2009 Judge

PETRA REECE

Petra was born in Holland and educated in Australia.  She grew up within an artistic family.

Both her father and older brother are stained glass artists and for the past 25 years Petra has been working with them designing and drawing the large cartoons necessary for the manufacture of these windows. 

Petra has had solo exhibitions of her oil paintings and also been a finalist in numerous competitions.   She was awarded two portrait prizes, which were acquired by the Castlemaine Regional Gallery, a landscape prize was also purchased by the Nillumbik Shire and is in their permanent collection.  Petra is represented by the Eva Breuer Gallery in Sydney and this year shared an exhibition with fellow artists called “Nude” at the Ochre Gallery in Collingwood.

“My paintings, drawings and printmaking are figurative, I normally paint in series. With my Still Life works I concentrate on soft voluminous fabrics and the hard surfaces of metal and ceramic.  My landscapes are usually of beaches and sand dunes with an emphasis on light and cloud formations.  I continue to work from the life model, which allows me to investigate fully the dramatic effect of light and shade”.

28th February 09