Eucalyptus Caesia
Gouache
Jo is a Fellow of The Victorian Artist Society, Past President of Melbourne Society of Women Painters & Sculptors, and an award-winning artist. Recent awards include MSWPS Jo Bennett Prize for Works on Paper 2024, The Heritage 9×5 Award, Whitehorse Art Show, Best Oil Geelong Art Show, The Borough of Queenscliffe Award in Queenscliff Art Prize 2023 and the prestigious A.M.E. Bale Prize for Works on Paper, 2022. Jo has been shortlisted for several painting and drawing prizes including The Geelong Contemporary Art Prize 2021. In 2005 Jo established ‘Jo Reitze paints your garden’, immortalizing gardens on commission. See her filmed painting at Cloudehill for ’Colour in your Life’ on www.joreitzeartist.com.au
This vibrant weeping flowering gum, sometimes called Silver Princess, grows at the entrance of Lon Retreat & Spa in Point Lonsdale, where she was Artist in Residence last year. The original sold at Ocean Grove Rotary Art Show 2024.
Based in Surrey Hills, Jo concurrently paints and draws atmospheric impressions at Ocean Grove. The windswept trees at Ocean Grove beach that bent to survive gales were the catalyst for her ISO project culminating in her exhibition ‘Resilience’ at HAT ROCK Contemporary, Bellarine. Her wetlands drawings and paintings have been shown at The Hive Gallery, Ocean Grove and Artisans of Australia in Curlewis in 2024.
