Art Asia

10/09/2015

Woman for Woman, in Cambodia, have just sent us a huge shipment of silk bags and purses. The colours are incredibly vibrant and the quality excellent. Checkout this pictures.

27/08/2015

Katerina Apale has refined my post with additional information: Katerina was a lecturer in a textile department in Art Academy, jacquard weaving, at the University of Riga.

20/08/2015

As well as scoring the oils of Peter Fennell in his first major exhibition on the Central Coast for 32 years, we are also exhibiting some sensational work by Katerina Apale, a lecturer in painting and artist from my late father's home town of Riga, Latvia.

(Jekaterina Apale) says, the fact that her mother was an artist explains why she started to paint before she could walk.

Throughout high school, art class was always a must and as soon as her final year had finished she enrolled at The Art Academy of Latvia, specializing in Textile Art, (a perfect fit for a Central Coast gallery based on its exquisite stock of Lao silk products).

Katerina's tertiary studies earned her Master of Arts in Humanities, before she went on to achieve a Master of Education at the Daugavpils University. In case you don't know, Daugavpils is one of the most beautiful cities on the Baltic.

Combining her two degrees, Katerina took on work as a lecturer at The Art Academy of Latvia before establishing her own art studio in Riga, where she shared her passion and artistic expertise with adults and children.

Katerina’s colourful works have hung in solo and group exhibitions in galleries all over the world in countries including Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Austria, Germany, and now Australia.

In 2014 she migrated here with her family and has since immersed herself into the Australian art community and is now a member of the Central Coast Art Society. This year, her works have been exhibited as part of the Central Coast Artists Exhibition at Erina Fair Library, Central Coast Art Society Summer exhibition at Gosford Regional Gallery (Studio 2), at Glass Artists Gallery in Sydney, and now at Art Asia, in Crowne Plaza.

We were very lucky to score a few of Katerina Apale's acrylic on canvas pieces before they were sold to eager collectors. Check out these photographs.

Meanwhile, we reckon we have the Coast's biggest collection of sensational oils by Peter Fennell, and our new earrings, lacquer boxes, cotton toys and lanterns from the ancient city of Hoi Anh is a blast.

29/07/2015

For the first time in 32 years, award-winning artist, Peter Fennell, will exhibit his work on the Central Coast. Mr Fennell’s romantic impressionist work will...

16/07/2015

Much has happened at our gallery since my last post. We have taken a fantastic delivery of toys and jewellery from Hoi Anh, in Central Vietnam and have hung four new woodprints from Sone, in Vientiane, Laos.
I hate to say that we have sold the elephant on the lotus flower, which appears to the left of our main image. However, Art Asia has just accepted a consignment of four oil colours from award winning Australian artist, Peter Fennell.
This Romantic Expressionist has been painting professionally for over 30 years and during this time has had many successful individual and group shows and has received many prestigious art awards. Collectors from all Australian states have acquired his paintings, as have collectors from England, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, New Zealand and the United States.
Peter is an exhibiting Member of the Royal Art Society of NSW. I don't think we'll have these sensational paintings for long: a discerning buyer will snap them up. Not only is Peter a great artist, he is a great bloke who has given us the paintings to sell at very fair prices.

29/06/2015

We have been busy 'talking' to artists in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and think we may be exhibiting this artist. These people are absolutely sensational, maybe because they are just smart...images coming soon.

29/06/2015

What do you think of the colours and weave of our silk scarves? They are so hard to photograph because they change colour every time the light takes them at a different angle.

12/06/2015