Frank Schooneveldt lives and works in regional Victoria, Australia from a small farm on the Bass Coast. The property incorporates Goat Island Gallery and Sculpture Garden, a special place for Frank to create and display his work. Primarily a contemporary landscape painter, Frank Schooneveldt also has fun with mixed media that incorporates found objects.
Frank’s work is influenced by a number of factors: the time he spent as a child exploring the bush environment near homes in Greensborough and Healesville, Victoria; the proximity of some well-known artists including John Perceval that gave glimpses of life in the studio that excited his youthful imagination; the juxtaposition of the natural and built environments observed through his “day job” in building and construction; and a passionate interest in both Australian and international art.
Frank’s work has developed over 30 years and this development was enhanced through a Diploma of Visual Arts he gained as a mature age student. Frank’s award winning work has an intense energy that emphasises colour, shape and form. Frank has been described as a successor to the CoBrA European avant-garde art movement of the 1950’s because of his spontaneity and intuitive experimentation with found objects and mixed media.
He has participated in a number of exhibitions including Creative Gippsland 2011 to 2018, ClimArt 2017 & 2018, San Remo Art Show, Dandenong Walker Street Gallery’s “9 x 5”, City of Kingston’s Arts Blitz, plus regular exhibitions at Chapel Off Chapel Gallery Prahran. Frank has also had joint exhibitions with Ray Dahlstrom in the Inverloch Hub ArtSpace. Frank shows his latest work at ArtSpace Wonthaggi as well as at his gallery and studio: Goat Island Gallery, 18 Boundary Road Wonthaggi- Inverloch.
