Jo Reitze - Paints Your Garden
Artist profile
Jo (Mrs de Carteret) is a Fellow of The Victorian Artist’s Society and is the Past President and Committee Member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. She coordinated Art at Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College for twenty years. Jo is now giving greater attention to her own painting.
Recently Jo has received several awards and shortlisting in major shows.
In 2024 She was awarded MSWPS Jo Bennett Award for Works on Paper. See image of award.
In 2023 she received First Prize for Oils at Geelong Art Show and The Borough of Queenscliff Art Award for the Best Artwork of the Region.
In 2022 Jo was awarded the A.M.E. Bale Art Prize for Works on Paper, a major nationally selected award.
In 2021, Jo was selected as one of twenty-eight finalists from over six hundred applicants in the prestigious Geelong Contemporary Art Prize 2021.
In 2005 she commenced Jo Reitze paints your garden. Since then she has completed numerous garden paintings on commission.
In 2013 Jo Reitze was selected as the Whitehorse Artspace’s Invited artist. Her exhibition, The Artist’s Gardens, in Whitehorse Artspace depicted aspects of her Surrey Hills garden over 25 years. View a walkthrough of this exhibition
Recently Jo has been in demand as a judge, adjudicating The Marysville Art Show 2016, The Strathdon Uniting Age Well, Box Hill Artists’ Society, Noble Park Community Art Shows in 2017, Whitehorse Arts Association in 2019, Pakenham Art Show 2022 and Art Society of Phillip Island Art Show, Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Art Show and Hughesdale Art Group Art Show 2023.
In 2018 Jo was invited to teach at both The Victorian Artist Society and Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre. Until Term 4 2022, Jo was a Tutor in Gouache and Acrylic at VAS Studios. Jo has successfully run gouache workshops for various groups including The Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Emerald Art Society, Kinross Arts Centre and Hawthorn Park Development. Jo regularly speaks at Gardening, Church, U3A, Rotary and Probus groups. Jo has a distinguished list of awards and exhibitions to her credit.
Awards:
2024 Jo Bennett Award
MSWPS 115th Annual Exhibition, Changing Perspectives 2024
Judged Christine Johnson, an acclaimed artist and Anna Maas, Director of Skepsi Gallery.
View winning drawing and judges’ remarks. Remarks below.
2023 Winner Best Oils - Geelong Art Show
2023 Winner Borough of Queenscliffe Art Award - Queenscliff Art Prize
Best artwork depicting an aspect of the region.
2022 A.M.E. Bale Art Prize for Works on Paper, judged by The Twenty Melbourne Painters
Image of event
2019 Second Prize, Drawing, Rotary Club of Ocean Grove
2018 Second Prize Oils, Bacchus Marsh Rotary Art Show, judged by Myles Russell Cook, Curator, Indigenous Art NGV
2017 Danks Trust Award (one of the two major MSWPS awards)
MSWPS 108th Annual exhibition, Changing Perspectives 2017
Judged by Clive Sinclair.
View winning artwork
2017 Angair Art Show Best Australian National Environmental Study
Judged by Pat McKenzie
2016 Annie Davison Oliver Award
MSWPS 107th Annual Exhibition, Changing Perspectives 2016
Judged by Cathy Leahy, Senior Curator, Prints and Drawings NGV
Presented by the Honourable Linda Dessau AM, Governor of Victoria
2015 Best Oil Painting in Show, Bacchus Marsh Rotary
(Judged by Serena Bentley, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art NGV)
2014 Best in Show, Ocean Grove Rotary
2013 Gordon Moffatt Award
This award is given to the work voted as ‘Best in Show’ by the other finalists in The Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Exhibition at the VAS Galleries, East Melbourne
2012 Best in Show, Ocean Grove Rotary
2012 Watercolour Society of Australia Kenneth Jack Memorial Award Best Flowers/Gardens
2011 Second Prize for Painting, Rotary Club of Ocean Grove
2006 Third Prize Lions Club Sandringham ‘En Plein Air’ Exhibition
2004 Winner Works on Paper Strathdon Community Art Show
2002 Painting on the Hill (Dandenong Club Award - best work painted on the day)
1997 Best Painting over $1000 Bayswater Rotary
1995 Best Other Medium [gouache] Bacchus Marsh Rotary
1994 Undine Award, Victorian Artists’ Society
1992 Balwyn Community Centre Art Award
1990 Best Oil Glen Waverley Art Show
1989 First Prize Burke Hall Art Show
1988 Second Prize Open Section Royal Overseas League
1988 Best Small Painting Kew Rotary
1987 Best Still Life Sunbury Rotary
1987 Runner up Mulgrave Art Award
1986 Mountbatten Award, Royal Overseas League
1986 Best Painting, Seymour Rotary
1985 Melbourne City Council Lord Mayor’s Prize
1984 Best Painting under $150 Brighton Recreation Centre
1984 Best Oil under $250 Preston Rotary
1984 Best Oil Warragul Art Award
1984 Clayton Arts Award City of Oakleigh Prize
1983 John Paul College Award
1980 Bacchus Marsh Rotary Award
1978 Diamond Valley Art Award
1976 Ballan Arcadian Art Award
1973 Best Local Artist & Best Work (painted within 40km) Bacchus Marsh Art Show
1972 Best Local Artist Bacchus Marsh Art Show
Recent Commendations:
Jo's numerous Highly Commended Awards include: Kew, Brighton, Cranbourne, Ringwood, Clayton, Corio, Bacchus Marsh and Altona Rotary, St.Kevin’s, Burke Hall and John Paul Colleges’ Art Shows, Strathdon Community Art Show as well as several commendations at the Victorian Artists Society exhibitions.
2022 Highly Commended Ocean Grove Rotary Drawing Prize
2022 Highly Commended VAS George Hicks Foundation Contemporary Award
2019 Highly Commended MSWPS 110th Exhibition
2018 Highly Commended MSWPS 109th Annual Exhibition
2017 Highly Commended Ocean Grove Rotary Art Show
2017 Highly Commended VAS Contemporary Exhibition
2016 Two Highly Commended, Box Hill Rotary Art Show
2016 Highly Commended Ocean Grove Rotary Art Show
2016 Highly Commended, MSWPS Danks Trust Award
2014 Highly Commended Strathdon Community Art Show
2013 Highly Commended Strathdon Community Art Show
2011 Highly Commended ‘Art Vision’ Arts Council of Mansfield Spring Arts,
2011 Highly Commended Bacchus Marsh Rotary Art Show
2011 Highly Commended Box Hill Rotary Art Show
2010, 9, 8 & 7 Commended Lion’s Club of Sandringham ‘En Plein Air’ Competition
2009 Highly Commended Birregurra Art Show
2007 Highly Commended Herald Sun Camberwell Rotary Art Show
2007 Highly Commended VAS Spring Exhibition
2004 Highly Commended Oils Strathdon Community Art Show
2001 Highly Commended Open Section Royal Overseas League
2000 Highly Commended Contemporary Section Royal Overseas League
2000 Highly Commended VAS Autumn Exhibition
Finalist:
2024 Omnia Prize, St Kevin’s College
2024 Quadrant Gallery Feel Good Art Prize
2023 VAS Hylton Mackley Artist of the Year Award
2022 AME Bale Prize for Oils
2022 AME Bale Prize for Works on Paper
2022 Victorian Artists Society Mavis Little Artist of the Year Exhibition
2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
2020 AME Bale Prize for Work on Paper
2020 AME Bale Prize for Oils
2020 SBS Landscape Prize Southern Buoy Studios
2020 SBS Portrait Prize Southern Buoy Studios
2019 Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Exhibition
2019 Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum (page 38)
2019 Sacred Edge Festival Art Show, Queenscliff Uniting Church
2019 Kenneth Jack Drawing Prize, Australian Guild of Realist Artists
2019 The Eastbourne Prize Victorian Artists Society Galleries
2018 Finalist AME Bale Works on Paper
2017 Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Exhibition
2016 Finalist AME Bale Award Oils
2014 Finalist AME Bale Prize for Oils
2014 Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Exhibition
2013 Victorian Artists Society Artist of the Year Exhibition
2013 Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historic Museum
2013 Borough of Queenscliffe 150th Anniversary Awards and Exhibition
2012 AME Bale prizes for Oils and Works on Paper
2011 Finalist AME Bale Prize for Oils
2010, 8, 6 &1992 Finalist AME Bale Prize for both Oils and Works on Paper
2010 Finalist St Patrick’s College Contemporary Art Show 2010,
2011, 8, 5, 1994, 1989, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 0 Finalist VAS Artist of the Year
2007 Finalist City of Whitehorse ‘Water, Water Everywhere’ Art Competition
Melbourne City Council Collection, Melbourne Town Hall, Monash, Diamond Valley, Bacchus Marsh, Preston and Oakleigh Council Collections, A.N.Z. Bank Collection, Menzies at The Rialto [Le Meridian] Collection, Victorian Artists’ Society Permanent Collection Bunkyo University High School Collection, Tokyo and Private Collections In Australia and Overseas.
