Colourful Woman
Oil on canvas

Barbara Ziolek is a young at heart painter, who adores the land and the human form. Her Expressionistic style incorporates impasto techniques and explores the vibrancy and strength of colour.

Oil on canvas

Heart Girl
Illustration

Oil on canvas

I have illustrated four books published by Scholastic including A little bit by Peter and Christine Maniaty, The Eleventh Sheep by Kyle Mewburn and Goldilocks and the Three Koalas by Kel Richards. I illustrate with watercolour because it is a quick medium it captures the moment and shows light and movement.

I use oil paint to fill my paintings with rich colours. Animals and a cheeky collection of characters feature in my work. Story is important element of my work and I often incorporate text. I held a solo exhibition in the Urban Cow Gallery in 2007 titled How to Eat Ice Cream.

-Claire Richards

Swallows
Mixed Media

Living and working in an igloo in Parkside, Violet experiments with old, unloved materials and old, unloved techniques to find ways to make old crafts new again.

She studied illustration, she teaches mosaics, she has aspirations to make books and to cover small buildings in strange mosaics.

Violet supplies the Cow (and has done for quite some time now) with clocks, jewellery, mosaics and weird collagey, painty things. She is currently considering adding teapots to that list.