Acrylic Painting

Elise Honeyman

Elise Honeyman is an emerging artist and architect living in Lake Macquarie with her young family.

Artist Profile

Elise Honeyman is an emerging artist and architect living in Lake Macquarie with her young family.

Originally growing up on a riverside property on the mid-north coast of NSW, Elise practised as an architect in Sydney and London before returning to the Newcastle region to develop her art practice alongside running her architecture and interiors studio.

For Elise, nature has always been a source of connection, awe, and a balm to the chaos of modern life. Her art looks to capture the joy, wonder, and presence of mind that comes from being in nature and slowing down enough to notice it in all its beauty and complexity. This affinity with the natural world, alongside the duality of her art and architecture practice, motivates her to elicit an emotional response from the viewer and ultimately shape how people feel within the spaces they inhabit.

Elise works mainly with acrylic paints and mixed mediums on canvas and board, using the subtle and bold colours, forms, and textures of the raw Australian landscape to shape her abstract pieces and inspire a greater sense of connection to landscape

Artist Interview

What medium do you work with, and why have you chosen them?

I work mainly in Acrylic and mixed medium to create an interplay between subtle and bold textures, layers, colours and forms. Each piece brings a new type of experimentation, so often new textures are introduced with every work.

How does your artwork get from initial concept to exhibition stage?

My work starts with a landscape, memory or an idea inspired by time spent within nature. I mainly work in abstract or semi-abstract, and my works are created intuitively, by a gradual build up of layers over long stretches of time. I like to balance different techniques to play with textures and opacity, and find the works evolve themself, where each mark is made in response to the last, before ultimately sensing the work is complete.

Can you tell us a little more about your creative working environment/studio?

My art studio is based at our home and is a small space which, is often over flowing with large canvas' in various phases of completion. I work slowly on multiple pieces at once, which really lends itself to the deliberate yet intuitive building of layers. I juggle my work as an artist with my role of as an Architect, which has me floating between both studios as I await layers to dry, textures to emerge and all while joyfully creating residential homes and interiors for my clients.