Jenny Geelan
INTERNAL DRIVE Self-taught, Jenny Geelan has created all her life. “My grandmother, Mabel Drummund taught me to embroider when I was…
David Traub
Born in New York, USA, David Traub acquired a B.A. in Ceramics and Photography from the East Texas State University (now…
Beatrice Carlson
EVOLVING INSPIRATION “I have ‘a genetic fashion disorder’ with a great grandmother fine linen embroiderer, two grandmother seamstresses and a French…
Magda van der Walt
IRONING IT OUT Mixed media artwork embraces so many mediums, differing creative processes and ways of getting to that all-important final…
Sarah Kolver
BLUE PUDDLE REFLECTIONS Sarah Kolver’s beginnings are like many young people who fall in love with art, wielding a paintbrush and…
Lorraine Bailey
HAPPY HEART, HAPPY ART Moving from one place to the next can be a drag. Boxing up your life in the…
Keeley Eastwood
EASTWOOD MYTHOLOGY Myths, legends and the other-worldly creatures that bring them to life have long caught the attention of young and…
Judith Milner
COMPOSITIONS OF LIFE By Matt Mortimer Many artists will shy away from portraiture. If the symmetry and, attention to detail aren’t…
Cindy Woest
HONEST ABANDON While visiting Dougie Chowns one Sunday, I met a neighbour of his, Cindy Woest. Cindy is a very talented…
Monisha Gallage
WAX ON - WAX OFF
WAX ON - WAX OFFBorn in Sri Lanka, and the daughter of a well recognised newspaper artist, Monisha Gallage did a bachelor’s degree in Fashion and LifeStyle design at the University of Moratuwa. During this course, she did a module of batik in 2012 and completed another course in batik at teachers training college in 2018. She has excelled in this laborious but rewarding discipline in art.
“Soon after I completed university, I started working in apparel manufacturing and worked as a junior fashion designer for several leading apparel manufacturing companies who provide design-to-delivery solutions for some of the world’s most recognized brands such as Calvin Klein, Versace and Superdry Japan. This was a highly competitive and fast-moving environment which I didn’t enjoy as much as I thought I would. I grew up in an arty background as my father was a well recognized newspaper artist in Sri Lanka. He also worked as an Art Advisor for the Ministry of Education and I had the opportunity to get his guidance towards art from an early age.
