Siobhan O'Brien

Siobhan has always been drawn to nature as a source of inspiration and she particularly enjoys painting organic and floral forms. This, in combination with her interest in East Asian art and philosophy serve as the basis of inspiration and subject matter for her painting practice. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 2011 and a Master of Arts in Art History in 2016 from the University of Canterbury. Her work became more abstract during her art school years as she began to explore sacred geometry and the spiritual in art. For her Master's degree Siobhan specialised in East Asian Art History, which developed her knowledge of how Buddhist practices and concepts, in particular, were explored and expressed in art, and this has become a primary influence for the ideas behind her practice more recently.

Her most recent work combines a variety of different flowers and foliage in one piece, as human nature is comprised of many different characteristics and qualities; all of which we can draw upon and engage in our quest for development. Botanical forms emerge from, float, and dissolve into space, symbolic of how the myriad of human states, qualities, and emotions play upon our consciousness.