Collection: What Remains Grows

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Artist Statement

What Remains Grows: Meditation Series

What Remains Grows is a quiet reckoning with the traces we leave behind, and those that remain despite us. Set against the uncontested beauty of the land, these works speak to a slow remembering: of labour, of loss, of tenderness, and persistence. Whether painted in the hush of a marigold’s suspension or the scorched silence of post-settlement bushland, each piece is a meditation on presence, how stories endure not through monuments, but through breath, thread, ash, and root.

The paintings carry symbols, chalices, boats, blades, birds, flowers, not as fixed metaphors, but as evolving fragments in a visual archive. They are relics of longing and repair, gathered from colonial residue, migrant memory, and the quiet hum of place. The work resists easy answers. Instead, it offers stillness as method, and memory as material.

In a time of extraction and forgetting, What Remains Grows becomes an act of care, to honour what has been broken, to witness what persists, and to plant gently the possibility of something tender, true, and quietly enduring.