{"id":103989,"date":"2025-04-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/?p=103989"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:16:23","slug":"honours-bestowed-at-easter-art-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/living\/honours-bestowed-at-easter-art-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Honours bestowed at Easter art show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE 57th Bendigo Rotary Easter Art Show has come and gone, with 262 artists entering over 730 artworks for view and sale at the Town Hall last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Nina Volk won the Best in Show (all categories) prize and $2500 in cash for her streetscape The Light Of Shamrock (watercolour on paper), which also sold during the show.<\/p>\n<p>Kyneton&#8217;s Lachlan Drake took home the Best Oil\/Acrylic prize and $1500 for his portrait Ghost of the Swagman, while the Best Small Image nod and $750 went to Glenn Hoyle for his landscape The Dawn of a New Day.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the major critiqued winners was Amanda Western for her oil on paper landscape Grazing the Creek Bed, which won Best Drawing\/Any Media and $1500.<\/p>\n<p>Western, who specialises in linocut, a printmaking technique where an image is created by carving into a block of linoleum, said she was &#8220;truly delighted&#8221; to receive the accolade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a high-level program and exhibition,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I dropped my artwork off I (had) a sneak preview (and) I must admit, I was excited just to be part of it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The calibre of the work was incredible, so to end up winning my class was not expected at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just thrilled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Western said the idea behind the winning work, which took 40 hours just in the lino carving alone, was based on a scene she saw on Mount Grenoch Road in Mount Glasgow (between Ballarat and Maryborough).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One morning I was early for work, so I pulled over for a coffee and took in this stunning little creek scene with grazing land,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The light was beautiful \u2013 it really captured me. That&#8217;s what inspired the piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her collection of original artworks can be viewed at <a href=\"http:\/\/amandawestern.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amandawestern.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE 57th Bendigo Rotary Easter Art Show has come and gone, with 262 artists entering over 730 artworks for view and sale at the Town Hall last weekend. 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