Satin Soul 07

Satin Soul 07 turns the series toward the sea. Where earlier works in this collection moved like flame and warm silk, this painting flows like deep water meeting light - a current of teal and ocean blue rising from the shadowed lower left, unfolding into a luminous field of white and soft green gold.

The colour builds from deep marine blue through layers of turquoise and seafoam, brightening into ivory white at the upper right. A faint vein of gold traces upward through the centre like a thread of sunlight reaching down through water. The paint is applied in sweeping, textured brushstrokes, so the surface catches real light and shifts as you move around it - calm from a distance, alive up close.

Painted in acrylic on canvas, 90 x 120cm, on a 3cm deep stretcher with painted edges, ready to hang with no framing required.

This work suits a bedroom, living room, bathroom or coastal-styled interior - anywhere you want a sense of depth, movement and quiet light. It brings a cool, restorative energy to a space, like standing beneath the surface of a bright sea.

Satin Soul is an ongoing series exploring light moving through folds of colour, each work a single continuous gesture of flow and release.

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I’m a Sydney-based artist and mother of four. Painting has been part of my life since I was six years old, but it became something profoundly different after the birth of my fourth son, Aaron.

Aaron was born with complex additional needs, and the months that followed changed every part of my life. Alongside the demands of caring for him, I experienced a long and ongoing journey through postpartum depression. There were times when I felt as though I had slipped beneath the surface of deep water—unable to breathe, unable to see a way back, searching desperately for light.

When I found myself unable to express those emotions in words, I returned to painting.

What began as a way to survive gradually became a way to heal.

Night after night, after my children had fallen asleep, I stood quietly before a blank canvas. Each layer of paint carried emotions I could not speak aloud. Slowly, those heavy feelings transformed into atmosphere, texture, colour, and light. Painting did not erase the darkness, but it gave me somewhere to place it.

That experience continues to shape everything I create.

Across my work, light is never simply illumination. It is a symbol of hope without certainty, peace without perfection, and freedom that is often found quietly rather than dramatically. I am drawn to expansive spaces, restrained colour palettes, soft transitions, and moments where silence feels almost tangible. Rather than telling literal stories, my paintings invite viewers to pause, breathe, and discover their own emotional landscape.

Although each collection explores a different visual language, they are united by the same intention: a search for light.

I don’t paint because I have found it.

I paint because I am still looking.