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‘Healing’ is a community exhibition featuring 4 artists who explore the human psyche and how artmaking can benefit physical disabilities and mental health.

Beginning her two-decade-long love of art as a therapeutic exercise, Sarah Grieves paints food and domestic settings from the perspective of growing up Australian-born Chinese. Lesley O’Gorman’s mixed media practice examines how human attachment to personal objects can alleviate the negative impacts of migration, separation, and loss. After a forty-year career illustrating and adapting to life as an older artist, Jane Tanner depicts the essence and beauty of wild creatures in urban streetscapes. Elizabeth Whyte explores how practising art can allow people to heal and bring joy to others through bright, expressive paintings created while in a meditative state.

The artists featured in ‘Healing’ delve into the concept of recovery within their art practice, evoking a sense of transformation, growth, and restoration.

Featuring: Sarah Grieves, Lesley O’Gorman, Jane Tanner and Elizabeth Whyte.

Many of the artworks in this exhibition are for sale. You can buy an artwork on the Boroondara Arts shop website.

Image credit: Sarah Grieves, ‘Afternoon Tea at Rye’, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 47 x 37cm, image courtesy of the artist.

Painting of a kitchen table. The table features pink roses in a vase, four mugs of tea, a plate of pastries, a bowl of pistachios, and a smaller bowl for the pistachio shells.
Sarah Grieves, ‘Afternoon Tea at Rye’, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 47 x 37cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Painting of oranges with slices taken from the top, figs, and one lemon. The perspective is close-up, so the fruits fill the entire canvas.
Sarah Grieves, ‘Greek Orange Preserve and Figs’, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 37 x 47cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Painting of mushrooms with the tops facing down and the stalks standing up on a blue background. The perspective is close-up, so the mushrooms fill the entire canvas.
Sarah Grieves, ‘Pine Mushrooms’, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 37 x 47cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Finely stitched image of a brain sewn in red thread on off-white woollen felt. Parts of the brain towards the centre and lower half are filled in with stitched red thread, indicating the part of the brain that is activated by certain emotions. Above the brain the words ‘body monitoring nuclei’ are finely stitched.
Lesley O’Gorman, ‘Emotional Brain (BMS)’, 2022, handmade woollen felt and sewing thread, 27 x 37cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Vintage Mickey Mouse and Pluto the Dog plastic toys are covered in felted wool that looks like thick spider web. This felted wool makes the items appear to have been untouched for years.
Lesley O’Gorman, ‘Re-Collected Childhood I’, 2022, found small toys and felted wool, dimensions variable, image courtesy of the artist.
Woollen felted rectangle with satin blanket trimming with finely sewn hand-written text. The text reads: The Polish sewing box means so much to me. It reminds me of my parents. I feel a strong, emotional connection to them both whenever I pick it up. It has a value that goes far beyond simply being a useful place to store things.
Lesley O’Gorman, ‘Textual Transition’, 2022, handmade woollen felt, sewing thread and satin blanket ribbon, 37 x 27cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Watercolour, acrylic, and coloured pencil piece of a possum on a wooden fence at night. Behind the possum are trees in the darkness, with some branches illuminated by the moon pictured in the top right-hand corner.
Jane Tanner, ‘Midnight Watchman’, 2023, watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencil, and watercolour paper, 29.5 x 42cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Black and white charcoal drawing of a fox crossing empty car lanes at night. The fox’s eyes are illuminated, and streetlights line the outer car lanes.
Jane Tanner, ‘Phantom’, 2023, charcoal and watercolour paper, 29.5 x 42cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Gouache, watercolour, and pastel piece of a black bird such as a crow or currawong drinking from water that’s collected on a curb side at the end of a driveway. The scene is in colour and daytime, with two finches and a pigeon in the right bottom corner of the painting on the front lawn. Power lines are reflected in the pool of water the black bird is drinking from.
Jane Tanner, ‘There is another world, and it is this one’, 2023, gouache, watercolour, pastel and watercolour paper, 39.5 x 29.5cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Colourful, somewhat abstracted painting featuring blue and pink paint predominately. Small images of butterflies, flowers, potted plants, branches, and a few small birds appear when you look closer.
Elizabeth Whyte, ‘Birds of a Feather’, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 79 x 79 x 4cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Abstract colourful painting with blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and orange patches of paint. Some strokes are curvy, others rectangular blocks, or repeated small lines.
Elizabeth Whyte, ‘Citrus Afternoon’, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 61 x 51 x4cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Abstract colourful painting vaguely representing a park with a lake. Small images of flowers and love hearts appear when you look closely. The painting is mainly blue and green, representing grass and water, but there are also red, orange, yellow and dark blue scribble-like paint strokes throughout.
Elizabeth Whyte, ‘Down by the Lake’, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 50 x4cm, image courtesy of the artist.

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