Meet Local Artist Brigitte Peel

Originally from New Zealand, Brigitte developed a passion for art when she was just six years old, but it wasn’t until she went to high school that she started to refine her talent.

Her future, however, would take her travelling around the world and she lived in London for five years before returning to Australia.

It was starting a family that really allowed Brigitte to reconnect with her art and she used any spare time she had to develop her skills and take on commission requests.

Drawn to realism, Brigitte loves working with images and transforming them into a piece of art that is an almost exact replica of that image, only very skilfully hand-drawn instead.

This type of art takes great talent to perfect, and Brigitte says that the precision involved in completing the end product is very rewarding.

She loves nature and her pieces include a school of Clown Fish swimming and a Majestic Sea Turtle gliding through dark waters.

She has also recently completed a piece called ‘Hands of Time’ which is a more abstract artform and she loves experimenting with different mediums.

Brigitte can create art in charcoal, acrylic paint, coloured pencils, pastels and watercolour.

She is also a Project Artist for the Great Barrier Reef Festival.

Having just taken up an ‘Artist in Residence’ spot at the 3 Little Birds Espresso and Creative Hub, which has just launched an art space called Airlie Create and Connect, Brigitte is looking forward to welcoming students to her new art lessons soon.

“I love working with kids and seeing them feel proud of themselves when they complete a piece of art,” said Brigitte.

If you are an artist or would like to enrol your child in art lessons head down to Airlie Create and Connect to speak with Brigitte who will be there most days.

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Local artist Brigitte Peel with her piece ‘Hands of Time’