Artist Profile: Fred Himmelsbach. ;Art Education: ;East Sydney Technical College, 1960 - 64; Commercial Arts Course. Subjects included Still Life,Antique, Anatomy and Life Drawing, Lettering, Composition, Lay-out, Watercolours and Oils. ;Studied Portraits in Oils with Patricia Moran at the Victorian Arts Society, Melbourne, Australia in 1988 for one year and attended weekly Life Drawing sessions at Vic. Arts from 1989 - 92. ;Art Experience: ;Part-time Freelance Commercial Artist, 1965 - 79, mainly for the Music Industry, designing posters, album covers and band/company logos. Began landscape oil painting in 1985 with the Riddells Creek Art Society, as well as painting on location and in home studio. ;Art Societies: ;;- ;
Victorian Arts Society (Vic Arts), 1989 - 92. ;- ;
Riddells Creek Arts Society (RCAS), 1985 - 86; 1998 - 99. ;;"The Storyteller" Exhibition at Heathcote Winery, September to November 2003 ;Exhibitions: ;;- ;
Riddells Creek Arts Society, 1986 & 99. ;- ;
Victorian Arts Society, 1989, 90 & 91. ;- ;
Sunbury Art Gallery, 1988 - 99. ;- ;
Woodend Lions Art Show, 1999. ;- ;
Camberwell Rotary Art Show, 1999 & 2000. ;- ;
Bendigo Rotary Art Show, 19999 & 2000. ;- ;
Dandenong Rotary Art Show, 2000. ;- ;
Heathcote Winery, 2003. First Solo Exhibition, "The Storyteller", featuring paintings about American Indian culture and spirituality. ;Awards: ; Most popular painting, Riddells Creek Art Show, 19999. ;Preferred Art Medium: ;"Art Spectrum" Soft Pastels on "Art Spectrum" Colour Fix Multi-Media paper, as well as Charcoal on "Canson" paper - and, occasionally, Oils on Gesso- primed boards or canvasses. |