TRAVERSE (2026)

Acrylic on canvas
540 x 200 cm

Spanning more than five metres, Traverse unfolds as an remembered landscape where sculptural form, architecture and memory converge.

Monumental geometric structures rise against softened hills and expansive fields of colour, creating a landscape that feels at once constructed and remembered. Openings, curves and intersecting planes lead the eye across the composition, shifting between distance and enclosure, solidity and atmosphere.

Neither entirely real nor imagined, Traverse considers landscape as a spatial experience - a place shaped as much by memory and perception as by geography.

At this scale, the painting becomes architectural in its presence, inviting the viewer not simply to observe the landscape, but to move through it.
Melbourne studio.

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Joanna Wolthuizen is an Australian abstract painter known for large-scale works that engage architecture through proportion, material stillness, and controlled geometry.

Developed in her Melbourne studio, her practice - termed Composed Abstraction™ - positions painting as a spatial instrument rather than an image.

Her works are held in private and corporate collections internationally and are recognised for their structural clarity, material restraint, and enduring presence.

Brighton Studio & Gallery.