ARTIST BIO

Painting CV for Greer Allica

Creative expression through painting and writing has been an important part of Greer’s life and a source of joy and discovery. ‘Art’ has been the medium to interpret her experiences, express her feelings and share her ideas. The aim with all her work has been to become freer and more heart-centred. This approach has resulted in works full of passion and movement.

Greer turned to painting in the 1980’s, as a complement to her writing (4 books translated in seven different languages; poetry; short stories). She attended many classes and workshops to develop skills in watercolour and also life drawing, using charcoal, pastel and paint. Over the years she experimented with different mixed media and collage, abstract acrylics, and more recently has explored the medium of printmaking under the direction of Billy Nye and various other teachers.

Her painting career has included many mentors – Anthony Prout, Stephen Leadbeater, Ron Ranson, Rob Sinclair, Rodney Simmons, Margaret Cowling, Caroline Graley, Cathy Hamilton and Susan Palmer – but her primary motivation has been to find her unique inner voice and to express it through form. She is currently a member of the Peninsula Studio Trail, has held open studio weekends and exhibited with the group at the Peninsula Community Hall in Mornington.

A regular contributor to local art shows on the Mornington Peninsula, Greer has also received painting commissions. Her paintings are held in private collections in Victoria, interstate and overseas.  She has had several exhibitions with other painters, at Castleman Gallery, Black Rock; ARTcycles and Treasures Gallery, Highett; Dalkeith and Beleura Hospital,Mornington, Noel’s Gallery, Shoreham, The Art Shed and the Cool Stores, Red Hill. Greer held a joint exhibition with Ann Benfield in December 2003 at Osare Gallery, Camberwell, & a solo exhibition, 2004 at Manyung Gallery, Mt Eliza. More recently ( April 2011, 2012), she exhibited some of her prints at Oakhill Gallery, Nowa Nowa (October 2011), and The Peninsula Community Hall, Mornington(October 2011), MPAS (April, 2012.) Along with hert Peninsula Studio Trail fellow artists she will exhibit May 3 -June 2nd, 2013 at the Mornington regional gallery. She also won an award at the April 2013 Oakhill Print exhibition.  Her studio is open May 4th/5th from 10am to 5pm.

Her popular series, “art originals” features individual hand painted greeting cards with each card being an original art piece. No design is repeated, no card is printed.  The card can be framed or given as a special gift. It was from these art originals that 50 paintings were taken by Penguin to form the basis for Greer’s Meditation Cards, which were published in 2004.