"Humpback Rapture" Artwork - Limited Edition of 22

My practice explores the meeting point between reality and dream, where ordinary forms are transformed into symbols of tension, fragility, resilience, and change. Working across surreal digital painting, concept-led imagery, and sculptural found-object forms, I am drawn to images that feel both grounded and impossible, familiar yet unsettled.

Nature, the body, and the elements often serve as starting points in my work, but they are rarely presented literally. Instead, I use them to build visual metaphors for inner states — floating rocks, suspended figures, weather, birds, shells, and other charged forms become vessels for ideas about movement, transformation, and the unstable balance between strength and vulnerability. I am interested in the quiet power of contrast: weight and lightness, stillness and motion, elegance and rawness, order and disruption.

My sculptural work extends this same language into physical form, often through recycled and found materials that carry traces of memory, labour, and change. In both the digital and tactile works, I want the viewer to sense that something beneath the surface is shifting — that the image is not fixed, but alive with possibility.

Ultimately, I am making work that asks questions rather than explains itself. I want each piece to hold a sense of mystery, inviting reflection on how we inhabit change, how we carry tension, and how beauty can emerge from instability.



Formal bio ....Ravo, an established artist of over 40 years. He has won many awards both nationally and internationally. He was educated in the UK but achieved his BA and Master of Art Practice in Photography and Digital Media through UTS and CSU universities in Australia. Ravo’s art practice today involves Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics as well as his life long passion Photography. Ravo has produced several books of his works.
He resides with his partner on a 35 acre property on the Mid Nth Coast of NSW where he has turned the farmland into a wildlife sanctuary as well as having a studio, gallery and sculpture park. Ref Elysian fields Retreat.