Much of my artistic journey has been dedicated to uncovering and embracing aspects of myself that have long been repressed, expressed through emotive and sensual imagery. In this series, I go further to explore the complex nature of desire through an interpretive artistic process – navigating a subject that is deeply personal and challenging.
In the evolving series “Where Shadows Fade: A New Narrative” I assume the role of voyeur, separating myself into viewer and subject to observe the beauty of eroticism from a detached yet intimate perspective. Using an adapted pinhole technique with a digital camera, I intentionally obscure and limit the scope of the images, capturing a series of rolling moments that allow me the freedom to move in natural flow. This process encourages me to view the resulting images as an artist looking beyond the surface and embracing authentic expression, without judgement or limitation.

My current paintings explore imagined landscapes and our emotional, psychological and philosophical links to the physical world. These are places that exist in our minds as we traverse the past and move to the future, often caught in liminal spaces, sometimes stranded, or waist deep in trouble. A stretch of water offers the chance to cross to another place and leave the last landscape behind.

Much of my artistic journey has been dedicated to uncovering and embracing aspects of myself that have long been repressed, expressed through emotive and sensual imagery. In this series, I go further to explore the complex nature of desire through an interpretive artistic process – navigating a subject that is deeply personal and challenging.
In the evolving series “Where Shadows Fade: A New Narrative” I assume the role of voyeur, separating myself into viewer and subject to observe the beauty of eroticism from a detached yet intimate perspective. Using an adapted pinhole technique with a digital camera, I intentionally obscure and limit the scope of the images, capturing a series of rolling moments that allow me the freedom to move in natural flow. This process encourages me to view the resulting images as an artist looking beyond the surface and embracing authentic expression, without judgement or limitation.

My current paintings explore imagined landscapes and our emotional, psychological and philosophical links to the physical world. These are places that exist in our minds as we traverse the past and move to the future, often caught in liminal spaces, sometimes stranded, or waist deep in trouble. A stretch of water offers the chance to cross to another place and leave the last landscape behind.

From the primitive to the mystical, prayer has been a universal expression spanning across ancient civilizations, tribal societies, and the diverse tapestry of world religions. My sculpture aims to encapsulate the essence of the universal human quest for transcendence. A humble soul in search of meaning.

Dianne often sketches on site and observes things in a very abstract manner. Design concepts and
movement play a major role, as well as surface depth and mark making. She is inspired by many
subjects such as landscape, figures, and ancient civilisations, usually working in a slightly
ambiguous way rather than being fully depicted or explained, sometimes having unconventional
relationships, and using opposites to recreate life experience.
Dianne is always pushing the boundaries and exploring, either semi-abstract or fully abstracted, it
doesn’t matter, it is a journey taken together, the image and herself. This results in a very energetic
and expressive piece. She works until she is pleased and satisfied with the result that emerges. She
has always had the compulsion to draw and paint, and today is sharing this with others so they can
have their own experience, observations and recognition of a loved country.

Dianne often sketches on site and observes things in a very abstract manner. Design concepts and
movement play a major role, as well as surface depth and mark making. She is inspired by many
subjects such as landscape, figures, and ancient civilisations, usually working in a slightly
ambiguous way rather than being fully depicted or explained, sometimes having unconventional
relationships, and using opposites to recreate life experience.
Dianne is always pushing the boundaries and exploring, either semi-abstract or fully abstracted, it
doesn’t matter, it is a journey taken together, the image and herself. This results in a very energetic
and expressive piece. She works until she is pleased and satisfied with the result that emerges. She
has always had the compulsion to draw and paint, and today is sharing this with others so they can
have their own experience, observations and recognition of a loved country.

Spring, comes each year, flowers flourish. Taken for granted. Generous, enriching our lives, no thanks required. Maybe a smile.

My paintings are imagined abstract landscapes. I capture what emerges for me intuitively, a process of connecting memory, inspiration and my subconscious rather than representing somewhere specific. Through layers of mark making, paint and abstracted forms, I hope to engage the viewer. I wish spark a personal connection of belonging, whether it be a sense of place or feeling. ‘Nights Shining” is a celebration pf the dreamlike quality the moon can have on the landscape, like whimsical fairytale.

This painting captures the view of the Wingecarribee River as seen looking east from the rise on Moss Vale Road during a stormy afternoon.

The clouds and rain rolling in create a sense of shifting atmosphere and fleeting beauty. As with all my works, my intention is to evoke the grandeur and atmospheric beauty of the scene while underscoring the fragility of the natural world.

Using gentle gestural brushwork and glaze layering I want to illustrate the subtle compositional aspects of each part of the riverbank and water surface. This painting shows a landscape teetering on the seen and unseen, real and imagined, giving a sense of the places ever constant in the world, as well as providing an introspective statement on a rapidly changing environment

I have found the east coast of Australia a fascinating subject to revisit because of its dramatic topography and light. Headlands and steep escarpments provide me with the great diagonals that create the dynamic compositions that most excite me.

Using metallic and non-localised colours these landscapes combine photo-derived imagery with abstraction’s focus on surface. Like a vinyl record scratch in music sampling, where an analog medium becomes digital, my layering of styles creates a temporal disjuncture in traditional landscape painting.

Beyond the formal considerations beaches are endlessly absorbing because they are zones that are in a constant state of flux. The tide rises and falls, headlands slowly erode and tumble into the sea and geological strata can be observed. These processes of time bring to the foreground a heightened awareness of history passing. Observing that all is change and nothing ever stays the same is often accompanied by a sense of melancholy. This melancholy feeling is often the mood that I try to capture in my fleeting gestures caught in paint.

I have found the east coast of Australia a fascinating subject to revisit because of its dramatic topography and light. Headlands and steep escarpments provide me with the great diagonals that create the dynamic compositions that most excite me.

Using metallic and non-localised colours these landscapes combine photo-derived imagery with abstraction’s focus on surface. Like a vinyl record scratch in music sampling, where an analog medium becomes digital, my layering of styles creates a temporal disjuncture in traditional landscape painting.

Beyond the formal considerations beaches are endlessly absorbing because they are zones that are in a constant state of flux. The tide rises and falls, headlands slowly erode and tumble into the sea and geological strata can be observed. These processes of time bring to the foreground a heightened awareness of history passing. Observing that all is change and nothing ever stays the same is often accompanied by a sense of melancholy. This melancholy feeling is often the mood that I try to capture in my fleeting gestures caught in paint.

Once a norm and an embraced subject in art and society, the nude now faces pervasive censorship pressures, its place increasingly obscured or hidden behind layers that distort its essence, or banned altogether. Strongly defined rules stifle artistic freedom, reducing the portrayal of the nude to something rigidly controlled by algorithms.

"Cultural Overlays" is a series that reaffirms the beauty and significance of the nude while highlighting how cultural censoring and societal demands limit our unique expressions, distorting our natural state both individually and collectively. The works layer sheer, patinated textures over raw images of the nude, representing the external constraints and boundaries that shape our lives and often restrict our potential.

Once a norm and an embraced subject in art and society, the nude now faces pervasive censorship pressures, its place increasingly obscured or hidden behind layers that distort its essence, or banned altogether. Strongly defined rules stifle artistic freedom, reducing the portrayal of the nude to something rigidly controlled by algorithms.

"Cultural Overlays" is a series that reaffirms the beauty and significance of the nude while highlighting how cultural censoring and societal demands limit our unique expressions, distorting our natural state both individually and collectively. The works layer sheer, patinated textures over raw images of the nude, representing the external constraints and boundaries that shape our lives and often restrict our potential.

"These works were painted from field trips to salt lakes at two locations: the Murray-Sunset Park, in Northwestern Victoria, and the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia,

The salt lakes represent the extremities of experience. For me, they connect to life’s origin, reminding me of Deep Time. My artistic process is to experience a location, walking or camping, taking notice of the environment, watching the land itself, and the birds and animals and insects that share it.

I draw, scribbles and doodles, and sometimes paint. Back in the studio these initial studies, form the basis of larger works.

These works are collision of memories and emotions that in an abstract way attempt to illuminate our relationship to the land we live with and on, to the plants and trees and other animals that we share our life with, and to a more spiritual connection to the cosmos."

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

"These works were painted from field trips to salt lakes at two locations: the Murray-Sunset Park, in Northwestern Victoria, and the Yorke Peninsular in South Australia,

The salt lakes represent the extremities of experience. For me, they connect to life’s origin, reminding me of Deep Time. My artistic process is to experience a location, walking or camping, taking notice of the environment, watching the land itself, and the birds and animals and insects that share it.

I draw, scribbles and doodles, and sometimes paint. Back in the studio these initial studies, form the basis of larger works.

These works are collision of memories and emotions that in an abstract way attempt to illuminate our relationship to the land we live with and on, to the plants and trees and other animals that we share our life with, and to a more spiritual connection to the cosmos."

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

My work explores actualising energies as images. I have Utilised the body as an archival site to channel and express energy. Through somatic exercises I expand drawing beyond what can be seen. I use the body to translate a feeling and the feeling is then translated back by the body into a drawing then overlayed. The drawing is a direct index of the energy, when energies are expressed, they become a reconstruction of being, an internal portrait, self-referential. It is a drawing of, about and by the energy in the body, energy that has the potential to speak from generations before.

My work explores actualising energies as images. I have Utilised the body as an archival site to channel and express energy. Through somatic exercises I expand drawing beyond what can be seen. I use the body to translate a feeling and the feeling is then translated back by the body into a drawing then overlayed. The drawing is a direct index of the energy, when energies are expressed, they become a reconstruction of being, an internal portrait, self-referential. It is a drawing of, about and by the energy in the body, energy that has the potential to speak from generations before.

Thomas is a New York Native and permanent resident in Australia - living and working in the Southern Highlands of Sydney.
From classical fine arts training at New York City’s Art Students League and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Architectural Design from Parsons School of Design, Thomas’s career has spanned across the architectural interior and fine arts markets in both New York and Sydney. His plasticity of practice allows Thomas to roam between the disciplines of drawing, painting and sculpture in materials from found natural objects through to cast bronze.

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

Maria is a painter living and working on Gundungurra Land in the village of Robertson, NSW, Australia. Her work is influenced by her studies of Zen Buddhism and GODAI – The Japanese philosophy of The Five Elements. Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Void.

“I attempt with my work, to create a feeling of mystery and ambiguity: a response to the unknown, beyond the underlying sense of self, the vibrant, unbounded consciousness.”

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

My work explores actualising energies as images. I have Utilised the body as an archival site to channel and express energy. Through somatic exercises I expand drawing beyond what can be seen. I use the body to translate a feeling and the feeling is then translated back by the body into a drawing then overlayed. The drawing is a direct index of the energy, when energies are expressed, they become a reconstruction of being, an internal portrait, self-referential. It is a drawing of, about and by the energy in the body, energy that has the potential to speak from generations before.

Shadows, depth and light are all essential to my artworks.

They drive my composition and inspire the creation of the finished piece.

In this artwork, I was drawn to the distinct late afternoon light and foreboding storm that was threatening across the skies in our nearby hills.

It is a reminder to tread softly on this ancient landscape we all call home.

To be a steward not a conqueror.

Mood and Light, the push and pull of life, this is what inspires my visual poetic journey for Whispers in the Wind, these emotions that we all feel, are in our everyday comments,
they influence us, they confront us but also endear us to have a voice out of the shadows.

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

Based in the Southern Highlands, artist Peter Hickey is best known for his etchings and oil paintings. Inspired by his many years of travel and studying with numerous artists abroad, Hickey's etchings often depict scenes found within foreign countries. His painting style has been influenced by his experience as a printmaker, incorporating a ‘subtractive' technique and monochrome palette.

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.

Based in the Southern Highlands, artist Peter Hickey is best known for his etchings and oil paintings. Inspired by his many years of travel and studying with numerous artists abroad, Hickey's etchings often depict scenes found within foreign countries. His painting style has been influenced by his experience as a printmaker, incorporating a ‘subtractive' technique and monochrome palette.

Whitewall Art Projects showcases contemporary art by independent Australian and international artists, offering original artworks for purchase online and from its inspiring premises in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia. Feel free to contact the gallery for any assistance.