Step 1 - Roy de Maistre

Roy de Maistre painted in a very sought-after style of work, he was a "colour-music" painter. He vigorously researched the concept of colour harmony, using the colours in a painting like musical notes to blend together and create a symphony. He was one of the leading exponents of Modernism in Australia.

Task 1 - Arthur Streeton

When he was young, learning at an art school he went out with other students and painted in the plein air style, where they took their canvas' outside and simply painted while looking at the world around them. He was also interested in the Impressionism style, he exhibited 40 works in "The 9 By 5 Impression Exhibition." He worked with other artists for a while in a hospital during the war, the injured soldiers had a great effect on him, and he was later declared medically unfit and went away to recuperate. For a few years while he visited and lived in Olinda, he painted many panoramic landscapes which are giant paintings that reveal a wide view of a particular subject, usually a landscape, historical event or battle.

Task 1 - Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts was an English artist who moved to Australia, he was well known for bringing the style of Impressionism to Australia. Impressionism is a technique that involves using very bright colours and short brush strokes to show the effect of light on different objects in the paintings.

Step 1 - Eugene von Guerard

Eugene von Guerard came to Australia in 1852 but even though he was already an artist he didn't start painting in Australia immediately, instead he became a gold-digger. He later became a working artist again painting properties and such. In the early 1980'2 von Guerard was far more famous for his landscape paintings. He painted these with remarkably shadowy lighting and in-depth detail.

Step 1 - John Glover

John Glover was an English/Australian artist who has been dubbed the Father Of Australian Landscape Painting. He came to New Zealand in 1831 on his 64th birthday and began painting Australian landscapes. He is best known for his Tasmanian paintings with which he brought a fresh new outlook on Australian landscapes by using the sunlight he saw to make the paintings bright and clear unlike the old English style. Clovers painting were also far more accurate representations of the landscape, especially his trees which were characterised as having flowing branches and limbs.

Step 1 - Gloria Petyarre

Gloria Petyarre is an Aboriginal artist born in 1945. Glorias painting style is unique and uses her imagination to depict stories and her understanding of the traditional country surrounding her. Her Bush Medicine paintings are examples of this style.

Step 1 - Artist Table Sally Harrison

Sally Harrison - Sally Harrison lived a tough life, she became a member of the stolen generation when she was 13 months old and didn't meet her mother again for 43 years. She had a white father and, being half half, she was expected to act like a white woman. She began painting when she was 10 and to her it felt like painting became "a means of escape and a healing tool." Sally Harrison often uses a technique that involves simply looking at the basic shapes and getting the painting colours down then moving over it in layers, and when the painting is finished she goes over the backgrounds and adds an aboriginal style dot-painting theme to it, like in these paintings.