Beverley Skurulis
Beverley is a well known Pilbara and Kimberley Artist who for 30 years lived, loved and painted the country and people in the outback of Western Australia. Her paintings depict in vibrant colour, the many years of her family exploring the vast wilderness, of the country they grew up in.
Beverleys passion has always been art. Her first tool a piece of charcoal, her first canvas, the footpath of her childhood home in Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia. She attended Nedlands Primary and Loretto Convent. She didn't mind school, and did well, but was more interested in drawing on her books than looking inside them. A self taught artist, Beverley has loved every minute of a pastime which is forever heading in new directions. Finding so much inspiration in the Pilbara, Kimberley and pasture. More colours, shapes and textures than one can imagine and she wants to record it all. Being a seventh generation Australian, she feels priveleged that she has the ability to show to you, her love of this great country, through her art.
Her life memories are shown in her art and her home, memories that should be familiar with a lot of Australians. She grew up in the city on the Swan River and in the wheat belt of W.A. After marrying Harry Skurulis in 1975 the family moved to Karratha. For 30 years they traveled the Pilbara, Kimberley and Northern Queensland. Commuting between their property in the Daintree Rain Forrest and their home base at Karratha in the Pilbara of Western Australia.
We were avid gold prospectors from Halls creek to the Great Sandy Desert and South to Meekatharra and Kalgoorlie. Beverley's husband Harry had a passion for fishing so they spent many moons with the family at their shack in the Dampier archipelago, deep sea fishing and diving. We collected and restored early pioneer furniture from the cattle stations in the outback where we prospected.
Beverley has been painting professionally for about 30 years. Selling mostly to the corporate sector and thorugh galleries in the Kimberley, the Pilbara and Perth Western Australia. For 20 years Beverley preferred to work in watercolour, recently painting with oil paints and oil sticks on Belgium Linen.
Beverley has had numerous solo, and joint exhibitions and her work is represented locally and overseas. Beverley now owns and works from the Latrobe Fine Art Gallery. 41a Gilbert Street, Latrobe Tasmania, 7307. Beverley has such a history of this country as did her ancestors and she would like to share it with you, through her art.
