Moonlight and Shadows

'Moonlight and Shadows' is a macro view of soft white roses that glow with a cool luminous light and subtle variety of colours. The deep red background enhances the clarity of the pale roses giving the painting a gentle warmth.
The painting has an almost abstract quality to it; my works are less about the subject and more about the experience, and the emotion conveyed within. Georgia O'Keeffe sums it up best "“Whether the flower or the colour is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the colour?”

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I am an emerging Australian artist and graduate of The School of Art, Australian National University (2014). I love painting flora and abstracts, although they're completely different subject matters they're both my favourite! My paintings are created by the soft application of oil paint in multiple thin layers in a slow meditative process, I love to amplify colour and light to create works evocative of emotion and mood.

In my paintings of flora I aim to capture the fragile ephemerality and diverse beauty of the flowers, conveying both a sense of movement and joy as revealed by the curvaceous and billowing petals. These paintings of flora are an unashamed celebration of the feminine sensuality, the strength, and delicate beauty that flowers contain.

Colour has always generated visceral emotions in me, reactions I find endlessly fascinating and something I aim to capture and pass on in my paintings. Capturing the details of a flower is not essential to me, in fact I find the details a distraction from the sensations and emotions that colour within a form arouses. The application of soft, delicate layers of paint allows the texture of the canvas adds to the soft materiality, and the transitions of colour describe the form without unnecessary detail.

I am fortunate to be able to work from my studio in the garden of my home in Bungendore, New South Wales. Living the dream!