The Grandmothers

Artist Statement: This painting is about the love that is special to grandmothers.

This work is oil and acrylic on 950 X 150cm fine Belgian linen, signed on the front and sent with an artist cv and certificate of authenticity.

This work is sealed with a Conservationist Gloss Varnish which means you are able to wipe the painting free of dust with a damp cloth which will protect it and help preserve its life. Conservationist quality varnish is essential as it doesn't yellow or crack with age and light. It is painted on Fine Belgian Linen. Linen provides a beautiful surface for the paint and is long lasting so gives the painting posterity for many hundreds of years.

The work is sent Unstretched (this is taken into account in the price) in a roll ready for stretching and or framing. Images of different frames are to give you an idea of what it looks like with a frame.

The work is painted on the sides so if hung stretched without an exterior frame it will still look lovely from any angle (no ugly white sides).

If you decide to add an exterior frame I suggest choosing a frame that matches your furniture. ie if you have natural timber choose a timber frame, if you have a lot of black trim choose a black frame.

Note on Framing: With framers the quality and prices of stretching and framing vary greatly. If you decide to get local quote and want to hang the painting with out an exterior frame ask for a stretching price - you will only need the size for a quote. If you want to hang with an exterior frame you are asking for a stretching and framing price and you will need to go in and choose the frame you like.

All work over 100cm is sent via Pack and Send and under 100cm is sent via Australia Post Express

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This profile is for Robbi Neals paintings. For Printed works please go to Robbi Printed Works

Robbi Neal is a best selling award winning artist and author. She lives in Ballarat and trained at the Victorian CNeal ollege of the Arts and on finishing Art School won the Footscray Aquisition Prize twice. In 2020 after regularly exhibiting her work in solo shows, raising 5 children, surviving aggressive cancer and just generally letting life get in the way of her own goals she was able to return to full time to painting and writing.
In 2020 she was a finalist in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. In 2021 she was a finalist in the 66th Blake Prize and in 2022 the Ravenswood Prize for Women Artists.
In 2024 she was a finalist in the prestigious Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and in 2025 was shortlisted in the Lethbridge Landscape Prize. Most recently she is a finalist int he 2026 The Doyles Prize. Her latest book 'With Winter Comes Darkness' won the prestigious Daphne Du Maurier Kiss of Death Prize 2025 in USA and Canada.

Robbi has a studio in Ballarat, surrounded by the flora that works its way into her painting. You can find out more about Robbi online through her site.

"Robbi's work explores themes of belonging, memory, and deep connection to Country. Through evocative, layered storytelling, Robbi reflects on place, identity, and the enduring ties between land and spirit and love and community. Her paintings are both personal and universal—offering quiet meditations on home, heritage, and the rhythms of the natural world. Celebrated for their ability to weave narrative and image, Robbi continues to create work that speaks to the heart of connection, belonging and care for Country."- Giorgio Pilla, Redot Gallery Singapore.

Robbi has mixed racial heritage. She is painfully shy, she says she is a hermit. It took her a year to put a photo of herself on her profile that shows her face. She has always suffered from depression which she blames on a childhood rotten enough to write a best selling award winning book about. Sometimes the more miserable she feels the brighter her paintings get as she believes that looking for joy in small things is where we find god. She says her works are her voice and are landscapes grounded in her grandmother’s Country but are also emotional landscapes about connection and belonging and finding the small things in life that are easy to miss but give our lives true meaning and happiness. Robbi loves to explore different ways of creating art, through works on paper and painting on canvas.

.Some of Robbi's shortlisting in major prizes:

Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Shortlisted 2025

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Finalist 2024

Bluethumbs top seller placing 4th

Lethbridge Small Scale Arts Award, Finalist 2022

Lethbridge Landscape Prize Salon De Refuses` Finalist 2022

Ravenswood Art Prize for Women - Finalist 2022

Footscray Acquisition Prize - Two times winner

Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award - Four times short listed

The 66th Blake Prize - Finalist

Exhibitions have been held in Redot Gallery Singapore, Art Atrium Sydney, Casula Powerhouse Sydney,  Perry Prize Sydney, ROAR Melbourne, Rhumbarella’s Melbourne, Castlemaine Fringe, Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane, Footscray Gallery and Latrobe University Gallery.