WILL DOUGLAS
I first started painting in my teens, originally training at Caulfield Institute in Melbourne. I then worked and traveled in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and India before resuming my studies in the mid 1970’s. I completed a Diploma of Art in 1979 at Preston Institute in Victoria, majoring in painting. In 1980 I qualified as a teacher and have worked as an artist and art educator ever since.
My first solo exhibition was staged at the Victorian Artist’s Society in 1979 and over the succeeding decades I have mounted regular one-man shows and participated in many group shows throughout Australia.
In the 1980’s I traveled through Japan, China and Europe then returned to Australia to publish my first children’s book, The Bush Alphabet, in 1986. Over the succeeding decades I have had three further volumes of illustrated poems and stories published.
My work is held in private collections both here and overseas and my influences, though eclectic, have always been informed by the natural world.
I now live in the Bellingen area on the mid-north coast of NSW where I continue to paint, write and regularly exhibit.
My first solo exhibition was staged at the Victorian Artist’s Society in 1979 and over the succeeding decades I have mounted regular one-man shows and participated in many group shows throughout Australia.
In the 1980’s I traveled through Japan, China and Europe then returned to Australia to publish my first children’s book, The Bush Alphabet, in 1986. Over the succeeding decades I have had three further volumes of illustrated poems and stories published.
My work is held in private collections both here and overseas and my influences, though eclectic, have always been informed by the natural world.
I now live in the Bellingen area on the mid-north coast of NSW where I continue to paint, write and regularly exhibit.