Galleon Gardens host their first resident art show

Aged care residents have shown off their creativity with at the first ever Bolton Clarke Galleon Gardens art exhibition displaying a curated collection of resident work.

Residents at the Currumbin Waters home put forward their best pieces from recent art sessions as well as favourites from years past.

Resident and artist Carmille said the exhibition was a great way to put everyone’s work together and appreciate each persons’ artistic flair.

“The home has done a really good job pulling all this together for us,” Carmille said. 

“Everyone here has come together and there is some lovely hook and crochet work, and paintings as well.

“I think it’s all about telling the world that we aren’t through yet – we still have something in us to give.”

The avid painter had much of her work on display, including her most treasured pieces from the 1970s to now.

“My uncle gave me a painting kit when I was 14 and I never looked back. I trained at the Darling Downs Institute and became an art teacher at St Joseph’s in Toowoomba.

“You could just relax and go to another world when you painted, I used to paint away and forget the time – it was just a marvellous therapy for me.

“I love abstract impressionism and when I had my stroke I couldn’t handle close up things, so this style has been my focus.

“I continue to paint now even though I have macular degeneration, but the paintings reflect the fact that I can’t see properly – they are very colourful and abstract.”