Lee Machelak
…her love of tonal realism is conveyed in her penetrating portraits reflecting time’s ephemeral moments and life’s “little theatre” of richly patterned objects and sumptuous fabrics staged in precise compositional arrangements.
Studies
1979 Commenced painting
1982 Portraiture with Alan Martin
1983 -1984 Cast Painting with Max Casey
1985 -1988 Still Life, Portrait and Landscape with David Moore
1994 -1995 AME Bale Travelling Scholarship Study Tour Europe – 6 months
Florence Academy of Art, Italy – 6 months fulltime study
Major Awards
1989 & 1991 Mavis Hill Wards
1989 Mooroolbark Art Show
1988 & 1989 Melba Art Show
1991 Tom Roberts Award
1991 AME Bale Oil Painting Award
1993 AME Bale Travelling Scholarship
1994 Camberwell Rotary Gold Medal Award
1995 Violet Teague Portrait Prize
1998 Box Hill Rotary Best Oil
1998 & 2000 Toorak College Best In Show
2000 Camberwell Rotary Major Oil Award
2000 Mount Waverley 1st Prize Oil
Galleries
1997 – 1998 Alexander Douglas, Singapore
1997 - 1998 Buschlen Mowatt, Canada
2000 – 2003 Kew Gallery, Australia
2003 Jenny Pihan Fine Art, Australia
Teaching
1989 – 1994 Sherbrooke Art Society
1990 – 1996 Victorian Artists Society
2000 Vancouver Academy of Art, Canada
2001 Council of Adult Education
2003 Senior Art Supplies
Memberships
Victorian Artists Society Signatory Member
Twenty Melbourne Painters Society
website: www.jennypihanfineart.com.au
