Biography

Born in 1949 in Goulburn, NSW, Greg Hansell trained at the St George Technical College between 1976 and 1980. He began painting full-time in 1980 in the traditionalist or realist school of Australian painting. His work is executed in what he describes as ‘earth pastels’ – handmade from rocks and clay without commercial pigments, binders or additives. He has taught pastel painting and conducted workshops for the last ten years including at the Royal Art Society Art School. Hansell is a fellow of the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and his paintings are represented in corporate and academic collections. He has been a finalist many times in the Archibald and Wynne prizes and Salon de Refuse and was awarded a Centenary of Federation medal in 2001 for services to community arts and Windsor Library.