Terry-Pauline Price

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Her paintings have a charm which manages to combine an almost European style of elegance, with a diverse use of vibrant colour, softened, as if by time, to create images whose sense of serenity adds to the feeling of timelessness - rather than that of a 'time gone by'.

Price's paintings are not recreations of another time; on the contrary, the artist's focus is on Nature, and it is the very neutral treatment of the costumes and props in her pictures which give them a relevance to any age - the Age of Childhood – something we can all relate to. Her paintings are all set within the unmistakable environment and light of Australia, within which Terry-Pauline Price has created a genre all of her own.

Terry-Pauline Price is an artist whose paintings always feature a youthful feminine form, is it the artist herself we must ask? - usually in bucolic surroundings, amidst the presence of birds, whose presence represent not only 'freedom' but a palpable connection to Nature with, maybe children have the easiest, closest affiliation with as they play, imagine, explore and make-believe.

She often depicts the magpie, which, in Greek mythology represents the re-incarnated Muses, those daughters of Zeus who each represented beauty, grace and the arts. Price cleverly mixes the familiar with stories from mythology creating an atmosphere in her painting that harmonizes both extremes, enabling them to sit comfortably within her pictures.