Melbourne & Victorian Artists Inc.
Lumen Listing
Barb Adam
Tokyo Night Sky
Ink and acrylic
$400
Inspired after a recent trip to Tokyo. I loved the neon lights against the velvety night sky.
Paulina Campos
Tres Amigos
Mixed media
$600
Throughout Paulina's work, the interplay between observing and being observed functions as a conceptual framework. The depicted figures in this painting are captured at moment when they are being subjects of observation whilst simultaneously directing their attention towards an external stimulus.
This dual positioning highlights the asymmetry inherent in acts of looking. This scene also parallels broader patterns in contemporary society where the ubiquity of personal devices and pervasive surveillance structures produces a constant state of mutual observation.
Paulina Campos
Deluge
Mixed media
$260
Robyn Canning
Summer Burst
Watercolour and ink collage on canvas
$250
Colours burst through this arrangement of shapes, celebrating the light and warmth of summer.
Robyn Canning
Urban Delight
Mixed media
$250
Vicki Catchpole
Blue House
Photography
$650
Reflections of a time gone, brought to life with light.
Vicki Catchpole
Ruins to Riches
Photography
$500
The Riches of our Past
Margaret Christianson
Coral Arbor
Watercolour on paper
$760
At Divisional Rocks in Cape Hillsborough National Park stands a coral tree I visit on my morning walks.
In spring, it bursts into brilliant red flowers, while in winter its bare branches reveal beautiful heart-shaped forms.
For me, this tree has a magical, almost spiritual presence. The floating hearts, circles and luminous colours reflect the light, energy and sense of wonder I feel whenever I visit it.
Lumen, the Italian word for light, captures the spirit of this painting and my connection to this remarkable tree.
Margaret Christianson
Sea Rhythm
Acrylic on paper
$650
Walking along Casuarina Beach towards Division Rocks at Cape Hillsborough National Park, I collected seaweed washed ashore and floating in the shallow water.
I was fascinated by the delicate shapes, colours and movement of the seaweed, and the way sunlight danced across the water, creating bubbles, reflections and ever-changing patterns.
Sea Rhythm captures the light, movement and gentle rhythm of the sea in a place that is very special to me.
Tulin Ciddi
Emergence: A new order #6
Turkish marbling art on paper
$135
This body of work explores light through the interplay of traditional Turkish Ebru (marbling), circular forms and gold-toned paper. Fluid, organic patterns meet carefully arranged geometric elements, creating a dialogue between spontaneity and structure.
The contrast between matte and reflective gold examines how light transforms surface, depth and perception. Rather than depicting light directly, the works invite an exploration of its subtle presence and its ability to reveal new relationships between material, form and space.
Tulin Ciddi
Emergence: A new order #7
Turkish marbling art on paper
$135
This body of work explores light through the interplay of traditional Turkish Ebru (marbling), circular forms and gold-toned paper. Fluid, organic patterns meet carefully arranged geometric elements, creating a dialogue between spontaneity and structure.
The contrast between matte and reflective gold examines how light transforms surface, depth and perception. Rather than depicting light directly, the works invite an exploration of its subtle presence and its ability to reveal new relationships between material, form and space.
Jenni Colwill
Sunlight, Darebin Creek
Mixed media
$320
Aprill Enright
Glimmers in the Ordinary
Oils
$175
A glass carafe on a table, catching whatever light the room gives it. Most of what stays with us arrives the same way, without ceremony. A short conversation that lands. A quirk you notice once and never forget. A story told on the way to something else. The glimmers are small and easy to miss, and they’re the part you remember.
The painting first appeared in Bottled Up (2025), a series that began with my dad, a man who kept most things to himself, and grew into a look at how we all do it. A carafe is made to hold things. Glass can’t quite hide what’s inside, and the light gets through regardless.
Cathy Farrell
Wildfire and Embers
Acrylic
$800
The painting represents a fear of wildfires and embers. I found myself fleeing from a terrifying bushfire. The memory of the heat, the red-and-yellow glow of the flames, and the embers raining down on everything around me remains vivid.
Nicole Gammie
Walk the red line
Bobbin lace and embroidery
$700
After visiting an exhibition, I was inspired to work with a limited colour palette, and this is one of the pieces made following that visit
Nicole Gammie
Grandma’s Rug
Bobbin lace and embroidery
$700
Majenta Green
Split Seedlings
Photograph
$280
This image is titled "Split Seedlings" as you can see some seed-like shapes in the work. This image was captured in a spontaneous moment from an item in my home. For this series of works I use a kaleidoscope lens to create the shapes and repeated patterns. The random mix of colours and patterns create the overall image. My work is professionally printed and framed.Max HarmanSock Puppet PortraitAcrylic paint on acrylic sheet$180After my mum died I didn’t know how I would be creative again. To cope, I focused on delight.Memories of a raucous afternoon at my local pub singing ‘Hey Jude’ with sock puppets, distracted me from the spiral of grief and restored my creativity.This sock puppet exists because of a pub community and are in honour of the positive way my mum chose colour, light and laughter throughout her life.
Geoff Harrison
The Guardian
Oil on canvas
$1,100
It's after hours at Melbourne's Botanical Gardens and strange events are taking place. As with most of my work, this is a study in light with a surrealist bent.
Max Harman
Sock Puppet Portrait
Acrylic paint on acrylic sheet
$180
After my mum died I didn’t know how I would be creative again. To cope, I focused on delight.
Memories of a raucous afternoon at my local pub singing ‘Hey Jude’ with sock puppets, distracted me from the spiral of grief and restored my creativity.
This sock puppet exists because of a pub community and are in honour of the positive way my mum chose colour, light and laughter throughout her life.
Irene Henning
Where The Light Comes In
Acrylic & mixed media on paper
$650
This piece of art was hard won. It started off very differently, based on a photo of a fire at night with firefighters and their fire-engines lit up against a black sky. It had a mind of its own however, and eventually evolved into this abstract piece of very dark, brooding colours, but still with a hit of fire, and then light showing a way into its complexity and drama.
Irene Henning
Ephemera
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
$395
Richard Impey
Morning Light, Monet's Garden
Extruded plastic PLA filament
$350
Creating artworks using Blender and a 3D printer is my new passion. The format and inspiration for this piece is based on Australia's early impressionists who painted on 9 x 5 cigar box lids. Using 3D printed 'tiles' I have recreated a scene looking across Monet's garden lake towards his bridge. In this piece I have also employed a textural approach by using a range of tile heights to emphasize the depth of field inherent in the original scene.
Richard Impey
Into the light
3D print using extruded PLA filament
$250
Ramnath Iyer
Grazing
Watercolour
$700
When we visited India, we drove past a small village one early morning. We were captivated by this scene where the cattle were grazing near a thatched roof as the first light of the morning Sun filtered through the surrounding bushes.
Ramnath Iyer
Sunset by the lagoon
Watercolour
$400
We saw this glorious sunset in rural India. As the last rays of the Sun set behind the distant hills with its luminous reflection on a small lagoon in the forefront, one could not stop admiring nature at its best! I tried to capture this scene from those memories.
Gopinath Iyer
Catch of the day
Oil on canvas
$600
This painting depicts a team of fisherman trying to drag a huge catch onto the shore with the beautiful evening sun glowing thus adding a warm feel!
Gopinath Iyer
Meadow of Dreams
Watercolour
$150
In this lovely meadow the rising sun is trying to lift the fog - it is indeed a dream place to live!
Alanah Jarvis
The Old Coastal Road
Acrylic on canvas
$890
Paris Jirvand
Blackie’s Golden Joy
Acrylic on canvas
$480
Blackie’s journey brings him to a golden world of eucalyptus flowers and gumnuts. His charming face, bright eyes and colourful feathers celebrate the beauty of nature and awaken a joyful feeling within us. When you look at Blackie, I hope you simply smile and feel happy. His journey is a reminder that even a small moment of joy can brighten our hearts and give us hope.
Paris Jirvand
Maggie’s Golden Moment
Acrylic on canvas
$480
After a long journey, she finally finds a moment to rest. Perched quietly among the trees, she looks around with gentle curiosity, taking in her new surroundings. Her golden world becomes a peaceful moment between where she has been and where she may go next.
Megan-Jane Johnstone AO
One Night the moon 1
Mixed media (acrylic and collage on paper)
$600
This work explores the quiet, nocturnal dialogue between the natural world and the lunar cycle. By framing a stark, silhouetted tree against a heavily textured moon, the work captures the duel essence of the night - its profound stillness and its hidden, fibrous complexity. The image also aims to metaphorically reflect the profound and hopeful endurance of life and the cosmos, even and especially during periods of darkness or isolation.
Lynne Kells
Lumen-essence
Mixed media
$250
For me, light is not simply a visual element, an illumination; it represents the possibility of finding energy, connection and expression within experiences that can be difficult to put into words. I invite the viewer to find their own moments of light within the work.
This work explores the tension between darkness and light, concealment and atmospheric release. Deep blues and violets create a contemplative atmosphere, while flashes of orange, yellow and pink glow like light breaking through darkness, suggesting hope, resilience and moments of clarity. Vertical gestures generate ethereal movement through the surface, while accumulated colour and texture create a sense of depth and transience. Pops of metallic allude to movement to the foreground.
Nina Killham
Holding the Light
Photo giclee on Hahnemuhle hemp paper
$350
I have lived many places in the world, but nothing has moved me like the forests of Australia--their endurance, intricate networks of communication and witnessing of time. Through my photography, I seek to give trees voice to their emotions. Light plays on their bark and I see faces, creatures, sometimes whole vivid stories, both of fear and joy, shining through. The light reveals. The camera records. The trees have spoken.
Ces Lugo
Starlit City
Acrylic on canvas
$600
Starlit City is an abstract exploration of a futuristic skyline. Through dynamic brushstrokes of deep blues, silvers and subtle flashes of red, it evokes a sense of cosmic wonder - a city suspended between light and dark, past and future.
Ces Lugo
Ignition of Light
Acrylic on canvas
52.7 × 42.5 cm
$600
Ignition of Light captures a moment of emergence, where vivid colour breaks through darkness, symbolising hope, energy and a radiant journey from the known to the unknown.
Julia Mackie
Hope
Acrylic on canvas
$1,650
A beautiful balance is struck between traditional figurative realism and Julia’s unique contemporary style with contrasting colours, impactful negative space with delicate details and layered poignant symbolism.
This piece for me shows my learnings from getting through life’s most challenging times. It’s not always about having the answers to fix things, but as long as there is a next step, then it’s possible to move forward. There is no erasing the past, no bringing the flowers back from decay, but there is learning, there is beauty, there is hope.
Original acrylic painting in orange and brown hues contrasting with a pastel blue figure kneeling with flowers. The figure is holding the decaying flowers out to the rain.
Provided with Certificate of Authenticity
Pratibha Madan
Kalpvriksha : The Tree of Life 66
Ink on khadi paper
$590
This work from ‘Kalpvriksha: The Tree of Life’ series, channels sacred vitality through the intricate precision of traditional Mithila Kachni linework on raw khadi paper. Intertwining fine black penmanship with deliberate accents of fuchsia and green, the composition responds to Lumen as an internal, glowing life force rather than mere external light. Through rhythmic parrot and fish symbolism, unseen cosmic energy emerges into brilliant visual form as a luminous celebration of nature’s interconnectedness.
Pratibha Madan
Kalpvriksha : The Tree of Life 71
Acrylic on paper
$590
This piece channels primordial rhythms through the evocative simplicity of Warli pictographic storytelling. Interweaving geometric motifs of the radiant sun, sacred flora, wandering deer, and soaring birds, the composition responds to Lumen as an internal, glowing life force rather than mere external light. Through timeless tribal symbolism, unseen cosmic energy emerges into brilliant visual form as a luminous celebration of nature’s interconnectedness.
Susan Mercuri
Stepping Out
Oil on canvas
$540
A colourful abstract depicting a couple stepping out in all their finery for a night on the town.
Suggestions of movement and light as they stroll along the sidewalk with hints of shop windows behind them. The depiction of their clothing hints at a long flowing red dress with golden fringed white lace, whilst the gent is in a full suit with a cravat and an overcoat.
Susan Mercuri
Waterhole Kamballup WA
Oil on canvas
$800
This waterhole is located at Kamballup, near Albany in Western Australia.
Scrubby gums proliferating the edges reflect in the ochre rich waterhole whilst the luminous sky throws an eerie glow over the scene.
The harsh landscape exudes its own intrinsic beauty. With permission from a photograph by Terry Dunham.
Deidre Ogilvie
Gentian and Butterfly
Oil on canvas
$450
In the 1800's the roots of this plant were used with oranges and Spanish wine to make an aperitif.
Jacinta Payne
Re-Awakening
Acrylic, ink and charcoal on canvas
$1,000
This work was painted after a trip to the place of my childhood, the Southern Highlands of NSW, and the cold, moonlit walks we took with the mountains in the distance. The queit, still air and the mist snaking its way through the crevices and valleys just gave me a feeling of complete peace.
Liz Quinn
Léonie
Oil on linen
$810
Léonie captures the reflected autumn light on a vintage airstream caravan.
The golden and green light, shadow and reflection makes the silver surface almost disappear. First built in the late 1920's designed to be aerodynamic like a 'stream of air'.
Offering stylish, comfortable, lightweight traveling homes to holidaymakers.
Liz Quinn
Robe SA 5.34
Oil on board
$350
The painting was inspired by the approaching sunset, shown in the last of the day’s light reflected off the water and a rising moon. A serene setting with a fisherman's boat returning to the Robe, a port on South Australia’s limestone coast.
The town is on the ancestral lands of the Buandig and Ngarrindjeri peoples. It was named after the South Australian Governor Frederick Holt Robe in 1846, continuing today as a fishing port, it has been for exporting wool and immigrants travelling to the gold fields.
Laure Rachon
Black Cockatoo in golden hour
Mixed media
$350
The bird depicted is a Black Cockatoo, one of my favourite Australian species.Painted in acrylic and finished with a protective varnish, the artwork features a metal leaf background that creates beautiful reflections as the light changes.Subtle shades of light gold and turquoise emerge throughout the pattern.I have worked extensively with this technique, following a precise gilding process to achieve the desired effect.
Laure Rachon
Black Stallion
Oil on canvas
$400
This striking oil painting captures the powerful spirit of a rearing black horse, inspired by the wild Australian brumbies that roam the rugged landscapes of the Outback. Bold, expressive brushstrokes bring the horse to life, celebrating its strength, freedom, and untamed elegance.A captivating background of blue and lavender creates a dramatic contrast with the horse's dark form, while the rich red-purple earth reflects the iconic desert landscapes of the Australian Outback. The vibrant colour palette enhances the sense of movement, resilience, and the enduring connection between the horse and its natural environment.
Filomena Roberts
Grow Lights
Mixed media
$275
Normally we use light to help grow plants, but wouldn’t it be great if we could grow lights?
Filomena Roberts
Underdeck Blues
Photographs
$325
The new deck outside has been under innovative construction for quite a while now, and I was surprised one day that the sunlight was also making strange, lovely patterns.
Elif Sezen
Visions #1
Acrylic on canvas
$240
Elif Sezen’s work explore the interplay of space, colour and the concept of light in experimental landscapes that reflect on perception, memory, place, subconscious and the cosmos. She explores vibrant landscapes/dreamscapes/mindscapes that oscillate between surreal, abstract and ethereal imagery with celestial and psychedelic impressions, offering alternate visions of reality that evoke an otherworldly notion. Her work conjures dreamlike atmospheres, ranging from imagined galaxies and symbolic geometries to surreal, abstract forms.
Matthew Schiavello
Mothers’ Gift
Photography (unique state print)
$1,150
One of the gifts my mother gave me, is the luxury to be myself. My mother was a seamstress who worked long days and held multiple jobs. The work she did, never paid well. Money was tight and to purchase something like cut flowers, to simply decorate the home, was never a consideration. To save money, my mother would knit or sew clothing for us. I don't recall my mother ever creating something just to admire. Her free time was so limited, everything needed to have a functional purpose. My Mother’s goal was to provide my sister and I, a life of opportunity and choice.
This work, 'Mothers' gift', is a celebration of the life a mother gifts her child, of what my mother has gifted me. Cut flowers are purchased and photographed on 35mm film. Multiple 35mm images are layered and scanned. The resulting image is printed and pastel pencil is used in areas of the print and then varnished, with thread then sewn into the print. This work is presented as a unique state print.
Matthew Schiavello
In the Modern World
Photography (unique state print)
$850
Tori Swedosh
Despite It All
Acrylic, ink, and paper on canvas
$450
To repeat the mantra, I love how things are always working out for me creates a strong vibrational intention to move through these difficult times
Tori Swedosh
Sonny
Ceramic and mixed media
$450
Sonny's disco ball heart drives them forward in this crazy life of theirs
Amanda Tattam
Shoreline
Mixed media
$350
The interplay between the sky, horizon and the water is endlessly captivating for the human eye. I have used smashed tempered glass to show the light, it can be both dull and sparkly.
Lara Tees
Slow burn
Oil on canvas
$800
Lara Tees
Everything at once
Acrylic on canvas
$750
I paint landscapes that feel familiar without belonging to a particular place. They are shaped as much by emotion as by places I have been. I am drawn to the way landscapes can stir something we recognise without knowing exactly why. Big skies and distant horizons create a sense of openness; shifting light and soft edges leave room for ambiguity. My landscapes sit somewhere between the remembered and imagined, familiar yet elusive. My paintings are ultimately about our emotional connection to place: the places we carry with us, the ones we long for, and our search for somewhere to belong.
Peta Tranquille
Erosion
Photography, timber vintage 35mm slides, shrink film and ink
$1,200
Erosion examines the relationship between memory, documentation and the limitations of personal archives. While records may preserve evidence of past experiences, they cannot guarantee continued access to their meaning. Reflecting my experience of aphantasia, the work explores the growing distance between what is recorded, what is remembered and what can be retrieved. It questions whether an archive can truly preserve a memory when the ability to revisit it remains elusive.
Peta Tranquille
Disturbance
Vintage 35mm slides, timber and artist pigment
$1,200
Barb Uhlenbruch
King’s Beach
Acrylic on board
$300
It was a wild day with a heavy sky at King's Beach, Caloundra. For a brief moment the sun peeping through made the scene dramatic.
Olesya Voytsekhovskaya
Luminous Essence
Archival pigment print embellished with silver and gold ink
$220
Olesya Voytsekhovskaya
Your Own Universe
Archival pigment print embellished with gold ink
$220
Stephen Welsh
Uncharted Realm #1
Photography
$350
Viewed in their entirety, crystals are some of the most interesting and captivating natural structures in nature. These traits continue metamorphosed deep into the internal structure of the crystal. Especially the translucent types where impurities provide colour and stress fractures add textures. This abstract work (and its sibling - Uncharted Realm #2) are initial offerings in a larger series exploring and using the scenes frozen within crystalline spaces and waiting millions of years to be uncovered.
Stephen Welsh
Uncharted Realm #2
Photography
$350
Viewed in their entirety, crystals are some of the most interesting and captivating natural structures in nature. These traits continue metamorphosed deep into the internal structure of the crystal. Especially the translucent types where impurities provide colour and stress fractures add textures. This abstract work (and its sibling - Uncharted Realm #1) are initial offerings in a larger series exploring and using the scenes frozen within crystalline spaces and waiting millions of years to be uncovered.