hayley.g.paints

hayley.g.paints 🌱I am an Australian Plant Painting Person.
🐞Slowly painting my garden.

A close-up of one of the natives from my garden 🌿I love bringing the viewer right in — closer than you’d normally stand ...
26/02/2026

A close-up of one of the natives from my garden 🌿

I love bringing the viewer right in — closer than you’d normally stand — so the plant becomes immersive. In this tight frame, the leaves turn into bold shapes, the petals into colour fields. What feels delicate in the garden becomes strong, graphic, almost architectural on canvas.

Painting these close studies allows me to shift the work away from traditional botanical representation and toward something more design-led and contemporary. It’s still this exact plant, grown here in South East Queensland — just seen intimately, magnified, reinterpreted.

Part of my ongoing series documenting the life of our native garden as it slowly evolves.





There’s something incredibly special about seeing your work find its place in someone’s home 🤍These two pieces have offi...
21/02/2026

There’s something incredibly special about seeing your work find its place in someone’s home 🤍

These two pieces have officially been hung in their new space — living, breathing, and becoming part of daily life. The warmth of the timber table, the soft light, the clean architectural lines… and then the colour. Always the colour.

Even more special — they’re inspired by the owners’ beloved dogs, Gambit and Marley. A jug and a pug, reimagined through layers of bold florals and colour, turning personality into pattern and memory into form.

I love imagining the conversations that will happen beneath them, the quiet morning coffees, the dinners, the celebrations — with Gambit and Marley never too far away.

So grateful to the special people who trusted me to interpret something so personal and gave these works a wall to call home.

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Lilly Pilly — Australian NativeA study in abundance and shadow.This work captures the lush density of the Australian Lil...
21/02/2026

Lilly Pilly — Australian Native

A study in abundance and shadow.

This work captures the lush density of the Australian Lilly Pilly at its most generous — fruit swelling in saturated pinks, leaves folding over one another in deep contrast. The composition moves between recognition and abstraction; forms dissolve into pattern, colour becomes structure.

I’m drawn to the way our native plants hold both restraint and exuberance. Here, the fruit becomes almost luminous against the darker foliage — a rhythm of magenta, cream and inky greens that creates depth and movement across the surface. It’s a painting about immersion. About standing close enough to a plant that it becomes an entire landscape.

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A close study of Mini Golden Penda — brought right up to the edge of abstraction.Painted at an intimate scale, this work...
01/02/2026

A close study of Mini Golden Penda — brought right up to the edge of abstraction.
Painted at an intimate scale, this work focuses on the quiet architecture of a native Australian bloom, magnified until colour, form and rhythm take over.

The bright palette is intentional — a way of honouring the intensity of light and growth in my garden, and of letting the plant step out of botanical description and into something more emotional and painterly.

This work sits within an ongoing body of paintings that explore native plants through close observation, scale shifts and colour play — less about documentation, more about presence.

Acrylic on canvas
2026
30x40cm

Kicking the new year off in pink! This baby is usually bright purple and itty bitty, but not this time!Scaevola aemula (...
10/01/2026

Kicking the new year off in pink! This baby is usually bright purple and itty bitty, but not this time!

Scaevola aemula (Fairy Fan Flower), 2026.

Last one for the year. Farewell 2025.Soapbush Wattle (Acacia Holosericea), 2025.
30/12/2025

Last one for the year. Farewell 2025.
Soapbush Wattle (Acacia Holosericea), 2025.

Gambit and Marley together again. They were best friends for life and made the lives of their family members all the mor...
27/12/2025

Gambit and Marley together again. They were best friends for life and made the lives of their family members all the more special with them in it. Now they are a pair of colourful comrades ready to brighten the world.

Gambit is covered in Butterfly Bush, Pavetta Australiensis.

🔴 SOLD! Merry Christmas Doris and George! Off you trot to a beautiful new home! Your new family are some of my favourite...
25/12/2025

🔴 SOLD! Merry Christmas Doris and George! Off you trot to a beautiful new home! Your new family are some of my favourite people and little people.
I will miss you, but I will visit.

Meet Marley. She was a precious little girl pug who was the sweetest dog on the planet. This work is half of a commissio...
18/12/2025

Meet Marley. She was a precious little girl pug who was the sweetest dog on the planet. This work is half of a commission for some of my favourite people.
The plant is plectranthus argentatus for those playing along.

There’s a peacock on my roof eating cake.
10/12/2025

There’s a peacock on my roof eating cake.

Native Ginger with a Blue Banded Bee. 🐝
10/11/2025

Native Ginger with a Blue Banded Bee. 🐝

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