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Īao Valley #001 | Acrylic, seawater, graphite + mixed media on Paper - 2021

Original collectable acrylic abstract expressionist painting
One available, dated and signed by the artist.
Ocean and Earth inspired art
Frame not included
Full colour 
Size 11.7 x 16.5”
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This piece is an extract from a moment in nature located on the Island of Maui, an island in the Central Pacific, part of the Hawaiian archipelago. Īao Valley is located next to Īao Needle along the edge of the Kinihapai Stream. I have taken colours from the rushing river waters, red thinking rock, the green rising mountains and the passing pebbles,


Signed on the front right bottom corner and signed and dated on the back. 

images not to scale

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Every year both my husband and I take time out to go on a design research trip and gather inspiration and collect our thoughts on the road.

For the last two years, we spent a total of two months between three islands in Hawaii. Oahu, Maui and Kauai, immersing ourselves in nature and the jungle.

These are some moments from our time in Oahu. See the river shrines, hundreds one day, the next gone when the river floods, high in the mountains. The deep brown lava rock, crumbly and holey.

​I love capturing textures on camera and new colours. Nature is my favourite subject to photograph and paint.

I will post works influenced by my time on these islands shortly as part of the twenty twenty one collection of works.

To see my Youtube Design Diary Video Episodes head to my Youtube channel by clicking here. Find the first few below and paintings to come,

Earth, surf inspired interiors, spring and April. I have spent more time than ever before working creatively painting.

These most recent paintings embody my relationship with the Ocean, the Earth and the wild, 

Mother Earth being the biggest influence in these works, I've always lived in a deep rooted connection with nature and I feel like these new works launching in April bring the viewer closer to nature than ever before,

I use local seawater in my work integrating energy from the ocean into my paintings. I can taste the salty air, feel the damp moss, hear the sea washing over the pebbles by the river all when I look into this painting.

My intention in these works are to reconnect a single moment in nature the viewer once had.

The biggest question of all is, what do you feel when you see these works? I feel a slow shifting glacier in the land of ice and fire - Iceland. Black earth, green moss, snow capped mountains and glacier misty grey rivers washing back into the sea returning to home. 

If I can reconnect those distant from nature once again, I have done what I intended through my creative work.