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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

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

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

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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Lorikeets from Home

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Waking up to the sounds of native birds is such a privilege. I am so lucky to have them in abundance in the neighbourhood where I live. They are a constant source of joy and their sound, when taking the time to listen to them, pulls me out of my head full of worries, and jobs to be done, and back into the present. Appreciating God’s creation has been such my through some of the toughest times.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink ; or what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:25-26

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.

61 x 61cm

$780

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