Valerie Eugarde

Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

The Fragrant Summer, acrylic on canvas, 91 x 76 cm

Artist, Valerie Eugarde, enjoys Island life for the warmth of its community, the peace and serenity of its beach walks and the quiet sound of waves lapping the shore; all so close to the mainland.

Having only found the time to take up art since retirement, Val has truly found her soul place, creating works radiant with humour and joie de vivre. Constructed with loose playful strokes of the brush and textured applications of thick creamy colour, Val’s subject matter varies from day to day, ranging from funny/ quirky birds and animals to spiritual landscapes, abstracts and also colourful figurative works on canvas, card and found objects.

Val sees our local Galleries as playing an essential role in strengthening the mental health and cultural stimulation of the Island community as well being a place for visitors to enjoy and recognize the diversity of artists living and working on Coochie.

Together with her online presence, Val’s work can be viewed at both Curlew and Ross Street Galleries on the Island.

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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