Giorgia Bel.

B.1990 and raised in Newcastle, NSW, Bel is a self-taught artist, having begun her practice in 2015. She started painting in a time of ill health throughout her 20’s. For a time painting had been something to aid and fill time during the season that was, but soon became a great love that continued beyond this.

Bel’s palette and subjects hum a meditative silence of the bush and landscape of this Sunburnt Country. 

Her sombre palette and repetition of her subject echo a melancholia in her rhetoric. With looming, skeletal trees in the foreground, a Rothko-like treatment of canvas pulls the viewer in.

Bel’s connection to place is evident as her paintings speak to her philosophy of art as medicine.