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Artist Statement: When we meet it is like an explosion of love and noise and red and orange. The children play noisily, we all yarn noisily and there is beautiful orange and red like blooming flowers everywhere.

This work is a once off original art work that will not be available at any time for reproduction printing. I do not make my work available for reproduction prints as reproduction prints have no value and decrease the value of the original work which is not fair to the original buyer.

Works on paper are an excellent way to collect art that will grow in value but are not quite as expensive as works on canvas (unless or course they were done by Leonardo or Michelangelo).

This artwork is 30cm X 30cm, the paper is 31 X 31cm from edge to edge to allow 1cm for framing. The work will be signed on the front with initials and date and sent with a certificate of authenticity. It is sent unframed in a roll or flat and will need to be framed to hang. I highly recommend getting a frame from a department store, a 40cm square frame will allow for mounting board as in the pictures, a 30cm square frame will frame the work up to the art. I have included images with the work framed.

The work will be sent via Australia Post, wrapped in glassine paper in a sturdy tube or flat. packed between heavy cardboard.

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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. In 2026 she has been a finalist in The Doyles Prize, the very prestigious Lester Portrait Prize and shortlisted in the Lethbridge. 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:

The Lester Portrait Prize 2026

The Doyles, 2026

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.