The Boathouse Gallery for Fine Art

Grace Paleg

Grace Paleg is an artist who has achieved distinction using the medium of pastel. Her varied subject matter of Portrait, Still life, Landscape and Life drawing has won in excess of 160 awards including 6 Best Pastel awards at the Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Show, and two Ming Mckay awards.

Grace first studied Graphic Design at Swinburne and Drawing at East Sydney Tech. Studies followed with the late Leslie Sinclair and David Moore at Montsalvatt and the late Alan Martin at his studio in Eltham.

She is a past president and member of the South Coast Pastel Society, The Australian Guild of Realist Artists ,The Pastel Society of Australia and The Victorian Pastel Soc. Grace has tutored for twenty years and has been an invitation Judge and Demonstrator for many Shows and Art Societies. Grace is a regular contributor to the Australian Artist magazine.

She continues to teach regularly interstate and at the Grace Paleg Fine Art Studio Gallery in Surf Beach N.S.W.