Lily Pond

A surface remembered.

Water sits quietly beneath shifting light, and forms drift in and out of focus.

Layers build slowly. Thin washes settling over one another, allowing tone and depth to emerge rather than be placed.

Marks move across the surface without urgency. Gathering, crossing, loosening again — suggesting something just beneath, or just passing through.

A quiet surface, constantly shifting.
Light catching, moving, returning.
An impression of water, held in motion.

This work is painted with acrylics on premium 12oz raw canvas. To ensure the safest transport of large-scale works, artworks are typically shipped professionally rolled in a heavy-duty tube unless stretching or framing is selected at checkout.

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Shannon Riches is an abstract expressionist artist based on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. With a 30-year background in graphic design and illustration, his work now centres on intuitive mark-making and tonal exploration inspired by the coastline and the Dandenong Ranges.
His process is tactile and instinctive — often painting with his hands, bark and found natural materials alongside traditional brushes to build layered, organic surfaces. Shannon also produces music under the name Approaching Black, and sees both practices as expressions of the same language — composition, tone and atmosphere.
His paintings are created to feel lived-in and emotionally grounded — artworks that belong in real spaces, quietly shaping the story of the room.