Grace Paleg - Pastel Painter  Grace's first solo exhibition - 1st April 1993 - was the first solo show held at the Old Post Office Seymour. Grace Paleg is a well known and prolific artist of more than thirty years experience who has exhibited regularly and successfully in many major shows and galleries. She studied Graphic design at Swinburne in Victoria and life drawing and portraiture at East Sydney Tech. Studies followed with the late Lesley Sinclair and David Moore at Montsalvat and Allan Martin at his studio in Eltham. Grace's earlier work consists of over 300 commissioned portraits and in the past years she has diversified in subject matter to Life Drawing, Landscape and Still Life. During 1990 Grace began exhibiting and teaching at her studio. In conjunction with these activities she has been an invitation judge at Art Shows and has been giving demonstrations and workshops for Art Societies throughout Victoria N.S.W. and A.C.T. She is a member and past President of the South Coast pastel society and a member of the Victorian Pastel Society. Grace's preferred medium is pastels, and her skills with these have earned her the number of awards.