While COVID-19 restrictions mean some River of Art Festival events can't go ahead this year, other opportunities have opened up.
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The festival, from September 18-27, will feature 30 artists' open studios from Durras to Bermagui.
In the lead-up to the festival, artists are introducing themselves through a series of videos, so anyone can virtually meet them.
One Eurobodalla Shire artist who will open her studio is printmaker Mirabel Fitzgerald.
The artist has been living at Guerilla Bay for 10 years and says the patterns of the trees and markings on the beaches continually inspire her.
"The patterns in the forest and the beach and even the water leaving its markings on the sand all seems to connect into a sort of special language," she said in a video published on the River of Art Festival website.
Ms Fitzgerald's primary practice involves etching, which she described as a complicated form of printmaking, yet it was also robust and flexible.
"You're making an image into the metal usually with acid, then inking up a relief surface on the metal and transferring the image onto paper under the pressure of the press," she said.
"Conventionally, it's thought of as a drawing process, where you can etch a line into a plate. But there are all sorts of soft textures you can get through manipulating the surfaces of the plate.
"I'm very interested in sometimes taking one image and manipulating it through different moods.
"It is a very much tonal medium because you're dealing with the contrast of the white paper and the tones the ink leaves when you wipe the excess off the plate."
She said the process of her craft could involve an unexpected turn "that can take you off into a different direction".
"I like that happening chance element of the process," she said.
Ms Fitzgerald is one of several acclaimed artists in the Eurobodalla Shire who will be featured through video on the River of Art's new website to be launched in the lead-up to this year's festival.
In addition to the video features, which were produced by Eva Davis-Boemans, the website will include an arts directory to provide a year-long promotional service for the shire's artists. The festival will also feature workshops, exhibitions and the River of Art Prize. Go to www.riverofart.com.au
