Terry Byrne

visual artists
Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

Terry Byrne, Jetty Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 61 x 51 cm

Terry Byrne found Coochiemudlo Island to be a haven of peace and tranquility after his counseling work.

As an artist, Terry describes the impetus behind his creative work, both visual and written, as a desire to deeply and sensually encounter and connect with the world around him. 

Without direct vision, Terry allows himself to ‘feel’ both his choice of subject and the physical act of painting. Selected on intuition, Terry’s first real study of his subject is often through enlarging his photographs on his home screen. Then, working then from memory, he paints and colours the physical surface of each canvas, building layers applied with brushes, palette knives, sticks, leaves, hands and fingers shaping and feeling over textured Braille-like fields of colour. 

As a member of both the Artisans Collective and the Coochie Writers Group, Terry is a keen advocate of creative exchange and conversation within the Island community.

Curlew Artisan Gallery and Ross Street Gallery on Coochiemudlo Island open 10am – 2pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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