Gallery
Since 2003, Silos Estate has had a small gallery exhibiting a number of local and international artists in our Tasting Rooms. All works are available for purchase and can be shipped.
Our currently featured artists include:
Melinda Perrin is a highly regarded Australian Native Fauna sketch artist and has numerous awards to her credit. Her work is regularly featured in nature magazines and national Parks and Wildlife stations – and a selection of originals; limited edition prints and greeting cards are available for sale at Silos Estate.
Internationally renowned wildlife photographer Gerry Pearce is a regular exhibitor at Silos Estate. His work often appears in the international press; nature and wildlife magazines; as well as internationally renowned galleries. His work is also featured in many of Australias’ National Parks and Wildlife stores and the RSPCA. A selection of his limited edition prints is available for sale at Silos Estate.
Vivien Tanner is an award winning contemporary artist from Shoalhaven Heads in New South Wales.
She works in a range of media and her paintings try to capture the Australian light, and in recent media articles she has been compared to Arthur Streeton and Arthur Boyd. Her impressionistic style and vigorous brushstrokes make her paintings alive with energy.
Her work is now covering an expanding field of genres, including landscape, streetscapes and interiors. She is equally comfortable in working in mixed media and more abstract styles.
Tanner’s art work has been widely exhibited and some of her works appear in private collections in Australia and overseas.
Chris Clark is an artist, printmaker and jewellery designer from Lake Macquarie in New South Wales. Clark’s art work has been widely exhibited and her jewellery designs are now considered to be collectors items.
Her work is now covering an expanding field of genres, including landscape, figurative and abstract as well as floral-influenced still lifes’.
Maria Summergreene was born and raised on the beautiful northern beaches of Sydney, where she has combined a lifelong passion for photography with an appreciation for the beauty of nature. Maria enjoys capturing scenes which provide people with memories of times and places visited on their travels.
As a frequent visitor to the Silos Estate Maria has endeavored to capture not only the unique ambience and environment which makes the Silos such a memorable and enjoyable destination but also to highlight the eve changing seasonal beauty and colour of the vines.
Kit Tanner took the sea change option and left Sydney to settle in the Shoalhaven several years ago. His interest in traditional tools and love of exotic timbers has led him to focuse on the aesthetic of combining the natural beauty of wood and sculptured free formed boxes. He continues to experiment with techniques and finishes pushing the boundaries to create artwork that is tactile intriguing and technically excellent whilst enhancing the natural beauty of the timber.
The process itself is demanding and time consuming, most viewers are intrigued as to how it is done and achieved. After sculpting many hours of hand sanding bring out the luster and beauty of the timber. No varnish is ever used. Each box is unique and the secret drawers in some add another dimensions to these highly collectable organically sculpted forms.
Each of his pieces are handmade, individually numbered and a unique gift or keepsake.
Leon Griffiths is Australia’s foremost scale model maker of period ships – and has been a leader in his profession for over 30 years.
Each ship is entirely hand made – from the hull through to the rigging and sails – using individual pieces of timber under traditional shipbuilding methods. His impeccable works grace family homes and boardrooms alike – each piece a testament to an extraordinary eye for detail and loving craftsmanship.
An artist whose work is world renowned, he is regularly commissioned by the Australian and European governments to create replicas of ships of national significance and his work can be seen in many museums around the world.
Demetrio Stacchino was born in Aosta, at the foot of the Mont Blanc in Northern Italy. A career that has encompassed working in hotels and restaurants in Europe he operated his own restaurants in Sydney for some years before making the “sea change” to the Shoalhaven Region.
The change of direction has also rekindled his lifelong interest in woodworking and he now makes handmade document and jewellery boxes and pieces of occasional furniture
All the wood used is chosen for its natural colour and beauty, with no wood stains ever used (all finishing is limited to shellac and wax). The boxes are all individually made and no two are ever identical. A typical jewellery box will take up to three weeks from start to finish.
Each box is a testament to a rare talent in woodworking, and pieces become treasured family heirlooms and antiques of the future.
