Accomplished Port Douglas artist and illustrator, Nancy Bevington, is now exhibiting some of her talented work at the new Studio 49 Artisan Gallery on Owen Street.

Nancy’s arresting and beautifully-painted still life pieces hang proudly in transformed former Port Douglas School building, which also houses a tranquil café on its white Queenslander decks.

“It’s hard to think of another artist who has put such vibrancy and immediacy into the ancient art of still life,” said gallery owner, Michael Edwards. “Except perhaps post-Impressionist French painter, Paul Cezanne, who, like Nancy, purposely played with perspective to create depth in the picture plane.

“Nancy’s work has an extraordinary clarity that still maintains a fine painterly quality and is possibly derived from her marked success as a children’s book illustrator.”

Born in Bermuda and with a Diploma of Fine Arts from Newcastle under her belt, Nancy took off to the UK in 1975 where she achieved early success as a children’s book illustrator with Hamlyn Books, before developing a successful career in the heady hectic world of advertising.

After ten years, the English countryside called and Nancy once more took up her watercolor brushes to great acclaim with her still life work keenly sought after by galleries across the UK.

Back to Australia, and after another successful spell in advertising running their own agency in Sydney with her husband Keith, they both moved to Far North Queensland where they have wasted no time injecting their considerable talent into the local Port Douglas scene with immense enthusiasm.

Nancy’s work is a must see in the quite beautiful ambience of Studio 49 Artisan Gallery set in the oldest historic building in North Queensland, the Old School House circa 1878,  on the corner of Owen and Murphy Streets just up from the Post Office.

Studio 49 Artisan Gallery Port Douglas
49 MURPHY STREET, PORT DOUGLAS
OPEN:  10am to 6pm MON – SAT
www.artisanstore.com.au