Pure and Simple - Sapling Forests 14

Dense with delicate textures, this piece is at once rich and simple. I loved the serenity of the white gum and the straight lines. The perfect balance of chaos and calm in this little pocket of forest created a sense of safety for me. A minimalist split-complementary palette of warm and cool green against with reddish-ochre enhaced the sense of balance and simplicity, while the use of water wash on the gum tree and background let light bounce back out from the white surface for a pure, unlaboured finish.

Sustainable shipping: This artwork is unstretched, so will arrive in a mailing tube with no need for plastic bubblewrap. Any framer can easily stretch at the time of framing. Prices for my unstretched works are lower to allow for this 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.

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