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This series borrows it’s name from Alison Lester’s classic children’s book, Magic Beach. The abstract paintings draw from observing my two year old’s full-body love for the beach. For the first two years of his life we lived by the sea in Yamba, northern NSW, Australia. His energetic beach meanderings involve wave chasing, sand tossing and rock pool splashing. The combination of the coastal landscape with a toddler’s fresh eyes inevitably influenced my painting style and repeated path motif. These paintings celebrate being present in one’s surroundings, weaving paths between the tactile and imagined worlds, which toddlers seems to transition between with ease.

These paints are layered, akin to the repeated readings of the Magic Beach book and countless beach visits. A ‘Magic Beach’ is full of curiosity, wonder and attending to the ‘texture’ of everyday life.