Olga Megele is a Melbourne based artist. She studied at Melbourne University where she majored in Painting, Printmaking and Fine Art. Shangri-la is about that perfect place of our dreams. With saturated colour and intense beauty that is almost overwhelming. This piece is influenced by the great tradition of Australian landscape artists. Australians grow up with certain elements of nature embedded into their psyche. The beach, the vastness of country, the riverbank. Here the colours take on a heightened value, the clear air of a hot summer’s day has imbued the scene with an intensity and palpable desire to meld with the river.