

Welcome to Able Art 2020
It is our absolute pleasure to bring to to from the comfort of your home or office our online exhibition.
Please share the exhibition with your family and friends – enjoy!
Tuesday 1 December
Welcome to day two of Able Art 2020.
We hope you enjoyed yesterday’s gallery of artwork from our Able artists. Artists have created their artworks in different circumstances to what they may have in previous years. This change has been challenging but the access to art making as a process has helped bring clients together and provided valuable time to express creativity.
In addition to today’s gallery we take you behind the scenes to see how some of our Able artists created their artworks via Victoria our Art Therapists online session.
Behind the scenes
Wednesday 2 December
Welcome to day three of Able Art 2020.
Today we bring you a small gallery of artwork from our Able artists. As you can see from the last two days the artwork throughout the exhibition is dynamic and expressive.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow as we celebrate International Day of People with Disability 2020.
Thursday 3 December
Behind the scenes
Friday 4 December
Gallery images

Kathy
Image description: Painting of Rhine River with a ferry travelling on the water and building next to the river.

Francis
Image description: Drawing of balloons on white paper. On the left are three balloon drawn in yellow, the middle balloon is black and the balloon on the right is blue.

Maen
Image description: Ceramic pot with a range of coloured paints, base colour is blue at the top and green at the bottom.

Jimmy
Image description – Painting on a white canvas. The painting has a gold background with nine pictures painted throughout the canvas. In the top left is a red circle which goes into another smaller circle x 2 times. Next to it is the outline of a green circle. In the bottom left is a green shape and similar circles inside circles in red as the top left. At the top right hand is a similar pattern of red circles with 5 green lines painted to the left of the red circle. In the bottom right is the top of a green triangle with a circle underneath, to the left is another series of circles.

Kathy
Image description: Painting of Country hope – green grass with a large tree backdrop is a blue sky and country house on the right hand side.

Brendan
Image description: Painting with a range of solid colours including – green, pink, blue, red, black, brown as the background in a range of shapes. On top of the background colour is white paint in the shape of bubble wrap. Each shape is divided by a think line of white.

Patty
Image description: Red poster paper with a glitter glue boarder. In the middle is a red teletubby and underneath is a picture of four teletubbies. Inside the glitter board is 29 different pictures of teletubbies.
Kathy Wise
Kathy Wise has contributed works to the Able Art exhibitions for several years. In her own words, “Painting is my passion and hobby.” For Kathy, using different paint colours and textures offers great enjoyment, while also being a form of relaxation. Of particular interest to her is painting landscapes based on memories of her travels. This year, Kathy painted two pictures – both of the Rhine River in Germany where she holidayed in 2018.
COVID has meant Kathy has spent a lot of time painting pictures “under the patio roof at home”. We are all hopeful that by 2021, not only will Kathy be creating art at home, but in Able Australia’s art studio as well.

Tania
Image description: Painting on a white canva. The painting is applied by a range of materials including bubble wrap. Colours used are pink, black, yellow, blue, green, dusty pink. On the painting are small pom pom balls in orange, pink, yellow and green.

Olivia
Image description: Ceramic bread roll bowl

Heather
Image description: ceramic container in what appears to be a dark grey with details swirls on the lid and outside of the container. The container lid in the middle has a small grip for the hand to use when taking the lid off. There is a green backdrop.

Heather
Image description: Ceramic tray in a rectangle shape, dusty pink in colour with detailed swirls on the outside and smooth finish on the inside. The backdrop is green.

Heather
Image description: round ceramic bowl, detail grooves around the bowl, the bowls is a neutral soft beige colour.
About the artist
Heather Lawson
Heather Lawson is deafblind as a result of Ushers Syndrome. She was deaf at birth and also had retina pigmentation – a form of tunnel vision which has progressively become worse as she gets older.
Heather uses Tactile Auslan, to communicate. This involves Heather receiving sign language through touch – by feeling the other person’s hands as they sign. She has used this form of communication for approximately 34 years. When it comes to her art, Heather particularly enjoys creating ceramics. According to Heather, “Touch is important to me. I need to feel things with my hands and fingers. Why do I choose this? Because I am unable to do visual arts. I use my tactile skills to work on things.”

Angela
Image description: Abstract painting on white canvas. Colours in the painting include yellow, blue and green

Patty
Image description: Clay rolled out to make a circle, there are 20 stones placed into the clay there are three black stones, two at the bottom and one at the top. There are seven grey stone throughout the circle and 10 stones that are a soft white, faint grey in colour. There is a neutral backdrop.

Maen
Image description: White canvas painting. On the right hand side bubble wrap has been used to paint in a range of colours including deep blue, deep green and deep pink. To the left is a range of brush strokes using deep colours including; blue, green, yellow, and red.

Patty
Image description: Clay mug with handle on the right-hand side

Olivia
Image description: Painting with a black background and dots of paint over the black background through out the painting. The dots are in blue, yellow and red.

Sam
Image description: Colourful canvas painting. A range of materials have been used to make the painting including brush and bubble wrap. Sam is painted in black in the bottom right hand corner. There is paint in green, red, brown, white, black, blue.

Ayla
Image description: the painting is called “A doorway out” the background of the painting is in a sky blue. In the centre is a large circle which is solid in white. In the bottom left hand corner of the white circle is a hold through to the blue background.

Olivia
Image description: Clay in the shape of a face. A bow is at the top of the face and a big smile is at the bottom of the clay face. There are two large round eyes and it’s all in the clay natural colour

Olivia
Image description: White canvas painting is called blue day. The canvas has the sky painted as the background in a range of blue tones. At the bottom is painted green grass with three large flowers equal taking up the canvas. The stems of the flowers are in green and the flowers have a blue outline.

Cathy
Image description: Painting on white canvas. At the top of the painting is the sky painted blue with a round yellow sun on the left handside, under the sky are three trees with brown trunks and green at the top. At the bottom of the painting is green.

Ayla
Image description: Painting on a large piece of white paper. The painting is called “Cooking with zucchinis”. There are seven painted zucchinis at the bottom in green and lots of brush strokes in a lighter green from the middle to the top of the painting

Cathy
Image description: Ceramic dish in a rectangle shape, the dish is all a solid red with the outside of the tray molded by hand.

Katie
Image description: Painting of a big red bus. The background is an outdoor scenery with blue sky, white dots as clouds, three butterflies pained in purple and red, the sun is in the top right hand corner of the painting, there are five birds painted in black. The big red bus has four windows and an animal at each window. On the left hand side is panda in black and white with red overalls, to the right of the panda is a yellow bear, to the right of the bear is a grey dog, and to the right is another bear with a black and red hat and is wearing a black shirt with a red and blue tie. At the bottom of the bus is the background of grass with four flowers, three on the right of the bus with are L-R purple, pink and red. There is one flower on the left of the bus which is purple. On the right hand side of the bus there is also a grey dog sitting down on the left hand side of the bus is a brown dog standing up.

Ayla
Image description: The painting is titled “flowers at the park”. In the middle of the painting is a big patch of green. In the top hand right and bottom left hand side are a red flower with a yellow centre. In the top left hand corner is a brown flower with a yellow centre. At the bottom right hand corner are five dots.

Daryl
Image description: Two elephants painted in grey. The elephant on the right hand side is larger than the elephant on the left hand side. The elephant on the right hand side has a tusk on each side of its trunk. The eyes of the elephant are black with two big ears. The elephants toes are coloured white. The tip of the elephant’s trunk has two holes
The elephant on the left hand side is about half the size of the other elephant and it doesn’t have any tusks.

Ricky
Image description: canvas painting. The painting covers the entire canvas with think brush strokes. On the left hand side the colours are green, yellow, black and blue on the right hand side is a dusty red and in the middle of the painting there are blue, green, yellow and black tones.

Joe
Image description: A detailed impressionist painting of a body of water running through the middle of a green valley. The body of water is painted in white with black coming through.The ground is uneven so the water at points is falling to the next level and appears a small waterfall. In the distance are a number of tree with the sky as the background. The sky is dark with shades of grey, black and white.

Daryl
Image description: A detailed sculpture of a dolphin. The dolphin is silver and is very smooth, the dolpin has black eye and very defined mouth, fins and flippers. The dolphin is arched over a rising of blue water.

Theresa
Image description: Abstract painting with a light blue background. There are many different strokes in the painting from thin to thick strokes. The colours of the strokes are white, green,red and yellow.

Olivia
Image description: Pottery basket. The hand is plaited and painted in blue. The base of the based is also painted in blue. The colour of the rest of the basket is a natural clay colour

Daryl
Image description: A white horse’s head sculpture. There is fine detail of the horses mane and two ears at the top of the head. The eyes, nose and mouth of the horse’s head are detailed.

Daryl
Image description: Turtle sculpture. The turtle has a detailed shell with, the head has the detailed of eyes and mouth, at the bottom of of the shell are the turtles arms and legs. The sculpture is one colour – white. There is a black background.

Samantha
Image description: Drawing on white paper. There drawing is a series of lines from L to R the colours are red, pink, black, blue. green, purple, orange and light green.

Noela
Image description: A photo of Noela knitting. Noela is on the right hand side and is holding a knitting needle in each hand. She is knitting using white and pink yarn. Noela is earing a green jacket and has her hair tied back. Behind her is a purple curtain and a pinkish wall.

Terry
Image description: Gold planter. Inside the planter there is dark brown soil. In the middle is a potted green succulent. The gold planter is sitting on a white plate and there is a white backdrop.

Kim
Image description: Drawing of a street scene. the drawing is on white paper. At the bottom of the page is a pink car. Above the car is grass drawn in green. On the left is a cat, on the right of the cat is a big tree with a brown trunk and green leaves, to the right of the tree is a person with purple hair and is wearing green, to the right is a red and black flower, further to the right is a pink and red flower. To the right of the flower is a long brown chimney which is attached to a house. the house has a pink roof, two windows in brown and a door with a purple handle and blue outline.
In the top left hand corner is the sun and some clouds.

Heather
Image description: Three white ceramic kangaroos sitting down. There is a green backdrop.

Tania
Image description: Drawing on white paper. In the top middle of the page there is a pink love heart. On the left hand side there are many lines drawn in a range of colours including; blue, red, yellow and green on the right hand side is another series of lines in aqua and green.

Daryl
Image description: A detailed sculpture of a dolphin. The dolphin is silver and is very smooth, the dolpin has black eye and very defined mouth, fins and flippers. The dolphin is arched over a rising of blue water.

Jeffrey
Image description: Abstract painting with a purple background. In the bottom left there is a patch of red, to the right is a patch of yellow above the yellow is a small patch of dusty red and to the left is a patch of green. There are circles covering the patches of colours. The colours of the circles are yellow, green and blue/purple.

Frances
Image description: Painting on white canvas. The paint is abstract using the colours grey, black and yellow. Black is used the most. There are three thick white lines in the painting one which runs diagonally across the painting, one line is from top to bottom and slighting on an angle and there is one small diagonal line in the bottom right.

Olivia
Image description: Painting of dots. The background of the painting is green and there are white and red dots throughout the painting.

Daryl
Image description: Turtle sculpture. The turtle has a detailed shell with, the head has the detailed of eyes and mouth, at the bottom of of the shell are the turtles arms and legs. The sculpture is one colour – white. There is a black background.

Jane
Image description: Drawing and painting on white paper. There is a lot of blue in the picture there are blue circles throughout the picture which look like fireworks. There is also some bits of green and yellow.