An accomplished art tutor and former President of the Ringwood Art Society, Nola Clark expresses her love for domestic animals by creating beautiful pictures of them.
Nola Clark has a few early-school day recollections which include ‘being the smallest girl in school’. She also has a fond memory of regularly topping the class for drawing and sketching.
As a child she can’t remember having many toys, but vividly recalls having plenty of kids’ paints, coloured pencils and loads of paper and Spirax sketchbooks.
Nola’s early forays into art clearly laid the foundation for a successful and fulfilling art career … even if it did take another thirty years to crystallise her interest into a serious and pleasurable pastime.
Marriage, motherhood and mortgages were her prime concerns until the late seventies when husband Alan began rummaging through old boxes and drawers and located many examples of Nola’s drawing activities from her school days.
Alan was astonished that his wife of 16 years had such a talent. To Nola’s delight, her future birthday and Christmas gifts provided lots of art-related goodies including pastels, oils, acrylics and a variety of brushes and canvas.
Her husband’s alertness at that time had an early (if unusual) reward, when a carpet representative spotted Nola’s work and offered to carpet a room in exchange for an oil painting of his own horse.
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Pelicans To Portraits
This lady has painted everything from pelicans to portraits. She has completed commissions including cats, dogs, horses, possums, numerous beach scenes… and even a Scottish piper.
“I Cannot Imagine Life Without Art”
Throughout her story you can feel the delight and joy that radiates from this artist as she describes her passion for art.
The Noble Equine
Coloured pastel papers have been used to create this beautiful horse.
To Be at One With Nature
“My art is who I truly am, and it has given me a freedom to become ‘just me’,” claims this talented lady.
Making The Picture Sing
Using her fine attention to detail, this artist creates a loving tribute to her subject.
Thanks to Da Vinci
Wicked classroom caricatures and tattoos fired up the passion for this self taught artist to strive to produce the perfect drawing.
My Story
Sharing her passion for art has become a way of life for this determined and talented artist.
Link to Life
This artist adores pastels … a medium which she believes can fall between painting and drawing. Her art is truly her link to life.
Don't Rock the Boat
What comes first … the title or the painting? For this colourful artist, it can be either – and experimenting can lead to accidentally creating individual techniques.
Art for Steven
Some years ago, this man was inspired to make the transition from cartooning to painting. He had always wanted to express himself in this way, and he dedicates every painting to his late brother Steven who inspired him.