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Greg Adams was born in Melbourne in 1949. He attended the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1967-69 under the tutelage of John Brack who has probably been the single most influential person on the way Greg paints today.

At age 13 Greg’s family visited Queensland and he immediately taken with the landscape, tropical vegetation and crazy but wonderful houses on stilts. Not to mention the warm winter weather. Thereafter the family visited annually eventually buying an old “Queenslander” on the headland at Caloundra.

After leaving art school and doing the obligatory tour of Europe Greg came to live in the house at Caloundra. The days were spent surfing and painting at a time when you could live like a king on $20 a week. “They” refer to that time as the “good old days”. It was here that the way Greg paints today began to develop. Painting interior views, and gradually venturing out into the landscape.

In the late 70’s he undertook a period of extensive overseas touring. During the 1980’s he lived in North Queensland for 18 months and had annual exhibitions alternatively in Melbourne and Sydney.

In 1991 Greg moved back to South East Queensland permanently and began exhibiting annually at The Beachside Gallery (now The Cooper Gallery).

Since 2002 he has been living back in Caloundra, back where so much of his creative development took place and where so many youthful rites of passage were experienced. Viewed through older eyes Greg says he still sees the same skies ,ocean moods and wonderful landscape.

Earlier this year Greg visited Kakadu National Park and the wetlands around Darwin. He says this was a unique and inspiring experience and I’m sure there are many more paintings to emerge from that trip. We live in an amazing land of great diversity. I feel privileged and lucky to be living here.