A little story of colour and creativity.
Hello, I’m Bec Eddison
artist, collector of curious treasures, and lover of vintage charm. Life hasn’t always handed me golden light and sunshine, but through grief, pivots, and moments of gloriously paint-splattered joy, I’ve learned to turn the cracks into something beautiful.
My creative practice is rooted in nostalgia, nature, and a dash of wanderlust. If you’re craving a more colourful life or simply need a reminder to find beauty in the everyday, you’re in the right place. Best served with tea and cake (always cake)
Creative Life Behind the Art
Growing up in the Redlands, near Brisbane in sub-tropical Queensland I was always the creative child, studying art at school and always drawing.
I extended my practise in Visual arts at Queensland tafe before completing my Bachelors Degree in design at Queensland College of Art Griffith University in 2010. Selling paintings along the way.
Creating a map to a friends destination wedding started off my love affair with all kinds of maps. I always think books are way more exciting when they have an adventure map at the front.
I have now worked as a professional artist and stationer for 18 years. Creating custom pieces for couples worldwide. There's still a little thrill when I watch a movie filmed in some gorgeous location and think, "I've done a wedding there!" (My husband is thrilled by this habit, truly.)
When life threw me a particularly challenging curveball, I found myself hunting for something more fulfilling, something that sparked joy in the everyday madness.
My fascination with how colour shifts emotion and atmosphere has been the consistent thread throughout my creative life.
It led me to study under Hugo Grenville, the UK's leading colourist and romantic painter.
(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 in the tent. 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.
My Creative Practice
Wanderlust and Professional Trinket Collector
Travelling throughout Australia and internationally continually ignites my creativity. Each journey fills my sketchbooks, camera roll, and suitcase with treasures.
Approximately 50 trinkets I assured my husband were absolutely essential purchases. My suitcase regularly exceeds weight limits with mysterious bundles that "spoke to me" at local markets. I will not apologize.
I'm hopelessly drawn to things with stories
Faded vintage textiles, chipped milk jugs with mysterious origins, photographs of long gone war heros (those are particularly hard to leave behind). These collected treasures sneak into my paintings bringing their whispered histories, infusing my paintings with nostalgia and inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with their own memories.
My travel journal captures moments, colours, feelings, and conversations that later inform my larger studio works.
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!"
Wide open landscapes, domestic still life scenes, figures, and dogs in gardens provide endless inspiration.
Craft Night: Where "Oh my god, that's gorgeous!" and "Oh my god, what IS that?" share equal billing
An essential part of my artistic practice is hosting monthly "craft night" with a group of fabulous women who are equally serious about being unserious.
We create what we lovingly call "low stakes craft". One week we're making pottery, the next, we're hot-gluing a mini Christmas village after too much wine.
There's something profoundly liberating about creating without pressure—plus, it helps curb my tendency to start seventeen new hobbies simultaneously.
Start your own craft night immediately.
I won't take no for an answer. Your mental health will thank me.
My background in Interior Design gifted me with an understanding of how colour influences mood and transforms spaces.
Working primarily in traditional oil and watercolour mediums, I embrace their unique qualities to create depth and luminosity. I typically work alla prima to maintain freshness, building layers of colour and texture with whimsical thin washes and gloriously thick juicy impasto.
My expressive brushwork aims to capture not just visual elements but the feeling of a moment. I deliberately leave breathing room within each composition—spaces inviting viewers to wander through the painting, finding their own connections and meanings.
I've always been less interested in painting things exactly as they appear (we have cameras for that) and more focused on using techniques to capture how it FEELS. Why does placing this particular sunflower yellow next to this specific lavender create a visual jazz? The mechanics of painting and constant quest to improve keeps me up at night.
If you want more on my Creative process
Based in Redland Bay, Queensland, Australia
Today, I paint from a light-filled studio where the stunning coast of Moreton Bay fuels my colour palette and occasionally distracts me for hours. My little white house with its cottage garden and green door sits among native bushland like something from a storybook (though the mortgage is unfortunately very non-fictional).
I ship lovely artwork all over the world...
I live with my lovely husband Joel and my faithful studio companions: Dottie Perkins, world's laziest black labrador and head of customer satisfaction, and Oliver, a Miniature Dachshund, sunseeker and self-appointed head of security.
We've created our second beautiful cottage garden here. Being subtropical, the garden is equal parts English romance and Australian practicality. I've noticed I get distinctly tetchy if I haven't spent enough time either gardening or painting!
Through the studio windows, the play of light and shadow becomes part of my creative process, as do the cut flowers I sometimes manage to grow successfully.
My studio
overlooking the garden
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