Glass artist Nicole Ayliffe explores the optical qualities of the medium through her hand-blown transparent glass forms.

By using a variety of coldwork techniques, she has created effects that emphasise the reflection and refraction of light between the exterior and interior surfaces.

Ayliffe says that her previous work has been inspired by childhood memories and, more recently, of imagery found within the natural world.  The solidity of the glass and the suspension of the ‘internal bubble,’ is said to create an optical illusion of space, distortion and movement.

Ayliffe is a graduate of the South Australian School of Art whose work is represented in the Parliament House Art Collection, National Glass Collection, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and the College of Fine Arts, Northeast University, Changchun, China,

French born painter Marc Rambeau has been exhibiting in Australia for over 20 years after a formative time in the Pacific, and he is known for his landscapes that radiate vivid colour with paint applied in a thick ‘impasto.’

His latest series of works on rice paper on linen have been  based on a trip to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, and he looks at  the dramatic changes of light and

Rambeau studied art at the Villa Thiole (French School for Visual Arts) and at the National School for Arts Decoratifs in Nice, France, from 1961 to 1963.  In 1964, he joined the Robert Boell Atelier in Toulon where he continued his studies.  From 1968 onwards, his  work took him to New Caledonia, Tahiti, New Zealand and Chile until he took up residence in Australia in 1985.

Nicole Ayliffe, studio glass  and Marc Rambeau,  paintings & works on paper, At Beaver Galleriee, 81 Dension Street Deakin, unil July 2.