Naomi Grant
Painting
Naomi is a Contemporary Indigenous Australian Artist. She was born in Sydney, resided in Perth for 43 years, but has now relocated to Stanthorpe. Since 2000 she has won over 20 awards, including the Inaugural Hawkesbury Art Award. Her work is represented in many private and govt collections and galleries in Australia and overseas. She graduated with a textile design degree in 1980 and has had a successful career as a practicing artist and designer and art teacher spanning the past 44 years.
Naomi is a visual master painter, distilling the essence of the land and the moment, in the minds’ eye. With a background in textile design, she often relays the beauty, pattern and colour that she sees in the environment. Her art practice portrays, the land and the water in many ways, ranging from dreams, memories, realism, and abstraction.
In the last 25 years Naomi’s focus has been in acrylics and collage. Having developed a technique of using layers of coloured tissue paper under and over the painted surface. This gives the surface a three dimensional textural quality. She is often literally painting with paper.