Australian artist, Hilary Herrmann, has been painting about the ‘every day’ for over two decades.

She finds inspiration from the surroundings of her rural property which is nestled within replanted rainforest, where five chooks and a dog called Shelley claim dominion. Her inspiration comes from anything and everything that surrounds her: readings, dreams, domestic intimacies, fears and 3.00am insomniac musings.

All of this is sifted through, distilled, transmuted, until finally the artwork transcends the personal and offers strange, delicate, whimsical and often darkly intimate mythologies. They are ephemeral and ineffable; they are of sea and air with no clear point of separation.