Wendy-Jane Sheppard

EXHIBITIONS

EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE ART TUITION AND MENTORING

By Wendy-Jane Sheppard. Registered Teacher Michael Wilcox School of Colour UK and professional art tutor with 22 years experience. Intensive and extensive tutoring all genre and mediums. On going and weekly one hour intensive lessons available by appointment

Specialities; Colour and colour mixing; theory and practical application

PORTRAITS OF DISTINCTION
WENDY-JANE Sheppard also undertakes classic oil portrait paintings by commission, Please email or phone for further details

YARRA VALLEY OPEN STUDIO Wendy-Jane will have her studio open through out the year by appointment. Please ring or email. ALL WELCOME
for more info visit www.yvopenstudios.net.au

ARTWORKS and WENDY JANE SHEPPARD GREETING CARDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE THROUGH AND WENDY-JANE IS REPRESENTED BY:

MINGARA GALLERY

 242 Thompson Avenue, Cowes,
Phillip Island, Victoria 3922, Australia Telephone: +61 5952 3722

Email: noelle@mingaragallery.com.au

gallery hours

10:00m-5:30pm daily
(closed Wednesday)
11:00am-5pm Sunday
For other times please phone for appointment

REDGUM GALLERY
Shop 3, Olinda, Victoria

TIN SHED ARTS
75 Mollison Street, Old Calder Highway, MALMSBURY,
VICTORIA, 03 5423 2144

 

Wendy Jane Sheppard B.A. Hons, F.R.S.A.S.A

Wendy-Jane Sheppard is an award winning artist and a member of the Portrait Artists of Australia, Ringwood Art Society, and Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA) as well as a Fellow and past president of the prestigious Royal South Australian Society of Arts. Her art career spans over 22 years and incorporates a diversity of artistic techniques and genre, which includes portraiture of animals and people, graphite drawings and impressionist landscape paintings.

She is a registered teacher of the Michael Wilcox School of Colour and provides fine art tuition and mentoring for beginners through to experienced artists; privately and in groups

Wendy-Jane Sheppard continues to attract acclaim and interest for her work and exhibits regularly in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne and interstate.

Artist Statement; Wendy-Jane Sheppard

I create art that reflects my interest in the interconnections and relationships between humans and the other animal species with whom we share this planet. My art is also reflective of my concern of the deliberate demise of so many animals and the destruction of their habitat by people throughout the world.

I am also very interested in the physical characteristics and the different and unique personalities of individuals. My intrigue and curiosity of the nature of individual people and animals are most evident in my portraiture, which I enjoy painting very much. My detailed and accurate style of portraiture requires many hours of carefully examining the sitter and determining his or her personality and physical characteristics that will assist me in portraying the sitter in a manner that is reflective of their unique and individual character. 

My preferred medium of choice is oil on canvas, employing a traditional classic oil painting technique.  I am inspired by the master painters of the 18^th and 19^th century and in particular the famous painter of the horse, George Stubbs (1724-1806) and equally masterful painter of all animals Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) I also admire the paintings of Australian expatriate Jeffery Smart (1921- ).

I also enjoy working in a variety of other mediums including charcoal, graphite, pastel, printmaking, mixed medium, as well as watercolour and acrylic.

‘Art for me is a lifelong and enduring dedication to a commanding visual language that expresses my unique and personal view of the world’.  

Wendy-Jane Sheppard 15^th May 2011 

'To be a Vegan is living my love for all beings each and every day of my life' W.J.S

LINKS; EDGAR'S MISSION, a farm sanctuary, www.edgarsmission.org.au

ANIMALS AUSTRALIA www.animalsaustralia.org

VEGETARIAN NETWORK VICTORIA www.vnv.org.au