Alanah Jarvis

Alanah Jarvis is an Australian painter working from her studio in Bayside, Melbourne, with more than 466 original works now hanging in homes across Australia and internationally. Her practice moves between two bodies of work: the Abstract Weathered Series and the Realistic Ocean Series.

The Abstract Weathered Series is grounded in wabi sabi, the idea that beauty lives in what is worn, imperfect and shaped by time. These are heavy textured artworks built through layering, palette knife and impasto work, then eroded back, so the surface carries the same marks that wind and water leave on stone, timber and earth. The palettes are drawn from Australian nature: ochre, blush, weathered white, dark green & gold. Each contemporary abstract painting is made to reward a second look, colour that shifts with the light, and texture you want to reach out and touch.

The Realistic Ocean Series turns to the coastline. Painted in oil, these seascape paintings and underwater works follow the ocean's changing light and movement, the surface from above, the stillness beneath. They bring space, breath and calm into a room.

Alanah paints on recycled polyester canvas, built to outlast natural fibre canvases. Reclaiming material that would otherwise...

2023
Small Exhibition, Art Lovers Australia
2023
Baysie Art Show, Brighton Town Hall, Victoria
2023
Whitehorse Art Show, Whitehorse Art Show
2023
Land, Sea, Sky, Art Lovers Australia
2023
Al1ance, MiRA Marysville, VIC
2023
Show and Tell, Royal Melbourne Flower and Garden Show
2023
Collectors Book Edition, Art Lovers Australia Gallery, Melbourne
2023
One Last Dip, raising funds for marine conversation, Stoker House
2022
Summer Series , 26 Advantage Road, Highett
2022
Nurture Nature, 26 Advantage Road, Highett
2022
In Bloom, MAVA, Toorak Road, Melbourne
2022
Collector's book edition, Art Lovers Australia Melbourne Gallery
2021
Shadows at Play, MAVA Online
2020
At Sea, Southern Buoys, Mornington, VIC
2017
RAW MELBOURNE, Melbourne Pavillion
2017
RAW MELBOURNE, Melbourne Pavillion