15 November to 20 December, 2025
IMAGINATION, drawings by Travis Hendrick. Trav Hendrick draws colourful cartoons. Born in Dandenong and living in Drouin for the past 30 year, Trav has focused his time on creating original cartoon characters. While attending Drouin Secondary College, Trav was diagnosed with mild autism. He finds communicating with people difficult – art is his way of conveying his feelings and emotions. Prismacolor pencils are his preferred medium, although he has experimented with watercolour and pastel, he finds pencil and paint markers more controlling. Trav is self-taught, starting his works with a grey lead pencil, then going over the design with black ink lines and colours.
Being isolated socially, Trav has found solace in his artworks. Trav sold his first work in the first art show he entered which gave him enormous happiness and inspired him to continue entering shows. With many encouraging awards, his highlights have included being selected to exhibit in ‘New Energies’ Contemporary Artists of Gippsland showcasing ‘Family Pets’. The Baw Baw Shire Council acquired ‘Pastel Paradise’ in 2004, and he also won an acquisition competition for council’s bag design in 2008 titled ‘ Baw Baw Seasons’. His favourite artworks are ‘Medusa Revenge’ that took 6 months to complete, this work features very, fine detailed lines along with his ‘Fire Fox’ original creations which he is proud of. Trav’s dream is to turn his cartoons into animation in the next few years.
SUBATOMIC PARTICLES: ATMOSPHERE, paintings by Jeff Thege. “Subatomic Particles: Atmosphere is an artistic interpretation of the science of quantum theory. In short, my intention is to give a visual representation to this theoretical science in the subatomic zone. My process uses some abstraction and a little surrealism to obtain a strange and unfamiliar atmospheric effect that fitted in with the quantum physics of subatomic particles. There is an inadvertent focus of light and the effect of light to create and change the atmosphere. I attempt this by exploring inconstant and multiple light sources, representing the less predictable nature of photons, or light particles, by depicting a light source projecting on one form, and a separate light source projecting on another form simultaneously.
A fundamental objective of these works was to make them aesthetically acceptable to demonstrate how beautiful science can look. But more importantly there must be an attraction to the viewer, to capture immediate attention, and then explain the science. An unintended consequence of this is that even if your not interested in the science you can appreciate the art.”
