Our June inspiration ...

will come to you by Dragonfly Upstairs by Pro Hart.

Additional criteria -  Insects

(either as your theme or as embellishments/papers on your page – or both!)

A little about Pro Hart

Kevin "Pro" Hart was born in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia in 1928. He grew up on the family sheep station "Larloona" situated near Broken Hill, and he was educated by correspondence with this brother Bob, and their Mother as tutor.

In his early twenties Pro moved to Broken Hill and worked underground as a miner. In 1960 he married Raylee June Tonkin and they had five children, three boys and two girls.

From age seven, Pro loved to sketch and paint. He began taking his gift seriously in his early twenties when he first used painting as a creative outlet to keep him sane from underground life as a miner. To develop his gift, Pro attended a few local art classes but was mainly self-taught. He was discovered in 1962 by a gallery director in Adelaide. From there his success as an artist began to flourish. Nicknamed Pro - a symbol of his remarkable talent - his first exhibition was a sellout.

Mainly working in oils and acrylics, Pro would use any tool or method to achieve the desired outcome for his work. He drew upon techniques of layering, chiaroscuro, glazing, scumbling, scratching and Alla prima.   His work has been exhibited all over the world, in Australia, London, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Israel, Cairo and Manila, in the finest of galleries and venues, with many of his exhibitions being sell-outs. His paintings are represented in collections owned by the likes of Harold Mertz, Lyndon Johnson, Prince Phillip, Qantas Airways, Margaret Carnegie, the Canberra War Memorial, the University of NSW and Adelaide, the Bonython Collection, the Warsaw National Collection of Poland and Cathay Pacific Airways.

http://www.prohart.com.au/

And now our wonderful Creative team Inspiration for June ...

Helene

Debi

Amanda

Sarah


Chantelle

Shazza

and a digital layout from yours truly ...

Jane

Please upload the DIRECT link to your actual entry with the link tool on the RIGHT by midnight June 30th, 2012. We accept paper, digital, card and off the page submissions but please remember we appreciate original entries (you may combine with a sketch).

 

Happy Scrapping!