Rock pool gems 2

A warm glow is created with washes of paint that allow light to penetrate and reflect back out from the white canvas, while the rocky areas are built with layers of wet paint allowed to run to form organic shapes and textures - then built up with thick textural strokes.

The piece is from memories of a Fiji holiday and a special morning spent with a new love, exploring bare foot through the rock pools at low tide. In my memory is both a sense of vast space out to sea, and a concentration of multi-coloured sea life at my feet - and the interplay of tranquil water against organic earthy shapes of rock and weed.

In particular, we came across a pink jelly-like coral through which scurried tiny orange-and-blue shrimp. The incredible colour of the jelly set into the dark rocks sticks in my mind to this day.

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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.