Solo Exhibition
Leda Gallery, Newcastle AUS
September 03 - 23, 2026
Future exhibition
Artist statement—
“I began to dream—a dream repeated.
Angels gathered around me, attentive and near. Yet their gaze was not only upon me, but upon the life growing quietly within. The most vulnerable among us; a person not able to speak for themselves. An unborn child, held in mystery and becoming.
There is something profoundly beautiful in this—the youngest of our race, arriving already watched over.
Throughout this pregnancy, these dreams have brought me comfort. Their presence has settled in me as a deep and abiding peace. In this work, that unseen feeling finds form. What appeared first in dreams now revealed on canvas: figures of watchfulness, tenderness, and strength, painted while I await the arrival of the small life within me.
The land continues to speak at this time. Perhaps it has never seemed more beautiful. It bears life endlessly, offering and offering again. Warm and cool, bright and fading, day and night folding into one another. The air rushes through the trees until they meet and hold together.
And yet, beneath all movement, there is stillness.
I wait here—in the shelter of the angels’ watching, within a landscape that sustains, nourishes, and brings forth good things. Surrounded by this abundance, I find myself returning to a simple knowing:
it is well.
It is well with my soul.”
