After a busy day on the farm feeding cattle, you’ll find Georgie Guilfoyle with a paintbrush in her hand.
Inspired by the world around her, the Gunning artist creates acrylic art on canvas paintings depicting everything from fruit and flowers to woolscobs, cotton plants and bulls.
Growing up on a farm in the Southern Tablelands, Georgie was interested in art during school.
“I stopped when I went up to Armidale and then started painting again when I came back home working on the farm,” she said.
“I was painting in front of the TV for a bit and then friends and family were asking for some paintings and it kind of snowballed from there.”
Having finished business at university, this worked in well for Georgie who has been selling her artwork around the country for about two years.
Georgie said she started painting objects but has since expanded to painting harvest scenes, many of which are commissions.
“I really like doing detailed, realistic things,” she said.
“I met a boy in Walgett so I then started doing harvest paintings.
“It was a bit different and it was good because it’s quite far from here so I’d stay up there for a week and paint.”
With her paintings in a number of outlets around the state, including Crookwell, Walgett and Orange, Georgie said commissions had been coming from everywhere.
With one painting recently finding a home in Tasmania.
While some of her paintings Georgie said she could get done within a day, others could take up to about a month to complete.
“At the moment I really like painting flowers. I do a forestry course as well so it ties together,” she said.
With it dry in the Gunning area Georgie said she was busy feeding cattle, fitting in painting
Written by: Alexandra Bernard