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Mills Beach Linocut 3 by Billy Nye

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ARTIST NOTES: This is actually Shire Beach, so I have been told. I however called the print Mills Beach. It is where I go swimming every year and I always admire the Red bluff with the trees sitting on top. The print is a limited edition and is a linocut on arcival 300gsm printmaking paper. The work is hand painted in goauche and inks, signed, and framed in natural wood.

DIMENSIONS (Height - 65.00 cm X Width - 65.00 cm )
MEDIUM ON BASE Other Medium on Paper
GENRE Seascape
REGISTERED NRN # 000-2248-0194-01
COPYRIGHT © Billy Nye
PRIZES AND AWARDS No Awards
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Artist: Billy Nye


ARTIST BIO

Graduate in Fine Art and Visual Culture, Nye focuses her artwork on the "simplicity of the suburban landscape'. Ordinary landmarks such as; swimming pools, houses, fences, power lines and suburban streets, are scenes of home. Not to mention the amazing Port Phillip Bay and the gateway to the Peninsula "Olivers Hill". 

Painting and Printmaking are her main genres with a particular interest in woodcutting. Nyes work is collected all over the Peninsula and has a reputation for her simplicity of the suburban streetscape and the paradise of domesticity. Seeing the beauty in everyday things and making associations with nostalgia.

Influenced the great Australian artist; Reg Mombassa, Jeffry Smart, Howard Arkley and Brett Whiteley. 

BA in Fiine Art and Visual Culture, Curtin University, Perth
Diploma of Visual Arts Chisholm Frankston

Certificate IV in Work Place Training and Assessment in 2010

Working with Childrens Check qualified.


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