Angela is a Birrbay woman whose art is contemporary and fresh. As an Aboriginal woman, Angela is extremely passionate about story telling though art and sharing her love of it with others. Angela is an artist for the National Aboriginal Design Agency.

Carly Marchment is an Australian artist with disability based in Crescent Head. Carly focuses on painting and mixed media to create portraiture and figurative works capturing the connection between people and their environment.

Chris Proctor embraces an “ugly is beautiful” philosophy, creating art that finds beauty in imperfection. If I Had Known Above the Mountains Lies Eternal Sunshine I Never Would Have Stopped Climbing runs from 5 April - 26 April 2025.

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 William Street Gallery from 6 March - 3 April 2025.

Rachel Cross was born in Kempsey and grew up on the Mid North Coast. She is a self-taught artist who started painting around 2016. The inspiration and colours for Rachel’s paintings come from the rivers, the bush and the wildlife, particularly around Telegraph Point, the Mid North Coast beaches and the Port Macquarie area.

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.

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.

Tony Williams lives and works in Port Macquarie. Tony paints what he calls abstract landscape. He enjoys painting his experience of the landscape and his interpretation of it. 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.

Yvette Hugill uses a variety of media including oil, pastel, acrylic and ink. She enjoys landscape, still life and figurative subjects. Yvette has won numerous awards, most recently the People’s Choice Award, 2025 Bonny Hills Art Prize. Her work is in collections in Australia, Japan, Finland, China, UK and USA.