Terrigal Skillion

Terrigal Skillion

This imposing landscape feels like an eternal statement of lands confrontation with the boundless Pacific Ocean. The history of rising and falling seas and buckling land mass has gone on before our time and will continue well after we are gone.

The colours of the Skillion change throughout the day as the early sun draws out the warmth of the sandstone or the later shadows provides cool tones of wet slate.

A magical place to be at any time of the day, this landscape puts people in their place as spectators at best. The tides of the ocean invade and recede as the struggle of land and sea cycle through each day and each century.

With or without people these forces continue their stubborn battle of change, both feeding from each others resistance with shape and shadows, sand and pebbles, colour and texture.

Where giants collide. Nature, the ultimate artist.

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Cheryl Willcox is an Australian oil painter known for her luminous, impressionistic paintings of lily ponds, coastal landscapes, and expressive florals. Based on the Central Coast of NSW, Cheryl draws daily inspiration from the rock shelves, ocean light, and abundant plant life surrounding her home.
A professionally trained artist and lifelong educator, Cheryl blends traditional realism with bold, intuitive brushwork. Her paintings are built in layers, capturing movement, energy, and the subtle shifts of colour and light that define the Australian landscape.
Cheryl’s work is deeply autobiographical — each painting holds a memory, a feeling, or a moment from her everyday life. Widely collected across Australia and internationally, her paintings offer a quiet, uplifting presence in the home, inviting viewers to pause, breathe, and reconnect with beauty.