New Ventures Art Group is a new and exciting development in art circles. Based in Wanneroo and holding exhibitions and art workshops within the Wanneroo Shire. We are dedicated to assisting enthusiastic budding artists, be it art college graduates, budding or mature artists.

Media Release 12 February 2014

Peninsula Artists open their Studios to the public

Talented artists from across the Mornington Peninsula will be opening their studios to the public as part of the Peninsula Studio Trail Open Weekend on the 1 & 2nd March.

BEATS Silent Auction

Part of the entertainment for the BEATS Gala Evening will be your participation in the Colour In Your Life Silent Auction. The Graeme Stevenson Painting “The King” is valued at $2000 and will be on display at the October 12 event.

Special congratulations to Rhonda Baker, a loyal supporter of Colour In Your Life, for her Second Prize place in the Portrait Prize. 

The popular portrait of community leader Jenny London received wide applause when it took out this year’s Northern Rivers Portrait Prize at a packed Lismore Regional Art Gallery on Saturday.

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FASHIONISTAS GET PREPARED!

It’s time to start planning your creations and get your registration in for the 2013 Bendigo Bank Wearable Art competition at the Australian Body Art Carnivale.

Brisbane Workshop with Colour In Your Life

After the incredible response to our email, Colour In Your Life has organised for a workshop to be held on the 13th of January at Circle Gallery – just above The Art Shed in Brisbane. Award winning artist and Colour In Your Life featured artist, Tricia Reust, will be hosting this workshop, with Colour In Your Life founder and CEO Graeme Stevenson there to assist.

I was just recently asked by an Artist to price her work, and to make some comments on ideas she had for an exhibition she was about to have. 

I have been an Artist for thirty years now and have had many shows around the world. The market place has changed a great deal in that time with many of the galleries here and overseas closing down. The current position has a lot to do with the uncertainty of the Global financial situation.

After being in my business as an Artist for over thirty years and yes if you if you are selling your work in the process of trying to make a living out of your Art, you are in a business weather you like it or not .

It is something that is always relatively uncomfortable for a lot of right brained creative people to get their heads around. I have had to force myself over the decades, mostly through people doing the wrong thing by me, to learn about the legal side of the Arts.

One of the great myths that have been dumped on the heads of Artists all over the world is that you are not a real Artist if you profit from your work. I have met a number of Artists over the years that have been more successful than you could imagine. The one thing they have never believed in is the stereotypes that society has dumped on Artists in general. The reason that Artists like Picasso, Dali, Warhol, Chagall, Rubens and many many more were successful was the fact that they also promoted themselves extremely well.