'Light & Shade' Exhibition by Judith Dimitrov

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    [post_content] => Gallery on Track is excited to present the Light & Shade Exhibition during May by Judith Dimitrov. This exhibition showcases polymer clay, alcohol ink and oil painting and is available to the public free for viewing in the Gallery Shop on days the Gallery is open. In Judith's words:

"I was ten years old when my teacher put a lump of clay on my school desk. It was love at first touch. I sculpted a head my family lovingly named Ugly Alice.  I was enthralled but this was an era when parents did not encourage their children become artists. I became a Social Scientist and an educator. Art was always the background music. When my children were born I wanted to be a stay at home mum and I decided to turn up the music… I established a pottery studio where I created sculptural pieces and line of functional ware called “Muggly Uglies”. When my kids went off to school I sold the studio and pursued an academic life.   

Early in 2000 I discovered polymer clay a wonderful medium that needs little more than a few tools and a domestic oven. I haven’t stopped playing with clay since and at one point had a business called Polymer Arts Australia. 

Alcohol ink was another discovery, a somewhat volatile ink with glorious bright colours and a mind of its own. It is often used in conjunction with polymer clay and resin but on paper it is vivid and chaotic creating drips, fractals and cells that give energy and excitement to even the smallest painting. 

My artistic focus expanded in March of 2020.  COVID and lockdown confronted us all. The background music of my life became a crescendo.  It was time to learn to paint portraits. And that is what I did. I’ve kept some of my early work. One even hangs on the wall at home.  I am essentially a self taught artist with help along the way from YouTube and from encouraging people including the kind and generous Stavroros Papantoniou who unfortunately passed away in 2023.  The portraits in this exhibition are of my children and grand children with one exception, the collection of portraits of Marty Sanders, an extraordinarily talented local actor.  When you see his face, you will understand the compulsion to paint him.  

The landscapes in this exhibition are inspired by the view out my front door.  Light and Shade and the beauty of the Goulburn Sky are part of the music of my life". Judith Dimitrov 2026

Entry is free and exhibition is open during Gallery Shop hours, Wednesday to Sunday 10am-4pm.  All are welcome to come and browse, entry via the Gallery on Track Shop front.
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2nd May 2026 – 29th May 2026

Gallery on Track, 3 Blackshaw Road, Goulburn, NSW, 2580

Contact Details
Sharon Bourgeois
[email protected]
(02) 4822 7889

Event Details
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm

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