“Who has not collected a shell, a feather, a twig bent just so, an intriguing natural form?
From my collection of curiosities of nature these very small treasures are given a new life in a painting, a resurrected life you could say, simply because they are loved enough for me to do so.” - Louise Feneley
Based in Adelaide’s sea-side suburb of Marino, Louise Feneley draws her inspiration from the sea and the symbiotic relationship between humans and nature. Not too dissimilarly to the grand tradition of the nineteenth-century Romanticists, she portrays the powerful immensity of the ocean and the comparable fragility of human experience. The swirling movement of wind and water influence her landscape paintings, many of which appear to exist in a numinous space between the water and the land. The artist’s still-lifes can also be interpreted as a reflection upon nature’s duality as giver and destroyer: the bounty and detritus alternate in a continuous journey of artistic explorations.