'Where Light Settles' grew out of a month-long residency in Hobart, where I spent time observing the Tasmanian bush at ground level. At the base of Mount Wellington, I was struck by how moss transformed a field of rock and fallen timber into something soft and luminous. Painted entirely by hand using layered, airbrushed acrylic, the image was built slowly through translucent layers of colour. The vivid greens sit against a forest reduced to greys, highlighting both fragility and resilience. The work reflects on how life persists, binding and reshaping the landscape over time.
Finalist 2026 Hadley's Art Prize
The painting has a stained Tasmanian oak shadow frame with the framed dimensions of 105cm (w) x 105cm (h) x 5.5cm (d).