A new range of digital poster prints and cards with a maritime theme will be added to the website soon.  Meryl has cast a close eye to the details of our coastal scenes and maritime history on the Bellarine Peninsula.

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Great Circle Route Pendant by Carolyn McKinnon

 The Great Circle Route 

Geelong Sculptors annual exhibition is on at Deakin University’s city campus for October.  This exhibition has inspired artists to uncover the maritime and wool industry heritage that helped establish #Geelong as an important city in Victoria.  Clippers by the Bay has inspired works in steel, silver, clay, timber and found objects.  Head to facebook.com/geelong sculptors for more detail.

My pendant was inspired by the treacherous route that early sailing ships used from Britain and Europe to get to Australia’s goldfields FAST in the 1850′s.  63 days was an early record for the clipper ship #The Lightning. Using the #Great Circle Route  the ships rounded Cape Horn far south to reach the “Roaring Forties’ – the westerly winds between 40 and 50 degrees latitude that would sail them across the Southern Ocean.  If contending with storms and floating icebergs at that latitude was dangerous they then had to negotiate Bass Strait and the notorious Rip – the entrance to Port Phillip -to make it safely to Geelong and Melbourne and their new life.

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The Geelong, Surfcoast and Queenscliff regions in Victoria have now got a great new on-line directory if you are looking for art, artists, musicians, actors and events in the district.  www.artsatlasgeelong.com.au puts lots of resources at your fingertips.  I have listed my work under Carolyn McKinnon, including some sample pics of new and favourite pieces.

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Ready for Christmas! 

 This garden sculpture is a new design made in steel and limestone and is now displayed at Eagles Nest Fine Art Gallery in Aireys Inlet on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.  The gallery is in a purpose built building with a great range of painting, prints, jewellery and sculpture from regional and Victorian artists. 

I also have new silver jewellery designs there from the start of December.  If you are travelling on the #Great Ocean Road then stop in #Aireys Inlet and check out Nadia and Bruno’s gallery.

Pipefish garden sculpture

Silver disc pendant

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The art exhibition has a focus on flora, fauna and the natural environment.  I have two sculptures in the exhibition in limestone and steel – they sit well in a natural or coastal garden setting or courtyard.  

Nesting Garden Hanger

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Sterling silver double disc pendant

If you enjoy the beach in Winter and want to follow the arts in the region then the second Surfcoast Arts Trail is on in towns from Anglesea and Torquay to Deans Marsh and Moriac.  I have jewellery available at
Surfcoast Images gallery on the beach end of Gilbert St, in Torquay.

Kevan  Way is owner of Surfcoast Images and a professional photographer with a passion for the coast and surf lifestyle.  His work features in the gallery in large scale photographic murals of the region.

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Just Cruising and Wave Rider

New steel garden sculptures were launched at the Surfcoast Art and Design Market in Torquay on Sunday 14 July.

These welded steel and hand carved limestone sculptures in quirky fish designs were popular and are ideal for indoors or out.

The first sculpture, Wave Rider (on the right) has sold so there will be more posted in our shop later this month.

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SwellARTS on-line is your coastal design stop for contemporary jewellery, garden sculpture and hand-carved stone, inspired by Australia’s Great Ocean Road region.

Each day we live by great beaches, walk along sea cliffs, and love to explore the details of the shoreline and forests.  We even live in a town with kangaroos still hopping through its streets.  That’s not a myth in Anglesea and all this inspires our creative work.

Made with quality, designed and made in Australia, and made with imagination is our motto.  We want you to find something different.
You are buying direct from the designer. SwellARTS jewellery and sculpture is hand-forged and carved in our studio.

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