landscape paintings, figurative paintings and expressive nude drawings and also paintings of the South Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea.(PNG)
For 23years Glenise worked from her studio at Noosa North Shore, Sunshine Coast, Queensland , Australia. Her vibrant and diverse oil paintings, acrylics and mixed media are in 15countries and express her passionate love of strong colour, texture and dynamic forms.
Glenise has won numerous prizes including recently 3 Awards for art at different Exhibitions at Royal Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane and over 13 other awards including the Ian Fairweather Memorial Prize & Sunshine Coast Drawing Prize. Her paintings have been selected for prestigious exhibitions like Tattersallâs Landscape Prize (4 times) and finalist in Regional Galleries such as Moreton Bay Shire Award, Celebrate Queensland Award, Flying Arts Award, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Award and Aboriginal University of Australia Collaboration and APQ selected exhibitions at Waterfront Place.
Glenise has had 17 solo exhibitions and exhibited at reputable galleries such as Schuberts, Gold Coast, Redhill Gallery, Brisbane, Baguette, Noosa Regional Gallery, Mainstreet Gallery, Montville. Three of her paintings were selected for the inaugural Florence Biennale Exhibition in Italy.
Her paintings are keenly sought and are represented in Government, Corporate and private collections in Australia and 15 countries overseas.
In 1980 Glenise wrote and illustrated 3 childrenâs books âSunny Solar seriesâ about Australia. Her 2 books about life and love are a collaboration with 5 times published author Mocco Wollert. They have 40 poems and images all drawn and painted from live models.
Australian Landscapes
Like most Australian Artists a trip to the Red centre, Kakadu, Cape York and the Kimberley areas was a must in my evolving artistic journey. The vastness of this ancient land, and the impressive red rock escarpments silhouetted against the clear blue skies, has left images that will influence her work for years to come.
Some of the monolithic rock shapes rising steeply from the flat sandy plains have strong totemic shapes, dwarfing any human habitation, and alluding to the civilizations that have passed this way before. The many layered landscape â often resembling some enormous sculpture - has deep gorges and steep canyon walls with cool shady pools hidden below reflecting the intense colours and sunlight filtering through the chasms.
For 23years her studio was on the Sunshine Coast Queensland , Australia and was surrounded by tall white Melaleuca trees which reflected in the waterlily ponds constantly stimulating her senses .
Glenise has travelled and worked in the Pacific Islands and has travelled in Europe - always with a sketch book in hand . Her many European paintings and Pacific Islands paintings give glimpses into different cultures that are rapidly changing.
her sculptures are often in praise of women and and reflect her love of the human form.