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Death to Comparison Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition Print

This artwork is a response to the realisation of the damage that comparisons can cause in my life.

I am a unique person, created by God and I have something to offer the world that is unique to me, as do you, have something to offer, that is unique to you.

This painting was created by hearing all the voices and the negative thoughts of many friends, family and page followers. All of this heartbreak was written down, it was awful to hear and awful to see.

I turned it around and painted the back with pure expression.

I then tore it all up.

I long for us all to tear up the voices that hold us down, that keep us from being who we are created to be. Imagine a world where we were comfortable in our own skin. Where we valued ourselves and others uniqueness, where we judged less and loved more.

Sewing the pieces back together was the next step. Some were back to front, upside down, sideways, some thrown out. The rest was resown into a new creation, which, while carrying its past, no longer resembles it. The words no longer have meaning. You can not see the pain caused by these comments. We are now free like the galah who soars above the field of flowers.

Death to comparison

Hope When…

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30 years of battling for health
For 46 years, despite innumerable tests, a very large CDH (bochdalek hernia) was missed
30 years of dismissive doctors and a few unicorn doctors who helped along the way
30 years of flow on impact and autoimmune issues
6 months of knowing something more (than my usual) was wrong
2 months of worrying what it was
February a Professor discovers my birth defect
3 months of trying to understand what it means for me now
3 months of healing wounds that took 30 years to establish and learning to forgive
3 months of resenting, reliving, feeling bitter for words spoken to me about my “illness”
Months of doctors visits, searching for peace, investing in my family, cooking and making sour dough 🙂
3 months of learning to hand it all to Him: to lean not on my own understanding but in all ways acknowledge Him and he will make my paths straight.
3 months of surrendering an unknown future to the only one who knows it
A few weeks of finding my way back into the light and back into my art
3 canvases to play with colours that bring me joy
Countless bible verses that keep me on the path of hope
Many flowers that make me happy, inspired by my wacky garden
3 Willy wag tails that greeted me while on a walk, when my mind and body were struggling

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Hope
61 x 91cm
Mixed media on canvas

Abundance

Originals For Sale

$1800

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.

Available for sale through Art Lovers Australia

This is Life Series: Love is…

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$990
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This is a part of my splatter paint series.

Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw paint on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me.

This painting subtly contains the bible passage: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Mixed Media on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Acrylic On Canvas
76 x 76cm

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This is Life Series: Fresh Start

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$990

This is a part of my splatter paint series.

Painting these is pure joy: I literally throw paint on the canvas and then paint what the painting shows me.

This painting subtly contains the bible passage: See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19.
My hope and prayer is that this year is a new and fresh start, with strength, peace and good health.

Mixed Media on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

Acrylic On Canvas
76 x 76cm

My Maggie’s

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$2350

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I love magpies! We have a family that regularly visits our garden. Most days I will see them foraging for worms. Their song is one of the most beautiful around. Every year they bring their babies back to our garden and it is so funny to see these babies, as big as their parents, squawking in the most unpleasant attention grabbing way, while waiting for their parents to feed them. I love these quirky birds. I love Maggie’s.

Mixed Media
This is a diptych, each painting is 91 x 61cm.
Total size is 182 x 61cm.


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

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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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

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$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

Birds Interrupt Me

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$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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