Hala Graham

I live in Carramar since moving first from New Zealand then from Melbourne.

I have always enjoyed drawing and always wanted to try my hand at painting - oils. After a visit to Paul Rigby's property about 3 years ago, I decided to try painting. I first went to art classes run by Wanneroo Council with Janey Emery as the art teacher and produced my first painting "Flying pigs" . When Wanneroo Council discontinued the oil painting classes, carried on painting enthusiastically on my own at home until I got to a point when I decided that I needed some direction and some more knowledge on colour and mixing, I then enrolled at Claremont School of Art. At CSofA the art teacher was Tim Garretty and under Tim I received a good grounding on colour and mixing colours and some constructive advice on planning a painting from start to finish.

To that end, this year I put a painting up for exhibition for the first time when NCAC held their annual art exhibition at Wanneroo. I even got some positive comments!