Author: Kim Neil

Our Scars

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$6500
I have acquired a new scar, it is quite a confronting one and a challenge to me wearing it. It has caused me to reflect on scars and what they mean.

Some scars we may feel embarrassed about, or we may feel disfigured because of them and yet scars are a part of our story, of the journey we have been on and the challenges we have faced; the things we have overcome.

Scars are a sign of healing.

Gum trees wear their scars so well. Their beauty is only enhanced by the damaged caused by a fire, the fallen branch, the wind twisted trunk; they wear their stories so beautifully and boldly.

They teach me there is beauty and strength shown in our scars.

Mixed Media on Canvas
140 x 140cm



This is Life Series: Ease

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Sometimes the troubles of this life accumulate on me, overwhelming me and overcoming me and I want a break, I want it to stop, to ease up, for the burdens and the pains to be lifted. But do you know what…this is life. It is easy to look around and think that others have it easier than we do, and sometimes that is true, but sometimes it isn’t, the pains of this life are hidden so often by a facade, that make us believe that it should be easier than it is.

This painting has been about adapting, healing the past, looking toward hope, but seeing joy in the day to day, in the weeds that have abounded in the rain, in the rain itself, in the birds that wake me in the morning. When I stop and listen, moment by moment, I can keep putting one foot in front of another and enjoy the journey.

Acrylic Paint on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Acrylic On Canvas
61 x 61cm

Little Yellow Robins

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I saw one of these beautiful, tiny robins in Lisgar gardens one day when I went for a bush walk with one of my sons. They are so tiny, and flighty, it was hard to catch a good glimpse of them. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such beauty.

This is a part of my motherhood and splatter paint series.
The quilt like pattern in the background, represents motherhood for me: many parts, both good and bad, intricately woven together to make something beautiful.
Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw pain on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me.

61 x 61cm
Mixed media on canvas

$850

5 Red Capped Robins

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$1800 Selling through Hornsby Framing

While on another local bush walk with the kids, we saw these stunning red capped robins. There were dozens of them, they were so tiny and fast, it was the most amazing thing I have seen. We had never seen them before and haven’t seen them since, but what a gift it was.
This painting is a part of my motherhood and splatter painting series. The quilt like pattern in the background represents motherhood for me: many parts, both good and bad, intricately woven together to make something beautiful.

101.5 x 76cm
Mixed media on canvas

One Day in Galston

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Australian gum trees intrigue me. I love their wacky shapes, angles and colours. I love that they each have their own unique story of the lives they have lived, battered by storms and fires, but uplifted by sunshine, each with its own battle wounds and scars. I find it intriguing that we love the differences in trees but so often dismiss and fear differences in people. Our beautiful Australian landscape is enhanced by the beauty of our unique and wacky trees. Let’s learn from the trees.

Acrylic on linen canvas

2 x 1.5m (this one is huge)



$5000

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This is Life Series: Eastern Rosella

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Sometimes the troubles of this life accumulate on me, overwhelming me and overcoming me and I want a break, I want it to stop, to ease up, for the burdens and the pains to be lifted. But do you know what…this is life. It is easy to look around and think that others have it easier than we do, and sometimes that is true, but sometimes it isn’t, the pains of this life are hidden so often by a facade, that make us believe that it should be easier than it is.

This painting has been about adapting, healing the past, looking toward hope, but seeing joy in the day to day, in the weeds that have abounded in the rain, in the rain itself, in the birds that wake me in the morning. When I stop and listen, moment by moment, I can keep putting one foot in front of another and enjoy the journey.

Acrylic Paint on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Acrylic On Canvas
61 x 61cm

Framed and sold by Hornsby Framing

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Melancholy

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$1250

Trees speak to me, teaching me lessons.
This local tree spoke to me of such deep sadness, a loss of hope so severe it has turned in on itself. It no longer could see what it could be, or the beauty that surrounded it.

Melancholy
Sadness
Grief
Pain
Anguish
Depression
Longing
Hopeless
Alone

Needing help? Can we help? How do we help?

61 x 91cm
Acrylic on canvas

Signed on the front.

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The Little Quilted Ones

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$850
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This painting is a part of my motherhood and splatter painting series. The quilt like pattern in the background represents motherhood for me:many parts, both good and bad, intricately woven together to make something beautiful.

61 x 61cm
Mixed Media on canvas

Signed on the front.

The Quilted Ones

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$1500

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This painting is a part of my motherhood and splatter painting series. The quilt like pattern in the background represents motherhood for me:many parts, both good and bad, intricately woven together to make something beautiful.

101.4x 76cm
Mixed Media on canvas

Signed on the front.

This piece of art will be able to be viewed on Selling Houses Australia: Castle Hill 2024

Available for sale through Art Lovers Australia: https://artloversaustralia.com.au/product/the-quilted-one/

Some Things Don’t Need to be Fixed

Originals For Sale

$3800

I have heard it said that being a parent, is having your heart living externally to your body.
I don’t know how to parent and I have made a lot of mistakes, but what I do know is that I love my kids more than seems possible.
My kids have their own struggles and it is so hard to know when to step in and step back.
This painting is about my experience as a Mum wanting desperately to fix it, to take the burdens from my kids, to make it better and then hearing a whisper deep in my soul, “some thing’s don’t need to be fixed”.
An ode to neurodivergence.

121.5 x 91cm
Mixed Media on canvas

My Noisy Neighbour

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It is such a privilege to be surrounded by the bush and the birds. In the garden outside my art studio, there are some beautiful grevilleas. The lorikeets absolutely love them and are often our alarm clock in the morning. They don’t exactly have the nicest song, but I still love to hear them everyday.

Acrylic Paint on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

76 x 76cm

Signed on the front.

$1400


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Listen to the Birds

Commission, Mural, Sold

This is the first mural I have done in 7 years. It was such a privilege to be able to do this. I really value how art can change the experience for paitents. For some people doctors offices can cause tremendous anxiety and I love when doctors care to help. The doctors I did this for, are some of the kindest and most caring you will get.

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Look at the Trees

Commission, Sold

This one was a labour of love: a gift, to support my hubby and the kids in Learning Support.

School can sometimes be a difficult place for kids, especially the neurodiverse and I will be forever grateful for this school that understands that. They understand that sometimes kids need a safe place to escape to, to have a moment, to breathe, to be able to face the day again. My hope and prayer, is that this painting aids that.

Amongst the painting are all sorts of animals, quotes and of course a Lego figure 🙂

I hope they like it!

Look at the Trees

Mixed media on canvas

180 x 90cm

Signed on the front.

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Birds Interrupt Me

Originals For Sale

$1700|

How often do we wish we could do/be something else, to not be authentically ourselves?
It is easy as an artist to look at others and want to be like them. I often look at beautiful, restful, simple, abstract art and wish I could do that. I recently saw some beautiful simplistic art and all I could think of birds flying in, and lego figures vaulting. Truthfully, no matter how much I would sometimes like to, I can’t escape myself. 
Welcome to my world, where…birds interrupt me.

121.5 x 91cm
Acrylic on canvas

This painting will be featured on Selling Houses Australia: Castle Hill 2024

Available for sale through Art Lovers Australia https://artloversaustralia.com.au/product/birds-interrupt-me/

Marvellous Magpies

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This is a part of my splatter paint series.
Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw pain on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me.
This features part of the beautiful magpie family that visits me almost daily. I sit and get work done and watch them. Magpies get such a bad wrap. They have the most beautiful song and are amazingly bonded families. It really is something special to watch.

101.5 x 76cm
Mixed media on canvas

$1400

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My Happy Place

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$2850
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This is my happy place. 
Thanks to the generosity of some amazing friends, I have found a place to rest. 
A place I run to when things get tough. 
A place to celebrate. 
A place to escape to, in my mind.
A place to ground me.
A place to remind me of truth.
My happy place.

Signed on the front.

Acrylic on linen canvas
91.4 x 122cm


Thanks Mr Kookaburra

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For a couple of months tragedy surrounded us, culminating with my Father in law being in ICU.

The depth and weight of all that was happening meant we had to, as a family, find a way through. We went to the beach, and on bush walks, we had dinner out, we found ways to find joy in the small things: I call them microjoys. To see flowers popping up in the garden, birds all around. Seeing beauty in small things, helped us to get through the hardest things.

This beautiful kookaburra was on one of our walks, and it just kindly sat and let me walk up close and take its photo. So thanks Mr Kookaburra for allowing me to preserve a micro joy.

61 x 76cm
Mixed media on canvas

This one is quite different for me, as I literally blobbed and squelched paint over the canvas, like a child. I still don’t quite know how I feel about it, but it allowed freedom and healing to come as I ripped and pasted fabric, drew squiggles and randomly applied paint.

$500

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The Cockatiels of Bondi: This is Life series

Commission, Sold

Sometimes the troubles of this life accumulate on me, overwhelming me and overcoming me and I want a break, I want it to stop, to ease up, for the burdens and the pains to be lifted. But do you know what…this is life. It is easy to look around and think that others have it easier than we do, and sometimes that is true, but sometimes it isn’t, the pains of this life are hidden so often by a facade, that make us believe that it should be easier than it is.

This painting has been about adapting, healing the past, looking toward hope, but seeing joy in the day to day, in the weeds that have abounded in the rain, in the rain itself, in the birds that wake me in the morning. When I stop and listen, moment by moment, I can keep putting one foot in front of another and enjoy the journey.

Acrylic Paint on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

91 x 121cm

SOLD