Jennifer Tyers

Hi,

I am Jennifer Tyers, and I am a visual artist living in Brisbane Australia. 

I have been invited to participate in the St. Petersburg Art Residency (SPAR) in Russia, and have decided to do this Pozible Campaign to help with funding this great opportunity.

I am so grateful for everyone's support so far! I have covered my residency budget. I am so amazed at the response I have received. Any further funds will go toward a plan I have to spend a few days painting in a more wild environment. I would like to visit Lake Ladoga and make some work there. This lake is a few hours from St Petersburg.

The residency at SPAR is for one month, from mid August to mid September of this year and I will be making studies and plein air paintings within a few of the centuries old gardens, including the St Petersburg Botanic Gardens. I will also be creating a larger painting from one of the plein air works within the SPAR studio. This is a new stage in my painting experience which I am excited about. The artist residency will result in an exhibition in St. Petersburg.

I love animals and I have a passion for nature which is why I enjoy making plein air paintings, because they are created in-situ. When I painted the tropical gardens of Malaysia and Singapore, I was there in the gardens and forests as I created them. So, one of the reasons it's important to actually be in St. Petersburg is that the plein air paintings I do requires me to be in the physical place.

I am keen to immerse myself into the local culture and learn about the old gardens, forests and animals of the region. I have not spent much time drawing outside of tropical forests and I'm looking forward to learn a new palette and new flora.

A little bit about myself.

If you don't know me and my work I am a painter and illustrator. My paintings are mostly plein air paintings, and a lot of my illustrations are for a Japanese company based in Tokyo. I have been commissioned illustrations for fiction, print publications and also for branding of various businesses in Australia. I have shown with the Helen Gory Gallery, Melbourne, Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane, Koskela, in Sydney and Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia.

My work is held in the Australian National Gallery, prints and drawings collection in Canberra, Artbank, Rimbun Dahan in Malaysia and various private collections internationally.

You can see my work here,

https://jennifer-tyers-dxt3.squarespace.com/

and illustrations here,

https://jentyersillustration.wordpress.com/

Here is a link to the residency site,

https://artresidency.ru

Here are some of the rewards I am offering :

$25 – a postcard sent to you from St Petersburg

$80 – a drawing done in St Petersburg and sent to you on my return to Australia. Size is 19cm x 28cm.

$210 – an etching, sent on completion of successful Pozible Campaign

Several illustrations, at between $120 and $360. They are all watercolour paintings and were painted for a Japanese product designer. The works include a series of Tasmanian animals, in their native flora. 

Sent on completion of successful Pozible Campaign.

Postage and handling is free within Australia.

For international shipping, postcards have free postage, the small drawings have a $10 postage fee and for the larger watercolour paintings and the etchings the international shipping is $30.

Many thanks!

Jen

The funds from this campaign will go toward the costs involved in partaking in the residency.

These include :

$2000 - Airfares

$340 - Transport within the city

$150 - Travel insurance

$190 - Entry fees (multiple entries into gardens)

$245 - Art materials

$2000 - Living allowance

$1160 - Residency fee

$120 - Russian visa

$6205 - Total

If I meet my target, any extra funding will be put toward expenses incurred while participating in the residency.