Renee Karacsay - Wild Women

How long have you been painting and what/who has been your inspiration? I have been playing with colour and paint from four years old. After leaving high school I decided to follow the visual arts as a career. It’s the vibrant details of nature that has been the most powerful inspirations for my art. From the Waratahs in my childhood garden to the rise of the waves on the surf coast.

What is your favourite medium and technique? Oil and acrylic painting. Using colour to build depth, emotion and memory into my paintings. How has the COVID 19 pandemic affected you and your art? Being isolated with only the waves, nature and my paint brushes has lead me to create this new collection Wild Women. The collection documents the community I found in the ocean while being socially distanced. Kindness, grace and power I was lucky enough to witness staggering kindness, grace and power during such a challenging time. What are your hopes for the future - as an artist and as a human being on this fragile planet? As an art teacher I hope to celebrate every student’s creative potential, unlocking the limiting beliefs we place on ourselves, we are all so much creative than we believe. I hope we wake up to take care of our planet, animals and each other. I hope we overcome this isolation, separation and polarisation and reclaim our balance with the land.