Artist's Palette

Passion for Portraits

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Tracey was born in Melbourne but relocated to Brisbane as a child in the late 1980s. Her fondest memories from this time are the countless hours spent in the family art room, drawing with her brother. Like most siblings, Tracey recalls how they were very competitive and would hold drawing competitions for their parents to judge. Her parents encouraged them to draw, with her dad’s consistent sketching of people and architecture a source of

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