About Us

Since 2000 Naomi has won over 20 awards, including the $10,000 Hawkesbury Art Award. Her successful career as a practising artist and designer spans the past 45 years. She graduated from Curtin University of WA with a BA in Design. Her career ranges from being self -employed as an artist, textile designer, senior designer at Canning Vale Weaving Mills, teaching art in Bangkok and promotional manager of Kurongkurl Katitjin, School of Indigenous Australian Studies at Edith Cowan University, Perth.

A descendant of the Wiradjuri people of central New South Wales, Naomi was born in Sydney but has made her home in Perth for the past 40 years.Recently she has relocated to Stanthopre QLD. Her Indigenous heritage brings a blend of the contemporary and mysterious together in many of her works. Colour, beauty and esoteric mysteries are strong inspirational elements that help mould each painting.

"I am very interested in the surface feel and the layering effect that helps create more than one perfection of the image.  I am very interested in pattern and design and I enjoy creating a design within the landscape.  My works have an abstract element to them, with some still suggesting the literal image.  I like this combination where the viewer can see different aspects and perspectives within the work"

Often these ideas spring from dreams, visions and memories of her travels. Naomi’s equally comfortable with traditional scenes, through to a more contemporary blending of realism and Indigenous imagery.

In the last 23 years, Naomi’s focus has been on acrylics and collage. She has developed a technique of using layers of coloured tissue paper under and over the painted surface. This gives the surface a three-dimensional textural quality.