Adrienne Richards was born in Launceston, Tasmania and studied Fine Art at the Canberra School of Art, ANU. She has had several solo exhibitions and has been included in numerous group exhibitions including ‘On The Heysen Trail’ at the SH Ervin Gallery and in the regional touring exhibition ‘In Two Art,’ initiated by Maitland Regional Gallery. Adrienne paints en plein air, using ink, watercolour and gouache, to record and collect information on trips into the Australian Landscape, for her studio-based paintings and ceramics. She paints onto bisqued stoneware with underglaze, which, she says: ‘is a little like painting with watercolour onto paper’. Adrienne lives and works in Springwood, in the Blue Mountains.