Northern NSW-based artist Meg Walters’ paintings are a catalogue of her life experiences, blending nostalgia with reality to create otherworldly, contrasting and textural landscapes.

Self-taught abstract artist Ash Leslie draws on her background in graphic design to create textural abstract works guided by nature and the changing seasons.

Meg Gallagher’s latest exhibition, No Place Like Home at Totem Road, draws on her deep connection to her homeland in New Zealand.

Ellen Porteus is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates vibrant worlds within everyday spaces.

Melbourne-based Minna Leunig’s distinctive art practice speaks to her admiration of the natural world, conservation and youth spent on Taungurung Country in rural Victoria.

Artist and musician Lucy Roleff creates still life paintings based from the beauty she sees in the domestic realm and moments of her daily rituals such as drinking tea, a friend stopping by for a chat or jotting down words on a notepad.

From her studio up high in the Hinterland in Byron Bay, Brooke Clunie works in a gentle rhythm, methodically creating her beautiful ceramics pieces.

Created during a recent residency in Portugal, Jamie Preisz’s latest solo show, Passive Regressive, explores an unconventional blend of still life and landscape works, drawing on themes of impermanence and consumption.

Perth-born multidisciplinary maker and designer, Olive Gill-Hille blends the worlds between art and function with her otherworldly timber sculptures.

Swedish-born artist Sara Ödman grew up in a creative family — today based in Lyon, France, she channels this into her expressive abstract paintings.

Kuku Yalanji artist Tiarna Herczeg’s works are vividly colourful, abstract representations of Country and felt ancestral roots flowing from the artist onto the canvas.

We talk to three sculptors about how they took a leap of faith to turn their passion projects into full-time jobs.