Ivory Curl on Checkers

Vanessa is a Brisbane-based artist inspired by still life arrangements and the incidental beauty of the domestic space. Working primarily in acrylics, her paintings often feature decorative vessels, botanicals, and scenes from everyday life. A passionate collector of ceramics, fabrics, art books, and artworks, Vanessa enjoys arranging her belongings into moody tableaux, experimenting with colour, pattern, and unexpected juxtapositions.

Living with lifelong anxiety, Vanessa continues to develop her painting practice as a way of expressing her inspirations, experiences, memories, and surroundings; transforming them into works that reflect both beauty and personal truth.

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My local parks and gardens are filled with Ivory Curl plants, which I enjoy just as much as the birds in the neighbourhood. I wanted to bring their beauty into a more formal still life setting, exploring the joy of mark-making and the play of contrasting colour.