Out of the Darkness Comes Light and Life

Original artwork Out of the Darkness Comes Light and Life painting.

If I had a magic wand and could make two natural wonders of the world appear both at the same time, this would be it; Aurora Borealis, Bioluminescence, and yes must have a whale to complete this vision.
Somewhere in the far reaches of the Northern hemisphere these two natural phenomenons align to light up the horizon and ocean both at the same time. Wow, wouldn’t that be a spectacular sight that everyone would love to witness.

Have I actually seen the Northern Lights? Yes but very faintly.
Have I actually seen Bioluminescence in the ocean? Again yes but faintly and in the distance.
A few times I have had the pleasure to actually see whales in their natural habitat, right here in Australia. The Humpback in this painting is very excited to fill his belly with the Bioluminescence plankton mass surrounding him.

This artwork is painted with acrylic paints on a gallery wrapped canvas.
The background of the scenery is wrapped around all edges of the canvas.
Ready to hang with d-rings and wire.

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Andrea is an award winning, International selling artist. Many of her artworks have travelled around the globe with sales throughout Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, UK and lots of other places in Europe.
After leaving high school she attended College and University for visual art and design, understanding different techniques and studying the history of the Masters. Over the years she has painted murals in restaurants and kids bedrooms, designed and created artworks to decorate office spaces in Sydney and Melbourne, and also had 8 paintings published in National and International magazines.

In 2015 Andrea cast aside her current career in Sales and Marketing to focus on her ever growing enthusiasm and true love; visual arts. “In my early childhood years my favourite past time was to paint or draw, I absolutely loved it. Back then I always had the desire that my future career was to be a full-time visual artist and now I have finally made that dream a reality. To me it really doesn’t matter what the subject is, what matters is with each brush stroke, that is when I have the most serene moments in life.”

Andrea sees inspiration all around her and her list is always expanding. But most of her artworks are centred around of her love and appreciation for nature, birds, insects, animals and plants.
With nature she’s instantly drawn into the colours, textures and patterns. She then paints it as she envisage it through abstracts.
With birds, insects, animals, plants and the occasional landscape she applies traditional fine art, carefully measuring and mapping out the artwork to make sure the perspective and ratios are correct. Mixing colours to match and understanding the direction of the light.
Andrea also creates figurative surreal artworks where her vision is to connect humanity more with nature in one artwork. Here she starts with a mood board and plays around with colour combinations before mapping it out on canvas. “I see beauty all around me in nature and understand there is a purpose to every living organism. The human connection, care and respect for these is vital to the survival of mankind.”