Growing up in a house full of music it’s no wonder Frankston-raised Bob Wijnschenk also developed a love for it. And now, after a long career of playing gigs and teaching guitar at public schools in and around the Mornington Peninsula, 72-years-young Bob has released his second album, The Wine Pourer’s Tales, which he explains is a “personal exploration of love, loss, family, friendship and hope.”
Megan Smithies has spent decades making music – as a professional cellist she still performs today, and as president of the Peninsula Music Society (PMS), she ensures others get the same chance. It’s a role she clearly relishes.
Langwarrin-based author Jodie Fitzsimons spent years navigating the kind of obstacles every aspiring writer knows all too well.
To create something truly original when there are so many artists in the world is a real hat trick. Rosebud multidisciplinary artist, Alicia Bourley has done just that with her unexpected compositions. More remarkably, she’s only been making art professionally for a year.
Mornington Peninsula portrait artist Vicki Sullivan is celebrating a remarkable double milestone, with one of her most powerful works acquired by the State Library of New South Wales for its bicentenary, while another has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize.
Mount Martha musician/author/podcaster, Billy Worth has a unique past. In his heyday he embodied the show business term ‘triple threat’. An actor, singer and dancer, Billy was a member of a 1990s British boyband called The One. He also starred in a six-episode British mockumentary, Boyz Unlimited (alongside a young James Corden).
Kelly Nash has spent her life saying yes to things that terrify her. And now, as she returns to the role of Patch in Sea Wolves Howl, she’s doing it again: playing a character who has found profound healing in the very thing Kelly herself isn’t a big fan of – the open ocean.
There’s a handmade sterling silver charm in the shape of a cocktail on display at & Independents gallery in Sorrento that will tell you everything you need to know about its maker, 24-year-old Matisse Stynes. It’s whimsical, precisely crafted, beautiful, thought-provoking, and guaranteed to make you smile.
Lulu Clifton-Evans is captivated by the beauty and grandeur of the natural world. In her realist oil paintings, Lulu uses traditional materials utilised by the old masters such as powdered pigments from around the world, Belgian linen and gesso surfaces. Sometimes she adds a dash of ground lapis lazuli for its exquisite blue hue.