A CAFE owner in Frankston South has decided to kick off the footy season by exhibiting several paintings of AFL and VFL club legends.
Rosie’s Cafe owner Rosie Major said her long-time artist friend Jenny Roe, based in Panton Hill, painted the football players to mark a new season of AFL football.
The self-described “mad Carlton girl” says she wanted unique paintings to be hung on the walls of the coffee and food shop.
“My idea of the cafe is not to look at Ikea and Kmart prints because everyone has seen those. Jenny is the artist among us and it’s her art that’s up on the wall.”
Ms Roe is a multi-media artist trained in ceramics who runs her own creative art school, the Second Avenue Art School and Studio in Box Hill, teaching art to children and adults aged “from four to 74”.
She said the football legends portraits series is “a way to get a lot of guys interested in art”.
“As soon as I started working on a series of footballers they were all really interested and we had discussions about who they thought the legends of each club are,” Ms Roe said.
“There was a lot of discussion.”
Visit Rosie’s Cafe, 6 Culcairn Dr, Frankston South to see the football legends paintings. The paintings can be bought for $300 each. See redbubble.com/people/jennyroe for other examples of Jenny Roe’s art.
