Deanne Eccles

Contemporary Abstract Painting | Body Sense

My paintings explore colour, movement and perception through an embodied approach to abstraction. Rather than beginning with a predetermined image, I work responsively, allowing colour, gesture and material relationships to influence the development of each work.
Underpinning my practice is Body Sense Perception and Response, a methodology developed through more than three decades of painting, colour research, movement and performance. The work invites an encounter before interpretation — allowing sensation, memory and perception to arise through the experience of looking.

‘Kingfisher Dreaming’ Oil on Canvas 185cm x 175 cm 2025

Vision Quest experience, camping out on Yuen Country, near the Brogo River, NSW, Australia. After 5 and half days of fasting, drinking only the water of the Brogo. My connection to the kingfisher became one of my own physiology.

THE FUTURE IS REMEMBERING

Acrylic/watercolour on Archival paper 300 gsm

Nature does not seek perfection. After fire, forests regenerate. Broken stone becomes the foundation for new growth. This painting is an expression of that enduring movement - a reminder that while cultures, landscapes and lives are shaped by loss, the archetypal elements are still present.

BEFORE THE SLILENCE

Acrylic on Archival paper 300 gsm

This painting reflects my response to a culture whose relationship with the natural world was expressed through its rivers, forests and deities. Rather than portraying a historical event, it evokes a way of being in which human life was experienced as part os a living landscape. The unfinished lines remain as traces of interruption - suggesting the fracture that occurs when a relationship with place is broken, yet never entirely erased.