Meg Heres Born in Balranald Meg spent most of her childhood on farming properties in outback New South Wales. She now lives in a small central Victorian township. Life as a painter has been her full-time occupation since 1968. Fortunate to receive basic training from tonal tutors the late Alan Martin and Ron Crawford, she gained the skills to paint many and varied subjects. In later years, she studied the techniques of oil painting with Maxwell Wilks and Carol Boothman. The latter recommended the strong use of colour in oils, pastels acrylics, a quality apparent in Meg's work to this day. In the 1980's Meg studied aspects of modern art and the use of watercolour at Monash University with Wesley Penberthy and Derek Pearse. She later attended private classes with noted Australian watercolourist, Greg Allen. For many years Meg was guest artist demonstrator at the Camberwell Herald Sun Rotary Art Show, one of the foremost exhibitions of its type in Australia. Meg taught painting for 15 years ten at Box Hill five at Alexandra and was also a tutor for painting holiday tours in the Flinders Ranges and Grampians. Meg's paintings have won many prizes and commendations, her work being represented in private and gallery collections, both here and overseas. She has also been called upon to judge Rotary and Art Society shows. Her painting "Highlands Road" was incorporated into the label adorning the bottles or Yea's local vineyard, Rees Miller Estate. In 1989 Meg was one of forty artists Australia wide selected by their peers to exhibit in a special Australian exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London. In 1991 her paintings were on show at the Mildura Art Gallery. Since 1968 Meg has travelled extensively and has painted in different parts of Australia. Overseas countries where she has worked included, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece as well as parts of South East Asia. In 2004 the Rotary District 9790 awarded Meg one of Rotary's highest accolades the Paul Harris Fellowship, in recognition of her generous painting donations, auctioned to raise funds for Rotary's world-wide polio eradication and Interplast programs. Meg is a regular exhibitor at the Old Post Office Seymour.