Beneath the Surface

This unique painting is an amazingly tactile work, lush with texture. It is an abstract interpretation of a heavy metal gate and a rugged gritty sandstone wall at Middle Head, in Sydney Harbour National Park. Peering in through the gate, all one sees superficially is dark shadows... yet it is an entrance to a maze of tunnels and trenches. It's a fascinating place to explore, with significant military fortifications which date back to the 1800s. It is this location which has inspired a number of my artworks.

Acrylic and mixed media on stretched canvas

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Cecilia's art is influenced by expressionism and post impressionism. She works from imagination, observation and memory. She paints intuitively and expressively, both figuratively and delving into abstraction, joining the two by a thread creating an exciting visual tug-of-war.