Register for MRROS 2025

Welcome! Thank you for joining us in 2025 and so generously sharing your studio as part of Australia’s largest open studios event. We are thrilled to have you on board, and we’re here to support you on this exciting adventure. The Registration form has save-and-complete-later functionality and can take a couple of hours to complete. Some sections can be updated as the event draws nearer – these are noted below.

Code of Conduct for MRROS event

Margaret River Region Open Studios is a not-for-profit organisation that provides event management and marketing for a 16-day event to promote artists at all stages of their career living between Busselton and Augusta and west of Sues Road.

As a participant in the 2025 MRROS event, you are expected to show respect and courtesy to others. All interactions should be professional regardless of platform: either online or in-person. In order to foster a positive and professional event, we ask you to confirm your agreement to our Code of Conduct.

I agree to:

1. Show courtesy and respect towards the MRROS Administration and Marketing team, Board members and any other volunteers working on or associated with this event.
2. Use welcoming and appropriate language at all times.
3. Be respectful of different viewpoints in a constructive and respectful manner.
4. Focus on what is best for the whole event.

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10. City: Yelverton
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17. Address: 63PX+H9 Yelverton WA, Australia
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ABOUT YOUR ART

• Drawing
• Painting
• Sculpture

I have drawn and painted since childhood with an artist mother who painted hundreds of Pilbara landscapes, immersing me in the painting process. Art materials were ready at hand making it a small step to using them. Growing up in the Pilbara region of WA in the towns of Dampier and Karratha, molded my love of painting and the spectacular nature of the North West of WA stayed with me forever.
I took art in my final year at Karratha Senior High and exhibited with my High School teacher during that year in a “Student Teacher” exhibition showcase. I was accepted into the fine arts course at WAIT as a 17-year- old where I majored in Sculpture. This led to a refining of my art skills and knowledge.
Marriage, children and life then intervened so art took somewhat of a backseat for a time though I was constantly either painting landscapes or screen-printing one-off bespoke T-shirts for friends, family and acquaintances.
This period of steady, but not high volume, art works continued for many decades until late 2016 when I moved with my wife to Margaret River and entered the wine industry. This move was to both satisfy the “Tree Change” urge and to pursue the art dream. This led to me, vastly increasing my output and gaining commissions from artwork I had on display in various Cellar Doors. We were privileged to be able to build our forever-house and art studio in the kangaroo strewn hills down Kevill Road just out of Margaret River.
Life changed dramatically when my wife, Pauline, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2021. This difficult period came to an end when I lost her in October of 2023. The Margaret River community, (thank you River Angels) every person we came to know here, had made the two of us feel totally accepted and at home. This precious gift now helps me through all facets of life and along with the stunning environmental qualities our region possesses, enables me to produce my art.
Pauline gave me permission, encouragement and the love to follow my dream and so I stopped full time work in October 2024 to finally pursue my first passion and I have been painting full time since then.
My love of painting now propels me through life and working primarily with oils on canvas, I now explore landscapes of Western Australia. Often approaching them in an exact representational style, I love to interpret the vibrant colour and light present in our vast WA vistas.

I Work primarily in oils on canvas and explore landscapes of Western Australia. Often approaching them in an exact representational style, I love to interpret the vibrant colour and light present in these vast WA vistas.

Uploading your images

Step 1 – Add 1 image that best represents your work for the printed Event Guide

Step 2 – Add an additional 9 artwork images and studio portraits for our marketing team

Step 3 – Add up to 10 images for your website listing – they can be the same or different to the images above

Step 4 – Add one main image for your website listing.

Each image must be 300dpi, between 2.5MB and 5MB, and formatted as a jpeg file.

Re-name all files to include your name, artwork title, year created, medium and size before uploading e.g., Jane Doe_Wild Seascapes_2018_Oil on canvas_10x10cm.

Please ensure the filenames contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores or hyphens. Special characters such as punctuation will cause the upload to fail.

Please add a photographer credit to the file name if required by the photographer.

(Note: we love to use smiling, welcoming studio portraits to promote MRROS on social media)

Studio Details

My wife and I built a residence and studio in 2018 and 2019 for our foreseeable future. We chose Kevill Road Margaret River as it was situated in a beautiful valley environment, spacious and light overlooking trees and greenbelts, the entire place covered with mobs of kangaroos.
My change in circumstances has now led me to change my home/studio into a studio/home as I now have set up my permanent workspace in the middle of my house.
Perched under massive glass doors and windows, the light and views of my chosen workplace are stunning and hugely contribute to the tranquility and peace needed for concentration and productivity.
Even after imbuing the structure with large and plentiful windows, my steel frame construction house with the skillion roof gives me ample room to hang and view my paintings.
The proximity to my workspace and the appealing nature of the whole environment have led to the ideal studio experience.

I will be mostly working at my easel workspace producing canvases with oil paint. Mainly demonstrating landscape representational techniques, I will also be painting the view from my studio window as an ongoing demo of my work.

My Studio/Home address is 1.05km from the turn off into Kevill Road East, which is the Kevill road off Wallcliffe closest to Margaret River town.

• carpark
• buspark

• No steps or barriers, steep inclines, uneven or loose surfaces
• Paths are clear from the carpark
• Suits a walking frame or wheelchair

• There is a sign that everyone can see for emergency evacuation

• Ensure that there is adequate space between your furniture and displays

• Perhaps this is mitigated by a ramp.

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY

Events, Workshops, 'In-conversation' events and Special Activities

Event One

Event Two

Event Three

Payment Details

The total fee for participating in the Open Studios Event in 2025 is $935 including GST, and made up as follows:

• Membership renewal $132
• Participation fee $803, includes compulsory Public Liability Insurance

Full payment is required upfront by credit or debit card.