ENVIRONMENTAL EXPRESSIONIST ARTIST: Ursula is concerned by the challenging environmental issues which confront and threaten our global future and she believes in the importance of art to stimulate and encourage discussion of these complex and emotive choices. Her work explores the relationship that humankind has with the environment. She focuses on the profound spiritual connection we have with nature and the duality of our behaviour to the world. She draws inspiration from the Australian bush around her home, amid remote farms, plantations and quarries.
Reenchantment Series

Reenchantment Series

‘Fernery’ 2011 Diptych Acrylic on Canvas 100 x 200cm is the latest painting in my Reenchantment Series. The painting is based on the magical quality Fern trees possess.  Fern trees are even more enchanting seen en mass in a beautiful National Park near me, called Tarra Valley.     You will find it under Current Works along...
Reenchantment Series

Reenchantment Series

This is a detail of my latest painting called ‘Fernery’ 2011 .  It is the third painting in my Reenchantment Series which will be exploring my notion that we are beginning to see nature in a sacred and magical way again. Click on Image for more…
Reenchantment Series

Reenchantment Series

This is the bottom section of my latest diptych called ‘Fernery’. Click on image for more…
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ARCHIBALD PRIZE PORTRAIT 2012

ARCHIBALD PRIZE PORTRAIT 2012

‘DEBORAH  FORSTER – AUTHOR’ 2012 Acrylic on Canvas  120 x 180cm After spending time with Deb I felt that she was a very private and modest person, who really didn’t want a ‘close up’. So when I asked if she had an...
Photographs

Photographs

My photographs are a further exploration into humankind’s interaction with the environment, which I am also undertaking in my paintings.  I am concerned by the challenging environmental issues which confront and threaten our global future, and am shocked by what I witnesses around my home,...
Archibald Portrait

Archibald Portrait

I was honoured to be asked to sit for The Archibald Portrait Prize by the artist on my right, Janette Arnold-Collins. We are at the opening night of the Salon des Refuses, Hidden Faces of the Archibald, at the Park Hyatt...
Werner Theinert

Werner Theinert

Werner’s digital prints are highly contrived images that retrieve beauty from destruction after Black Saturday.  His photographs of Regeneration speaks of hope and nature’s reclamation.