ROBERT WILSON was born in 1942 and grew up in the beautiful Towac Valley near Orange. He has lived in different areas of the central west and won the first of his many awards in 1964 at the Parkes show.

Although Robert is self-taught he studied under Arthur Murch and Henry Hanke at the Royal Art Society life classes. He has spent many years painting and observing the landscape, learning from it and from his fellow artists. In recent years he has studied in the USA, England and France.

Robert taught painting for twenty years at the Mitchell School of Creative Arts at Charles Sturt University at Bathurst. He now teaches at the Grafton Arstsfest, which is held each year in September. He is sought after as an art judge and for his stimulating demonstrations to art groups.

Robert has held many successful exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. His works are represented internationally in the Westpac Collection, London, The Commonwealth Bank Collection and many private collections throughout the USA, Europe, Japan and Korea. The Prime Minister's Department has regularly purchased his paintings for presentation to foreign dignitaries.

Robert has been painting professionally since 1970 and in that time has held over forty one-man exhibitions througout Australia. He has been guest artist five times at Ayers Rock (Uluru), Yulara Resort and spent time as Art Director on the cruise ship Norwegian Star.

Robert is a Fellow of The Royal Art Society of NSW.

DORIS KAMINSKY was born in New York City and spent her early years on Long Island. She attended the University of South Carolina before coming to live permanently in Australia in 1968. She spent ten years at Nowra on the lush South Coast, painting that wonderful landscape.

Early in her career she lived in England for two years, first in London and later in a thatched malt house in Kent. It was during this period that she had an opportunity to travel and paint in Europe and she held an exhibition of her work in the UK. She studied at the Morley College in London and at the Maidstone School of Arts.

For many years Doris worked exclusively in oils but after much experimenting she found herself to be more fluent in acrylic, pastel and gouache. She enjoys the immediacy of the water-based media and the soft hamonies of pastel and often uses them in combination. Recently acrylics seem to have become the favoured medium. Doris's work is charming and individual and she is able to transform every day situations into exquisite works of art.

Doris's works are in many important private collections in this country and overseas. She travels annually to New York and visits the many wonderful galleries of that city to gain inspiration. Doris has completed an important commision of works for the Netherlands Merchant Bank ABN AMRO. She exhibits her work in Sydney, Brisbane and Victoria.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Art Society of NSW and was the winner of the Medal of Distinction given by the Society. In 2002 she won the North Sydney Art Prize for best work on paper and a major painting was selected to hang in the Mosman Prize.

Recently, Doris was Artist in Residence at the Renaissance Sydney Hotel as well as on the Norwegian Star cruise ship. She conducts workshops, has been chosen to judge art exhibitions and teaches privately. She has also tutored at the Combined Art Societies, Art in Action, Kurrajong.

Doris lives in the seaside suburb of Bundeena, south of Sydney, in the Royal National Park

MICHELE THOMSON was born in Sydney in 1947 and comes from an artistic background. Her grandfather was a friend of, and art dealer for, many early Australian artists, including Norman Lindsay. Her early childhood reflected this, and there was always a pencil in her hand. The magnificent colours of a Derwent box of pencils fascinated her.

After graduating from school with Art A Levels, Michele studied art part time at North Sydney Technical College, studied Chinese brush painting in Malaysia, designed greeting cards for "Kinky" and taught artistic expression to the disabled.

In recent years she has studied with Erika Beck and Tony Tozer and attended many workshops. Her works are contemporary, mostly figurative and still life in a variety of mediums. She is constantly climbing new artistic horizons - to live is to paint! "My work is built up by the overlay of images through the use of colour, texture and design - images that invite the viewer to enter into a delightful journey of exploration, sometimes beautiful and humourous, sometimes thought provoking

Michele's paintings are intuitive and resonate with colour and the sheer joy of being alive. Michele became and Exhibiting Member of The Royal Art Society of NSW in 1997 and Ku-Ring-Gai Art Society in 1995 (Vice President in 1999).