Grounded in time spent immersed in the salt lakes of South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, this body of work explores quiet observation and a deep

connection to the natural environment. Echoes of Salt brings together paintings and lumen prints, each offering a connected response to place.

Both processes embrace a balance of intention and chance. The paintings emerge through a considered yet open approach, where restrained

colour and subtle shifts in tone evoke the fragility, rhythm, and stillness of the landscape. The lumen prints extend this process further, created

through direct collaboration with the elements - light, moisture, and time - allowing the environment to leave its own trace.

Together, these works reflect a dialogue between control and unpredictability, presence and absence. They invite a quiet pause - an opportunity to

look more closely, to sense rather than define, and to experience the landscape as something felt as much as seen.

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Photography: Narelle Wilson