By Danielle Kutchel
Provenance Artists has announced its annual Perpetual Art Shield Award and winners for 2021.
The annual awards were started by well-known Berwick resident Elizabeth Rosanove several years ago as part of the Berwick Great Art Show.
Ms Rosanove loved top-quality watercolour paintings and the awards were created to celebrate watercolour artists and their achievements on the canvas.
The main award goes to the best watercolour in the show, which is always won by a leading Australian artist.
This year’s winner was Julie Wickham of Drouin for her painting of two horses, titled ‘Workmates’.
The second award, which was won by Kim Wood of Warragul, is given to the best watercolour painting by an emerging artist
An emerging artist is classified as someone whose paintings are not over $400 and who has not won a major prize.
The award aims to give them recognition and encouragement to take their art to the next level.
The third award – won by Barbara Pain of Berwick – is also for an emerging artist.
Called the ‘Fine Art Award’, it is given to the best emerging artist in the whole show.
Barbara Pain was also awarded an Australia Day award by Holt MP Anthony Byrne for her outstanding services to visual arts in the City of Casey and to Provenance Artists Inc in particular.
Provenance Artists Inc is a not for profit society of local artists mainly based in the City of Casey.
The society runs weekly workshops in its new studio at 2 Merrowland Avenue, Cranbourne North.
Adult artists from beginners to emerging and leading artists are welcome to come to the workshops.
All workshops are limited to a maximum of six artists so that you get individual attention, and artists are guided with the aim of taking their art to the next level to shows, exhibitions and hopefully sales.
Besides organising Great Art Show each year – which has put the City of Casey on the Victorian art map – Provenance Artists also enter artworks in shows from Bendigo and Castlemaine to Sorrento, Chelsea, Mornington and Camberwell to name a few.
Calvin Bell, an internationally trained leading artist and Fulbright scholar, and Deborah Polman, an award winning Victorian artist, are the tutors.
Anyone interested in joining should visit artistofoz.com or email provenanceartists@gmail.com
