COLLECTION ONE
Nightlife
Where the bush comes alive after dark. Briefly. Lit for a second. Gone.
The Story
The first collection, Nightlife, started at my daughter’s place in Brisbane. A mother and baby ringtail possum, held in a towel, wide-eyed in the torchlight.
That moment became the whole collection, really. Australia’s night animals, the way you actually meet them. Not posed. Not over-thought. Just caught in a flash of torchlight before they disappear back into the shadows.
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Raw. Minimal. And just cheeky enough to make you smile.
The Process
Each piece is A3 acrylic on textured paper, built from black gesso, chalk sketches, and pure white acrylic layered up with a dry brush.
I took that energy back to the studio and let my instinct take over. Every piece starts the same way: the whole surface goes dark. Then the subject surfaces in light. Whatever the light doesn’t reach stays dark. I call it Active Void.
The dark is doing half the work.
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Meet the Creatures of Nightlife
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The Nightlife works are available as one-of-a-kind originals and limited edition prints, giving you different ways to collect the collection.
The Stories Behind the Works
Every piece has a story — the moment behind it, and the studio process that let it surface from the dark.
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