Six talented ladies from the Hobsons Bay Art Society have painted a mural at the newly renovated Seabrook Community Centre.
Hobsons Bay council bookings officer Paula Morgan reached out to the arts society to revamp the centre.
“Our community centre was given a face lift earlier this year, we wanted to do something to make it more comforting and inviting,” she said.
“We really wanted to make the place friendly with the murals, which is what they did.”
Artist Gaye Pereira-Jackson was allocated the task and wanted to paint a scene which represented the Seabrook area.
“I thought that it would be nice to have the blue sky, water and red rocks, as well as some native plants and birds,” she said.
Five murals were painted across panels, four of which are part of a larger sequence.
“Because we decided on five murals I thought it would be nice to share the job with five other people,” Pereira-Jackson said.
“So I asked around and came to find that there were these women who were very interested in painting, so I allocated each of them a panel.”
The other five painters were Marie Long, Geraldine Phelan, Sonia Trainor, Sally Bilboa and Sue Groen.
Pereira-Jackson describes the sequence as being covered in Australian flora and fauna, all of which the panels are connected and linked together by branches of a tree.
She said the ladies worked collaboratively together every Wednesday for four sessions at the Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre to bring the murals to life.
Jennifer Pittorino
