A DESIGN EXCURSION
Please join experienced Australian Designers, Fine Artists, Manufactures and Craftsmen on A DESIGN EXCURSION.
WELCOME TO A DESIGN EXCURSION!
Our design excursion not only includes exploring design elements, but how they inspire!
Each design is created in Australia for you. Many are unique handcrafted pieces, others are limited editions manufactured in Australia.
All are of exceptional quality, environmentally friendly, and made with care by experienced Australians.
Our Design Excursion shop
We are continuing to design, connect, create, and perfect our products ready for you to enjoy.
One of our objectives is to enable a design exploration. We encourage you to understand the design process and discover pieces which will be available for you to see as we discuss a different design element each week on the socials.
Our Art Gallery
We love to encourage original art!
As you explore images of our art, think of how they would look in your space.
If you would like to purchase, create a card, wall paper or print, please DM us though the socials.
Our Furnishings Shop
Our Australian designed, handcrafted statement pieces are made by Jeanene!
Our recent pieces are hand made with mostly Australian grown, manufactured and hand dyed wool.
Our Fashion shop
Welcome to our fashion shop!
Find a unique piece to wear soon!
Our art scarves will complete the look. Our shawls will keep you warm.
All our new stock is made with 100% Australian made fibre.
Our Design Excursion Boxes
Enjoy opening your design excursion box!!
Empty the contents and experience your own excursion!
Dream of new experiences or relive past ones.
As a bonus, learn how and why the design evolved.
Indulge yourself, or surprise someone as a gift.
Our Special Shop
When we started our Design Excursion Eleven years ago we had a play with handcrafted throws and scarves using fibres we could find.
These items are now available at special prices for you.
The cash flow will then enable us to purchase the materials from other Aussies who are creating things like hand dyed wool.
Dm us with an offer if you see something you like!
Our Card Shop
Look at all the designs we have for our cards!
They are 140mm square and made with environmentally friendly recycled card.
They come with 150mm square environmentally sound envelopes.
Individually wrapped in real cellophane!
We still offer free Australian postage.
We also have single prints and gift tags.
Email us to discuss any extra special printing requirements for the inside.
$14 each or a box of 10 for $100
OUR FRIENDS
Our experienced Australian fine artists and designers offer a wealth of capability, skill and knowledge.
We love connecting with Australian designers, artists, craftsmen and manufacturers. Please support them!
Jeanene Hyles
Designer - founder of A Design Excursion.
Whist studying for Bachelor of Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, Jeanene was able to explore many aspects of art and design, majoring in Interior Design.
Enthusiastic about encouraging good holistic design, lecturing at Adult Education Institutions in Sydney, & the Gold Coast.
She is enjoying exploring and creating using high quality acrylics on gallery standard stretched canvas.
Jeanene does keep watch on trending colours and ideas, however, has a strong dedication to the idea that good art and design should be timeless.
A painting should just make you happy!
Leonie Mulqueeney
Leonie Mulqueeney of Loniart has been sketching and drawing all her life. Previously, she has been a Building Designer, manually drawing plans and presentations, a Graphic Designer designing office stationery/branding, an Interior Design Teacher at TAFE and a compulsive doodler!
Her work is original contemporary abstract, suitable for interiors, of late mainly for apartments in her local area (Gold Coast). Works vary in size with both large and small works on canvas, mainly acrylic or mixed media. Leonie has previously had a Gallery in Parramatta 'Moth Gallery', amidst the Artist Hub and plans to do the same now back at home on the Gold Coast.
Leonie draws inspiration from her imagination, nature and many bottles of red!
Glenise Clelland
I am an award winning Australian artist working from my studio at Indooroopilly, Brisbane. For 23 years my studio at Noosa North Shore was surrounded by acres of waterlily covered wetlands and amazing bird life. The ever changing light and colours were a constant source of inspiration for many paintings and drawings.
For me, life drawing - drawing with a live model - has been the backbone of all my artist endeavours both landscape and figurative.
My paintings have been selected in Regional Galleries and prestigious prize exhibitions in Australia and overseas. My art is now in 15countries and across Australia in Government, Corporate and private collections.
We explore different design elements each week on the socials - follow to explore!
paint colours
Primary paint colours are red blue and yellow.
As we mix these colours together we make secondary paint colours are green, purple and orange.
Light Colours
Primary light colours are red blue and green.
When mixed they create secondary colours of cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Lines and shapes
We have given colours to our lines and shapes as we feel they relate.
Yellow, circles and diagonal lines have energy.
Blue, squares and horizontal lines are relaxing and stable.
Colour Schemes
There are rules for colour schemes.
Different ones are contrasting, monochrome (one colour), harmonious, harmonious contrast, triad, tetrad, diad, polychromatic, achromatic and natural.
Contact Us - DM socials
My Blog
Each week we explore different design elements, showcasing our designers and friends creations.
Our lighting design excursion
OUR ART GALLERY
These are some of Jeanene's art pieces.
Please DM if you wish to discuss purchase a piece for your space.
Two Pansies
CODE: P2308
SIZE: 2 panels 35.6 x 47.6 x 3.8cm deep
$688.00
I really enjoyed playing with the colours of these pansies. The background colour was created using high chroma intense colours mixed with white. I then added some pearl to create subtle lines which reflect at different times of the day. I then spent weeks layer upon layer, just as a real flower would form. Taking time for each layer to dry. Using a watery consistency, the colours beneath show through. The final layer a watery pearl to add some shine and to reflect the pearl. I didn't want the leaves to distract from the flower, so just used an outline.
Copper Dawn
CODE: 2501
SIZE: 60cm diameter
63cm diameter framed
$1288
Jeanene captures the tranquil moment when night yields to day, and the river becomes a mirror of molten light. The painting features a serene river scene bathed in the warm, metallic glow of sunrise, with rippling reflections in rich copper and grey hues. The surrounding landscape is gently silhouetted, allowing the radiant light to take centre stage. This piece explores the harmony between light and water, evoking a sense of stillness, renewal, and quiet awe.
Birds in the Hinterland
CODE: P2304
SIZE: 91.4x61x3.8cm
$1288
MATERIALS: ACRYLIC ON STRETCHED CANVAS
ARTIST: Jeanene Hyles
The Gold Coast Hinterland is full of life! I had fun placing as many birds in this piece as I could! After using different brushes to create the layers of the forest looking through to the blue sky. I also explored the light. I felt that this piece would add depth to a wall as you looked through to the sun-drenched trees in the distance.
From our customers
Our goal: create products which enable the new owner to indulge in A UNIQUE DESIGN EXCURSION.
We encourage feedback - the creator loves it!
Enjoy your design excursion of Australian designed and made creations.