In acrylics, watercolour, pencil and ceramics, Australian flora and fauna were the focus of Ms Timm’s display.
And living on a two hectare Picola West property with an open garden, subjects were endless.
“I just love nature, so all the pieces are about nature,” she said.
Ms Timm, who started her art 23 years ago, said painting had always come quite naturally but ceramics was a self-taught discipline.
Animals glazed in rich colours and vibrant hues line MEAC, with emu heads, water hens galore and frogs popping out of table-attached mincers.
It sounds like a broad arrangement and it is.
Ms Timm admitted she got bored working on the same animal time after time.
Her property was adorned with her creations — ceramic animal heads popping out of bushes, decorative barb-wire balls and with her late husband a keen steel worker, sculptures were aplenty.
Three years have passed since Ms Timm’s husband died and, in addition to his steelwork, Mr Murphy was a graphic designer.
Each artwork carried the memory of him, tagged with a label of his design.
“That’s why the exhibition is called Rustic Art,” she said.
“I had to find his artwork and I jigged it a bit, but I still think he’s sort of amongst it because it’s all his stuff.”
The works are on display at Mooroopna Education and Activity Centre, 23 Alexandra St, Mooroopna, with the exhibition running until the end of October.
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