Welcome to our Art Chatter Gallery online

 Welcome to our Art Chatter Gallery online home and our first Gallery Chatter …..

Art Chatter Gallery was established in 2020.  It was the brainchild of Barry Mackie who has been sharing his artistic knowledge through small art class groups at his home studio in Mt Barker WA for about nine years.

With a growing number of improving artists looking for ways to share and maybe generate some sales of their work, Barry entered the group into the Great Southern Art and Craft Trail held each September.

But the urge to do more on regular basis, had Barry approaching the then owner of Strike Me Pink for use of the empty back room, to which she agreed. The shop has since changed hands but Art Chatter Gallery remains, behind the coffee nook inside Strike Me Pink on Langton Street.

Barry Mackie, Vicki Brown and Michelle Stanley as the original artists all agreed they wanted more than just a gallery space, so painting in the centre of the gallery six days a week, while potential customers, locals and tourists watched on with coffee in hand. We like to talk about our painting and the fabulous environment in which we are lucky enough to live. Selling a painting, a scene from our patch of paradise, they take a tangible personal piece of their holiday or region home with them.

Barry was determined to have a ‘Retail gallery space where the works were varied and priced so anyone can afford something’.  Barry smiles as he shares ‘this is often the first time customers are buying art, what a privilege for me and our artists’.

We welcomed additional in-residence artists Lucas Holleman, Colin Rawluck and Ellie Cameron the gallery expanded the variety of work and customer interactions. The introduction of ‘exhibitions’ about once a quarter has united 15 of Barry’s past students who now join the fun, showing work like  you can see in the “Looking on the Bright Side Exhibition” currently featured here (click home).

People have enjoyed our physical space so much we decided to share our space online as well. Visiting here might remind you of living or holidaying in the Great Southern of Western Australia.  We hope you enjoy our paintings, interpretations in oil on canvas, of the fabulous world around us, you may want to make a purchase or ask a question and if so just (click contact). We hope at the very least our work invokes pleasant memories from your past or entices you to visit us in the future.