One of JonRa's latest paintings "Autumn in the Vines"
and another mixed media on canvas, "Circuit" (see below)
Created in January, 2008, "Coke Henge" is made from over 500 'slumped' recycled glass Coke bottles.
Coke Henge was a finalist at the 2008 Montalto Sculpture Prize in Red Hill, on the Mornington Peninsula.
Check out www.montalto.com.au
------------------------------------------------------------------ Other Diverse Creations by JonRa
 Untitled collage -Acrylic paint on canvas
 Over 14 years ago, as his contribution toward reconcilliation,
JonRa created this representation of the Aboriginal Flag using found objects from nature, such as gum leaves and seeds, sand & earth.
Mounted in glass and steel display case, it is now seeking a new home away from his studio.
 ...Kinetic Light Sculpture..
Made from Old record player, welded pineapple tins and steel rod
 Gum Leaf - recycled wood carved and stained
 Solar Uluru...
Ink, acrylic paint and ochre on canvas.
 "The Thinker"
-welded steel and painted in enamel, with metal sunflowers in the background, created in the 1990's from scrap metal.
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ART IN COLLECTIONS:
* David Jones.
* Mushroom Records.
* Ella Bache.
* Lucas Seater Design
* Roy Starkey Funerals
* LobsterCave Restaurant * Kaarin Fairfax.
* Horst Rechelbacher-
-Founder of AVEDA
* Jan Rackham
–TV Personality
* Minor collections growing in homes (and on fridges) Australia wide and around the world
...Experience a JonRa Creation in your home !
 The Cradle of Life- a Layered Light Painting created using Adobe Photoshop.
 Sunflowers for Van Gogh- made in the 90's from recycled aerosol cans, painted and mounted on canvas and board.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1971, Jon(athon) was a natural at art (and LEGO). He studied sculpture and painting at the age of 18 and began exhibiting in solo and group shows around Melbourne, in a wide range of non-traditional art venues. He has continued over the years to create a large body of diverse genres of creative work, from digital photography to wood carving, 3D collage painting to computer design, clay sculpture to airbrushing, breaking free from the limitations of being a certain type of artist, he instead likes to be referred as a Creator.
The name JonRa is a play on the word Genre, meaning of a kind, field, category, sort or style. –these are really limiting boxes. JonRa is exploding the “put it in a box” mentality.. “I like to think my genre is the entire creation.. This is why I call my brand/ business JonRA Creations. I thus have all of time, space and everything inspiring from earth’s history to draw my inspiration from. My inspiration can be influenced by anything from nature to 10,000 year old Aboriginal cave paintings, from Cubism to Popular Culture, Renaissance painting to ancient artefacts, Pop Art to high tech computer animation.. anything and everything from the past, present and perhaps future. Thus I am free to create whatever I want to create… I believe we are all essentially free to do this, but we just don’t realise it yet !”
-JonRa explains.
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 At 17 years old, his first major (large)
creation was restoring this rare 1949 Austin A40 Countryman station wagon
- This became his first car and where he got the nickname
"Art Duco".
-JonRa would like to give special thanks for the assistance and motivation of this restoration by his "old man", Barry!
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