‘Moving the Mokes’, 2025, Acrylic on Canvas, 1500 x 1800mm Chaos. Creativity plays a crucial role in completing tasks, and there's never a dull moment. The scene depicts the process of moving old, rusted Mokes onto a truck, with this moment showing the beginning of the lifting process. It conveys the anticipation and excitement as we watch to see if our plan will succeed.
The Warmth to Come, 2025, Acrylic on 100% Cotton Canvas, 870 × 1120mm Long before the first frost settles, preparations are underway. Logs are cut, split, and stacked, the piles are a silent promise of warmth and comfort when winter closes in. Each piece of firewood is the result of steady, deliberate effort — a labor that will pay itself back tenfold in the coldest months. It’s not just about heat for the home, but about the reassurance that comes from knowing you are ready, that the work done today will carry you through in the years to come.
Golden Patience, 2025, Acrylic on 100% Cotton Canvas, 800 × 1100mm The pile of materials in the corner of the yard is a common site for most. Rusted gates, lengths of chain, timber with nails still embedded. To the untrained eye, it’s a heap of junk. To those who work the land, it will be a gold mine. One day, that piece of metal will be the exact piece you need; that wire will be the fix that saves a day’s work. It is a quiet kind of wealth, built not on spending, but on holding onto the possibility of usefulness. Golden patience is the art of knowing that nothing is truly wasted.
‘Resting Beneath the Gum’, 2025, Oil on Canvas, Diptych, 950 x 2860mm This painting is of a Gum that fell many years ago. It has been there through everything, the coldest winters and hottest summers. A friend's dog rests below this tree, buried a few years back. This is another special part of our property. The shade provided by this gum is shared by sheep, lambs, cows, new born calves and alpacas. It also acts as a great scratching post.
‘In the Yard’, 2025, Charcoal and Oil on canvas, 1100 x 800mm. Cattle yards are often alive with movement — calves kicking up swirls of dust that catch the afternoon light. Their eyes dart, ears twitch, every muscle ready to flee from the unfamiliar shape of a person. There’s a raw energy here, unrefined and untamed, the kind that reminds you that working with animals is as much about patience as it is about skill. This is the chaos of beginnings, where trust is slowly built, one step at a time.
‘Windy Days’, 2024, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas 800 x 1000mm This painting captures the weather challenges faced on the farm. No matter the conditions, the cows still need their feed. It symbolizes the everyday obstacles farmers encounter and the creativity required to overcome them. The sunset in the background reflects the good days and the reasons behind the hard work we put in.
‘The Heart of the Field’, 2025, Oil on Canvas 1350 x 1350mm This is a painting of my partner’s previous dog’s grave stone in our paddock. A very special stone that means a lot to so many people. I chose to paint this at sunset to share the warm memories that this rock brings people.
Emma Neill, 2023, 'Is this reality', Acrylic on Canvas
'Nonning Dogs', 2025, Oil on Canvas, 700 x 900mm
Nonning Shed #1, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 1120 x 880mm This is a view from an old shed on Nonning Station. I loved how the light fell on the old farm equipment and created a warm familiarity with home.There are so many similarities in old sheds, no matter how far out in the outback they are.
'Farm Barn', 2023. Oil on Canvas
Nonning Shed #2, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 1120 x 880mm This is a view from an old shed on Nonning Station. I loved how the light fell on the old farm equipment and created a warm familiarity with home.There are so many similarities in old sheds, no matter how far out in the outback they are.
'All the beauty we cannot see' exhibition layout
'The Farm Cottage', 2025, 920 x 460 cm Oil on Canvas
'Where are we', oil on canvas, 2024 Pink, a common colour in the clothes I wore as a child, is now rarely seen on me. I have placed my younger self in a rural outback location I visited in the past year to emphasise the discomfort I would have felt then, contrasting with my current desire for new places and adventures.
'Where are we', oil on canvas, 2024 Wishing I spent more time exploring South Australia as a child, I have painted my younger self at an imaginary beach, shovelling sand.
'A Drawing of my Future', oil on canvas, 2024 I have played around with loose brushstrokes and child-like sketches, reflecting on the playful marks that were once made when I was younger, now to be taken over by more realistic art style. Characters from childhood books appear in the dark shadows, showing what I was once afraid of.
'Golden Grass', 2023, Oil on Canvas mounted on wood.
'Wirrina Cove' 2023, Oil on Wood
'Grazing in Gold', 2023. Oil on Wood
Nonning Salt Flat 2023, Oil on Canvas 355 x 280mm
Parachilna 2023, Oil on Canvas mounted to wood 375 x 345 mm