Meet Adele,
a Tasmanian-based artist creating expressive, narrative-driven paintings inspired by memory, place and the rhythm of everyday life.
I’ve been painting for as long as I can remember.
Growing up surrounded by ocean, bushland and open skies, I developed a deep connection to the outdoors - a way of seeing shaped by light, movement and space. I spent much of my childhood on the water, sailing from a young age, and that sense of rhythm and freedom still flows through my work today.
For me, painting has never been about capturing something perfectly.
It’s about capturing something felt.
What Inspires Me
My work is inspired by the kinds of moments that often feel small at the time, but stay with you long after.
Long summer days.
Salt on your skin after a swim.
Time spent near the ocean.
Being in the garden.
Shared meals, music playing, conversations that stretch into the evening.
I’m constantly collecting these moments - not literally, but emotionally.
A colour.
A shape.
A feeling.
They resurface later in the studio, reassembled into something new.
A few small things that often find their way into my work, one way or another:
A few things I love
The ocean, always
Warm afternoons that turn into long evenings
Sailing and anything that moves with the wind
Citrus on a table (lemons, oranges, anything sun-soaked)
Flowers from the garden
Music playing in the background
A good drink with friends - something cold, something sparkling
Collecting little visual moments without realising it
You’ll find traces of these in almost every painting - sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden. At its core, my work is about holding onto something fleeting. The kinds of moments you wish you could bottle.
The ones that quietly shape a life .If a painting can bring someone back to a feeling - even for a second -
then it’s done what it was meant to do.