Garden Heart - Small Wonders Series

This painting reflects a moment in my garden at home — surrounded by flowers and the play of light on petals, that feeling of being held by colour and nature all at once.
Like so many of my paintings, Garden Heart is inspired by flowers and the natural world, together with an exploration of energy and things unseen. The beads at the centre are not decoration — they are light made tangible. Each one placed by hand, one at a time, in a slow meditative practice that mirrors the way energy moves — gathering at the centre, radiating outward, spilling into the world around it.
The yellow pansy below holds its own quiet energy — a small, beautiful and ordinary garden flower made luminous by the colour field it lives within. Some paintings are made. This one was tended.

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I have been painting for twenty years — first quietly, as a private practice, and now with the intention of sharing that joy with others.
I am a Melbourne-based artist working in acrylic, and my paintings are explorations of joy, colour and the things I love — birds, flowers, botanicals and the hidden geometry I find everywhere in the natural world.
My work brings together two things: the expressive abstract world of colour and mark-making, and the observed, loved creatures and objects from my daily life. A spotted pardalote in the garden. A magnolia in bloom. The loops and forms that repeat across nature.
Every painting is one of a kind, made in my Melbourne studio — for people who want to feel something when they walk into a room.

You can also find me on instagram at frieda_l_charlotte and on my website at https://www.friedacharlotte.com.au/