Satin Soul 08

Satin Soul 08 turns the series toward the night. Where Satin Soul 07 rose like light through open water, this painting descends — a vortex of deep indigo and near-black folding in from the lower left, pulled downward into a dark, churning core, while a luminous current of white and pale blue spirals in from the right to meet it.
The colour moves from soft ivory-white and cool sky-blue at the top, twisting through the centre in a tightening spiral, before deepening into midnight indigo and black at the base. Thin veins of gold trace through the darkest passages like sparks caught in the current — the only warmth in an otherwise cool, nocturnal palette. The paint is built in long, sweeping strokes and worked with a palette knife through the darker folds, giving the surface real texture and dimension: quiet and unified from across the room, restless and alive up close.

Painted in acrylic on canvas, 90 x 120cm, on a 3cm deep stretcher. [painted edges, ready to hang, no framing required — OR — framed in a black floating frame, ready to hang]
This work suits a living room, entryway or study — anywhere that calls for a bold, atmospheric anchor piece. It brings a sense of depth, movement and quiet drama to a space, like watching a storm turn over open water at dusk.
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.