Liminal Horizons
I’d love to warmly invite you to the opening of my upcoming solo exhibition, Liminal Horizons, on Saturday 6th December 2025, from 3–5pm at &Gallery, 21 Morce Avenue, Sorrento.
This new body of work continues my exploration of the threshold between worlds — where light and landscape merge, and the old gives way to the new. I would be so delighted to share this next chapter with you in person and to celebrate together in this beautiful coastal setting.
Between Sea and Sky, Mixed Media and Epoxy Resin on Birch, 120cm x 150cm
There are moments in time when humanity collectively finds itself standing at the edge of the known world — unable to retreat into the familiar past, yet unable to clearly see what lies ahead. Liminal Horizons contemplates this threshold: a space between dissolution and renewal, between what was and what is yet to become. It is from within this in-between state — both unsettling and full of potential — that this body of work has emerged.
For some time now, I have felt compelled to explore the spaces where the visible world begins to dissolve and the unseen quietly reveals itself. These new paintings arise from a sensing that we are collectively navigating profound transition. While the outer world shifts, fractures, and rearranges itself, something deeper — older, wiser, and steadier — begins to surface.
The Between Place, Mixed Media on Canvas, 120cm x 120cm
These landscapes evoke the ancient element of Earth: terrains of transformation where the old paradigm slowly crumbles, revealing the quiet truths and hidden wisdom that have long rested beneath the surface. Through delicate layers of pigment, metallic leaf, mineral tones and translucent resin, light emerges as both symbol and guide — illuminating what was once concealed by illusion and materialism. The process feels less like constructing an image and more like allowing something to reveal itself over time.
In this new body of work, the horizon becomes both mirror and metaphor. It marks the meeting point between the tangible and the unseen — where form gives way to essence, and the luminous stillness beneath all things begins to shine through. The horizon line offers grounding and direction, yet it also invites the viewer into mystery: that ineffable space of potentiality where endings merge silently into beginnings.
Echoes Beneath the Surface, Mixed Media on Canvas, 150cm x 150cm
My inspiration is drawn from the shifting light, vast skies, and ancient coastal and forested landscapes of southern Victoria. But rather than depicting specific places, I seek to evoke the internal landscapes we traverse during times of change: the spaces within us where clarity dissolves, where truth slowly emerges, and where beauty can be found in the breaking down as much as the becoming.
My process is slow, meditative, and alchemical. Layer upon layer is added, obscured, dissolved, and revealed — echoing natural forces of weathering, erosion, and renewal. Influenced by Eastern contemplative traditions, Shanshui painting, and the quiet radiance of Japanese shikki lacquerware, I aim to create paintings that are not simply seen but felt — works that invite stillness, deep listening, and presence.
Ultimately, Liminal Horizons is an offering: a call to pause within the threshold between worlds. These paintings remind us that beneath the shifting forms of our time lies an enduring stillness — a luminous essence waiting to be recognised. My hope is that viewers find in these works a moment of reflection, a sense of connection to the ancient wisdom of the earth, and a quiet reassurance that even within uncertainty, light is always emerging.
