Two years ago Gerlinde Thomas had an overwhelming impulse to start painting - initially with a strong desire to produce beautiful people in definitive settings; taking her cues from black and white photographers she has admired over the years. Over time, she started to create works with a narrative. While working on each piece, she imagined a story around the scene and the person within the work; what they're doing, how they arrived there, how they feel and what's happening in the captured moment.

Gerlinde admits, "the perceived voyeuristic nature of figurative painting also intrigues me and to that end, I hope to deliver works that strip this perception and substitute the viewers thoughts with works that depict the female form as soft, sensual, strong and resilient force of nature. Traditional or not, I derive great pleasure in creating a piece that appears real and tells a unique story to each person who views it. More recently I have transitioned to producing abstract environments in order to create a mood, while cradling a figure in a moment and hope to draw the viewer into their own narrative of the work."

Pottery has been Lyn Hart's passion since she was a child. It was not until her late twenties that she enrolled in formal training at Brookvale Technical College (Sydney NSW Australia) and with the guidance of some excellent teachers completed her Certificate in Ceramics. She spent the next 6 years working on her throwing and competency. After this she re-enrolled at Brookvale to gain her Diploma, during this time she started to explore textures, forms and sculptures, being inspired by nature's sculptured rocks, cliffs and mountain ranges.

Lyn explains, "for 30 years I have lived in Leura in the Blue Mountains, a World Heritage area, my inspiration for rocks and cliffs still inspire my work which is created using slabs, coiling, pinching and throwing. Form, texture and glaze are an important feature of my work and all must come together to complete the piece. To achieve my pieces I use several different clays, a buff raku, fine white stoneware, and porcelain (this is the most unforgiving clay). My work ranges from sculptural forms to finely thrown porcelain pieces which I have exhibited in solo exhibitions attracting many international buyers."

Originally trained as a lithographer Warren has been working within the photographic and publishing industries his whole life. His love of the Australian wilderness and in particular the Blue Mountains is reflected in his photographs. Warren's latest exhibition titled On The Escarpement is series of images taken over one week in February 2010 of the upper Blue Mountains. During this time, due to storms and heavy rain many creeks and waterfalls in the upper Blue Mountains filled with water providing a very magical photographic moment. Plants also seemed to flourish with ferns and tree bark almost glowing from the constant rain. All the images in this exhibition were taken over a seven day period, mainly on the major bush tracks along the Jamison Valley escarpment.

"I experience a very real connection with the natural world especially when wandering alone in the Blue Mountains", Warren states. "Dramatic changes in the landscape can happen over a very short period, many of the scenes photographed in this series have vanished, a combination of heavy storms and winds and the ever changing nature of the Australian bush".