Isla Ferrer

Wow!! I am so thrilled to have been accepted into the 2021 IAPS Juried Webshow, 39th Open division! What an honour!!

Huge thanks to the jurors Stan Bloomfield, Rita Kirkman and Kathleen Newman and congratulations to everyone who was accepted! The accepted works will be displayed on the IAPS website when the exhibition opens on 01 November.

Oh wow!! I am still speechless from last night when I saw that “Romney Scarf” won 1st Place in the People & Animals category of the Pastel Society of Australia 2021 Annual Exhibition!! 

Absolutely over the moon and so very honoured!! 

Huge thanks to judge Naomi Evans and the Pastel Society of Australia and congratulations to all the award winners and participants.

So very honoured and thrilled to hear that my painting “Bee at Work” was accepted into the PSA 49th Annual Exhibition “Enduring Brilliance” but then I also found out that it received the Art Institutes of Distinction Award!! 

Absolutely over the moon!!

Thank you so much to the Judge of Awards, Dr Emily A. Beeny, Curator in Charge of European Paintings, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, for choosing my piece for this award.My thanks also to the jurors of selection Richard G. Mckinley PSA-MP, HFH; Colette Odya Smith PSA-MP and Otto Stürcke PSA-MP, and the PSA for this opportunity.

Huge congratulations to all the award winners and accepted artists!

I am so excited and truly honoured that Eat, Sleep, Repeat was accepted into the Pure Color Exhibition of the PSNC. 

Thank you very much to esteemed artist and juror of selection Isabelle V. Lim, PSA-MP, IAPS/MC, SPF-MP

Congratulations to everyone accepted into the exhibition.

COLORED PENCIL Magazine approached me earlier this year for an article on doing animal fur with pastels and it’s now published!! ⁣⁣

Their June edition is available in print or digital copy from: https://coloredpencilmag.com/

So truly honoured to be one of the Top 20 Artists with “Dozing Puppies” getting an Honourable Mention and “Mesmer-eyes-ed” getting a Special Merit Award in the Light Space & Time 11th Annual “Animals” Art Exhibition - Painting and Other Media category. ⁣

Many thanks to the judges!

Absolutely thrilled to receive the news today that “Wake Me Up For Meals” has been selected for the Society of Animal Artists “Art that Matters to the Planet” show at The Roger Tory Peterson Institute and subsequent tour! Huge thanks to the jurors for this opportunity!

So thrilled and honoured that “Dozing Puppies” came 3rd place in the PANZ Pastel Artists of New Zealand “Purely Pastel” Online National Exhibition 2021. 

Many thanks to jurors Liz Haywood-Sullivan and Andrew Mcdermott and judge Lyn Diefenbach. Thanks also to organisers of the exhibition.

Congratulations to all those selected and well done to all those who entered.

So excited to receive the news that “Hide and Seek” was accepted in to the Society of Animal Artists “Animal Impressions” exhibition to be held in August at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum