About Us
About the Artist
Antoinette Ferwerda is a mother, a gallery owner and an Australian fine artist known for creating bold artworks with a masterful use of colour and texture. She runs her eponymous Brighton gallery and creates an inspiring output of original artworks. Using her signature collage techniques and captivating eye for colour, her work explores abstract and metaphysical interpretations of the natural world and the wide range of life forms that call it home. Her art is represented in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, New York and London.
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Artistic Process
Working in her studio situated behind the Gallery, Antoinette creates every artwork with her signature positive energy, artistic finesse and a wealth of experience. Her mixed media techniques set her work apart, harnessing transparent layering and rich inky drips just as important to her process as her sources of creative inspiration. These careful and skilful steps result in beautifully textured art that heroes colour, depth and flow. Expansive florals become universal realms, three-dimensional panels shift architectural paradigms and memorable rhythmic arches are instantly identifiable.
Antoinette
Antoinette Ferwerda is our Principal Artist and Gallery Director.
Antoinette Ferwerda is a mother, a gallery owner and an Australian artist known for creating bold artworks with a masterful use of colour and texture.
After a rich journey with many twists and
turns – studying visual communication, working in the pharmaceutical industry, dipping her toes into the fashion world – she now runs her eponymous Brighton gallery and creates an inspiring output of original artworks.
Her abstract paintings are somehow familiar and represent personal interpretations of things around her, including the natural world, landscapes, stars, flowers and urban structures. Painting empowers her to connect with a deeper part of herself; something that is instinctive, magical and unique.
Her art is represented in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, New York and London.
"Art connects people. I love what I produce. If what I paint resonates with people, then that is a powerful, human connection." - Antoinette Ferwerda
Lara
In her forth year now at the AF Gallery having joined our team as a graduate of Fine Arts, Lara is our business all-rounder working between the art studio and front of house. Lara loves project variety and as Antoinette’s Studio Production Manager and Executive Assistant, changes hats between art production and office administration with ease, including curating the art gallery, managing art fairs, and assisting clients and industry partners with finalising art selections.
Lara’s fine art is represented by the AF Gallery.
“In using my organisational mind, I have loved helping create an organised space for us to work in, and I continue to enjoy finding new ways to develop the space.” - Lara Moisi
