Candyss Crosby

I am a Sydney based artist with a deep affinity to the land and ocean. Every day before my studio practice I have a long early morning walk either on the beach or through bushland and national parks.
I find calm and creative inspiration in wide open places or under the sea. My connection with the land becomes an inward journey, where memory and creative process reshape the external experience, allowing the paint, memory and inner vision to spontaneously create new colours, textures, shapes and lines in the “inner landscape” that then evolves.
I have spent a lot of time scuba diving coral reefs with pelagics of the ocean, and travel extensively to experience and sketch in remote areas throughout Australia & overseas.
I have many different series, I like mixing it up, and experiment to find new styles that I enjoy painting. I would be bored otherwise and I like the challenge to create something unique and spontaneous. My paintings are a response to memory and the calming connected experience I have being on land. I have created mixed-media works on canvas and paper aiming for inspiring, bold and playful artworks. I hope you enjoy them!!

I studied graphic design at Sydney College of the arts, and went on with further studies in Jazz Popular Music & Fine Art in Australia and overseas in Singapore at Lasalle College, during eight years living in Asia. I have also studied Fine Arts and Ceramics at Brookvale TAFE in Sydney.
I have exhibited in many galleries and events, both nationally and internationally and can be found in both corporate and private collections.
My creative arts education includes:
Graphic Design Diploma, School of Visual Arts; Music Diploma, Box Hill College, Melbourne; Art Students’ League, New York City, New York; Spring Studios – Minerva Durham - SOHO, New York City, New York; Willoughby Printmaking Workshop ~ Lithography; Advanced Certificate of Fine Arts (printmaking, drawing & painting) Seaforth TAFE, Sydney, Australia;
and Lasalle College, Singapore ~ BA Fine Art.

EXHIBITIONS

1991 Group Exhibition – St. Kilda Arts Festival
1992 Group Exhibition - Northcote & Fitzroy Councils, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Art Show, City of Northcote Community Arts
1994 Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Discovery Studio, Hong Kong - Moods of Asia" Series
Spring Street Studios - Soho, New York City
1995-97 Solo Exhibitions, Singapore Studio
1999 Solo Exhibition ~ “Spring into Colour”, Cane Toad Gallery, Manly
2000 Solo Exhibition ~ “California Dreaming”, Gallery Café, Sydney
2001 Solo Exhibition ~ “Tropical Shadows”, Singapore
Solo Exhibition ~ “Moods of Asia” Series, Singapore
2002 Solo Exhibition ~ “Out of my Mind, Into the Fire” Series
Artfolio Gallery, Raffles Hotel, Singapore
2003 Solo Exhibition ~ "Down by the River" Series, The BASE Space Gallery, Sydney
2004 Group Exhibition ~ “Natural Stimulants”, The BASE Space Gallery
Solo Exhibition, Art Sydney 04
Solo Exhibition, Art Melbourne 04
2005 Solo Exhibition ~" Dirt Lines", The BASE Space Gallery
Solo Exhibition, Art Sydney 05
Solo Exhibition, Art Melbourne 05
2006 Solo Exhibition, Art Sydney 06
Solo Exhibition, Art Melbourne 06
Solo Exhibition – Simmer on the Bay, Sydney “Between Heaven & Earth”,...