Glenys Buzza

About Glenys Buzza

Glenys’ birthplace, Cobram, is on the banks of the Murray River in Northern Victoria, Australia. Beginning life here gave her a wealth of experiences in the natural world to draw upon and fire the imagination. The tranquil wetlands were a haven for beautiful waterbirds which often feature in her paintings.

Declining a University Scholarship in the Faculty of Arts, Glenys followed a career in teaching working in the fields of special education and music. While living along the Broken and Goulburn Rivers in Victoria, Australia, her love of the arts surfaced again, and she began painting. “Beginning as an artist in the country, although sometimes artistically isolating, usually means that one must develop one’s own artistic solutions, identity and ultimately, style.”

She now lives in Melbourne, Australia, and finds the interaction with other artists, and exposure to art in galleries, stimulating in accelerating the development of her art from its origins. Her intuitive, interpretative approach developed, resulting in many national awards, an international award, and inclusion in the book “Feather & Brush – Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art”, by Dr. Penny Olsen. In 2003, Clarke Galleries, USA, invited her to exhibit in “IV Centuries of Birds in Art”, an international exhibition, her work representing free expression. In 2008 two of her paintings were chosen as finalists in “An International Exhibition of Nature in Art” at the Hiram Blauvert Art Museum, USA.

“Line is my main means of communication and I like to suggest, to leave something for the viewer to fill in, to wonder about - a little mystery, inviting the viewer to participate.” Glenys’ medium presents many challenges, and she pushes the possibilities to the extreme. She likes to challenge the accepted view of wildlife art to swing between the figurative and the abstract, always with art the main objective in her interpretation. “My inspiration comes from the sheer joy, unpredictability and excitement of combining handmade paper, water, thick juicy gouache paint and sensitive soft brushes. I like to interpret what I see with my own subjective vision of the subject, coloured by my feelings and memories. It is the artistic, creative process, as well as the subject matter which is my inspiration.”

Highly individual, her work has been variously described as contemplative, rhythmic and adventurous. “Those roos, full of the light and warmth of the Oz landscape….the way they are here and then not here is so evocative of the transient nature of life.” Steve Morvell. Wildlife Artist. In 2014, her painting "The Long Hot Summer" was included in the exhibition "Inspiration Wild: A Narrative" which featured works exemplifying the artistic history of Nature Art in Australia. Sofitel, Melbourne. Wildlife Art Museum of Australia.

Glenys’ distinctive visions of the natural world have been exhibited in USA, Germany, Japan and China.