Bevan Shepherd

Purchase an artwork by Bevan Shepherd on line .  email us at: gallery@tussockupstairs.com.au for a private viewing at Bevan’s studio  or payment and delivery.

‘Coast Lookout II’ 2023        Oil on Canvas – 124cm […]

To purchase one or more prints please email  Tussock On Line.           gallery@tussockupstairs.com.au

The prints are available framed, mounted under glass with light timber surrounds
The images are printed on Dutch Etching […]

JANET GOLDMAN – ARTIST / PRINTMAKER

Biography

Born Melbourne, Victoria 1952

Education

Melbourne State College  

Higher Diploma Teaching (Secondary Art and Craft)

Bachelor of Education Art and Craft

2005 Intense Drawing Course Monash University  

2009 Melbourne Studio School Workshop You Yangs 

Solo […]

Sue Cumming

New paintings and hand coloured linocut prints are available to be viewed at Sue’s Point Lonsdale studio by appointment. Works are available to be purchased framed and unframed.

Tussock Upstairs Gallery will be featuring well-known local artists in their annual Summer Expo 19-20 Exhibition. All of the artists will be showing a range of their new works for visitors to enjoy.

Works included in […]

‘November 2019’

Exhibition dates: Sat 16th November – Sun 15th December 2019 Opening Drinks Saturday 16th November 3-5pm

Featuring local artists in:

Our Annual 2 for 1 Exhibition (Selected Artists)

A range of options to select […]

Following on from the highly successful ‘Bellarine People’s Choice Art Awards’ Tussock Upstairs has curated a new exhibition for October. The gallery continues to focus on presenting the works of local artists. All of the […]

Tussock Upstairs Gallery is continuing its support for local artists by their sponsorship of The Bellarine People’s Art Awards 2019. This will be the first event for the gallery after its winter recess. The awards, […]

Autumn Art Fair 2019

Tussock Upstairs will have a wide range of local artists contributing their recent works in their Autumn Arts Fair which commences with opening drinks on Saturday May 11th 3-5pm. Discounts of up […]

‘April 19’ – Tussock Upstairs Gallery

Nationally acclaimed artist Rona Green and respected local printmaker Janet Goldman will be exhibiting their work in the April exhibition at Tussock Upstairs Gallery.

Well known for striking pictures of peculiar […]

Tussock Upstairs gallery are featuring prints and paintings by ten Point Lonsdale artists in their next exhibition that commences on Saturday 16th February and concludes on Sunday March31st

Janet Goldman, Sue Cumming and David Jarman are […]

Works produced overseas will feature at the opening of the Tussock Upstairs Gallery ‘Summer Expo 18-19’ opening on Saturday 15th December. Local artist, Stephen Wright, who has recently returned from a painting trip to Italy […]

September Spaces 18

After a winter break and slowdown we are pleased to announce our September Spaces 18 exhibition will include new artists to the gallery – Samantha Thompson, Amanda Hocking, Clare Brown, Janette Thompson and […]

Brett Whiteley, John Perceval, Merric Boyd, Jamie Boyd and Alice Bale feature in our May exhibition and sale.

Tussock Upstairs is pleased to present a selection of small works from a private collection. All works are […]

New artist along with some regular exhibitors present a new and exciting exhibition for April. Bevan Shepherd is showing the second painting in his series based on historical events of Point Lonsdale

The Holyhead 1890 – […]

‘Point Lonsdale & More’ 
Many works in this exhibition will reference Point Lonsdale, the Bellarine Peninsula and other areas. We will be introducing some new artists who will be exhibiting fresh images and styles of works for visitors […]

Well-known local artists Priscilla Fenton, Michael Ryan and Stephen Wright head up an impressive line up of artists including Janet Goldman, Sue Cumming, Karen van Cuylenburg, Paul Waycott, Jane Kempe, Anne Hastie, Tim Pescott, Tom […]

The opening of ‘Small Works’ an exhibition of nationally and internationally renowned Australian artists will be held at Tussock Upstairs Gallery

Saturday 4th November 3pm – 5pm

Exhibition Dates
November 4th – December 3rd 2017
Weekends including Fridays and […]

We are commencing our new series of exhibitions after winter breaks. Spring Spaces 17 is an exciting exhibition of new works by many of our regular artists.

Roma Burge, Priscilla Fenton, Anne Hastie, Jane Kempe, Libby Letcher, Robyn Mackay, Helen Martin, Lance Nutt, Ivana […]

A broad range of art works demonstrating many art style and techniques are now on show at Tussock Upstairs.

Artists exhibiting include:

Ros Atkins, Roma Burge, Sue Cumming, Priscilla Fenton, Katrina Fisher, Deborah Fisher, Janet Goldman, Anne Hastie, Adrian Keats, Jane Kempe, Michael Ryan, Paul Waycott

Many other works […]

Autumn Weekend Art Fairs

Opening Drinks Saturday 11th March 3pm – 5pm

Open each weekend (including Labour Day)

March 11th until April 2nd 10am – 5pm

New artists – New works

Includes works by:
Roma Burge, Sue Cumming, Priscilla Fenton, Deborah Fisher, Darin Frankpitt, Janet Goldman, Jane […]

Tussock Upstairs will have an exciting range of new works for visitors to enjoy over the summer holidays. Eleven artists will have paintings, prints and photography on show. As the holiday season progresses the artworks […]

Seven local printmakers are exhibiting new works until November 27th. A wide range of relief printmaking techniques are presented. David Jarman has included his Bellarine Print Prize Peoples Choice winning entry ‘Rest Stop’. Janet Goldman […]

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Deakin Footsteps

A History, Arts and Cultural Community Event.

Saturday 29th – Sunday 30th – Monday 31st October 2016  (Melbourne Cup weekend).

Following the success of last years ‘Heide Footsteps’, the Point Lonsdale Seaside Village will present […]

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2016 Bellarine Print Prize is Rosalind Atkins for her entry ‘Once Were Trees Part 2’

We extend our thanks and appreciation to Lisa Sullivan, Curator Geelong […]

Until the renovations are completed visitors to the gallery will need to use a temporary entry. We apologise for this. We will be looking forward to having an external staircase when everything is finished. We […]

As we await the building renovations to get started toward the end of June we have put together a variety of paintings, prints, drawings and 3d works from our stockroom for our visitors to enjoy. […]

All roads lead to Tussock Upstairs Gallery’s Autumn Arts Expo
Monday 15th February – 8th May. We will be ‘refreshing’ the exhibits every now and then. ‘Music on the Balcony’ events on weekends (to be announced)
Huge […]

Debra Read will be opening the first of a very special series of statewide exhibitions of ‘Four Sisters 16’ at Tussock Upstairs Gallery at approximately 3.45pm at the opening of ‘The January / February Exhibition […]

Tussock Upstairs Gallery

 The Bellarine Print Prize 2016 

 Call for entries

Artists from Australia are invited to enter The Bellarine Print Prize, to be held

Monday 26th Sept – Sunday October 23rd 2016  

The prize is non acquisitive and […]

The January Collection features the soft and seductive watercolours of Priscilla Fenton and the imaginary worlds of Anne Hastie and Jenny Laidlaw.
Robyn Makay and Anne McMaster will be exhibiting beautifully crafted etchings, mono and linocut […]

Regular exhibitors at Tussock Upstairs Gallery, Jenny Laidlaw, Robyn Mackay, Tom Wells, Josh McCrimmon, Priscilla Fenton, Pip Matthews and Denise Rogers are presenting new works in the second summer exhibition at Tussock Upstairs Gallery.

Jenny Laidlaw, […]

Graham Jones a well-known international design consultant based in Mornington will be exhibiting his new paintings of landscapes and seascapes at Tussock Upstairs Gallery for the first time in The November Collection. The first of […]

‘Heide Footsteps’ October 31st – November 1st 2015

Along with a exhibition of archival photographs of the Heide group holidaying in Point Lonsdale in 1945 there will be music performances, historic walks, a light show, archival […]

Linda Gallus – Featured Artist

Exhibition Dates

September 28th – October 25th

Some years ago Linda moved from central Victoria to Geelong. Living near the coast has given her the opportunity to spend hours walking on the beach […]

‘Politics, Landscapes, and Memories’

Chris Shelton featured Artist Tussock Upstairs Gallery – April 28th – May 24th

Since 1989, he has created and produced eight large one-man exhibitions that loosely follow his belief that Art = Life.

When […]

‘The April Collection’

A wide range of artworks will be included in our April Collection Exhibition over Easter and the school holidays

Artists included in the show are:

Sue Cumming               Priscilla […]

Kate Hudson – Printmaker

Award winning artist Kate Hudson will be the first ‘Featured Artist’ to exhibit at Tussock Upstairs this year.

Kate is an Australian artist specializing in limited edition linocut prints in black & white and […]

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This year we are redesigning our exhibition schedule to include ‘Featured Artist / Special Exhibitions’ and redesigning our successful ‘Spaces’ exhibitions for the busy periods of Easter, November, December, January […]

New York based artist Libbet Loughnan will be joining with local and Melbourne artists to show her recent works at Tussock Upstairs Gallery over January. Libbet now attends classes at the National Arts Club and […]

Through the ’80’s and 90’s, before reality TV turned everyday people into cooking superstars and celebrities, Julie Stafford wrote Australia’s biggest and fastest selling healthy eating cookbook. Her ‘Taste of Life’ series of twenty-two best-selling […]

Paul Waycott, well known local artist has commenced painting classes at Tussock Upstairs Gallery. Participants will gain knowledge about materials and processes involved in acrylic painting and produce a small number of paintings on paper […]

A wide range of recent paintings and prints by local artists will be exhibited in our ‘October Spaces’ during October and early November at Tussock Upstairs Gallery. 

Exhibiting artists include – Sue Cumming, Anne Hastie, Diane […]

“Colour in Your Life” is a video of Jenny Laidlaw demonstrating the processes she goes through whilst developing her highly regarded pen and ink paintings. Jenny’s work may be viewed and purchased at Tussock Upstairs […]

Bevan Shepherd   1943 –

“Searching for the Image” – A Retrospective Exhibition 1962 – 2014

From the beginning of time people have been producing images that describe their experiences and emotions. A retrospective exhibition of Bevan […]

Tussock Upstairs News

Following the current exhibition “Searching for the Image” exhibition there will be a “Stock Show and Sale” from 15th Sept – 12th October. The opening of this exhibition will be Saturday 20th Sept […]

Stephen Wright – “The Art of Travel”

Stephen will be presenting his first solo exhibition of his watercolours at Tussock Upstairs Gallery

“Travelling is a wonderful experience, it broadens the mind, you learn so much and the […]

Tussock Upstairs Gallery is proud to be an outlet for Michael Leunig limited edition engraving prints

The opening of our special exhibition of Australian and Irish printmakers was held on Saturday 5th April 2014. Approximately 8o people were in attendance to enjoy the variety of works on show. Bevan Shepherd welcomed […]

Australian Printmakers: Rosalind Atkins, Anna Curtis, Janet Goldman, Jackie Hocking, Kate Hudson, Chris Ingham, Kyoko Imazu, Martin King, Damon Kowarsky, Peter Lancaster, John McClumpha, Graeme Peebles, Geoffrey Ricardo, Anne Spudvilas, Joel Wolter

 Irish Printmakers: Johnny Bugler, Conall Cary, Lorraine Cooke, Wendy Dison, Morgan Doyle, Sean Hanrahan, Marianne Keating, Jo Kelley, Fiona Kelly, Eileen Kennedy, Aoife Layton, Noelle Noonan, Grainne Ruane

Sixteen local artists will be exhibiting recent paintings, prints, photographs, textiles and jewellery during March at Tussock Upstairs Gallery Point Lonsdale.  
Exhibiting artists include: 
June Brown, Sue Cumming, Chris Farrell, Heather De Grandi, Jack Kronborg, Anne Lambert, […]

“December Spaces Exhibition”

The December Spaces Exhibition at Tussock Upstairs Gallery will provide the art lover and person looking for that individual Christmas gift for a special friend, a wide range of art mediums, subject matter […]

Once again Tussock Upstairs Gallery is presenting “the affordable xmas show” Artists featured include Terry Denton, Anne Lambert, Helen Leach, Libby Letcher, Malcolm Lowe, Anne Spudvilas, Erica Wagner and Rosalie Waller

The Xmas show will be […]

What’s on @Tussock Upstairs

Following the highly regarded ‘Lonsdale 5 ‘ exhibition in 2012 a larger group of Point Lonsdale artists have come together this year to exhibit a range of paintings, prints, photographs and ceramics […]

Jumping Jack Splash designs were launched at Tussock Upstairs Gallery on September 21st. Tea Towel designs shown here are available in limited edition print format (varying sizes)

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“October Spaces” – Art works by : Moyra Le Blanc Smith – Sue Cumming – Jo Reitze – Steve Singline – Gillian Turner – Samantha Thompson 

John Madsen – Madison Kerney – Helen Martin – Paul […]

A wide variety of works by local, Geelong and Melbourne artists are now being exhibited as part of the Surprise Spring Show. The exhibition includes works by Tom Wells, Jane    Kempe, Vicki Green, Josh […]

Grange Kemp

After focusing on printmaking, mono-prints, etchings, linocuts for many years Grange Kemp recently started working in oil paints. Her grandfather gave her some of his oil paints, which included a tube of beautiful yellow […]

Opening remarks for “Elements” exhibition March 9th 2013

‘Elements’ is a group exhibition comprising of six prominent Bellarine artists

Mark Cairns, Joel Wolter, Michael Brand, Paul Waycott, Marnie Buckwell and Julie Shaw

They present to us recent small […]

If you would like to view a well presented short film of Anna Curtis explaining and demonstrating colour reduction linoprinting click on to the following link. Tussock Upstairs Gallery has a range of Anna’s prints […]

Tussock Upstairs Art Gallery is now showing a range of small, affordable works for visitors to enjoy during the cool months of winter. 20 artists have works on show. The “Small Works Winter Program” will […]

Elements is a group exhibition comprising of six prominent Bellarine artists responding to current themes in our coastal environment. Artists Mark Cairns, Joel Wolter, Michael Brand, Paul Waycott, Marnie Buckwell and Julie Shaw present recent […]

Gillian Turner, on her return from an international residency in Ireland during July 2011 Gillian continues to explore the landscape an area researched intensively through literature, visual and performance arts. She explores the fleeting, the impermanent […]

Popular award-winning children’s book illustrators Terry Denton and Anne Spudvilas will be showing another aspect of their work in a group show at Tussock Upstairs Gallery in Point Lonsdale.  The exhibition, titled The Affordable Xmas […]

   Lynne Hunt

 Lester Hunt

 Janet Goldman

 Bevan Shepherd

  Tess Grace

Lynn Hunt, Tess Grace, Lester Hunt, Janet Goldman and Bevan Shepherd; five Point Lonsdale artists will be exhibiting their art works from October 15th – November 11th at […]

A solo show by trans-Tasman painter, Nicki Manthel, explores the formal and feral gardens of Melbourne.

In love with paint and light, Nicki’s work is influenced by the magical abstraction of photography and the expressionist potential […]

Introduction to Linocut Printmaking by Janet Goldman

Linocut is a relief printmaking technique that creates striking, bold images. Participants will learn the principles of relief printing by making a linocut including how to draw a design, […]

Exhibition proposals are invited for 2015

Tussock Upstairs Gallery is located in the heart of Point Lonsdale’s busy tourist strip. The gallery has now been operating since March 2012

We are seeking expressions of interest from artists seeking […]

                          
 
Current Exhibition – Tom Wells, Kain Shepherd, Erica Wells, Bevan Shepherd
1st May – 27th May 2012
Local artist Tom Wells will be exhibiting landscapes with themes […]

Artist Profile – Pip Matthews

Pip Matthews is a Melbourne printmaker and lawyer who has been visiting Point Lonsdale since her childhood.

Pip’s works include limited edition etchings, hand coloured linocuts and reduction linocuts. Her works feature […]

Education:
Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Drawing and Painting, Ballarat University, Victoria

Short Biography:

After completing her degree, Cara moved to Port Douglas where she currently lives and works full time as a Visual Artist. Using the […]

Anna was born in Wangaratta, Victoria in 1960. She completed a Diploma of Fine Art, majoring in painting and printmaking, at Bendigo College of Advanced Education in1981.
In 1983 Anna travelled north to Mackay where she […]

M O O N A H   paintings   2012      Deborah Brearley

Changing light, fluctuating weather conditions and the windswept Moonahs ( Melaleuca lanceolata)) are the images that inspire Deborah Brearley’s interpretation of the local landscape.

Sculpted by the […]