Almeta Artwork
About
Almeta is a self-taught, rather eclectic artist who lives in the beautiful beachside town of Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. It is the stunning beaches and hinterland of this area that inspire Almeta to paint work that evokes the freshness and clarity of the Australian coast, and so there are many beachscapes in her collection.
One of Almeta's other loves is portraiture. She always seeks to bring the subject to life using painterly techniques and colours. She is sought after as a commission portrait artist. She held a month-long joint portrait exhibition in Brisbane in 2017, displaying portraits of subjects who had been either fostered or adopted. It evoked enormous interest. Not only does she receive commissions for portraits of people, but also for portraits of pets.
Almeta's most popular work to date has been her Australiana gumleaves and birds painted in her inimitable style.
Her third love is abstract. She finds abstracts really challenging and exciting as they are always intuitive and the end result is as big a surprise to her as to those who observe! She works with several techniques and is always looking for new and exciting ways to produce better and more interesting effects.
She generally uses acrylics and oils with occasional dabbles into watercolour, cold wax and pastels.
Her paintings are held in private collections in Australia, the USA, Canada, the UK, and South Korea.
Almeta's work has been represented in Gallery 49 in Maleny, Queensland, and in some publications such as ArtsyShark and the Sunshine Coast's Hinterland Times.
She is a member of the Coolum Art Collective, where her work is displayed alongside other members' artwork biannually at the Coolum Civic Centre in Coolum Beach, Queensland.
