“It’s never too late” was the main message coming out of
Visual Arts night this year – never too late to get involved in artistic pursuits
and hone the skills you learn to a high level. Striking stories of recent engagement
(or re-engagement) with the arts were the order of the night.
Our 2015 Creative Doctors Visual Arts Networking Night was held
on 23rd April at North Sydney.
We saw an array of extraordinary exhibits from talented doctors - some familiar
faces and a satisfying number of new ones. We also saw quite wide range of
visual arts represented. Judith Babich of Active Locums again provided the venue
(a terrific space in North Sydney Community Centre complete with display tables
and easels) and the refreshments.
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| Richard Wu |
Marc Grunseit, former doctor and internationally reknown glass artist, Howard Gwynne, GP psychotherapist newborn as a photographer and Richard Wu, artist and practising psychiatrist, led the way for those whose work we’ve seen before. Marc has been a glass artists for 30 years having made the perilous leap out of medicine and landed safely on the other side. Howard would tell you that he discovered the joys of multiple exposure by chance. You can see some of the results of that chance discovery here. He took the opportunity to show us some of his more playful recent work. Richard Wu showed us works in 3 different styles. His interests include finding a model that ties together Chinese painting, psychotherapy and the neuroscience of creativity. We also saw some more beautiful felting from haematologist Alessandra Bianchi.
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| Alessandra Bianchi |
Newcomers included:
- Kai Lin Lie, GP, who shared her experience of learning to draw as a mature student and showed us examples of the various techniques she has mastered.
- John Wong, GP, who exhibited skillful watercolour landscapes influenced by his Chinese heritage and stunned us with the news that he only took up painting, or any kind of visual art, 3 years ago.
- Libby Bassett, former GP, who showed some of the extraordinary printmaking work she has done since taking it up in her retirement.
- Robyn Coleman, retired GP and occupational medicine
specialist,
who took up painting with her daughter some years ago to aid her daughter’s recovery from a serious illness and couldn’t stop. The process inspired Robyn to complete a Diploma of Visual Arts and she has exhibited every year since 2006. Robyn showed us some of her recent pastel paintings.
Shima Ghedia - Shima Ghedia, emergency medicine specialist,who exhibited artwork and a portfolio of photography
- Barry Wilkins who displayed his stunning photographic landscapes
- Ajesh Shrestha, RMO, who showed us 17 delightful small graphite portraits – a talent he developed as a child growing up in Nepal. You can see more of Ajesh’s work at here
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