Cedar Creek Lodges at Thunderbird Park has transformed its Lobby and Lounge Bar walls into an exhibition space showcasing beautiful Scenic Rim artworks. 

With some 200,000 visitors and guests passing through each year, we are hopeful that this will translate into our artists’ works being purchased by art lovers from near and far.

The Gallery was officially opened at an invitation-only event of 90 art enthusiasts on Wednesday, 3rd November by the Hon. Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO.

Artists

Louise Grove Wiechers (The Gallery Curator)
Louise has an extraordinary ability to transport the viewer far from everyday and into another world by capturing both the vibrant spirit and peacefulness of rural living. The natural beauty of our Scenic Rim vistas has given Louise endless inspiration. She understands the effect of light and colour on the senses. With animated, colourful brushwork; lifestyle and landscape are fused radiantly together. Louise is also a qualified fine-art printmaker and has a collection of etchings, lino, collagraph and life drawings on display.

Trish Price
Art has been Trish’s passion since she first took lessons as a child. However, it is through developing her techniques of painting in acrylics that Trish has found her feet. Her style is marked by realistic images of Australian landscapes and the creatures that live there. Loving Australian birds, Trish’s artwork has a special focus on these gorgeous forest and garden dwellers. Her works give the viewer an opportunity to share with the artist an appreciation for beauty, mystery and a connection with the Australian bush and wildlife.

Helen Griffin
Helen works from pictures taken while walking on bush tracks, by the ocean or over rocky, dry terrain. Her images are impressionistic - an attempt to capture the transience of the moment and her reaction to that moment. Her choices of colour for the initial "wash" determine mood, and the speed and urgency of line and paint application are an instinctive effort to capture the immediacy of the moment. She's never certain of what she's going to create, but a new reality is produced, which she hopes to capture the experience.

Debaran Wright
Art making is the diary of Debaran's life. Although she teaches many various mediums, she finds the combination of materials and textures to be the most exciting and experimental. Her work includes the use of bitumen, shellac, ink, paper, print, acrylics, found objects and oils. She has exhibited in many galleries and her work has been purchased by clients in Brisbane, Sydney, London and The Hague. One of her latest sales was to the Redland Shire Council and it now hangs in their offices.

Karen Feild
Karen's paintings are very vibrant, colorful, acrylic on stretched canvas. She loves naive, large brush strokes. Her subjects range from very abstract to still lifes. She enjoys colour like crazy and if she gets an idea in her head, she will experiment and then possibly create a series of similar yet different paintings. She has loved art her whole life and whenever there was an opportunity to give back to the community or to take a class or be involved with something creative she was always a part of it.

Abigail Chaloupka
Art, music and culture are an integral part of Abi’s life. She’s a contemporary artist with strong indigenous influence. A deep respect for ceremony, art and traditional culture was instilled in Abi at a very young age. Formal education helped to further develop Abi’s discipline and practices. She has matured to become a practical art maker who can produce works from murals to performance art. Now living in Wangeriburra Country, Abi continues to dedicate her art to the respect and acknowledgment of the sacredness of landscape.