Sassafras Creek

Featured Artists

	Setsuko Ogishi Born in Japan, Setsuko has studied art both in Japan and here in Australia. Traditional Japanese art and customs are important influences in her work, but she also likes Australia's futuristic mood and freedom. Her aim is to explore the flexibility of glass, particularly in the use of different techniques and images, while maintaining delicacy, softness and simplicity in her work. She is represented in many public and private collections including Parliament House in Canberra.
	Simon Reece From his studio in the Blue Mountains, Simon produces high-fired stoneware, and porcelain vessels using appropriations of various Japanese and Chinese galzes including Jun, Shino, Hagi, Copper Red, Celadon etc. The pots are produced in a gas kiln and fired for thirty hours for the slow maturation of the glazes giving them a soft luscious quality. He produces unique forms that engage and challenge the viewer to go beyond the classical and traditional perspectives associated with these glazes.
	Keith Rowe Each piece is individually designed and crafted by Keith in his Blue Mountains studio. "My exposure to glass in 1979 began a life-long ambition to create quality hand-made glass. Each glass is born from the air in my lungs and stays trapped as in an envelope for ever, thus giving my glass strength and lightness."
	Lyn Hart Lyn has been a professional potter for over 20 years. From her Blue Mountain Studio, she produces a range of fine ceramic products for a discerning market. Each piece is created using only the finest materials and attention to detail expected at this level of production. In 1993 Lyn completed her associate Diploma at Brookvale, researching and testing texture based on rock forms and her environment. Since then, she has continued to formulate her ideas in many forms to attain the structure of today’s ceramics.

The Gallery is an intimate but stunning exhibition space. It provides the perfect opportunity to view new work by some of Australia's innovative artists and crafts people.

Current Exhibition

"Wandering Around Kurrajong"
A collection of pastels by Greg Hansell

28th June to 8th August 2008

Greg is an earth pastel painter and is one of the Hawkesbury’s most loved and respected artists. His pastels are all hand-made from rocks and clays with no commercial pigment, binder or additive used in their manufacture. Their permanence has been tested and given the ultimate rating. For this exhibition, Greg has focused on the familiar scenes in and around Kurrajong, with a particular interest in rusting corrugated iron, man made signs, electricity wires etc in the landscape.

Greg Hansell Kurrajong sheds He has been a finalist in the Archibald and Wynne Prizes for many years and three times at the Salon de Refuse at the SH Ervin Gallery.

Greg has won many awards that include the Mosman Art Prize, the Royal Easter Show First Prize for still life. His articles have been published in many magazines including the Australian Artist Today, Country Collection and Inside Out Magazine.

His works are represented in the Prime Ministers collection, the Mosman Regional Art Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum and the Jeffery Smart Collection. In 2001 he was commissioned to paint three major pastels for the University of Western Sydney representing the 1814 female orphan’s school in its pre-restoration state.