ARTWORK NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE (please see below)
Please email montsalvat@montsalvat.com.au, with the details of the artwork you wish to purchase and a contact phone number, and we will get in touch to process the payment.
Angela Abbott, Don James and Adam Frith are three painters who paint and teach in the Montsalvat Painting School studio.
This show consists of land and seascapes, still life, flowers and portraiture all painted from life.
Don and Angela first met at the Victorian Artists’ Society in 1972 and they have painted together ever since. Angela studied oil painting with Shirley Bourne OAM after studying drawing at the NGV with Ian Armstrong.
In the early 1980’s, Don attended classes with Alan Martin at his Park Road Eltham studio and at Montsalvat. After Alan died in 1989, Don was invited by his widow Lesly to take classes and paint in his studio.
Angela, Don and John Wakefield got together to paint at the Park Road studio as well as travelling to paint landscapes in both Victoria and South Australia.
Adam Frith joined Don’s classes at the Park Road studio in 1991.
In 1992 David Moore invited Angela and Don to join him in the ‘Boat’ studio at Montsalvat and this association continued until the end of 2018.
Adam continued in Don’s classes at Montsalvat for a time, on occasion working as a substitute teacher. He continued working in Park Road studio.
After the fire which destroyed the Barn complex in 1996, the group moved to the Gatehouse Studio, then to Lesley Sinclair’s studio in the white cottage and after a time back in the refurbished Barn studio. Following the death of Matcham Skipper in 2011 they moved to their current studio above what was his residence.
When David moved to Castlemaine, Adam was invited to join Angela and Don to share this their current studio where they continue to paint and teach.
TRIO: Three Montsalvat Painters
Angela Abbott, Don James and Adam Frith
The Residents Gallery
June 30 - November 30
Adam Frith, Yarra Glen Reserve, oil on board, 20.5x15cm, $400
Adam Frith, Montsalvat Hillside, oil on board, 20.5x25.5cm, $400
Adam Frith, Japonica, oil on board, 35.5x28cm, $650
Adam Frith, High St, Beechworth, oil on board, 20.5x25.5cm, $600
Adam Frith, Roses, oil on board, 35.5x25.5cm, $750
Adam Frith, Yarra Street, Warrandyte, oil on board, 35.5x28cm, $700
Adam Frith, Cotton, oil on board, 25.5x30.5cm, $650
Adam Frith, Central Tilba NSW, oil on board, 25.5x30.5cm, $650 🔴
Adam Frith, A Moment at Montsalvat, oil on linen on board, 15x20.5cm, $400 🔴
Adam Frith, Pomegranates, oil on board, 35.5x28cm, $750 🔴
Adam Frith, Spring Morning, Phillip Island, oil on board, 46x35.5cm, $800 🔴
Don James, Fishing at Rhyll, 25x20cm, $450
Don James, Along the Plenty River, 25x20cm, $450
Don James, Poppies from Bree, 406x510cm, $1,500
Don James, Self Portrait in Isolation, oil on linen on board, 19x23cm, $450
Don James, Birrarung Park Bulleen, oil on linen on board, 20x25cm, $500
Don James, Towards Ventnor, oil on linen on board, 25x20cm, $500
Don James, Fresh Garlic, oil on linen on board, 20x25cm, $500
Don James, Jorgy’s Fireplace, oil on linen on board, 20x25cm, $500
Don James, Winter Wattle, oil on linen on board, 60x50cm, $1,800
Don James, Apple Blossom Japonica, oil on linen on board, 30x40cm, $700 🔴
Don James, Mother’s Beach Mornington, oil on linen on board, 20x25cm, $500 🔴
Don James, Rough Day Rickett’s Point, oil on linen on board, 23x13cm, $450 🔴
Angela Abbott, Gift Package and Correa, oil, 13x18cm, $420
Angela Abbott, The Onlooker, oil, 20x26cm, $500
Angela Abbott, Socially Distanced Self Portrait, oil on linen on board, 41x51cm, NFS
Angela Abbott, Sakura Canister and Eucalyptus Blossom, oil on linen on board, 31x36cm, $700
Angela Abbott, Funghi, oil on linen on board, 21x15cm, $480
Angela Abbott, Pomegranates and Persimmons on Hessian, oil on linen on board, 41x51cm, $1,000
Angela Abbott, The “Monet Pond”, Midsummer, Montsalvat, oil on linen on board, 61x76cm, $2,200
Angela Abbott, Yarra, Warrandyte, oil on linen on board, 51x41cm, $1,000 🔴
Angela Abbott, Blossoms. Streetscape, Doncaster, oil, 20x15cm, $400 🔴
Angela Abbott, Friends and Fresh Air, Williamstown, oil on linen on board, 13x18cm, $280 🔴
Angela Abbott, Saturday Racing, McCrae, oil on linen on board, 15x21cm, $425 🔴
Angela Abbott, The Swan, Port Phillip Bay, oil on linen on board, 18x13cm, $280 🔴