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Hazel
Mary Cope
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About
The Artist ...
Hazel Mary Cope is arguably now the best known artist living
and working on the Gold Coast Of Australia. She was born in
Farnborough, Kent in the UK and came to live permanently in
Australia in 1977.
Hazel is an intensely passionate and spiritual woman with
a life- long fascination with the beauty of nature. She has
resided permanently on the Gold Coast, in South Eastern Queensland,
Australia since 1980.
Hazel
is a self-taught artist who travelled extensively in Europe,
Africa, America and the Pacific Islands before settling here
in Australia. These cultures and their various wildlife have
all had a powerful influence on her subject matter and her
unusually variable style of painting.
Art lovers from all around the world regularly buy and enjoy
her works. Her paintings hang in galleries and private collections
worldwide.
The Gold Coast City Council purchase her work/s to give as
gifts to overseas dignitaries who visit this exceptionally
beautiful part of Australia. Her works have been given as
gifts to Ambassadors from Japan, China and Taiwan.
Hazel has donated numerous paintings to charities including
Red Cross, Cancer Research, Make A Wish Foundation, Wildcare,
Australian Air League, Bali-Bomb Victims, Kalwan Aboriginal
Corporation, and The Guide Dogs For The Blind Association,
Paradise Kids and Life-Line.
Memberships:
Queensland Wild Life Art Society, Australian Society Miniature
Art, Royal Queensland Art Society, Association of Fine Artists
Inc.
The
Hilliard Society of Miniaturists. U.K
AWARDS:
More than 50 Awards in different categories 1993-2002-
including:
Camberwell Rotary Art Show Award 2002, Coffs Harbour Art
Awards Best in Show 2002, Maleny Art Award 1st Prize Miniature,
2002, Tropicarnival Open Art Prize, First Prize. Works on
paper 2001.Chinchilla Wildlife Art Exhibition, Peoples Choice
Award 2nd Place.2000 Hervey Bay Art Show, 2nd Prize Acrylic2000,
Tweed Valley Art Prize, Colin Thomas Popular Choice Award
1999 , International Miniature Art Award Gold Coast, Best
Any Other Medium1999, Queensland Wildlife Art Society Exhibition,
Best Marine,and Best Acrylic.1998, Sarina Visual Arts Festival
, 1st Prize Miniature 1998 , Cooloola Arts Festival, 1st
Prize,1998
INTERNATIONAL
GALLERIES:
Churchill Gallery, London, Westminster Gallery London, Hilliard
Society Galleries Wells England, Papermill Gallery NJ .USA,
Galerie Australie Noumea , Takasu, Japan, Miniature Art Societies
of Florida Galleries, The Snowgoose Gallery USA. Lenningrad
National Gallery - Russia and Castle Klaffen Bach - Germany.
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