Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister says he initiated his artistic endeavours in 2000 after eighteen years of pressure pioneering the Sports and Leisure Ministry in association with Heads of Churches.
He explained that the intensity of such a ministry that extended not only nationally but internationally and to the speakers and seminar circuit on 'sports ministry development' along with a young family demanded a period of respite. Initially, his art was his release mechanism.
M V Tronson knows of some notable cases where art has served people in differing situations. For example, Alan Bond, the high profile businessman behind Australia II winning the America's Cup in 1983, took up art in prison, painting AFL football stars.
There are literally thousands upon thousands of community art groups across Australia, where budding and experience artists get together to share their mutual artistic passions, often with different instructors to show them varying styles of art. Art becomes as much a social occasion as it is a creative endeavour.
Similarly, art can serve a benevolent purpose. Well-Being Australia is one of numerous groups that provide artistic opportunities to young people, illustrating that almost anyone's 'creative energies' can be directed into the most delightful works.
Art has also served in other ways as well, to help the mission financially sometimes as an exchange (as in a monetary value), or by bartering (this for that), and even as a gesture of good will (future business co-operation).
Well-Being Australia's Art Ministry has found three additional benefits through art and their ministry into the community in the light of Mark Tronson's development as an artist.
First, Mark Tronson, who, as an artist uses his ancestral title 'Tronson du Coudray– the missionary painter' seeks 'Commissions' as a pure and simple funding raising mechanism for Well-Being Australia.
Second, he raises the profile of the Art Ministry by doing community exhibitions including at restaurants and resorts and then combines the Art Ministry with the Tourism Ministry, supported by such publications as the Gold Coast Guide.
Third, Well-Being Australia has numerous ministry projects including athlete respite facilities (Basil Sellers Moruya and Basil Sellers Tweed), and his art works are willingly given to Australian Institute of Sport 'Sport Units', and as personal gifts such as a trilogy for Mr Basil Sellers AM titled 'Sport Anguish'.
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Gifts of art can also benefit Well-Being Australia when trades and handy-help is required.
"A beautiful piece of art work is greatly appreciated," M V Tronson noted. "In my Ministry, I have found over these past nine years, nothing compares to it, whether it is for therapeutic or for market place situations."