The Old Ambulance Station gallery in Nambour is starting its 2024 season of art with two exhibitions by talented female painters. Soul Sugar is Magali Feuga’s name for her recent works. Mostly painted in 2023, these depictions of women’s faces are raw, urbane, and funky.

Originally from France, she moved to the Sunny Coast in 2018. Magali works in acrylic, ink, spray paint, and mixed media on canvas, and thinks of her paintings as sweetness for the soul. 

She likes working in primary colours, and although her red, white and blue works reflect the French flag, the Tricolore, she believes this is a coincidence.

Magali says she paints to express herself and as a way of communicating with others. She has always been curious about humanity, who we are, and feels more in touch with people than places, which is why she paints faces instead of landscapes.

Our other artist for February is Teresa Baselga who presents us with The Shape of Memories. Teresa was living in Madrid and studying nursing five years ago when she started to paint to relieve stress. She moved to Australia in search of new experiences and has now settled on the Sunny Coast.

Teresa enjoys working with mixed media comprising construction materials, resin, sand and textiles. Her work of the last two years depicted here represents memories of different steps in life, solidified in materials that represent memories of rocks, sand, and sea. She loves the sea and surfing is her favourite pastime.

• You can see Soul Sugar and The Shape of Memories at the Old Ambo gallery at 80 Howard St Nambour until February 24th. The gallery is open from Monday to Saturday between 10am and 3pm, excluding public holidays.