BIOGRAPHY


Gabrielle Marlow was born in the Netherlands and was brought up in Singapore and Africa. She also lived in the UK for 16 years and now calls Australia home. She presently lives in the Southern Highlands, just over one hour's drive from Sydney.

Spiritual Values
Gabrielle travels and has a great love for India, with its richness in culture, vivid colours and its highly spiritual values.

Sculptures in clay
Gabrielle has been drawing and painting all her life and has also produced sculptures in clay. She has had a business in designing and producing knitwear and knitting kits. Silk painting has also been an important part in her career.

Native animals and birds
Gabrielle has painted silk sarongs and wall hangings. Gabrielle has also made a number of cross stitch designs for an embroidery business. These include native animals and birds.
 

Water colours and oils
Water colour and oils are her preferred mediums.
She uses water colour for detailed work such as flowers and birds, and oils for landscapes and rural scenes including livestock. Gabrielle expresses her love for nature through her art and encourages the viewer to watch her pictures silently to feel the joy they express.
 

Meditation
Gabrielle’s practice of Sahaja Yoga Meditation deepens the experience of the beauty of the nature in the world around us and she hopes the viewer will be able to share this.

Exhibits
Gabrielle’s paintings hang in Europe, America and Australia. She is currently working full time as an artist on a number of commissions from her studio at home and has both international and Australian clients.

CONTACT

Gabrielle Marlow can be contacted by Email: gemarlow@bigpond.net.au in regard to commissions and sales. Credit card facilities are available.

Email: gemarlow@bigpond.net.au
Phone: +61 (0)2 48898123

EVENTS

It's time to do lots and lots of paintings. I'm not complaining and am enjoying myself tremendously having set time aside to do just that.

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Friday 23 May2009

This year so far has been excellent as far as the painting goes. I now have a studio, am doing plenty of 'plein air' painting, went to some great workshops with John Wilson, Steve Underwood and Dave Thomas.
Learning more skills is so much fun.
Also I am exhibiting at the Old Milk Factory in Bowral, which is open 7 days a week and have sold some paintings. At the moment I am just finishing off a couple of paintings and as soon as I have finished them I'm starting a series of paintings on wild horses called
'brumbies' in Australia.  They will be in the Australian bush settings.
As everyone who knows me is aware already I have always loved horses. There is a real need to protect the wild horses. Many people in Australia consider them to be bad for the fragile environment as they are not native animals.Others catch them, and they are also hunted and killed. Originally the brumbies were domesticated and brought into Australia but some escaped or were let loose and adapted to the wild. I have decided to focus on the horses in the Snowy Mountains in NSW for now.
We combined seeing and photographing the brumbies with a short holiday. There is a large property of over 7000 acres called the Snowy Wilderness about 25km from Jindabyne. The owners have given this property over to the brumbies and it is possible to go on 4 wheel drive excursions. We took our 4 wheel drive and followed Delia, our patient guide, who took us to the best
spots. I managed to get lots of photographs to use as reference for my new series of paintings.
The brumbies are very curious but none of them wanted to come too close. This is also because they have been chased before. A few of them have become quite tame and one gorgeous fellow came to sniff my hand, which smelled very nice as I had just eaten an apple.  I hope to visit the Snowy Wilderness property as often as I can while doing the series to absorb the beautiful
rugged surroundings, the home of the brumbies.
We also hiked up Mount Kosiosko during our trip. The conditions were perfect, sunny and quite chilly, no wind to speak of. There was still some snow and we took in the breathtaking scenery while walking and mucking around in the snow. There are some very stunning granite outcrops that are
going to make some excellent painting subjects. So do have a look on my website again in the near future if you wish to see my next paintings.