The Arthouse
The Arthouse is nestled in the middle of 25 acres of rainforest. It is a contemporary one bedroom studio with air-conditioned king size bedroom, ensuite, and living room with open fire. It has a kitchenette with microwave, 2 burner induction stove top, coffee machine and outdoor bbq. The large deck with outdoor dining table and day bed is the perfect place to read a good book, listen to the birdsong or music, and take in the outstanding views of rainforest and the coast. Relax and unwind in the outdoor stone bathtub or take a stroll through the herb garden and orchard.
Two easels, artbooks and art supplies are on hand should you wish to have a dabble. There is a variety of other good reading material as well.
Due to the exclusivity and privacy we wish to create, the road in is not sealed. Four-wheel drives & All-wheel drives recommended.
This is the ultimate Escape.
Enquire now for rates and availability or click here to view all Freestyle Escape rates.
For all Freestyle Escape enquiries please call 07 3262 3077
What our Guests say......
Such a beautiful location with a magical outlook. We'll be back soon... P. Frieser
I loved being on the side of the hill overlooking the trees and out to sea and being able to see all the Australian birds. The view from the orchard while picking fresh herbs and salad ingredients for mealtimes was lovely. What beautiful countryside!... Christa
From the minute I arrived at the Arthouse I was enveloped by the serenity. The Arthouse wrapped its arms around me and had me entranced. When ever life becomes overwhelming, I head for the Arthouse. A few days there is like a month anywhere else... Bronwyn Tobin
The Arthouse, outdoor studios and surrounding grounds are available for artists in residence.
What our Artists in Residence say......
The peace and serenenity combined with the panorama and ever changing night sky got my creative juices flowing.... A haven I would recommend whole heartedly ....Maria Cosgrove
For me its all about the broad sweep of the sky ,both day and night which allows problems of daily life to be put into proper perspectve allowing creative energy to flow ...... Kate French
Freestyle Escape Artists and Tutors
Sussanne Morton
Sussanne has been painting most of her life. Her style is mostly realistic. Working with acrylics or oils her subject matter is based on nature. The inspiringly beautiful forms, colours, textures and moods found in nature... things of beauty that resonate with her spirit and touch her soul.
Mixed mediums are used for her abstracts, and these are just pure expressionism, based on her feelings and emotions.
Her work has been selling throughout Qld and the Sunshine Coast for the past twenty years and more recently in Melbourne and now Denmark.
Sussanne has also been teaching the joys of painting and drawing to adults and children on the Sunshine coast for the past ten years. Her workshops cover many aspects of painting, from colour theory and brushstroke technique, to paint application methods and self expression and are suitable for the beginner or the more advanced.
Terry Bouton
Terry Bouton, specializes in charcoal drawing, portraiture and mixed media sculpture. She has been a finalist in the Waterhouse, Hutchins Drawing Prizes 2007 and the Alice Prize and winner of the 3D section of the Stanthorpe Art Prize 2008.
Leigh Camilleri
Leigh specialises in painting, drawing and monotypes, using oils, synthetic polymers and mixed media. She has been a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, the Ergon Energy Art Prize and the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Prize. Leigh's work is represented by numerous galleries in South-East Queensland, and has been purchased by significant collections including the Warner Brothers collection where her work was used in the movie Fools Gold, 2008.
Dianne Cannon
Di Cannon has been sculpting for the last 12 years and exhibiting her work in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and North Queensland. She has had exhibitions on the Sunshine Coast and had her work in many art shows in Brisbane, North Queensland, Sunshine Coast and the Hinterland. Di has been teaching workshops for 6 years from Brisbane to North Queensland. All sculptures are made in raku clay which can be fired to stoneware allowing them to be inside or outside. Her passion is to express peace, love and feeling into her sculptures; working from the heart and energy and to bring them alive. Most of her work is the female form or doubles expressing love and unity. Di loves to inspire people and in her workshops she helps people to find the artist within. For more information go to Di’s website.
Maria Cosgrove
Maria's vibrant colour-saturated paintings are blitzing the contemporary art scene and being carried off to far flung corners of the world. Raw and naive the pieces demand to be noticed, yet quietly invites the viewer to immerse himself in the interplay of texture, pattern and the unexpected.
Bec Findlay
Kate French
Kate French finds the inspiration for her sculptural work from the people around her. The diversity in human emotions, quirks and physical characteristics is what Kate loves to capture in her sculptures. Kate also specialises in painting landscapes and skyscapes.
Penelope Gilbert-NG
'I am a painter that is who I am. I have painted since I was 3 and for 53 years have studied, explored and enjoyed my learning processes on how I want to communicate visually the effect of light on my subjects to an audience. For me the shadows created by a light source are in a sense equally important in creating shapes, tone and composition required to paint an enjoyable painting. I paint in all mediums and love painting from life'.
http://www.penelopegilbertng.com
Sarah Hickey
Sarah Hickey has always had an affinity for all things artistic since a very young age. She has had extensive training and experience with art-making and teaching following her completion of two degrees in Fine Art (QCA) and Secondary Education (Griffith University) respectively: and five years of teaching in Queensland high schools. Sarah has recently established her own art business under the label of ‘Vivacious art’ and is looking to exhibit her work for sale throughout Australia.
Harriett Valckx Jakins
Since moving to Brisbane in 1993 her imagination has been fired by the lush tropical vegetation that is the subject of many paintings, as well as the streetscapes and seascapes she finds so stimulating. Harriett has presented her work in several solo exhibitions and her work is shown in many exhibitions and galleries Australia wide. Until 1996 she worked mostly in oils and acrylics, and since then has also been a prolific water colour artist. Hariett's paintings are clearly meant to give immediate enjoyment and reflect her love of tropical Queensland where she now resides.
Noel Miller
Brisbane artist Noel Miller is well lnown for his stylized charcoal portraits of iconic females. His layered and detailed large-scaled drawings have been hung in the prestigious Jacaranda Award for Drawing (2004) and the Blake Prize (2004 and 2005).
Cernak
Cernak is from a non-Indigenous first generation migrant background, born in the Glass House Bay region (Moreton Bay) who has already lived and worked through three major art periods in Modernism, Post-Modernism and the eclecticism we refer to as “Contemporary”. Cernak studied painting and drawing in the early days at Brisbane Central Technical College before beginning three decades of study and solo exhibiting. She studied art at the Technical University and Art Academy of Vienna in the ‘70s, as well as exhibiting and completing a Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Queensland. She holds a post-graduate Diploma in Painting from the Qld. College of Art and has taught since 1986 back in Brisbane at the Qld. Art Gallery, the Brisbane Institute of Art, Art Site in the Valley, Community in Paddington and at the Winter Programme of the Macgregor Art Schools in Toowoomba.
www.visualartistinfo/cernakcernak
