Near Maryborough

Sue Jarvis is a successful contemporary artist based in Gembrook, Victoria, Australia. Her painting, Bush Near Maryborough, was produced in 1981.

Jarvis is inspired by the environment and social issues, and creates her works "with an emphasis on colour, shape and simplicity".

The late Noel Tunks was an Australian artist who lived, worked and created at his rural property in Avoca, near Maryborough, Victoria. 

This featured work depicts a typical local landscape and reflects the impact of settlement history on this region's land and vegetation.

Lars Stenberg grew up in a coastal region of Scotland that was part rural idyll and part coal mining and heavy industry. He later moved to Australia and is now based in Central Victoria.

As a result of living with these contrasts, his work "is concerned with the environments we live in: how we shape them and how they shape us". 

Stenberg is known for his known for his colourful landscape paintings.

Philip Adams lives and paints at Bung Bong, Central Victoria. He taught art for many years whilst pursuing his own career as a landscape artist.

He explains," What I want to capture is the excitement of exploring a new landscape. Everything is to be discovered, the senses are sharpened, and each vista is full of untold mysteries and beauties."