OBSIDIAN WORLDS
Black is not the absence of colour. It is the beginning of everything.
Most artwork begins with colour. I wanted to see what happened when I took it away.
Black demands something different from an artist. It doesn't hide mistakes. It doesn't flatter. Every mark, every layer, every texture has to earn its place and sometimes things appear that you had no idea were there!
These pieces are not illustrations. They are not paintings.
They are worlds. They are built layer by layer, surface by surface. Resin, texture, paints and light working together to create depth where colour no longer leads the conversation.
Every series explores a different question.
What happens when a rainforest leaf becomes a shadow?
What happens when texture becomes the subject?
What happens when black has to tell the story?
The only thing I know for certain with each piece is that black will be the palette. Everything else is discovered in the making.
Growing collection. Every piece one of a kind. Made in Far North Queensland.
Radiance
Quadriptych, 40 × 30cm each. Gold leaf burst across four panels.
Featuring the Licuala ramsayi — Australian fan palm, native to Far North Queensland.
Price - $380 per panel · $1,500 the quadriptych
Fronds
Diptych, 50 × 40cm each. The first in the Obsidian Botanicals series & the piece where the hammered-metal resin finish was born.
Price - $380 per panel · $750 the diptych
Emergence
Quadriptych, 20 × 20cm each. The second Licuala ramsayi in the Obsidian Botanicals series,
caught in living green. Native to Far North Queensland.
Price - $260 per panel · $950 the quadriptych
Midnight Vines
Midnight Vines — 80 × 80cm framed mixed media. FNQ foliage captured in the stillness of night, with vines crossing through. Finished in glass resin.
Price — $1,800
Every piece is one of a kind.
Made in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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