Painters paint stripping techniques

Painter’s paint stripping techniques Details and explains methods of one ...

Painters tips for interior spaces

Painters tips for interior spaces Painting an interior room? Use these helpfu ...

Painting affects and finishes for interior walls

Painting affects and finishes for interior walls Add to the look of your home ...

Beware the gutter painters

Mildura Council is warning residents about dodgy tradesmen who offer to paint property numbers on gutters situated outside people's homes.

New ways to paint your house exteriors

If you feel your house paint is getting tired, it's time to give your house a makeover - something beautiful but something a bit different.

Wattyl down $1.5 million

Paint company Wattyl has recorded a net loss of $1.5million after lower sales in Australia and New Zealand.

Scientists worried that nanoparticles in paint harmful

Experts have found that nanoparticles can be hazardous to health after seven women working in a paint factory with the substance became sick with serious lung diseases and two died.

Lead in paint a concern in financially-tight times

Recently the concern about paint containing lead has risen as more companies are struggling under economic pressures.

Resene wins $1m to create 'green' paint

New Zealand paint development and marketing company Resene has won the $1million 'What's your problem, New Zealand?' research and development award from a state-run institute.

Paint Colour Affecting Your Mood

It may come as a surprise to some but paint colour has the ability to alter the way we feel and think, so before you pick your colour scheme for your house, it's a good idea to research their effect.

Feature Walls

If you've ever wanted to add bold colour, an unusual texture or a delicate pattern to your home a feature wall is a great way to create more character.

New Paint Website Provides Up-To-Date Advice

New website, painters.com.au, provides you with everything you need to know about paint.

Painters At Hersee's Help Trade

INTERNATIONAL links are being forged between a local business and a WorldSkills gold medal winner from Sweden.

Artist Brushes Away Tardiness

EVERYTHING went smoothly at the award ceremony for Australia's richest prize for young painters yesterday. That is until staff at the Metro 5 Gallery in Armadale realised the winner, Fergus Binns, had forgotten to turn up. Jackson Slattery

Threats Of Reform Put Diy Super At Risk

KEN DONE, the celebrity artist who splashed sunshine into a thousand paintings, coffee mugs and keyrings, has lost most of his fortune. That much is clear from a case now running in the Federal Court where details are emerging that one of Australia's most popular painters is in for a long fight with his former accountant and the Commonwealth Bank. Done says he has spent more than $250,000 in fees and he believes what might have been a nest egg of $61 million has now shrunk to $8 million. It's a ...

Posing For Hours Well Worth Wait

SCREENWRITER John O'Brien was a little nervous as he faced nine portrait painters in Maitland yesterday.

Love Your Work But Is It Art?

THE "culture industry" in Australia is rapidly expanding, but is increasingly dominated by executives, advertisers and producers rather than full-time artists, painters, dancers, singers and musicians, whose numbers are dropping.

Warriors Of The Rainbow Spirit

A family of Arnhem Land painters have brought their work, and their patriarch, to the city. By Martin Flanagan. THE OLD MAN CAME INTO the gallery, clapping his hands with joy. I didn't understand a word he was saying but he was excited because the paintings were up on the walls - his paintings, his son-in-law's, his two grandsons'. The old man, Bardayal Nadjamerrek, is said to be the last of the traditional rock painters of West Arnhem Land. He painted on rock before he painted on bark and long ...

An Impressive Landscape

Mike Gerrard observes a stunning corner of France through the eyes of one of the country's great painters.

Pure Poetry Of Art's Dreamers

Dreamers: Australian Painters and the Poetic Imagination begins at the Art Gallery of NSW on September 16. IN MARCH 1945, the artist Jeffrey Smart set off for the Flinders Ranges where he was inspired by the sight of a derelict bank set in a desert landscape.