Above
&
Within
A series that invites viewers to witness from above how land and sea soften into one another and becomes a quiet study of our own changing boundaries.
Artist’s Vision
I am drawn to the world as it appears from above.
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From this vantage point, coastlines soften, borders dissolve, patterns emerge that are invisible at ground level. What once felt vast becomes a composition of shape, tone and rhythm. Looking down evokes curiosity, a quiet wonder about how forms connect and where they disappear.
My paintings begin with this fascination. Aerial landscapes captured through my own viewcatcher.
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By stepping back, we are offered space to think and these abstract aerial views become a mirror for our own inner terrain.
Featured Artwork
The Channel Country spreads like a living network, countless channels threading through the earth, carrying water to places that may wait years for its return. Each channel is a carved memory of water and time and every course gives quiet worth to the living whole.
The orange terrain is the start of the Simpson Desert. The Desert represents eternal thirst. The Channel Country represents sudden abundance. For years, the desert wind blows red dust over the grey clay, trying to swallow it. But when the rains finally come down Eyre Creek, the water aggressively reclaims the land. It pushes the desert back, turning a dead, cracked world into a breeding ground for millions of wildflowers and life.
In this braided diversity we learn to respect the land that gives us life.
Acrylic on Canvas with floating frame 125 cm x 155 cm
The Hutt Lagoon appears like a bubblegum dream in the dry land when nature strikes in perfect alignment. Its hue shifts with the sun, salt and wind revealing a quiet truth that beauty is fragile and that even the most vibrant forms are vulnerable to change. This aerial abstraction reflects a deeper truth that we need to look beyond the beauty in the moment, acknowledge vulnerability and honour nature and self in their fullness
Artwork is framed with oak wood floating frame.
Linen on canvas
120 cm x 90 cm
Fallow is the necessary pause before return- the moment we step back in order to restore what has been overextended.
The corduroy ridges hold the memory of effort, of ground once worked and now released. The hand stitching is intentionally visible and unfinished, resisting resolution. It becomes a marker of restraint, reflecting a state that is not complete because it is still becoming.
Like self, it speaks to cycles of giving and depletion. We must pause, recover, and soften before we can give again. In its openness and lack of closure, the work holds that quiet truth: restoration is not absence of action, but its preparation
Corduroy with weathered acrylic on Canvas
120 cm x 90 cm