The Portrait Team
Remembering Your Angels
Maria Radun
Portrait Artist
Maria is a Melbourne based artist. She creates contemporary realist paintings, primarily working in oils.
Marco Pennaccia
Portrait Artist
Marco is a painter and mural artist born in Italy. He moved to Melbourne in 2019 and specialises in realism and portraiture.
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joined 2023
Vanessa Lautee
Portrait Artist
Vanessa Lautee is a portrait artist from Melbourne who specialises in realism. She predominantly works with soft pastel on paper.
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joined 2022
Luke Rion
Portrait Artist
Luke Rion is a practicing artist based in Melbourne. His work is inspired by the unusual rhythms of nature and light.
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joined 2022
Larissa Reinboth
Portrait Artist
Larissa is a German-born visual artist and illustrator. She has been living and working in Melbourne since 2020, founding Possum Portraits in late 2021.
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since 2021
Lisa Nolan
Portrait Artist
Lisa is a visual artist based near Ballarat in Central Victoria. Her artworks are created primarily in oils, but also gouache, pastels,
charcoal, silverpoint and graphite.
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joined 2023
Ryan Pola
Portrait Artist
Ryan Pola is a graphite artist and an educator from Melbourne. With a Bachelor of Visual Art from Monash University, Ryan is passionate about portraiture and creative expression.
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joined 2023
Terrianne Murray
Portrait Artist
Terrianne is a visual artist based in Melbourne. Formerly the President of the Victorian Pastel Society, Terrianne has experience as an art teacher and is also a practicing professional.
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joined 2023
Ruth Gavin
Portrait Artist
Ruth is a Melbourne based artist with a focus on traditional realism, portraiture. Ruth predominantly works in oils, and also produces works in charcoal, pastel and pencil.
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joined 2024
Sarah Anthony
Portrait Artist
Sarah Anthony is a Melbourne-based figurative painter, metalsmith and children’s book illustrator with an interest in exploring interpersonal dynamics through portraiture and depictions of domestic life.
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joined 2024
Swathi Madike
Portrait Artist
Swathi is a portrait painter based in Melbourne. Working in oil paint, Swathi follows traditional techniques but uses them to depict people in a contemporary style. She is driven by a passion to increase representation on people of colour, painted by people of colour.
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joined 2024
Liz Turner
Portrait Artist
Liz is a Melbourne based artist inspired by the beauty of the face and the human form as a visual representation of the essence of a person. She specialises in portraits and figurative subjects.
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joined 2024
Elizabeth Moore Golding
Portrait Artist
Elizabeth is an impressionist artist who mainly paints oil portraits from live models. Her style is distinctive, using a sketching technique to begin. Her artistic approach is to tread lightly, being observant and not overworking pieces to produce a pleasing result..
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joined 2024