Ms Newcombe, who lives on a farm not far from the South Australia-Victorian border at Nihill, is an award-winning artist of wildlife and domestic animals.
Ms Robinson took painting on at a more serious scale in 1985 and is influenced by a love of the environment and country life.
“I am attracted to subjects in the first instance by the way light interacts with the surroundings and I am challenged to capture atmosphere in my landscape work,” she said.
Lovers of animals and the Australian landscape will marvel at her interpretation of subjects from unusual angles.
“My subjects are varied and unrestricted, ranging from animals, landscapes, figurative, portraiture, life drawing and still life,” she said.
Ms Robinson has accepted commissions for corporate and private collections both in Australia and overseas, including the United States, Canada, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Poland, India and New Zealand.
She has been involved in several exhibitions and regularly exhibits at the Old Courthouse Gallery in Seymour, as well as Euroa’s Vinegrove Gallery, Schoolhouse Gallery at Trawool, ‘The House’ Gallery at Rushworth, Tin Shed Arts at Malmsbury and with the Australian Guild of Realist Artists in Camberwell.
She was made a life member of Seymour and District Art Society in 2002 and named artist of the year in 2003, 2007 and 2018.
“Creativity meets nature” is how Ms Newcombe described her own work, the unique style providing an accurate representation of nature through perfectly placed pastel marks and colour.
She creates several of her portraits from photographs and revels in the opportunity to provide people with a lasing memory of lost pets.
“I know how people are feeling when they lose a pet, the pain they are experiencing. I remind them that having animals in their life will always outweigh the heartache,” she said.
Her work has features at galleries in Naracoorte, Horsham, Bendigo, Beaufort and Edenhope and she created an award-winning piece on wildlife in the animal section of the 34th Victorian Pastel Association art comp titled Four Little Ducks Went Out One Day.
She creates her art work from a studio that was transformed from an 80-year-old barn that she converted 16 years ago.
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