Olivia Shimeld | Falling Leaves By The Sea 2 | SOLD

 
 

Falling Leaves By The Sea 2 | 2020

Acrylic and oil on canvas

60 x 60 cm

SOLD

 
 

 
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Olivia Shimeld
Bio

Born in 1978, Olivia Shimeld is a Blue Mountains based painter. Olivia has a bachelor degree in Visual Art majoring in Electronic and Temporal Art from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (1997-1999).

Olivia studied oil painting fundamentals with Celia Gullett in 2011, and went on to study oil painting/development of personal technique with Celia Gullett from 2013-2017.

Olivia showed with the artist group MOD Collective at the Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne in September 2019. She showed paintings and video at First Draft Gallery, Sydney in a show titled Ditto and Likewise in 2005 and her major work drawing was exhibited in ArtExpress, AGNSW in 1996. ​

Olivia has worked in the arts, at The Art Gallery of NSW in the Public Programs department from 2001-2010. She also independently produced a number of videos for the Gallery including the exhibition video for the Margaret Preston Art And Life Retrospective 2005, as well as a short documentary about the Durga Puja Festival in Kolkata India for the Goddess Exhibition in 2006.

Olivia has studied (2009-2017) in the areas of oil painting, yoga, meditation and energetic healing. Her studies, as well as being a mother to four school aged children inform and inspire her artwork, which is mostly ethereal abstract landscape, streetscapes and floral abstracts. Her work is meditative, contemplative, intuitive and energetic.