Rebecca Eddison | Australian Artist & Painter
Australian artist Rebecca Eddison creates expressive still lifes, landscapes and nostalgic paintings inspired by travel, nature and the beautiful objects that quietly collect around a life well lived.
With more than 20 years of experience in art and design, I believe the things we surround ourselves with should tell a story: a faded map, a bunch of garden flowers, or a holiday that changed you. These treasures become the starting point for paintings filled with warmth, colour and memory.
I have an insatiable appetite for travel, art, history & the countryside this signature aesthetic is infused into my work. Life hasn't always been cricket and skittles. Through grief, unexpected pivots and learning to appreciate life's quieter moments, I've discovered that beauty isn't frivolous; it's restorative. I create art as comfort for the soul, not as a record of the world's troubles. Beautiful art helped me find my way back to myself when life felt noisy. It offered a softer place to land, and that's what I hope my paintings become for others.
Each piece is a gentle invitation to notice. To pause over your morning coffee. To keep hold of that childlike sense of wonder. Because the world is always offering small treasures, if we're willing to look, and we are allowed to delight in them.
Original Paintings, Fine Art Prints & Commissions
What I do: You'll find my originals and fine art prints throughout my collections, but I also love creating commissions and bespoke gifts. These make wonderful shared gifts, with family and friends contributing together to celebrate someone special.
Original Paintings
Still life, landscapes, portraits and figurative pieces
Art Prints
Travel prints, nature studies and illustrated maps, available as museum-quality fine art prints for artful homes.
Custom Artwork and Gifts
Personalised house and pet portraits, plus illustrated maps of meaningful places. Gather your friends and family together to create a truly personal gift.
Wedding Stationery
If you'd like stationery that feels like your story, I can help you tell it with beautiful art and thoughtful styling.
My Story
Growing up in Queensland, I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember. Today, I create original oil paintings, watercolours and fine art prints from my Redland Bay studio. I was always happiest with a pencil in my hand. I studied Visual Arts at TAFE before completing a Bachelor of Design at Griffith University's Queensland College of Art in 2010. My background in interior design still shapes the way I paint, influencing how I think about colour, light and the way artwork transforms a home.
For many years I created bespoke wedding stationery and illustrated maps for couples around the world. Then came one of those spectacular plot twists none of us ever order. It reminded me that our lives are not measured only by milestones and grand adventures, but by the small rituals that quietly hold us together. That elusive cup of tea at exactly the right temperature. The dappled light of lunch in the park. A hotchpotch of fresh herbs gathered from the garden. Those were the paintings I most wanted to create: works that celebrate both life's big moments and the beautifully ordinary days in between.
A painting can't solve your problems, but it can remind you that beauty still exists. Sometimes that's exactly what we need.
Previous exhibitions & Press
- Hot: An Exhibition Redland Art Gallery 2007
- Bayside Bulletin article 2008
- Live at the met Metro Arts Gallery exhibition 2008
- Yellow Goat Design Portfolio Award 2010
- Etsy Fair New York - International shop seller display 2014
- Queensland Bride 2012
- Vintage Bride 2013
- The Bride's tree 2014 +2017
- Hunter Valley Magazine 2019
- Polkadot Bride 2022
- To the Aisle 2024
- Toowoomba Grammar Art Show 2025
- The Toowoomba Gallery - The next big thing Finalist 2025
- Lethbridge Gallery - Small scale art award Finalist 2026
A slow life in Redland Bay, Queensland
I paint from a light-filled studio overlooking my garden, surrounded by collected treasures: from precious silver teaspoons passed down from my great-great-grandmother in 1822, to the frankly odd, like the Victorian postcard I found in Brighton featuring a gentleman throwing up into a bucket with the heading, "I'm throwing up everything for you, dearest." Naturally, it came home with me.
I live a slow and creative life with my husband Joel, a fabulous cook and handyman who patiently accepts most reasonable requests, and my two four-legged studio assistants: Dottie Perkins, a Labrador delighted by absolutely everyone and everything, and Oliver, a miniature dachshund, self-appointed head of security, despite weighing approximately the same as a loaf of bread.
Together, we've built our home slowly, filling it with second-hand treasures, handmade touches, DIY bookcases and the occasional new piece that earns its place. We've planted a cottage garden that reflects our Queensland surroundings: part English romance, part Australian practicality.
I've noticed I get a little tetchy if I haven't spent enough time gardening or painting. Both are essential ingredients in a happy life.
Sometimes I bring cut flowers in from the garden, and the studio becomes a small, fragrant theatre of colour.
Monthly Craft Night
An essential part of my artistic practice is hosting a monthly "craft night" with a group of fabulous women. We make what we lovingly call "low stakes craft." One week we are making pottery; the next, we are hot-gluing a mini Christmas village after a little too much wine. There is something profoundly liberating about creating without pressure. Using your hands while chatting with friends must surely be one of the oldest traditions. And therefore, we feel infinitely virtuous.
Start your own craft night immediately. I won’t take no for an answer. Your mental health will thank me.
My Artistic Process and influences
My artistic process begins with observation and is grounded in a few themes that keep returning like old friends: interior domestic scenes, still lifes, landscapes, the figure, maps, and nature studies.
I work primarily in oil and watercolour, starting with sketches, mind maps of words and mixing colour palettes. I build paintings through luminous layers, expressive brushstrokes and textured surfaces. Thick passages of buttery paint sit beside delicate transparent washes, allowing the looseness and energy of brushwork I am always aiming for. Sometimes I paint alla prima to capture freshness and movement. Other times, I linger with detail when the mood asks for it.
Either way, my goal is the same: I am less interested in painting exactly what something looks like. We have cameras for that. I am far more interested in what it feels like. Why does placing this specific sunflower yellow next to this lavender create a visual jazz? The mechanics of painting and the constant quest to improve keep me up at night.
That curiosity led me to study under renowned British colourist Hugo Grenville, one of the UK's leading colourists and a romantic painter. His teaching, lectures and the experience of painting the English countryside completely reshaped how I think about colour: not as something to slavishly record, but as a language for emotion.
(And yes, a summer painting school in the English countryside is always a magnificent idea.It was pure magic; think Great British Bake Off but with easels and colour charts instead of cakes. Absolute bliss. For those wondering, yes, cake did make an appearance for afternoon tea.) I came home with paint-stained fingers and a renewed sense of purpose for my artistic career.
As a contemporary Australian artist, my work has been shaped by many influences, from Australian painters Margaret Olley and Nora Heysen to European impressionists who understood the emotional power of colour.
I draw immense inspiration from the creative legacies of Margaret Olley and Nora Heysen. Both had art careers at a time when it was difficult for women to do so and created fulfilling lives through their art and the opportunities it provided.
Margaret Olley surrounded herself with objects and painted with full devotion until her final days. There's something wildly comforting about that. Her works' enduring popularity and legacy show how ordinary moments become extraordinary simply because we choose to notice them. Nora Heysen became the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1938.
I also return to European 20th-century artists who challenged traditional academy ideas about the role of art. Cézanne, Pissarro and Camille Corot created works full of movement and atmosphere. The colours and expressive works of Matisse, Bonnard and Vuillard are often timely reminders when I feel my own paintings becoming too tight. Their theories, emotional use of colour and focus on intimate, domestic subjects, even in the face of the horrors of war, continue to inform how I approach my work.
These artists knew how to find poetry in the everyday. My aim is not to copy their style, but to carry forward their lesson: beauty is not frivolous. It is a way of paying attention. It is a kind of resilience.
Travel: A collector of stories
Travelling throughout Australia and internationally continually ignites my creativity. I return from each journey with overflowing sketchbooks, a full camera roll, and a suitcase of vintage treasures: faded textiles, chipped milk jugs with mysterious origins, and photographs of long-gone war heroes (those are particularly hard to leave behind), each with its own quiet history. These objects often sneak into my paintings, bringing a sense of story and lived experience.
And because I am me and endlessly curious, I also collect overheard conversations and sensory details. The best creative fuel is usually ordinary. My current favourite overheard conversation was between two distinguished old gentlemen in Denmark bumping into each other, with one guffawing, "Alexander, I thought you were dead!"
Proudly Australian Made for Best Quality
My prints are created after carefully scanning my original works. They're printed by a local small business on gorgeously textured Giclée 310gsm 100% cotton Aquarelle museum-grade paper.
The matte finish helps preserve the character of the originals, which I'm particularly proud of.
Today I create original paintings, museum-quality fine art prints and bespoke commissions for collectors throughout Australia and around the world. My hope is that each piece becomes a small sanctuary within your home.
This is a place
for those curious observers,
travellers, nature wonderers, nostalgics & meanderers.
The Artful at heart.
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