• Rachel Cross painting

    Rachel Cross

    Rachel Cross Rachel is a Dunghutti artist whose work is deeply inspired by her surroundings. Rachel’s contemporary style of Aboriginal art explores childhood memories and life journeys, blending tradition with a modern perspective. Her love for colour and intricate patterns shines through in her work.

  • Stu Doherty painting

    Stu Doherty

    Stu Doherty lives and paints in Port Macquarie. His work observes moments of unexpected beauty from the landscape that surround his studio where the sea meets the rock on Birpai land. His practice is predominantly watercolour, gouache and graphite on paper, focusing on the landscape and flora of coastal NSW.

  • Jon Dorne

    Jon Dorne

    Originally from New Zealand, now living and working in Port Macquarie, Jon Dorne finds inspiration in nature and the world around us. He uses a range of mixed media. “Each of my contemporary works is unique; their vibrant colours being the only link,” Jon says. “My works take anything from four days to three months to complete. I always enjoy the journey.”

  • Stewart Hambrett painting

    Stewart Hambrett

    Stewart Hambrett lives and works in Port Macquarie. His contemporary artworks capture the essence of a moment or feeling and express the unpredictability of life. Stewart has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions, winning over 40 accolades in his art career including a number of first prizes.

  • Malcolm Harding abstract painting

    Malcolm Harding

    Malcolm Harding employs techniques of chance, decalcomania and frottage to create organisms such as cells, amoeba, planets or stars. This World and Another explores the similarities between artistic abstraction and scientific representation. At Luminance Gallery from 6 March - 3 April 2025.

  • Jacinta Janik

    Jacinta Janik

    Jacinta Janik is a proud Birpai woman, specialising in paintings that represent local landscapes and patterns found in nature. Jacinta’s first appearance at Luminance was in Essence of Country for NAIDOC Week 2025.

  • Natalie Jennings

    Natalie Jennings

    Natalie Jennings is a Kamilaroi/Wailwan woman who creates from her studio on the banks of the Manning River. Natalie started painting to help heal from trauma. She studied Cultural Arts and Passion to Profit at TAFE NSW, being awarded The NSW Gili Student of the Year Award for Design and Ideation in 2023. Natalie’s first appearance at Luminance was in Essence of Country for NAIDOC Week 2025.

  • Yvonne Kiely

    Yvonne Kiely

    Yvonne Kiely studied fine art at Dublin’s National College of Art and Design, and fashion at the National School of Art in East Sydney. She has spent the past three decades on the Mid North Coast exhibiting as a painter and working as an art tutor. Yvonne’s paintings have featured in solo and group exhibitions, including Glasshouse Regional Gallery in Port Macquarie.

  • Corina Latimore

    Corina Latimore

    Corina Latimore is a proud Birpai artist, born, raised and living on Country. In 2022 she was the honoured recipient of Student of the Year for Creative Design Ideation, TAFE NSW Gili Awards. In 2023 Corina was awarded Student of the Year in Creative Design Ideation at the Tafe NSW Excellence Awards. From the ocean to the mountains, nature plays a large part in Corina’s art. Corina’s first appearance at Luminance was in Essence of Country for NAIDOC Week 2025.

  • Angela Marr

    Angela Marr is a Birrbay woman and the creative director of Cultural Industries, a National Design Agency member, a Supply Nation registered business, and an Indigenous Art Code member. Angela’s first appearance at Luminance was in Essence of Country for NAIDOC Week 2025.

  • Adam Postrach

    Adam Postrach

    Adam Postrach is a digital artist based in Port Macquarie. His work is surreal, dreamlike. He uses digital painting and collage techniques to create fantastical worlds and characters. He finished Vocal Arts at the Fryderyk Chopin Music University in Warsaw, Poland.

  • Chris Proctor Art

    Chris Proctor

    Chris Proctor creates art that finds beauty in imperfection. Luminance Gallery hosted his first solo show, If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing, from 5 April - 26 April 2025.

  • Jane Whitfield artist

    Jane Whitfield

    Jane Whitfield completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with distinction in 2004 from Western Sydney University. She moved to Port Macquarie in 2005 and established Drawn to Art. Jane’s compositions examine energy, space and feeling, conveying beauty in abstraction and imperfection.

  • Tony Williams painting

    Tony Williams

    Tony Williams paints what he calls abstract landscape. He grew up in the rugged country of the Colo region west of Sydney, where he developed a love of the Australian bush and country.