The biennial Basil Sellers Sport-Art Prize in Melbourne valued at $100,000 along with the biennial Basil Sellers Moruya Art Prize (south coast of NSW) valued at $15,000 and the Basil Sellers Art Centre in Moruya and Basil Sellers Art Studio in Tweed Heads, all illustrate Mr Sellers' art patronage.
Twelve months ago Basil Sellers in his Sydney home met with Mark Tronson (artistic name Tronson du Coudray) for an Australian Missionary News IPTV video where Basil Sellers raised the subject of Mark doing more 'art' on sporting themes.
Throughout 2010 Tronson du Coudray held two exhibitions and promoted widely the Tweed Heads Basil Sellers Art Studio his paintings on 'sport art'. Basil Sellers himself snapped up 'Hockey Art' after the Kookaburras won the World Cup.
He painted a specific series of five 'sport art' works which were illustrated in the Gold Coast Visitors Guide – this art depicted a triple jumper, runners, diving, hockey and soccer. The Tweed Coast Community Church snapped up 'Runners', SIM Qld 'Soccer' and Basil Sellers 'Hockey Art'. Triple Jumper and Diving remain available.
Later in 2010 Tronson du Coudray turned his attention to a fresh genre of sport art using A4 photograph frames and painting on gloss photograph card images of sports and send one to his art mentor Basil Sellers for a critique.
Basil Sellers responded that its imagery was exceptional and captured the imagination of the subject, which was titled "Twenty/20 Cricket – three stumps". Not only that, he sent a $1000 to Well-Being Australia as part of Mark Tronson's Well-Being Australia Art Ministry fund raising.
The A4 size was such that it can sit on a desk, a dressing table, be hung on a wall, stand on the mantle piece or above the fire place, in the kitchen, really anywhere.
To financially support Well-Being Australia readers are welcome to contact Tronson du Coudray to commission bright artistic imagery of a subject of their choosing in this fresh framed A4 format. info@markt.id.au