about this site...
Family Art Stories is all about creating an online space for the paintings, pictures, prints and photographs you grew up with on your family walls. We all have stories to tell about these familiar images, linked to personal memories. Now you have a chance to share these stories with others, be they about the artwork or about conversations around the dinner table in the room where the painting hung on the wall. As a child, you may not have known that the painting (or print) in your bedroom was a Norman Lindsay, William Turner, or a Margaret Olley, but your memories of seeing this painting every day tell a special story of your childhood, which in itself becomes a delight to share with others..
every family has a story... every picture paints a thousand words.
Browse our list of members and read their stories
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 Bright Light
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 Floral Juice
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 Retro Blue
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 Popart Wave
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 Pink Dots
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 Classic Flower
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 Medallion
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 Lemon Filigree
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 Oriental Flower
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 Popart Lime
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 Purple in Pink
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 Forest Haze
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 Retro Flowers
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 Bright Lines
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 Butterflies
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 Diagonally Red
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 Green Meadow
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 Minimalist Jade
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 Tartan Orange
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Impressionist Art
Impressionist art has always inspired me! Impressionism is a movement in French painting, sometimes called optical realism because of its almost scientific interest in the actual visual experience and effect of light and movement on appearance of objects.Impressionist motto - human eye is a marvelous instrument. Impact worldwide was lasting and huge. The name 'Impressionists' came as artists embraced the nickname a conservative critic used to ridicule the whole movement.
read moreAustralian Impressionism
For many decades, Australia was seen by many in terms of what it wasn't. It wasn't a soft and gentle land; the trees and plants weren't the same; and it wasn't a landscape that had been farmed and tamed for centuries. To the eyes of many new immigrants, Australia was lacking in that it did not have the attributes of the countries they had left. Everything about Australia was different and as artists struggled with these new and often harsh vistas, they painted what they knew, and knew they could
read moreThe First Picketts
They were farmers, and not really interested in art, until......
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