Stick with it

The brightest bouquet for your wall. Created over a series of weeks building layer on top of layer, this piece is bursting with colour and texture. Brush strokes, scribbles, colour scratched away to reveal flashes of underneath layers, this piece has it all.

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With a background in textile design I have always had a love affair with colour and texture. I like to use influences from my many years creating original patterns into each painting.
Native wildlife here in Australia is my greatest influence. As I explore it through painting, I weave these textile elements such as simple geometric patterns into each piece. I love the punch you get with a bright neon shape next to delicate wildlife you would see in your own backyard.
I see the vibrancy everywhere; even in the most simple leaf. I love bold colour, textural strokes and scratching away layers to see the tones underneath. I work intuitively on the backgrounds, often adding rainbow bursts of colour, scribbles and washes before working on the final composition. I collage back in my own drawings of leaves and flowers or painted elements, to contrast and explore a different angle. I love the control and freedom collage gives you to build and rebuild the composition of a piece around painted or drawn elements.
Every adventure brings more inspiration.