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'Éclectique' Artist Collective

September 20, 2023

'Éclectique' Artist Collective

Welcome to our world, where creativity blooms! 🎨
We're an artist collective formed by four talented Australian artists, each bringing our unique perspective and style. United by our love for nature, we blend mediums and techniques to capture its essence in our work. Join us as we blend creativity with the wonders of the natural world.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/eclectique_collective

Meet the Artist: Elena Kolotusha
Elena's Portfolio: elenakolotusha.com
IG: @kolotushaelena

Elena Kolotusha is a visual artist from Melbourne, best known for her super-realistic still lifes and animal studies. Born in the former Soviet Union, Elena developed her passion for art in her early years, and after studying at the Visual Arts Department of the Pedagogical University of Kazakhstan, she began her career as a visual arts teacher.

Since arriving in Australia in 1998, Elena has taken part in many group shows and exhibitions and, over the years, won numerous awards and commendations, including international prizes.

Elena works in various media, including oil/acrylic‚ colour pencils/mixed media and scratchboard engravings. Her favourite genres are close-ups of animal portraits and observational, detailed still-life drawings with a hint of quirkiness and symbolism.

Elena’s works were featured in many Australian and international publications such as «Australian Artist» and «Artist’s Palette» magazines, «The Book of the Dog» (London 2015), «50 Masters of Realistic Imagery» (Germany 2015), «Inspiration Wild» (Australia 2014), «Strokes of Genius» series ( USA 2014, 2016, 2018), «Art Journey - Animals» (USA 2016)

Elena is a fellow member of the Australian Guild of Realist Artists, Wildlife Artists Society of Australasia and International Society of Scratchboard Artists.

 

 

Meet the Artist: Olga Finkel
Olga's Portfolio: olgafinkel.com.au
IG: @olgafinkelart

Olga creates textile paintings of unique texture, colour and depth; her innovative techniques are based on broad experience in design and fine art. Her favourite materials are wool and silk, which she hand-dyed to produce an exquisite and unique palette. Olga ‘paints’ with pieces of silk like a painter does with brush strokes; her work invokes a sense of intimacy, inviting viewers to get closer and discover the beauty and warmth of natural fibre.


Olga currently lives and works in Melbourne after immigrating to Australia in 1989. Born in Kharkov, Ukraine, she graduated from Kharkov University and continued her fine art education in Swinburne University, Melbourne.

Olga worked in the fashion industry for many years, firstly in ladies’ fashion, and later, established a millinery business with multiple labels, serving as Designer and Production Manager for over a decade. After discovering and falling in love with felting, Olga explored this fascinating medium full-time. Since then, she has created a series of portraits, landscapes and abstract pieces and delivered numerous workshops sharing her original methods.

Always experimenting, Olga combines different mediums – felt, encaustic, fabric, acrylic, etc. Most recent works are painted on canvas first and, staying true to her love of textiles, covered with thin layers of dyed silk. The interplay of colours is almost palpitating.

Olga continues to exhibit in galleries around Australia, and her pieces can be seen in many corners of the world.

 

Meet the Artist: Irina Mitin
Irina's Portfolio: eclecticbotanica.com.au
IG: @eclectic.botanica

Irina Mitin ArtistIrina Mitin is a professional photographer/graphic designer with a passion and love for flora and nature. Irina specialises in many types of photography and has won several awards for large-scale photos, as well as not being able to walk past the natural beauty of flowers and nature.

With over 20 years of experience as a Graphic Designer and Photographer specialising in Still-life, Travel, and Landscape, Irina is currently diving deep into capturing the beauty of flowers and nature. Her love for art and flowers dates back to childhood when she worked with flowers and made Ikebana arrangements.

Her Botanical collections are a fusion of great attention to the tiny details, long-term interest in the flower world and passion for capturing all the beautiful moments. This is an extraordinary opportunity to admire the unique beauty of familiar and exotic elements of nature.

Over the years, Irina has been honoured with several prestigious awards for her travel and botanical photography, including the Bluethumb ArtPrize, Unearthed Art Prize, The EPSON International Pano Awards, International Photography Awards, Photographer of the Year, The Mono Australian Photography and more.

 

 

Meet the Artist: Josh Dykgraaf
Josh's Portfolio: joshdykgraaf.com
IG: @joshdykgraaf

So, by the time you’ve reached this page you’ve probably noticed I’m nuts about image manipulation and all things Photoshop. My personal work (and much of my commercial work) features manipulation of my own photography. Each piece typically takes 30-80 hours of work and contains thousands of Photoshop layers.
For the last few years my work has centred on my series “Terraform”, which explores the relationship between various animals and their habitat.

Currently, my focus is on the effects of climate change on our world.
My real passion though is creating things that have an impact on people. All the effort is worth it when I see someone double-take at my work or have a visible emotional reaction to the piece, positive or negative. The buzz I get from that moment can keep me going for days, imagining the viewer reconsidering the limits of the world or just investigating the details of my work.

I’ve been working as a full time freelance illustrator since 2012, after originally training in graphic design and photography.

 



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