(PR IMAGE PHOTO)Ryan Presley says winning the award is a dream come true and allows him to keep making art. Ryan Presley said winning the $100,000 Telstra Art Award with his painting - Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed - would make a huge difference to his capacity to keep making art. "I've only been an artist, and the margins to live on are often very tight," the Logan-based Marri Ngarr artist told AAP. But instead of the Virgin Mary visited by the angel Gabriel, Presley's painting shows a figure lying near a rifle, as a bushfire smoulders on distant mountains. Artists never forget succeeding at the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, guest curator Shannon Brett said.