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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.