Mocha Latte

You know that feeling of curling up in a Chesterfield sofa? A cosy nook of luxury and warmth that forms to your body? Well, this pocket of nurturing forest, and those rich tones of leather and mocha reminded me of just that.

That’s why I call my artworks ‘cosy wild places’; because to me they feel like coming home. The forest floor is the ancestral home for we Homo sapiens, bringing the soul-memory of 300,000 years of thriving there, right? We’ve always been connected, it’s remembering.

This piece is on unstretched linen, which provides for more eco friendly shipping that doesn't require plastic bubblewrap (Nature thanks you!). Arriving rolled in a mailing tube, it is also very easy handling. Any framer can prepare it for hanging, and my costs on unstretched pieces are around $200 lower to accommodate this step. See my website for more information or ask me about framing.

Size given here is final image size. There is extra margin of fabric for framing. The price is lower on my 'unstretched' paintings to accommodate the extra step.

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From my studio in Canberra, Australia I work to create ethereal abstract nature paintings that echo that feeling of ease and wellness that twinkles through you when you stop in a pocket of forest or under a tree, stepping into Earth’s embrace. I would love to show you around my studio in person. Meantime, please enjoy exploring this virtual shop, zoom in, peer close, and reach out with any questions.

In the tangle of the forest understorey, the connectivity of all things is most apparent to me. The sense of oneness and gentle alive-ness leads me to create layers of subtle, organic marks that invite the viewer in, like we lean in to listen when someone speaks softly. Paint is added or removed, responding to the moment; some things from life, some imagined, as though co-creating, until this pocket of wilderness is formed enough to hold us. Final flecks of colour are allowed to skip across the surface like sunlight on leaf, web or tiny wing. I’m exploring the concept of Nature as divinity, accessed by grounding in the wild-grown Earth that is the ancestral home for our species. The result, I hope, is artwork with a sense of the ethereal; that is somehow both divine-uplift and soft-landing – like opening the door to home.

Visit my website for my full range including small works, and to join my Collectors List for early access to new work.

As featured on Space Invaders home renovations by channel 9 (season 6, episode 6), April 2026.