Avril Hare, 90, hasn’t missed entering the Tinbeerwah Art Group’s (TAG) annual art exhibition at the Tinbeerwah Hall in 27 years.
The group’s longest serving member, she’s sold many paintings over the 30-year life of the exhibition and will be among about 50 TAG members exhibiting at the exhibition this weekend.
TAG’S popular annual art show, held in memory of founder Gwen Blair, will be officially opened by former Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington at 5pm Friday, August 16, with artworks available for viewing/purchase from 12-7pm Friday, 10am – 4pm Saturday, and 9.30am-3pm Sunday.
TAG shares its 30th anniversary this year with Noosa Chorale and the Noosa Jazz Club. As part of the joint celebrations, TAG has currently has an exhibition at The J themed The Joy of Music.
Avril, of Coolum, painted as a teenager but later, as a mum and domestic science teacher, she says she “never found the time”.
After she retired, her husband bought her a set of water colours and her daughter an art class enrolment.
“I was an old lady in a hurry,” Avril says of first joining Wallace House and then TAG.
Jason Whiteman, of Tinbeerwah, is among TAG’s newest members.
He has been painting for 30 years and says, “My main inspirations are landscapes and the colours of Australia. I love the colours of the oceans and how varied they are from east to west, north to south”.
Mostly self-taught, oil painting and water colour are his choice of mediums.
