"Beautiful Strokes" Southern Art and Craft Trail 2025

Another Successful Sothern Art and Craft event for us!

Well, after a few days well-earned R&R and delivering artworks in Perth, we are back home, ready for our next event.  However, first we are delighted to give our viewers and followers some feedback on our 2025 Southern Art & Craft

Trail experience.

visitors enjoying our collection of original drawings and watercolour paintings on the tables in our dedicated Classical art Studio: Arcadia!

With this being our 9^th Trail and third Trail in our home Arcadia Studio and Gallery we are now well established on the Trail map for keen art lovers. It is always a special time for us to share our artworks, studio and gallery with Trail visitors! People loved to see our boutique gallery and this year’s Arcadia Gallery exhibition dedicated to our latest adventures in landscape was definitely well received by our visitors. With close to a sell-out of our landscape paintings and great praise from our public, we are all the more encouraged to continue our plein air adventures – particularly after our amazing time at Plein Air Down Under event (more of that in a later blog!).

Amazing response to our new collection of floral paintings too! Thanks to everyone who purchased a piece!

After soaking up our landscape paintings, visitors then entered our Arcadia Studio for a ‘behind the scenes’ look at a fuller range of classical works, from completed drawings and paintings to working sketches, portrait and life drawings, canvas prints and much more. Visitors loved the opportunity to slow down and find hidden gems, be amazed at our premium works and have the opportunity to chat with us on how we go about our works, discuss our love and passion for all things classical and how we are at the forefront of the classical art revival in WA that is spreading internationally.

Seeing the happy faces of our clients is one of the best feelings ever! We are so happy to be able to bring this joy to your faces, and the feeling is definitely mutual!!

As can be seen from our Facebook posts, we had a wonderful range of sales and for us to be able to personally meet and chat to folks who buy our art it is so enriching to be able to share our passion and know what wonderful homes our works are going to. By purchasing an artwork, you are not only encouraging an artist to continue in their path but also help them to be able to purchase art equipment necessary for the creation of high-quality classical artworks like ours.

A special feature of our Trail experience for visitors was Marjan’s two portrait demos, which visitors loved and were able to also relax with tea/coffee and refreshments during breaks.

One of the highlights of the Art Trail is Marjan's Portrait demos with wonderful models from life. An opportunity for the public to sit with coffee/cake and enjoy watching the portrait unfold! All questions welcome during the demos!

Finally, we would truly like to thank all those Art Trail visitors who chose to visit

us, engage with us and to buy our work and support us, so we can continue to develop and share our passion for our classical art in all its forms!

Keep an eye on further blogs to hear of our upcoming events!

This image from our dear neighbour and one of Marjan's favourite portrait models sums up our emotions and wonderful vibes for this year's Trail! Can't wait to see you all again next year!