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Peninsula artists commended

 

Seven Peninsula artists have had their work highly commended or commended as part of the Grandma Moses Art Prize, held last week.

Highly commended artists include Bruce Campbell, Gregory R Coates and Alex Boslkovski.

Commended artists included Dawn Newman, Ronald Adams, C Kenny and Margaret Burns.

Bruce Campbell was highly commended in the open section for his painting "Chinese Magpie".

Gregory R Coates was also highly commended in the open section for his painting "Home at Last".

Alex Boslkovski was highly commended in the Senior Citizens' Centre Art Group section for his painting "Landscape".

Dawn Newman was commended in the open section for her artwork "The Hermit".

Ronald Adams was commended in the watercolour section for his painting "Mother & Daughter".

C Kenny was commended in the Senior Citizens' Centre Art Group for the artwork "Time Out".

Margaret Burns was commended for her work "Across the Lake- Avoca" in the open Central Coast inspired work section.

In its 25 years of operation, the oldest entrant in the Grandma Moses Art Exhibition has been 95, with no one younger than 50.

Other Peninsula residents also took part in the event, including 52 year old Umina resident and first time entrant Mr Ron Endercott.

Ron, who only entered his first art exhibition last year, said it was uplifting to know people could see hjis work.

Ron's entry was a painting of a "friend of a friend's dog" that was simply entitled Dog.

The exhibition was open on September 11 and 12 at the Gosford Senior Citizens' Centre, North Gosford.

Press release, 6 Sep 2007 Marion Newall, Gosford Council