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Soula Mantalvanos | Artist, designer & gallerist Melbourne Australia

Soula Mantalvanos | Artist, designer & gallerist

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    Director @queenscliffgallery | @myhealthstorymhs | Art Mentor |
    Pencil portrait, Sunday morning. @theomantalvanos Pencil portrait, Sunday morning. @theomantalvanos #pencilportrait #sketch #pencil #notai
    A new etching. Via Carlo Cattaneo, Verona, 2024, E A new etching. Via Carlo Cattaneo, Verona, 2024, Edition of 10, 10x 12.5cm. Available from @queenscliffgallery or hit the tag and acquire online. I’ll post it free to the first person who buys impression No 1. #verona #australianprintmaking
    Thank you dear patron. Hand coloured etchings of V Thank you dear patron. Hand coloured etchings of Venice to live together..
    As an artist and gallery director, COVID taught me As an artist and gallery director, COVID taught me one thing (ok it taught me a few things) but it’s that you make the most of slumps by continuing to work. Slumps pass. Slumps are transitions. And, am I not an exhibiting artist? We’re in a retail transformation. It’s the best time to keep working in any way you can. It can get hard as artists are often inspired by their environment. So I take it one step at a time. I start. I start doing anything. Even if it’s standing in my studio pushing materials around. Or drawing… or relooking at my work. Yesterday, I completed some Italian editions and proofed a new one - Verona door! They’re works that sell well so I’ll need them. And it was an invigorating day for us both. #lifeofanartist
    Happy Bastille Day… Happy Bastille Day…
    I’m so happy to have the opportunity not only to e I’m so happy to have the opportunity not only to exhibit and present my impressionistic influence, but also to curate such a contemporary exhibition and collaborate with the Geelong Gallery. Although the Impressionists weren’t the first to head outdoors to create art, they are the group that created an official movement for capturing light and ordinary objects – not so ordinary were most of their scenes. But this movement, alongside the Byzantine period, is one of the two prominent concepts that form my love and art being. As a Director of a regional commercial gallery, I also feel a great sense of achievement for the Arts – especially in these turbulent times. There is no greater brief to a creative human than a challenge. And it’s really time to revisit, question, brainstorm, and test the industry as it exists, and bring it into a new age… just as the Impressionists did. Through collaboration and influence, together with the past and the new, this can be done. I hope you can visit. #artist #curator #gallerydirector #australianartist #australianartistabroad
    Morning! ABC Classic FM, coffee, sketch and a cros Morning! ABC Classic FM, coffee, sketch and a crossword to kick off a busy weekend. Art by exhibiting artists at QG: @deborahwilliamsartist Sir Arthur Streeton, Portraits @jim.pavlidis, Philip Davey & red works by @louiseblyton
    It might be the graphic designer in me or the love It might be the graphic designer in me or the lover of handmade things but I had a ball making these woodblock greeting cards. They’re now available at Queenscliff Gallery along with my other designy, handmade treats. See you soon at QG.
    Going through my print drawers today, on this quie Going through my print drawers today, on this quiet and slow day after manning the fort yesterday and making bookmarks from prints that didn’t ’make the cut’. They’re available from Queenscliff Gallery - not online. You’ll have to visit! $15 #bookmark
    I’m manning the QG fort today and listening in and I’m manning the QG fort today and listening in and watching how people interact with my work. It’s fabulous…! This book was a fave with a lovely couple staying in town and planning to return after their renovations are done. I was also very happy to hear that their children are mad art lovers. #visitqueenscliff
    I’ve arrived at a nice little mental place as an a I’ve arrived at a nice little mental place as an artist. Regular practice (even in my scattered way, having to stop or move around continuously) still leads somewhere. I’m in a very happy place after these last two paintings of Cortona (La Loggetta) and Vicolo Della Rosa, Siena.
    A day in the studio with the @queenscliffgallery d A day in the studio with the @queenscliffgallery doors closed on Tuesdays. There are three sketches remains to develop from my last trip to Italy. Not going this year is painful so staying as close as I can. Listening to Allen Levi’s, Theo of Golden.
    More testing…. Which is your fave? Available at Q More testing…. Which is your fave? Available at QG and on my personal website soon. #wrapping #wrappingpaperdesign
    Today @theomantalvanos Today @theomantalvanos
    What if… we could support our own sector? WE CAN. What if… we could support our own sector? WE CAN. It takes buying just two artworks a year. Invest in your industry.
    Available at @queenscliffgallery my Italian etchin Available at @queenscliffgallery my Italian etchings wrapping paper. More on the way… $15 for a sheet 75 x 90cm #wrappingideas
    Another regular morning at QG HQ… crosswords, @abc Another regular morning at QG HQ… crosswords, @abcclassic and a quick sketch with coffee. #pencilportait #sketch #australianartist
    It’s such a gift to be able to stop and sketch a s It’s such a gift to be able to stop and sketch a scene that’s in front of you… you never forget the smells and sounds of that moment. Via Venutti, Cortona 2026 (II) oil on linen.
    So what’s everyone doing on the eve of a long week So what’s everyone doing on the eve of a long weekend? I’m getting ready for something special at QG. QG Homage to Geelong Gallery’s Discovering the Impressionists a group exhibition. We will be elebrating the enduring influence of Impressionism—one of art’s most luminous and transformative eras. Inspired by Geelong Gallery’s landmark exhibition Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and Sir Arthur Streeton’s ‘honeymoon’ etchings, QG represented artists, reinterpret the movement’s light, colour, and immediacy through a modern lens, honouring its legacy while reimagining its spirit for today. Mark your diaries. Exhibition dates: Jul 9 – Aug 10, 2026.
    Another little tour today… Hoping to see you all Another little tour today… Hoping to see you all during the long weekend. QG is OPEN everyday.
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