Victoria is an established artist with a full-time studio practice in her home in Canberra, Australia. Her work features in premium country interiors around the nation, and has been shown in various Australian galleries, and solo and group shows over the past 20 years.

She paints ephemeral semi-abstracts that celebrate the divine beauty of forests. She is especially drawn to ‘cosy pockets of wilderness’.

Her works invite the viewer to peer close - the same way as when someone speaks softly, you lean in to listen. She tries to remove herself a little from the process, to let Mother Nature speak through her. It starts with loose mark-making, adding and removing paint, building to final little flicks of the brush like the glint of light or colour on leaf, wing or web - until this pocket of forest is formed enough to gently hold us.

Having lived most of her life in Canberra, she has a special affinity with south eastern Australia’s woodlands and pockets of rainforest around rivers and creeks. To Victoria, we humans are fundamentally ground-dwelling mammals; the forest floor feels like coming home.