Hollows 11

This stylised woodland is all about warmth and grounding. The crisp verticals of the gum trees bring stability and a sense of design to the mess of grasses and understorey - somewhere to lean and take a breath in our own chaotic lives. Without end, the trunks encourage a long exhale, pulling us into Nature's continuum: past to future; earth to sky.

This chunky little hollow where a branch has been lost is a perfect size for a little spotted pardalote, flitting about nearby. The spotted pardalote is mostly found in eucalypt forests and woodlands but occurs in parks and gardens with well-established eucalypt canopy. It forages on the foliage of trees for insects, especially psyllids, and sugary exudates from leaves and psyllids. Hear them around your garden with a repeated three-note whistle, the second two notes higher than the first.

This piece is on unstretched linen, which provides for more eco friendly shipping that doesn't require plastic bubblewrap (Nature thanks you!). Arriving rolled in a mailing tube, it is also very easy handling. Any framer can prepare it for hanging, and my costs on unstretched pieces are around $200 lower to accommodate this step. See my website for more information or ask me about framing.

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From my studio in Canberra, Australia I work to create ethereal abstract nature paintings that echo that feeling of ease and wellness that twinkles through you when you stop in a pocket of forest or under a tree, stepping into Earth’s embrace. I would love to show you around my studio in person. Meantime, please enjoy exploring this virtual shop, zoom in, peer close, and reach out with any questions.

In the tangle of the forest understorey, the connectivity of all things is most apparent to me. The sense of oneness and gentle alive-ness leads me to create layers of subtle, organic marks that invite the viewer in, like we lean in to listen when someone speaks softly. Paint is added or removed, responding to the moment; some things from life, some imagined, as though co-creating, until this pocket of wilderness is formed enough to hold us. Final flecks of colour are allowed to skip across the surface like sunlight on leaf, web or tiny wing. I’m exploring the concept of Nature as divinity, accessed by grounding in the wild-grown Earth that is the ancestral home for our species. The result, I hope, is artwork with a sense of the ethereal; that is somehow both divine-uplift and soft-landing – like opening the door to home.

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As featured on Space Invaders home renovations by channel 9 (season 6, episode 6), April 2026.