Custom Portrait Commissions

Cynthia Hargraves, Master Pastellist with Pastel Society of Australia.

Welcoming commissions in fine art portraits, children portaits, wedding portraits, pets-dogs,cats portraits.

Art Workshop teacher, internationally and nationally Tutoring in Oils, Drawing and pastels.

Gold Coast, Queensland art teacher specialising in teaching all genres including, fairy, fantasy, angel, dragons, landscapes, portraits, faces, still life, animals:dogs,cats etc in acrylics, oils, pastels, charcoal,drawing, pencils

Teaching beginners to advanced students.

Art Workshops 2012....

for Queensland,Northern Territory, Western Australia,South Australia, Victoria,Tasmania, New South Wales

Art workshops play an essential part in giving art students and indepth knowledge of specialised areas of art. These areas cannot be covered deeply enough in a class situation due to the limitation of time and diversity of students interests. For the years 2011 to 2012 I will be teaching workshops around Australia and will not be teaching weekly art classes

Testimonial by Student

For the past 5 years I have been a student with Cynthia Hargraves. Cynthia is such a knowledgeable and generous teacher, using a very relaxed way of teaching. She effectively pushes you in a whirlwind of directions, enabling you to experience as many aspects of art possible and thereby find your own niche in the art world. I have actually found “me” in my years of going to Cynthia’s classes. She brings out all my creativity and her studio is honestly magical. Cynthia’s talent as an artist and an art teacher is truly outstanding.

Lesley West

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Artists Statement
Biography
Art Classes,Workshops

Cynthia Hargraves’s paintings convey her love of capturing the fresh vividness of light as it plays on her subjects. Whether the subject is of people, animals or nature that are used to create an emotional impact it is by controlling values, edges, light and pulsating colour that work together in creating her works of art.

Cynthia was born in America but moved to Australia when 6 yrs old. She comes from an artistic family and was taught to paint and draw from a young age. Although Cynthia has a Diploma of Teaching, Bachelor of Education and is a Blue Card holder, her formal tuition in art has been with many different master teachers from Australia and Overseas over the span of 30 years. Her work is more influenced currently by world renown Sally Strand and Clayton J Beck III ( taught by Richard Schmidt ). Both American artists.
Her love of pastels has led her to achieve Master Pastellist qualifications with the Pastel Society of Australia which receives world wide recognition. She has won awards for her paintings and had them published in Australian Artist magazine in April, August 2006 and written articles on Portraiture and Seascapes as requested by the editor of this magazine. The Seascape article has recently been published in the March edition this year.
Much of her work is through commissions in portraiture, life studies, landscapes and flowers.
Cynthia’s love of flowers has been solely in oil paintings on large canvases. These are available as a single painting or in triptych and diptych. Her floral fine art demonstrates her love of portraying a vivid freshness from early morning light.
Much of her landscapes reflects her extensive travels throughout Australia and overseas while her portraiture and life studies are found throughout everyday life.
Her work has been represented by Lumiere in Perth. In Brisbane and the Gold Coast her work is exhibited in various venues. Graydon Gallery 2008 and February 2009 at a large exhibition with Penelope Gilbert Ng in aid of the Mental Illness Fellowship for Queensland.

Please check the Upcoming Events for her next exhibitions and teaching schedule

ART WORKSHOPS

2012 Interstate Workshops

Feb 9th - 11th Adelaide,South Australia To book or inquire

April 21,22nd Melbourne,Victoria To book or inquire

May 19th,20th New South Wales. There is another date for a workshop in NSW yet to be confirmed To book or inquire

June 16th PSA,Brisbane,Queensland To book or inquire

June 26th- 1st July Maryborough,Queensland To book or inquire

Overseas workshops..

Croatia Art Tour Sept 13 - 22nd, 2012 To book or inquire

Overseas workshops..

To view the itinerary for the trip visit >>> http://slikamilina.ca/PaintingTours.html

Address:
7 Ruth Terrace,
Oxenford. Qld 4210
Australia
Ph: 0488 288 512
Email: Cynthia Hargraves
www.cynthiahargraves.com