A New Abstract Art Collection Born from Saturday Morning Tea and Corporate Grey

You know that feeling when you've spent all week in beige, grey meeting rooms with everyone wearing dark blue, black and grey suits, grey...well, everything? That's my Monday to Friday. I work in the corporate world during the week, and while I enjoy what I do, by Friday evening I am in need of color. So most Saturday mornings, like clockwork, I wake up at around 9 am make myself a proper cup of tea, and wander into my studio. And that's when the magic happens.

Fluid Structure is the collection that emerged from those glorious Saturday painting marathons - a collection born from pure joy, liberation, and my absolute need to splash bold, brilliant, unapologetic color across canvas.

The Story Behind the Series

When I started this collection, I had one clear intention: I wanted to create paintings that captured the feeling of the everyday Australian landscape around me, not the literal view. Not another beach scene or gum tree (though I love those!), but the emotion of being outside - the energy, the light, the way the coastal breeze feels on your skin, the brightness that makes you squint and smile at the same time. I wanted to use big, bright bold colors!

I wanted bold. I wanted bright. I wanted paintstrokes that felt alive.

The title "Fluid Structure" might sound like a contradiction, but that's exactly the point. Life itself is this beautiful tension between flowing, organic moments and the structure we need to make sense of it all. Just like my weeks - structured corporate days that flow into fluid, creative weekends.

Color is My Oxygen

Let me be completely honest with you: I'm obsessed with color. Not just "I like color" - I mean I NEED it the way some people need coffee.

My Saturday Morning Color Palette:

Hot pinks that sing
Oranges that glow like sunset
Fresh, zesty greens
Yellows that radiate pure joy
Coastal blues and turquoises
Soft peachy-pinks that whisper

When you spend your working life surrounded by neutrals (corporate beige and grey, I'm looking at you), bright color becomes revolutionary. It's rebellion. It's freedom. It's Saturday morning in paint form.

The Joy of Bold Brushstrokes

What I love about abstract art - and what I discovered while creating Fluid Structure - is that you can feel completely liberated from "getting it right."

There's no "correct" way to paint a feeling.

My brushstrokes in this series are bold, loose, organic. They're circular, flowing, overlapping - like rock pools, like clouds, like the way water moves, like the shapes you see when you close your eyes in bright sunlight.

I'm not trying to paint what the landscape looks like. I'm painting what it feels like.

Adding the Sparkle: Beads, Texture & Gold Leaf

green, yellow and gold abstract embroidery

Here's where I get to add my favorite bit - the texture!

Some pieces in the Fluid Structure collection feature hand-stitched embellishments with beads and gold leaf. Why? Because sometimes a painting needs that extra dimension, that tactile quality that makes you want to reach out and touch it.

The beads catch the light. The gold leaf shimmers. These aren't just paintings to look at - they're paintings that interact with your space, changing as the light moves throughout the day.

It's my way of bringing even more life and energy into each piece.

Coastal Breeze

One of my favorite pieces from the series shows this philosophy perfectly - soft blues and creams with organic circular forms that echo both sea foam and clouds. It's the feeling of standing at the beach on a perfect spring morning as the sun rises above the horizon when everything feels fresh and possible.

When I look at this piece, I'm transported. Not to a specific place, but to a specific feeling. That's what I want my paintings to do for you.

Bright, Bold, Unapologetically Joyful

When the corporate world can sometimes feel too serious, too grey, too structured... I'm making a case for JOY. For color that makes you smile when you walk past it in the morning. For art that energizes your space rather than just filling it. For paintings that remind you how it feels to be outside, even when you're inside.

Some of these pieces I have kept and the others are now in private collections. Stay tuned for my next series of abstract embroideries in the months ahead.