Award winner

Peninsula resident Judith Hoste has received two awards in this year's Grandma Moses Art Prize, sponsored by Gosford Council.

Ms Hoste was the winner of Section 5 "Central Coast Inspired Work" with an acrylic painting titled "Kariong - January 2006" which depicted the Kariong landscape after the bushfires on New Year's Day 2006.

It is the third year running that Ms Hoste has won this section.

Ms Hoste's second award was a Highly Commended award for a pastel work titled "Butterflies of the Rainforest" which she had planned as the subject for one of the workshops she tutored in February this year for the Central Coast Art Society.

Ms Hoste is a Peninsula-based artist and art teacher, and runs Amber Arts in Umina.

Press release, September 18 Kenneth Hoste, Amber Arts