Boldly Unfurling Life

Resting quietly in her bush home, the Spotted Quoll watches the world as it unfurls around her.
She is alert and ready to take action with a sense that she is unstoppable as life unfurls around her.

This bold Australian native animal’s ability to take action and step into the unknown often lands her in danger. She moves forward without hesitation. The quoll will always choose the vulnerability of being seen and takes the risk as she knows that this is where she comes alive and she is not willing to hide.

Sadly, this Australian Native’s bravery means that she is endangered by feral cats and foxes. She chooses to be seen and fear and hiding is not an option for her.

Quoll energy has so much to teach us and having her energy in our home is a call to action. Quoll spirit animal offers the energy of allowing life to unfurl. This is the space of choosing the risk of being open and seen in ways that are true to ourselves as we intend love over fear. We step into the new and unknown willingly. Acting instinctively, our heart leads our head and we feel aligned with our passion as we take decisive action.

Quoll shifts your energy and shows you what bravery looks like. The message is to do it because you love it even if you feel vulnerable as you let go of the fear that holds you back.

Invite quoll energy into your life and home to guide you when you desire to make bold moves and are ready to be visible as you choose love over fear.

This piece evolved with a playful background exploring creating space with neutral colours that have a way of bringing an image to life as they create contrast. The soft greens, creams, mauves coloured greys and whites create a sense of harmony in the soft background landscape in contrast to the noise of bold colours. The final resin layer creates softness and lightness to this piece as we imagine the details of this imagined bush home.

This painting is ready to hang with the image wrapping around the edges of the piece a final resin layer.
All art is signed and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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Cheryle Bannon – Melbourne Artist – I love to paint calm happy art as imagined impressionistic nature stories that bring a feeling of calm happy spaces for the heart and home. Art is meaning making as a path to understanding our world and finding our way back to harmony and balance.
Available for PAINTINGS, COMMISSIONS, PRINTS of selected artworks and whimsical mixed media sculptures.
I am a mixed media painter and sculptor and have always been involved in the creative arts. I taught art in secondary schools for 30 years alongside regular group shows. I have been a fulltime artist since 2018, exhibiting in both group and solo shows.
I have artworks in private collections both nationally and internationally. I have been an artist in residence working with disengaged youth and in a primary school cluster project.

My intuitive art process is inspired by the random beauty of nature, animal wisdom and birds as a guided process that is a way of making meaning in a world out of balance. I explore colour and light through natural images that inspire emotional connection to our stories through the natural world. Colourful mixed media images begin with symbols and words that build the feeling and energy of the evolving art story. Art as visual stories evoke a sense of peace and balance connecting us to our world. I view art as a meditative process that is mindful and healing. I paint in a variety of sizes using layers of colour, texture and form, using a variety of media such as acrylic paint or watercolour. Art is built through the layers, with a variety of mark-making, collage, inks, pastels, crayons, and resin. The layers create a depth that invites us into the story imagery that comes alive within the art. We enter these visual stories as a participant connecting to the energy and feeling of the piece.
My art is a way to pause and explore the layers of colour, emotion and story that are an, honouring of the Earth and her wisdom. through exploring the depth of our personal and global connected storied worlds. Art is an exploration of inner landscapes and outer worlds as a way to connect to those breathing spaces that remind us of balance and flow.
Every beautiful moment brings inspiration and opens us to connections to our own calm happy heart stories.

www.cherylebannon.com